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If Ukraine survives the war as a viable entity, its security will remain precarious. This makes it important to work on a solution for the military protection of Ukraine that does not exacerbate the situation, but contributes to easing tensions, is militarily credible and does not place an unacceptable burden on the country's scarce resources.This volume analyses the parties to the conflict and traces the course of the war. Against this background, a proposal for a Confidence-Building Defence is outlined in considerable detail: including intellectual and historical roots, as well as a discussion of organisational and technological feasibity.The study is intended as a stimulus for all those concerned with the future military security of Ukraine.Lutz Unterseher is a sociologist and political scientist. As the long-standing director of the Study group on Alternative Security policy (SAS), he originated the concept of Confidence-Building Defence.

In post-pandemic Europe the topic of 'overtourism' is back on the policy agenda of many cities, towns and villages. How to deal with the negative effects of tourism on places and people? This edited volume brings together inspiring perspectives and detailed case studies from all over Europe to better understand the phenomenon of overtourism. Based on the challenges lying ahead, the book makes a call for tourism policies that are more balanced and argues for more interdisciplinary research.

This book focuses on the minority of Tibetan Muslims among the Tibetan Diaspora. Most scholars remain unaware of the Tibetan Muslim community or its associations with Buddhism and the Dalai Lama. As a religious and political leader, he is the embodiment of Tibetan space, territory, population, religion, and identity. The Western public has assumed a monolithic vision of Tibet as a pure Buddhist Theocracy. However, Tibet was impacted by other religions, i.e. Christianity and Islam. The 1.000,000 Tibetan refugees in India are one of the largest Tibetan Diaspora; the majority are Buddhist, and the Muslim minority is estimated at no more than a few hundred families. Tibetan Muslims constitute a minority within another Tibetan Buddhist minority of exiled Tibetans in India. The study based on field research emphasizes a hybrid process of the Tibetan Muslim's Diaspora in exile. A cultural Buddhist Tibetan heritage associated with Kashmiri Muslim rituals and customs creates hybrid cultural practices and traditions, which could be characterized as rhizomatic.

What does it mean for the spirit world to be real? Scholars from different disciplines investigate this topic focusing on the role played by the spiritual realm in Pentecostalized Africa. The grammatical angle of their research proves to be a fruitful avenue to clarify the kind of reality or realities the spirit world has. This novel approach takes us beyond most existing research by investigating the often unaddressed assumption that we know what it means for the spirit world to be taken as real. This volume shows the importance of paying close attention to the grammar according to which people speak of spirits, Spirit, witchcraft, ancestors and other aspects of the spirit world.

This volume concentrates on all China-related Pulitzer Prize-winning articles and caricatures over the span of eighty years, 1941 - 2021. Main political phases of China's history from the nationalist movement of Chiang Kai-shek to the communist-totalitarian system of Xi Jinping are documented in this book.

This handbook aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the multi-faceted art law within the legal framework applicable to South Africa. In four 'phases', it provides answers to legal questions that arise from the initiation of an art project up to its exploitation. It is aimed at both law students who have an academic interest in an in-depth introduction to art law and practitioners from the art world, and is therefore equipped with numerous explanatory examples. The contents were prepared by students of the Art Law Clinic Stellenbosch and revised by the editors mentioned below.

In contrast to the Greek mainland, the Nazis occupied most of Crete between1941 - 45. After the German troops' defeat in North Africa, Crete wasturned into a fortress.This study examines the goals, methods and effectiveness of the Germanoccupation policy, the reactions of the Cretan administration and of thepopulation in particular, and also describes the opponents' combatoperations.The study is based not only on written papers, documents and files ofGreek, Cretan, British and German origin, but also on letters, manuscripts,expos'es and interviews by and with contemporary witnesses.Marlen von Xylander, Studies in History, Ethnology and Literature at Hamburg University;Master's degree, 1987; academic tenure at University of Crete, 1984 - 85;PhD at Hamburg University, 2009

Approaches to Monasticism in the Context of ChristianResponses to Modern Culture is a study of how the values andpractices of monasticism are being shaped by the shift to acultural understanding of Christianity in modern times. Thevalues and practices of traditional monasticism arecontrasted with those of various expressions of newmonasticism against the background of a multicultural andfluid social environment in an effort to find somereciprocal illumination. The study aims to describemonasticism in terms of authenticity and lived religion.Kevin Maddy was educated at CambridgeUniversity and has recently completed a PhD at RadboudUniversity, Nijmegen. He currently works in Canterbury as anAnglican parish priest, and is a probationary member of theSociety of the Resurrection.

The doctoral thesis about Hieratikon of priest Lucian Petroaia brings to the researchers' attention, the most important book of service of the orthodox priest. From a historical perspective, the author has carefully identified and investigated all editions of the Hieratikon printed in Romania, from 1508 to the present; from the point of view of analyzing the content of the Hieratikon, he follows the evolution of the order of the Holly Liturgy over 500 years, often comparing the text of the Romanian Hieratikon with that of the Greek Hieratikon and the Slavic Slujebnik. The interdisciplinary approach emphasizes the essential role that the Orthodox liturgical cult had for the assertion of Romanian culture, in the landscape of the European and Universal culture. Priest Lucian Petroaia is an associate professor in Liturgical Theology at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology at "Lower Danube" University in Galaţi and at "Justinian Patriarch" Faculty of Orthodox Theology at University of Bucharest, Romania.