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Een bespreking van Robert Dankoff, Kim Sooyong (eds.), An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi (Eland Books, 2010) Als het verleden inderdaad is als een vreemd land waar men de dingen nu eenmaal anders doet, valt het dan eigenlijk wel te begrijpen? En waarom zouden we het dan nog proberen? Dit zijn vragen waarmee iedere historicus worstelt, althans iedere

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Uit het NRC, 23-10-2010: Zo deelden de drie partijen het voornemen de sociale zekerheid „af te grendelen” voor hen die niet hebben bijgedragen aan de opbouw ervan. De uitkeringsrechten van immigranten beperken, zeg maar. Of de specialisten uit de betrokken fracties de gevolgen van zulke „denkrichtingen” voor formateur Ivo Opstelten en zijn staf in kaart konden brengen. Je zou kunnen eisen dat

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By Corey Robin November 23, 2009 St. Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both. Many other people have thought so too. In 1998 readers responding to a Modern Library poll identified Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead as the two greatest novels of the twentieth

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Een bespreking van Edward N. Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Harvard University Press, 2009) Er zit een zekere spanning in de titel The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire. Het exotisme dat uitgaat van het Byzantijnse rijk lijkt maar moeilijk te rijmen met het vastberaden rationalisme dat een term als grand strategy impliceert. En trouwens, gingen de Byzantijnen – net

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Een bespreking van Pascal Bruckner, The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism (Princeton University Press, 2010) Sinds Paul Scheffer het in januari 2000 schetste is de discussie over “Het multiculturele drama” er bepaald niet fijnzinniger op geworden. Hoewel hijzelf in 2007 nog altijd stoïcijns sociaaleconomische antwoorden formuleerde heeft de tijd heeft hem ontegenzeggelijk niet

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Pascal Bruckner, The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism (Princeton University Press, 2010) Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has

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De intensieve veehouderij moet worden gesaneerd en omgevormd tot een dier-, mens- en milieuvriendelijk systeem dat tegemoetkomt aan de natuur en behoeftes van alle levende wezens. Dit stellen ruim honderd hoogleraren een artikel op de opiniepagina van NRC Handelsblad vandaag... http://goo.gl/fb/eRpHW

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In de afgelopen maanden hebben leden van de partijcommissies voor duurzame ontwikkeling van CDA, ChristenUnie, D66, GroenLinks, Partij van de Arbeid, SGP en VVD samen het partijoverstijgende voorstel Nederland krijgt nieuwe energie geschreven. Daarvoor is een studieronde gehouden met bijdragen van o.a. McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, KEMA, CE Delft, UCAD en PBL. De partijcommissies

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Vrijheid van meiningsuiting Vrijheid van meningsuiting is een groot goed. Daar zijn voor- en tegenstanders van Geert Wilders het over eens. De tegenstanders vinden daarnaast ook dat wie met zijn meningen aanzet tot discriminatie en zelfs haat, misbruik van zijn vrijheidsrechten maakt. Wilders beweert dat hij nooit iemand heeft willen beledigen. Wat hij over Koran en Islam heeft gezegd is gewoon

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Hans Moors, Lenke Balogh, Jaap van Donselaar en Bob de Graaff schreven voor IVA beleidsonderzoek en -advies in opdracht van het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken het onafhankelijke rapport "Polarisatie en radicalisering in Nederland. Een verkenning van de stand van zaken in 2009". Merlijn Olnon © 2009 Het rapport is een "monitoronderzoek" naar maatschappelijke en politieke polarisatie en

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Frank Furedi writes that "the slow delivery of aid to Haitians suggests that even the noble mission of saving lives has been subordinated to the dictates of risk-aversion." http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/368

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Alexander C. Diener & Joshua Hagen (eds.), Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation State (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009) From our earliest schooldays, we are shown the world as a colorful collage of countries, each defined by their own immutable borders. What we often don't realize is that every political boundary was created by people. No political border is more

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Update, 26 januari '10:Academisch-cultureel centrum Spui25 wijdt woensdag 10 februari 2010 in samenwerking met Athenaeum Boekhandel en uitgeverij Athenaeum, Polak & Van Gennep een avond aan Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar en Het Klokkengelijkzetinstituut.Van 20:00-22:00 uur zullen vertaalster Hanneke van der Heijden, turkoloog Merlijn Olnon en literair criticus Margot Dijkgraaf onder leiding van Maarten

