scholarly journals Diplomatic Wives, Cultures of Dress and Brita Kekkonen

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
Anna Niiranen
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
The Cold War

In this article, I discuss the private dress collection of Brita Kekkonen (1927–2013), a diplomatic wife, who was a very well-known figure in Finland during the period of the Cold War. Brita Kekkonen was also a very talented dressmaker and a very fashionable figure in diplomatic circles. Some eighty outfits made by Brita Kekkonen have survived to this day, in addition to her voluminous pattern collection, containing more than 1,000 patterns from several decades. The aim of my new postdoctoral research project is to identify Brita Kekkonen’s dresses and examine their use, politico-cultural meanings and design in the context of the Cold War, diplomatic etiquette and Kekkonen’s own personal history.

scholarly journals Making Sense of the Aurora: A Research Project

Nordlit ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Robert Marc Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Aurora Borealis ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Northern Latitudes ◽  
Rational Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
The Cold War

The article provides an introduction to a on-going research project based at University of Tromsø that seeks to analyze the history of efforts to make sense of the aurora borealis from the early 1700s through to the Cold War. Following brilliant displays of the northern lights in the early eighteenth century, natural philosophers strove to explain this phenomenon that evoked widespread fear and superstition. It was not until well into the twentieth century that consensual explanation emerged for this, one of the great enigmas in the history of science. From the start, the quest to explain the aurora borealis became enmeshed with patriotic science and nationalist sentiments. The history of efforts to understand the nature and cause of the aurora poses a number of thematic problems. Being a fleeting and at times rapidly changing phenomenon, only occasionally seen south of far-northern latitudes, the aurora needed to be constituted as an object able to be brought into the domain of rational science. Observational accounts of the aurora came most often from by personsliving or travelling in the far north or in the Arctic, but these persons were generally not trained scientists: Whose witnessing counted and how was authority negotiated among professional scientists and amateurs?

The International Rule of Law—Rise or Decline?—Approaching Current Foundational Challenges

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-30
Author(s):  
Heike Krieger ◽  
Georg Nolte
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
International Law ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
International Rule

The chapter undertakes a preliminary assessment of current developments of international law for the purpose of mapping the ground for a larger research project. The research project pursues the goal of determining whether public international law, as it has developed since the end of the Cold War, is continuing its progressive move towards a more human-rights- and multi-actor-oriented order, or whether we are seeing a renewed emphasis of more classical elements of international law. In this context the term ‘international rule of law’ is chosen to designate the more recent and ‘thicker’ understanding of international law. The chapter discusses how it can be determined whether this form of international law continues to unfold, and whether we are witnessing challenges to this order which could give rise to more fundamental reassessments.

The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social History ◽  
European History ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Institutional Economic ◽  
Postwar Europe ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Nazi Past ◽  
The Cold War

The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in this volume. As well as diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history, this book contains articles that approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage, art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage, post colonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines such as anthropology and philosophy. It covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of ‘Europe’ and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanisation, welfare, leisure, decolonisation, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the thirty-five essays in this book present a coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework.

scholarly journals Democracy, Democratization, and Development in Post-Cold War Africa (1990-2012)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
ADRIEN M. RATSIMBAHARISON
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
National Income ◽  
Development Program ◽  
United Nations Development Program ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Statistical Correlations ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Cold War

This research project addresses the question of whether democracy would be better than any other political systems to promote development. It attempts to find out whether democracy and democratization have led to a better economic performance in democratic and democratizing countries in Africa. Using data on development from the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in combination with data on regime characteristics from the Polity IV Project and Freedom House, this research project finds that democracy has weak statistical correlations with development, as indicated by the Human Development Index (HDI) and the gross national income (GNI) per capita of the fifty and so African countries since the end of the Cold War. Nevertheless, this study also finds that democratizing countries seem to have better economic performances than the other African countries.

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