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This article analyses the nation-building strategy that Kazakhstan's government has implemented since independence. It examines why the nation builders have taken the decision to create two nations, the ethnic Kazakh nation and the civic Kazakhstani nation in a multiethnic society. In its analysis the article adopts a constructivist approach. (Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe)

Untersuchung der Dynamik der Beziehungen zwischen OAU und den souveränen Mitgliedstaaten aus rechtlicher Sicht, ausgehend von der Satzung der OAU einerseits und dem praktizierten Vorgehen andererseits

Der Beitrag untersucht Zusammenhänge zwischen einer integrierten europäischen Bildungspolitik und den Möglichkeiten der gesamteuropäischen Integration. Öffentliche Erziehung und Nationen- bzw. Staatenbildung sind für den Autor Zwillinge. Geklärt wird zunächst die Frage, ob so etwas wie ein europäisches Bildungssystem identifiziert werden kann bzw. im entstehen ist. Durch einen internationalen Vergleich der nationalen Bildungswesen werden mögliche Konvergenzen herausgearbeitet. Vor dem Hintergrund der überwiegenden Heterogenitäten identifiziert der Autor empirisch eine erstaunliche Ähnlichkeiten in der Bildungsreformpolitik der europäischen Länder. Es wird dann daher die Frage geklärt, ob diese Konvergenzen auf neue Kompetenzen der EU im europäischen Integrationsprozess zurückgeführt werden können oder ob diese Entwicklung dem Wettbewerbsdruck eines globalisierten Kapitalismus geschuldet ist. Abschließend folgen einige "Spekulationen" zur Zukunft einer gemeinsamen europäischen Bildungskonzeption mit gemeinsamen institutionellen Ausgestaltungen. (ICA).

This study aims at providing an in-depth historico-sociological analysis of the formative years of the Dominican capitalist state. It surveys the socioeconomic structure of the dominant blocs in the mid-19th century and examines the formation of the bourgeoisie and the state in relation to a combination of events, including the Spanish reoccupation of the country (1861-1865), the Ten-Years' War in Cuba (1868-1878), and US expansion into the Caribbean Basin. It suggests that the structural weakness of the local elite created the historical circumstances for continued foreign intrusion and the emergence of the Trujillo dictatorship in 1930. (Lat Am Perspect/DÜI)

In historiography, the crisis of the Spanish overseas empire and the process of Spanish American state formation have been the object of innumerable books and studies, mostly of a traditional, purely political-military type. During recent decades, fortunately, historians have also increasingly turned their attention to the economic and cultural aspects of the processes

'Brazil today is considered, on the international scene, as an 'emerging nation', doted with an integrated industrial complex, as well as on a modern system of education and research and on means of communication (telephone, radio, television, internet, etc.) which permit the rapid and efficient circulation of information. None of these characteristics would have been valid prior to 1930, when the country presented an economy dominated by the exportation of tropical products, political power was fragmented into more than twenty federal units with no real coordination by the central government installed in Rio de Janeiro, intellectual life was restricted to a few old exportation ports. This paper aims at a better understanding of how Brazil transformed itself during the 20th century, from a structured archipelago around 'islands' of agro-industrial plantations (coffee, sugarcane, etc.) to a 'continent' marked by fast industrialization. Beside these evolutive perceptions of Brazil's space, we must take into account the social and intellectual courses of the key leaders during the 1930's uprising, such as Juarez Távora and José Américo de Almeida from the North, or Getúlio Vargas and Osvaldo Aranha from the South, the most significant figures of the national movement. All these leaders come from the same social background of agrarian elites, but they had established political parties supporting very different ideologies, from nationalism to the acknowledgement of the US hegemony, from the labour party to liberalism. The paths of these elites show fairly well the diverse alternatives which have marked state-building and nation-building in contemporary Brazil.' (author's abstract)|