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Update, 23 januari '10:Een sterke en zeer leesbare case study van het strategisch beleid van het Byzantijnse rijk. Eeuwelang krimpend en aan alle kanten omsingeld door concurrenten en vijanden, maar met een briljante alliantiepolitiek en militaire strategie toch lang het hoofd weten te bieden aan een overweldigende meerderheid van Arabieren, Perzen, Turken en kruisvarende Franken. Conclusie:

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Don't get America's division over healthcare? Two 25-minute BBC podcast documentaries packed with interviews and analysis explain how the debate is tied up with social, economic and political issues of race and demography. Part one: Michael Goldfarb looks at President Obama's mission to reform America's health care system Part two: Business, money, demographics, politics - these are the issues

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Port-au-Prince before the earthquake, as described by Haitian writers and visitors to the island nation. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/14/requiem_for_port_au_prince

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From the poorest neighborhoods to the presidential palace, Haiti's man-made landscape, now demolished, will never be the same. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/19/after_the_fall

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Jon L. Mills, Privacy: The Lost Right (Oxford University Press, 2008) The disturbing reality of contemporary life is that technology has laid bare the private facts of most people's lives. Email, cell phone calls, and individual purchasing habits are no longer secret. Individuals may be discussed on a blog, victimized by an inaccurate credit report, or have their email read by an employer or

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Halid Ziya Usakligil (Vertaling: Hanneke van der Heijden & Margreet Dorleijn), den liefde (Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2009) Verboden liefde (1900) is een van de eerste moderne, op westerse leest geschoeide romans in de Turkse literatuur. De jonge, mooie Bihter uit een verarmde familie trouwt met de veel oudere, welgestelde Adnan. Na haar huwelijk beseft ze dat ze, ondanks alle weelde waarin ze

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Immanuel Wallerstein, European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power (The New Press, 2006) Ever since the Enlightenment, Western intervention around the world has been justified by appeals to notions of civilization, development, and progress. The assumption has been that such ideas are universal, encrusted in natural law. But, as Immanuel Wallerstein argues in this short and elegant philippic,

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John M. Hobson, The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation (Cambridge University Press, 2004) John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the rise of the West. It is often assumed that since Ancient Greek times Europeans have pioneered their own development, and that the East has been a passive bystander in the story of progressive world history. Hobson argues that

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Daniel R. Headrick, Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2010) For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success.

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Ian Morris & Walter Scheidel (eds.), The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 2008) The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under

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David Harvey, Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom (Columbia University Press, 2009) Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn

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Carol J. Greenhouse (ed.), Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) In the context of the global economic crisis, world capitalism today may be on the verge of another restructuring. Neoliberalism—the dominant approach to government around the world since the 1980s—may be coming to an end, but its effect on social and political life will long be felt. Based on the

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Youval Rotman, Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World (Harvard University Press, 2009) Slavery may no longer exist as a legal institution, but we still find many forms of non-freedom in contemporary societies. It is a troubling paradox, and one this book addresses by considering a period in which the definition of slavery and freedom proved considerably flexible. Between more familiar

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Jack Goody, Renaissances: The One or the Many? (Cambridge University Press, 2010) One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world addresses one of the central historical questions of the past millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances

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Jack Goody, The Eurasian Miracle (Polity Press, 2009) The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from Antiquity through Feudalism to Capitalism which could not have taken place elsewhere. Today there are many who still believe that

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Peter Baldwin, The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How Europe and America are Alike (Oxford University Press, 2010) A revealing comparison of the United States and Europe, compellingly argued and based on the latest international statistics. There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. According to the American right, Europeans are lazy, defeatist and

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Adi Ophir, Michal Givoni & Sari Hanafi (eds.), The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Zone Books, 2010) On the eve of its fifth decade, the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories can no longer be considered a temporary aberration. In the shadow of the Oslo process, the second Intifada and the “disengagement” from and recurring

