Vendulka

Author : Ondřej Kundra
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024646536
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vendulka written by Ondřej Kundra and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed Czech Avant-garde photographer Jan Lukas snapped an offhand portrait of twelve-year-old Vendulka Vogl in March 1943. A friend of the Vogls, Lukas was saying goodbye to the family, who were soon to leave Prague for a concentration camp. The photograph almost didn’t see the light of day—Lukas knew that if the Nazis found it on him, he could wind up in the camps as well—but the image was eventually developed and came to symbolize the Holocaust and humanize its victims. Seventy years after this famous picture was taken, investigative journalist Ondřej Kundra discovered that, despite all odds, Vendulka Vogl had survived the camps of Terezín, Auschwitz, and Christianstadt, and was in fact still alive and living in the United States. Kundra persuaded her to tell the remarkable story surrounding the photograph: her survival, her later decision to flee the Communist regime for America, and how she later reconnected with Jan Lukas, maintaining a lifelong friendship. Vogl’s thrillingly moving story, Kundra’s sharp and engaging writing, and Lukas’s striking photography all combine to make Vendulka an inspiring investigation into the horrors of totalitarianism and the redemptive beauty of friendship.

Author : Vendulka Kubalkova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315291355
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Policy in a Constructed World written by Vendulka Kubalkova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume demonstrates the application of the constructivist approach to the analysis of foreign policy (i.e. states' actions in a world of states). Part I introduce constructivism for foreign policy studies. Part II presents five model case studies -- the Cold War, Francoism, the two Chinas, inter-American relations, and Islam in U.S. foreign policy. Part III reviews their results.

Author : Nicolas Fromm
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 365822519X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructivist Niche Diplomacy written by Nicolas Fromm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolas Fromm explores norm-based strategies small states can use to distinguish themselves internationally in order to compensate for their lesser geopolitical weight. Using the example of Qatar, the author shows that such strategies might include a sort of norm entrepreneurship which goes beyond the advocacy of universal norms and implies the development of genuinely new norms (‘norm crafting’) in pursuit of regional political influence. To shed light on the stunning rise of Qatar from a background actor to a protagonist in international diplomacy, the case study analyses the distinctive use of norm crafting in the country’s Middle East diplomacy under the reign of Emir Hamad (1995-2013). To unfold the potential of strategic normative innovation, Qatar seems to have imitated the attitudes and attributes of established norm entrepreneurs such as international organizations.

Author : Quaintance Eaton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816657548
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera Production II written by Quaintance Eaton and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1974-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera Production II was first published in 1974. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. For the world of opera this is an indispensable basic reference work which provides essential information about more than 350 operas. Producers, singers, directors, students, orchestras, and audiences will find useful, concise information in this handbook, a sequel to the author's earlier book Opera Production I: A Handbook, which contains similar information about more than 500 other operas. While the first volume concentrates on more familiar operas, this book is devoted principally to lesser known works, both old and new, including many as yet unperformed contemporary operas. The details given about each opera are those needed to assess the production requirements for a given work: the number and importance of settings; size of orchestra, chorus, and ballet; number of singers, their relative importance and individual requirements; vocal and acting demands of performers, including vocal ranges in most cases; plot synopsis; and brief historical material to anchor the reader in the necessary knowledge of the period and source of the libretto. The information is compressed into capsule form so that anyone using the book can tell at a glance the suitability of a work to the particular facilities, talents, or tastes of an opera company or its public. In addition to the reference material, there is a chapter "Production Problems in Handel's Opera" by Randolph Mickelson, a helpful feature since nine of Handel's operas are included and they are apt to pose special production problems.

Author : Vendulka Kubalkova
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765632753
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Relations in a Constructed World written by Vendulka Kubalkova and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998-05-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops an alternative way of understanding international relations as social relations. Mainstream theorists--and their post-modern critics--leave people out. Constructivism puts people, their activities, and their social arrangements at the forefront. It is now recognized as the most important recent breakthrough in international relations theory. Written in a lucid style, the book shows how this new approach can be applied to major issues of our times, such as national identity, gender and labor equality, and Internet governance.

Author : Steven W. Hook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135967342
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy written by Steven W. Hook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No nation has maintained such an immense stature in world politics as the United States has since the Cold War’s end. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, prompting the global war on terrorism and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, along with American economic and "soft power" primacy, there has been increased interest in and scrutiny of American foreign policy. The Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy brings together leading experts in the field to examine current trends in the way scholars study the history and theories of American conduct in the world, analysis of state and non-state actors and their tools in conducting policy, and the dynamics of a variety of pressing transnational challenges facing the United States. This volume provides a systematic overview of all aspects of American foreign policy and drives the agenda for further, cutting edge research. Contributors bring analytic depth and breadth to both the ways in which this subject is approached and the substance of policy formulation and process. The Handbook is an invaluable resource to students, researchers, scholars, and journalists trying to make sense of the broader debates in international relations.

Author : Gustav Kobbé
Publisher : London : Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1754 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kobbé's Complete Opera Book written by Gustav Kobbé and published by London : Putnam. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1352 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Grove Dictionary of Opera written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher S. Browning
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039105199
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructivism, Narrative and Foreign Policy Analysis written by Christopher S. Browning and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on constructivist approaches to international relations this book develops a narrative theory of identity, action and foreign policy, which is then applied to account for the evolution of Finnish foreign policy. The book adopts an innovative approach by showing how foreign policy orientations need to be seen as grounded in overlapping and competing sets of identity narratives that reappear in different forms through history. By emphasising the dynamism implicit within identity narratives the book not only challenges traditional rationalist materialist approaches to foreign policy analysis, but also the current tendency to depict the story of Finnish foreign policy, identity and history as one of a gradual move towards a Western location. Rather the book emphasises elements of multiplicity and contingency, whilst re-establishing foreign policy as a highly political process concerned with power and the right to define reality and national subjectivity.

Author : Eric K. Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351884689
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Onset of Global Governance written by Eric K. Leonard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the formation process of the International Criminal Court (ICC), this study provides a fuller and richer understanding of this institution. It does so by adopting three analytical approaches: neoliberal institutionalism, regime theory and global governance. Examining the implications of the ICC, the volume draws conclusions about the changing nature of world politics in terms of conflict management, authority, governance and actor relevance. It is highly suitable for courses and research in humanitarian and international law, international relations theory, globalization, global governance and regime formation.