From exception to facilitator: what place for France in the EU/NATO partnership in the post-Cold War global world?Journal of Transatlantic Studies - Tập 12 - Trang 432-442 - 2014
Jean-Paul Perruche
In the wake of WWII, the historical legacy of the last 65 years has led the
Europeans to organise their defence in the transatlantic framework through NATO,
and in the European Union (EU) through Common Foreign and Security Policy/Common
Security and Defense Policy. Despite the reiterated wish to make the two
organisations complementary, this has not been achievable so far because of
their differe... hiện toàn bộ
The affinity with the North American Indian in Czech literary discourse on the democratic roots of Czech national cultureJournal of Transatlantic Studies - Tập 6 - Trang 148-157 - 2008
Michal Peprník
This paper surveys the Czech cultural appropriation of the North American Indian
in a historical perspective, through the three radical changes of the political
paradigm: the first Czechoslovak democratic republic (1918–1938), the communist
era (1948–1989), and the post-Velvet Revolution present. Although the American
Indian was appropriated as a symbolic structure with surprisingly different
func... hiện toàn bộ
Dreaming of Christian nations in the USA and Russia: the importance of historyJournal of Transatlantic Studies - Tập 10 - Trang 201-221 - 2012
John Anderson
This paper explores the continuing resonance of the Christian nation idea in the
USA and Russia, focusing in particular on how appeals to history serve to
justify contemporary political positions. Whilst President Obama seeks to
distance himself from the exclusivist connotations of this discourse,
conservative religious and political leaders argue that if public policy ignores
the Christian herita... hiện toàn bộ
Gender and colonial transitioning: Frantz Fanon’s Algerian freedom fighters in Moroccan and Caribbean novels?Journal of Transatlantic Studies - Tập 7 - Trang 279-293 - 2009
Donna McCormack
This article analyses the ways in which Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary narrative
in L’An V de la révolution algérienne is reworked in selected novels of Tahar
Ben Jelloun and Shani Mootoo. Focusing on Fanon’s transitional politics, it
draws out how these novelists employ gender transitioning to challenge colonial,
nationalistic and familial violence. The article suggests that the intersections
of an... hiện toàn bộ
“A purer form of government”: African American constitutionalism in the founding of LiberiaJournal of Transatlantic Studies - - 2021
Jordan Cash
The African Americans who wrote the Liberian constitution of 1847 represent one
of the few instances where Americans engaged national constitution-making after
1787. While the Liberians adopted many aspects of the American constitution,
they also made substantial changes implicitly critiquing the American original
and forging a uniquely African American constitutionalism. Examining the
Liberian co... hiện toàn bộ