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Jeremy Salt, The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (University of California Press, 2009) Written for those who want to know more about the Middle East than the mainstream media is willing or able to tell, this book begins by examining a question that has been asked by numerous commentators since September 11, 2001: "Why do they hate us?" Jeremy Salt offers

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Jonathan Pugh (ed.), What is Radical Politics Today? (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) - Lees Merijn Oudenampsens bespreking op Athenaeum.nl - A crisis makes you re-think your life. The recent economic crisis is no exception. All of us are now thinking how the world could be run differently. Despite this, a radical alternative has hardly emerged to mobilise the masses, which begs the question: What is

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Alan L. Karras, Smuggling: Contraband and Corruption in World History (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009) In this lively book, Alan L. Karras traces the history of smuggling around the world and explores all aspects of this pervasive and enduring crime. Through a compelling set of cases drawn from a rich array of historical and contemporary sources, Karras shows how smuggling of every

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William McNeill, Venice: The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797 (University of Chicago Press, 1974; new edition, 2009) In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William H. McNeill chronicles the interactions and disputes between Latin Christians and the Orthodox communities of eastern Europe during the period 1081–1797. Concentrating on Venice as the hinge of European history in the late

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Should the Swiss apologize for having vetoed minarets in their recent election? Maybe, but where should the apologies begin? Think for a moment about the Armenian genocide... more And take special note of the heated but relatively high-quality debate on the Armenian question that ensued... here

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Christopher I. Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2009) The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes

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Jacqueline Stevens, States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals (New Directions in Critical Theory; Columbia University Press, 2009) As citizens, we hold certain truths to be self-evident: that the rights to own land, marry, inherit property, and especially to assume birthright citizenship should be guaranteed by the state. The laws promoting these rights appear not only to preserve our

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Brent L. Sterling, Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?: What History Teaches Us About Strategic Barriers and International Security (Georgetown University Press, 2009) A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. In Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?, defense analyst Brent Sterling

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Jon Calame & Esther Charlesworth, Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut ,Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated

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Our quick and dirty rundown on what's happening in Copenhagen. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Talking-Points-Memo/~3/NjApROTAQAM/idiots_guide_to_climate_talks.php

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Twenty-two former Bush administration officials once responsible for climate policy are now lobbying on the climate change issue, mostly for the oil, gas and mining industries, according to a new report by watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "These alumni of the Bush climate team continue to shape and confuse the debate over global warming," said CREW executive

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Despite improved bilateral ties between the U.S. and Turkey, there are still significant differences that need to be managed when Prime Minister Erdogan visits the White House, writes CFR's Steven Cook. http://feeds.cfr.org/~r/cfr_main/~3/4IjSk9PdCT8/balancing_a_bullish_turkey.html

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This has been bubbling among tech types and civil liberty advocates for a few days, but once we looked into it decided it was worth a bit more attention. The big revelation is that one wireless telecom company in a single year processed 8 million law enforcement requests for GPS data on the company's wireless users. And that's just one company. For non-techies, law enforcement isn't tapping

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Has the "ClimateGate scandal" shifted our fundamental understanding of global warming? A top U.S. scientist says no. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/12/04/unweird_science

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Angst voor Geert Wilders en zijn kiezers heeft het weer eens gewonnen van rationele afwegingen. Dit keer gaat het over een voorgenomen bezoek aan Turkije door een delegatie van de Tweede Kamer. Het was de bedoeling dat begin januari een gezelschap Nederlandse parlementariërs, waaronder Geert Wilders, naar Turkije zou afreizen voor een meerdaags bezoek. De Tweede-Kamerleden waren uitgenodigd door

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Als achtergrondinformatie bij een artikel in het NRC handelsblad van afgelopen zaterdag produceerde Turkijecorrespondent Bram Vermeulen de volgende verhelderende korte chronologie van de kwestie Cyprus :1950 - Uitbraak geweld tussen Turks-Cyprioten en Grieks-Cyprioten1960- Cyprus wordt onafhankelijk van de Britten, de Turks-Cyprioten en Grieks-Cyprioten delen de macht. Aartsbisschop Markarios is

