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086758
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2009.
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After the collapse of Soviet Union, Estonia took pride in becoming a model of progressive social, economic and political reform. Its accomplishments have been commendable given the fact of its enormous diversity challenge. This diversity challenge (that Estonia must effectively manage as a part of its adjustment to democracy) is largely due to massive population shifts that were a part of Soviet strategy.
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095102
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113374
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135687
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twentieth century scholars have analyzed the middle east from a number of perspectives ranging from geopolitics, security studies, conflict studies, the Palestine-Israel conflict, fundamentalism (The War on Terror), and in connection with oil (Global political Economy). But it has only been recently that a small number of scholars have begun to research the interface between current trends in the Middle East (and North Africa) and corresponding current challenges that Western Civilization is confronted with.
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086757
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2009.
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Leon Miller begins to address the thorny issue of how to create a political culture acceptable to all citizens in the absence of a dominant power. Can a "civil religion" be developed "from below" that will provide enough cultural cohesion for a democratic state in which there is cultural diversity? He writes from the perspective of Estonia where, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there are about 60 percent Estonians and 40 percent Russians and foreign nationals. How can such a country create unified national symbols? Since the time of Rousseau the idea of a civil religion, as opposed to an official state religion like Catholicism, has been widely discussed. However, civil religion has to be a less comprehensive and more open-ended set of beliefs, and must rely on "truths" that appear much more "self-evident" than many religious and ideological doctrines. In a sense, Marxism was a failed attempt to create a "scientific" civil religion. However, it became closed and stagnant when allied to the power of the state. Can any civil religion transcend these problems?
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142245
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131016
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2014.
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With tl1e failed attempt to institute Liberalism in the aftermath of WWI it seemed the idealistic vision of perpetual peace, increased prosperity, and collective security was merely an unrealistic hope. However, the successful progression of the European Union from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community began a new era of interstate relations. But, the repeated refusal of states to ratify the European constitution is a sign that European economic and policy integration is not enough to give Europeans a sense of shared values and principles and a sense of common heritage. The dissatisfaction over Europe's recent ?nancial woes--that were described as threatening a break-up of EU-has indicated that European Liberalism is faltering again. This article analyzes the issue from the perspective of peace research, global political economy, social psychology, and intercultural relations.
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