The article is devoted to discussing international collaboration regarding higher education in the BRICS countries. It starts with the analysis of the radical changes occurred in the global academic world, described as a joint influence It starts with the analysis of the radical changes occurred in the global academic world, described as a joint influence of global trends towards massification, globalization and internationalization.
We argue that BRICS countries can meet these challenges by means of two main approaches: through building excellence university projects and via developing horizontally structured university networks, such as the BRICS Network University.
The conclusion is that while excellence projects do help to develop world-class education, the networks better answer current needs of the BRICS countries. Imaginaries of Russian modernity: An introduction more. Library and Information Studies. Russia: Colonial, anticolonial, postcolonial Empire? This article is devoted to the discussion of Russian colonial and anti-colonial social imaginaries. It starts by delving into the definitions of colony and colonization, and proceeds to the analysis of the colonial experience of the It starts by delving into the definitions of colony and colonization, and proceeds to the analysis of the colonial experience of the Russian continental Empire.
The internal colonization thesis is also analyzed in the context of the imperial reality. The complex Soviet experience is understood as, on the one hand, a radical break with the past, through decolonization and anti-colonialism. The author, on the other hand, agrees with those who claim that Stalinism can also be understood in terms of an internal colonialism theory.
This article, however, emphasizes the metaphoric nature of the internal colonialism arguments. Mastering Nature more. Social Imaginaries. Nationalism and Colonialism: Oceans, Civilizations, Races more. The article is devoted to the analysis of the complex interrelations between the imaginaries of nation and colony, and, by the same token, between nationalism and colonialism.
The author argues that modern nationalism has always contained The author argues that modern nationalism has always contained colonialism as its integral part and parcel. Colonies are interpreted as "mirrors" for the nation-building; while oceans, civilizations and races are the factors which keep distance between what is considered to be national and what is to be interpreted as colonial.
In their turn, movement of the population, education and modernization were important tools for bridging the gaps between nations and their colonies. Russian national, imperial and colonial experience in this context is rather anomalous, because, according to the author, it constantly blurs the existing boundaries and mix up differences. One of the interesting results of this historical experience is current insensitivity of Russian society to such pressing issues of the today's European and American politics as the war against symbolic representations of the racist nationalism.
Doi: Political Philosophy , Colonialism , Modernity , and Nations and nationalism. The author follows C. He demonstrates how in Russian constellation of modernity autonomy came to be understood as a secondary to rational mastery and how collective autonomy started to dominate over individual one. For this purpose, he discusses details of N. Then M. The author argues that although some cults in these cities could be set up after the Macedonian king's death, at least most known to us or supposed cults of Alexander in them were instituted still in his lifetime, in all likelihood, in BC.
It seems that the cults of the king were established only in a certain, probably far from overwhelming, number of the Greek cities of Asia Minor in this period. In turn, it should be believed that the do ut des principle played an important role when these cities introduced such cults. At the same time, their institution was also caused by a sense of gratitude of the inhabitants of the Greek cities of Asia Minor to Alexander for the liberation of them from the unpopular power of both the Persians and pro-Persian oligarchs or tyrants and, in addition, for those general and particular benefactions that were given by the Macedonian king to the communities.
Ancient History and Classics. Howe, S. Oxford: Oxbow Press, The preamble of the article: Whether or not the Greek cities of Asia Minor were admitted to the Corinthian League after their liberation from Persian domination by Alexander the Great and his commanders, is the question that has been The preamble of the article: Whether or not the Greek cities of Asia Minor were admitted to the Corinthian League after their liberation from Persian domination by Alexander the Great and his commanders, is the question that has been debated in scholarship for many a long year.
The main reason of this disagreement is the absence of direct evidence for the issue in our sources. Nor could the general considerations given by both advocates and opponents of the positive answer to this question clear up the issue Studies and Essays in Honour of Valery P.
Sinitsyn and M. Petersburg: St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology, But were the Greek cities in Asia Minor, once released from phoros, absolutely freed by Alexander from all financial obligations? It is traditionally held that they were not: now they had to pay syntaxis to him. Mehl, A. Makhlayuk, O. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, Deininger zur The preamble of the article: The relations of Alexander the Great and the Greek cities of Asia Minor on the coast and nearby islands are among those historical problems that are especially hotly debated in scholarship.
It is natural, It is natural, therefore, that the appearance of any new source which can provide some, even indirect, information in this connection, is a rather remarkable event. Abstract: The article deals with political propaganda, aimed at the Greeks, which the Persians practiced in their struggle against Alexander the Great. The author clarifies the goals, contents and forms of propaganda as well as the time The author clarifies the goals, contents and forms of propaganda as well as the time of the beginning of such an activity of the Persians against the Macedonian king.
The attention is also paid to the results of the Persian propagandistic work amongst the Greeks and the reasons for its failure. Commentarii societatis philologae polonorum. The preamble of the article: The freedom of the Greek cities of Asia Minor on its coast and nearby islands under Alexander the Great is the question that has provoked the sharp polemics in scholarship. In the present essay, I am not In the present essay, I am not going to discuss such a complicated question in detail and try to answer it as a whole; I intend to turn to only one relevant issue.
My hope is that this study will contribute, to a certain degree, to our comprehension of the scope of the freedom of the Greek poleis of Asia Minor in the age of Alexander. Issue 4. Abstract: The paper analyses the ancient evidence for the exemption of the Greek cities of Asia Minor from phoros, paid earlier to the Persians, by Alexander the Great in — BC.
The author considers that it was one of the general Alexander could deviated from the principle sometime, but such cases seem to be very rare and to be provoked by special reasons. Publication Name: Bulletin of St.
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