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26/11/09: Dimitri Tokmetzis, "Onzichtbaar in een digitale wereld", GeenCommentaar (bewerkt van Rachel Marbus, Deleting yourself, TILT Weblog Law & Technology & Evan Ratliff, Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear?, Wired)26/11/09: Bart de Koning, "Privacyschending in Nederland: het gaat verder dan je denkt", HP/De Tijd25/11/09: "Web-wide war: Microsoft opens a new front in its battle

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By Jeremy Scahill November 23, 2009At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive

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28/11/09: Malise Ruthven, "The Big Muslim Problem!", The New York Review of Books27/11/09: Joop/Politiek, "Verhagen leest Wilders de les", Joop.nl25/11/09: Nick Danforth, "How the West Lost Turkey", Foreign Policy24/11/09: Harm Ede Botje, "Bijval Femke Halsema: Wie betalen Wilders?", Vrij Nederland17/11//09: Geert Wilders, "Tien keer nee tegen Turkije", PVV

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21/11/09: "Impact on Hunanities" by Stefan Collini, The Times Literary Supplement: Researchers must take a stand now or be judged and rewarded as salesmen.21/11/09: "Israel Without Illusions: What Goldstone Got Right" by David Shulman, The New York Review of Books Blog: Questions of human rights abuses in Israel and the charges of war crimes put forward by the UN’s Goldstone report have produced

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Dit artikel verscheen ook in Waterstof #48 (november '09), het politieke debatmagazine van progressieve denktank Waterland, en als gastbijdrage op Sargasso.nl: Onlangs voegde ook de regerende ChristenUnie zich bij monde van Gert-Jan Segers, directeur van het Wetenschappelijk Instituut van de partij, in het spreekkoor tegen een volwaardig EU-lidmaatschap voor Turkije en voor een geprivilegieerd

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The EU should not only be dealing with the economy and money, but must... place greater and more evident stress on [...] its spiritual foundations and values as Europe’s rich spiritual and cultural history – combining elements of Antiquity, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment - has created an array of indisputable values.Czech President Václav Havel European

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Om de week ligt er pal naast de kassa bij de ingang van het Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum een grote stapel van, het laatste nummer van de karakteristiek uitziende New York Review of Books. Met 65 gretig afgenomen exemplaren (op een Europese circulatie van 13.000 en een Amerikaanse van 140.000) is de Review een van de bestverkopende tijdschriften van het Nieuwscentrum. Geen geringe prestatie voor een op

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Afgelopen donderdag namen de lidstaten van de Verenigde Naties met 114 tegen 18 stemmen resolutie A/RES/64/10 aan. De resolutie roept Israël en "de Palestijnen" op tot het openen van "geloofwaardige, onafhankelijke onderzoeken naar vermeende oorlogsmisdaden in Gaza" en verzoekt de VN-Veiligheidsraad een conferentie in te stellen die naleving van de Vierde Conventie van Genève afdwingt in de

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22/10/09: The Economist, "The life and views of Ayn Rand: Capitalism's martyred hero", The Economist: Books and arts 21/10/09: Atlasshrugs2000, "Geert Wilders at Columbia University", YouTube.com 16/10/09: Gert-Jan van Teeffelen, "Wilders haalt zijn gelijk in Londen", De Volkskrant 08/10/09: Dick Pels, "Economisch populisme", Waterlog 01/10/09: Merijn Oudenampsen, "De Ruk naar Rechts",

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24/10/09: The Anatolia News Agency, "Turkey will never change its position on occupied Azerbaijani territories, FM Davutoğlu", Today's Zaman 24/10/09: Today's Zaman, "FM: Protocols to pave way for regional peace, including Azerbaijan", Today's Zaman 19/10/09: Alex Strick van Linschoten & Felix Kuehn, ""See You Soon, If We’re Still Alive": The only two Westerners living on their own in Kandahar

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23/10/09: Andrew Albanese, "Google Opponents Urge Court to Reconsider Restrictions on Revised Settlement", Publishers Weekly 21/10/09: Daniel Terdiman, "Internet Archive's BookServer could 'dominate' Amazon", CNET News 11/10/09: Jamie Doward & Paul Harris, "Google digital library plan opposed by Angela Merkel", The Observer 10/10/09: Dirk Leyman, "Google-baas Sergey Brin verdedigt zijn 'eeuwige

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Pieter Geyl, Ik die zo weinig in mijn verleden leef: autobiografie 1887-1940 - door Bart van den Bosch Richard J. Evans, Cosmopolitan Islanders: British Historians and the European Continent - door Joop Hopster Susan Vandiver Nicassio, Imperial City: Rome under Napoleon - door Joop Hopster John V. Fleming, The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four books that shaped the Cold War - door Bart van

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Siep Stuurman, De Uitvinding van de mensheid: korte wereldgeschiedenis van het denken over gelijkheid en cultuurverschil (Bert Bakker, 2009) Hoe en onder welke historische omstandigheden gaan mensen vreemdelingen als medemensen of zelfs als gelijken beschouwen? De meeste boeken over cultuurverschil leggen de nadruk op ongelijkheid en confrontatie. De uitvinding van de mensheid draait het

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Historicus, romancier, journalist en vertaler Philipp Blom was enkele dagen terug te gast bij de Athenaeum Boekhandel aan het Spui. Ik sprak hem daar over zijn laatste boek The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West 1900-1914, waarvan eerder dit jaar bij De Bezige Bij de Nederlandse vertaling verscheen onder de titel De duizelingwekkende jaren: Europa 1900-1914. Schuif hieronder of op

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Sinds 1 september '09 biedt de vernieuwde website van Athenaeum Boekhandel (www.athenaeum.nl) iedere dag verse in opdracht vervaardigde besprekingen, voorpublicaties, essays en reportages. De behandelde onderwerpen en titels worden door Athenauems winkel- en webboekverkopers geselecteerd uit het recente en aanstaande aanbod en sluiten dan ook naadloos aan bij de actualitiet en expertise zoals

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Read the review: By MICHAEL HIRSH Published: October 1, 2009, NYT Sunday Book Review This indictment of our need for oil and the destruction it has wrought predicts the Age of Petroleum will soon be history... read more Watch the trailer: A Joe Berlinger Film Released: Jan. 18 '09 (USA), Feb. 6, '09 (EU) Entendre Films Watch the trailer at http://www.crudethemovie.com/... And read

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By LEWIS HYDE Published: October 1, 2009 The New York Times, Sunday Book Review Nothing in the history of copyright permits the treatment of “orphan” works spelled out in the proposed settlement between Google and the Authors Guild... read more

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“Ik zeg wat ik denk en ik doe wat ik zeg.” Met die omschrijving van de korte rechte lijn tussen gedachte en daad verwoordde Pim Fortuyn nog niet zo heel lang geleden het heersende maatschappelijke en politieke ideaal van onze tijd bij uitstek, dat van de authenticiteit. Het is nu moeilijk voor te stellen, maar tot de Verlichting en de Romantiek er definitief een einde aan maakten was het

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James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press, 2009) In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen should also

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By now, all media have covered the Swiss-mediated talks aimed at normalizing relations between the Republic of Turkey and the Republic of Armenia. What are the expectations and are they justified? A quick look at the primary sources. Merlijn Olnon © 2009 After some weeks of what must have been difficult internal political consultations, the parties are to put their signatures to two protocols

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Hier worden een hoop open deuren ingetrapt: een grote meerderheid van de PVV-stemmers stemt op die partij "vanwege de standpunten van de PVV" en omdat zij "weinig vertouwen in de regring" heeft. Tsja, dat eerste wekt niet echt verbazing en het tweede heb ik ook, maar dat zegt niet zoveel over mijn houding ten opzichte van Wilders.En van dik hout zaagt men planken:Tolerantie naar allochtonen is

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(dit is een voor athenaeum.nl bijgewerkte en uit het Engels vertaalde versie van dit eerdere artikel) Op 7 oktober zou het districtsgerechtshof van zuidelijk New York uitspraak doen in de Google Books Search-settlement, de inmiddels veelbesproken copyrightschikking die Google sloot met de verenigde schrijvers en uitgevers van Amerika. Die uitspraak werd 24 september jl. echter tot nader order

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... but do we really want competition for resources that belong in the public domain? David Drummond, Google's VP, Corporate Development & Chief Legal Officer, testified before the House Judiciary Committee last Thursday, explaining why Google's recent agreement with Yahoo does not constitute the formation of a trust. In face of growing resistance to the settelement giving Google quasi-exclusive

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A post by Geoffrey Nunberg, dated August 29, 2009, and detailing Google Books' "Metadata Train Wreck" on the University of Pennsylvania's Language Log-blog has led to an interesting exchange, bursting with kafkaesque examples from Google's scholarly universe in the making. Veering past the issues of copyright that are currently in the limelight (due to the Google Book Search-settlement's opt-out

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A Turkish university will for the first time teach the Kurdish language, which was banned throughout the country until 1991, Turkish officials say.Read more...

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Although Google Books still lists Harvard University as its partner, the university's renowned library is now set to anounce the ending of its partnership with Google. Harvard will opt out of the Google Book Search-settlement over Google's failure to guarantee perpetual free access to the material it digitizes. Harvard University Library was one of the first and most enthousiastic collaborators

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Al dat socio-culturele gedaas over ‘de gemeenschappen’ en het al even metafysische als woedende gevecht tussen ‘Republiek’ en ‘communautarisme’ is gewoon je reinste onzin. Dat men de mensen toch laat leven zoals ze willen, waar ze willen, eten wat ze graag eten, tulbanden dragen, jurken, sluiers, minirokjes of strandsandalen; laat ze toch op tijd en stond knielen voor hun vermoeide goden of met

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Here are a couple of highly recommended - paper! - books on the future of the (scholarly) book and the impact Google is having on it... Geoffrey Nunberg, Umberto Eco (Foreword), The Future of the Book (University of California Press, December 1996), PB, 250 pp.Anthony Grafton, Codex in Crisis (The Crumpled Press, October 2008), PB, 64 pp.Anthony Grafton, Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and

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Open Book Alliance (8 September '09): Open Book Alliance Files Brief Countering Proposed Google Book Settlement (Background: What Experts Are Saying About the Settlement)De Papieren Man (8 September '09): Google Books komt tegemoet aan Europese bezwarenDe Volkskrant (8 September '09): Nederland keert zich tegen Googles ‘bieb’Tweakers.net (7 September '09): Google doet water bij de wijn voor

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Nederland kent zichzelf slecht. Toen in de jaren zestig afscheid werd genomen van het verleden en de mening postvatte dat religie ouderwets en overbodig was, ontstond de mythe dat Nederland sinds de Opstand een tolerant en vredelievend land was. Vergeten werd dat de tegenstelling tussen katholieken en protestanten het land vier eeuwen lang in haar greep had gehouden. Vergeten werd dat een

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Voor het volledige rapport; klik hier.Meer informatie op de Turkije-pagina van het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken en via het Turkije InstituutMerlijn Olnon © 2009

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Merlijn Olnon © 2009

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If all goes as planned October 7, 2009 will see the NY Southern District Court's decision on the Google Book Search-settlement. Admittedly, the Library Associations' petition to have the court permanently oversee the class settlement Google previously concluded with the publishing world is not the most accesible or sensational topic around. Yet it is one that should be of profound interest to

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"The most rigorous and plainspoken examination of Muslim immigration in Europe to date", raved the Guardian, and the New York Times called it "well researched, fervently argued and morally serious". However, in the most comprehensive and carefully argued treatment seen so far NYU's STEPHEN HOLMES concludes that: Few of [Caldwell's] audacious generalizations can survive serious scrutiny. European

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We're being attacked because of our foreign policy.Because of our unquestioning blind support for Israel.Because of our presence on the Arabian peninsula.Because of our invasion of Iraq.Because of our hypocritical and dastardly support for Arab tyrannies over the past 50 years.No one should be interrogating these folks.They should be made prisoners of war and treated just as we treated the

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(Dit artikel is onderdeel van een feuilleton dat hier begint) Merlijn Olnon © 2009 De hiervoor uitgestippelde politieke en maatschappelijke strategie zal er misschien niet direct in slagen de kiezers bij Wilders vandaan te houden of weg te trekken. Die lijken vaak meer geïnteresseerd in emotie dan in feiten – evident voor iedereen die weleens grote internetforums bezoekt. Maar zelfs als direct

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(Dit artikel is onderdeel van een feuilleton dat hier begint) Merlijn Olnon © 2009 Als het electoraat inderdaad uiteen zal stuiven, zal bij de huidige politieke constellatie rechts enorm groeien ten koste van het midden en links. De voornaamste reden daarvoor zal zijn dat het Wilders is gelukt zichzelf als beschermer van “het volk” te profileren ten koste van een “ideologisch failliet

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(Dit artikel is onderdeel van een feuilleton dat hier begint) Merlijn Olnon © 2009 Het pak rammel dat de PvdA krijgt mag dan verdiend zijn, er moet iedereen veel aan gelegen zijn de partij er niet aan onderdoor te laten gaan. Want Wilders mag dan metapolitiek bedrijven, hij doet dat wel met rechtse thema’s. Dat betekent dat zijn aantrekkingskracht op de rechtervleugel van het CDA en een groot

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Conclusie Werkgroep PvdA: “Met deze resultaten in de achterzak - en met de eerder beschreven agenda - gaan we met opgeheven hoofd de gemeenteraadscampagne in. In het besef dat wij als grootste linkse partij leiding willen geven aan een programma van verbinding en optimisme. Om daar effectiever in te kunnen opereren moeten we actief de samenwerking met andere progressieve partijen zoeken. Niet om

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(Dit artikel is onderdeel van een feuilleton dat hier begint) Merlijn Olnon © 2009 Wilders' schijnbare immuniteit voor de reacties van de rest van ons politieke bestel komt voort uit het feit dat hij een volstrekt ander, meer betekenisgevend, discours voert – een metapolitiek. Je hoeft het niet met de door hem gegeven betekenis eens te zijn om in te zien dat onze maatschappij en politiek in al

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Merlijn Olnon © 2009

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(Dit artikel is onderdeel van een feuilleton dat hier begint) Merlijn Olnon © 2009 Terwijl de retoriek van Wilders de afgelopen maanden het hele politieke spectrum gegijzeld leek te houden bleken alleen GroenLinks en D66 in staat consequent en principieel weerstand te bieden. Het is geen toeval dat dit nu juist de partijen zijn die al enige tijd een nieuwe politiek proberen te scheppen door een

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(Dit artikel is het eerste deel van een feuilleton) Merlijn Olnon © 2009 Het is inmiddels alweer bijna een maand geleden dat de PVV ten koste van de regeringspartijen als grote winnaar tevoorschijn kwam uit de Europese verkiezingen. Van de eerste schrik bekomen zijn de kopstukken en bewindslieden van PvdA, CDA en ChristenUnie de afgelopen weken om het hardst gaan roepen dat zij Wilders lik op

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Merlijn Olnon © 2009 Thought Western Europe had entered a post-national, post-modern age? Thought we had moved beyond government-sponsored symbollical nationalism? Thought wrong! In their bid to warm the common folk to stuffy institutions like archives and museums, Dutch policymakers seem to have developed a growing enthusiasm for (re)branding them to fit popular tastes. Apparently these are

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... grapte de Amerikaanse komiek Bill Maher afgelopen vrijdag in zijn show op de Amerikaanse zender HBO. Verdomd, heb jij dat gevoel nou ook steeds meer over onze PvdA, VVD en PVV? Kijk zelf en vraag je af: had dit net zo goed over Nederland kunnen gaan? Is ook de Nederlandse sociaal-democratie naar rechts verhuisd en Wilders, Verdonk & Co. naar het gekkenhuis, met de VVD in het kielzog? Maher

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(Haaretz, 18/06/2009) Quite, the Palestinians simply hate Israel because they are Muslims. (Which is also the defining reason why 'the terrorists hate freedom', Algerian youth burn cars in Paris' banlieues and Moroccan youth in Amsterdam harass police, and so on and on and on...) Hey, I know what, let's try and do Israel one better, right here in Holland! Geert Wilders will lead us by the hand

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Dit artikel verscheen eerder als gastbijdrage op Sargasso.nl: In De Volkskrant van zaterdag 13 juni zei Merijn Oudenampsen in een paginagroot interviewartikel dat "Links moet terugneuken" om Wilders van repliek te dienen. Velen lazen het met instemming en zullen met opluchting kennis hebben genomen van het beginnetje dat Eberhard van der Laan daarmee nu lijkt te hebben gemaakt. Maar het is wel

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