Titoist Yugoslavia is a particularly interesting setting to examine the integrity of the modern nation-state, especially the viability of distinctly multi-ethnic nation-building projects. Scholarly ...literature on the brutal civil wars that destroyed Yugoslavia during the 1990s emphasizes divisive nationalism and dysfunctional politics to explain why the state disintegrated. But the larger question remains unanswered-just how did Tito's state function so successfully for the preceding forty-six years. In an attempt to understand better what united the stable, multi-ethnic, and globally important Yugoslavia that existed before 1991 Robert Niebuhr argues that we should pay special attention to the dynamic and robust foreign policy that helped shape the Cold War.
This landmark biography reveals the life of one of the most powerful figures of the Cold War era. Josip Broz (1892–1980), nicknamed Tito, led Yugoslavia for nearly four decades with charisma, ...cunning, and an iron fist.
With his Partisans he fought Hitler during World War II, and after the war he shrewdly resisted the Soviet Union's grasp. A leader of the non-aligned nations, he long enjoyed a reputation in the West as the only good Communist despite a dubious human rights record at home. Jože Pirjevec employs impressive research from archives in eight languages to offer this illuminating, definitive portrait of a complex man in turbulent times.
Pirjevec recounts how Tito, with little schooling but an astute intellect and driving ambition, rose through Communist Party ranks to shape and rule the Yugoslav federation. Surviving multiple assassination attempts by Nazis, Soviet spies, and others, Tito boldly threatened Stalin in return and may have, Pirjevec reveals, contrived Stalin's death. The narrative follows Tito's personal and political life into old age, as the specter of a Soviet invasion haunted him until his death at age eighty-seven. Available in English for the first time, this edition includes new material from Pirjevec and a foreword by Emily Greble.
O artigo interpreta o filme Batismo de Sangue (2007), por meio da forma cinematográfica do flashback, em torno da tortura e morte de Frei Tito. Nossas hipóteses são: este filme tenta lidar com a ...amnésia jurídica imposta pela Lei de Anistia dos crimes da Ditadura Civil-Militar brasileira (1964-1985); a partir de uma ética testemunhal (Agamben e Gagnebin), entendemos o filme como sendo um flashback não de trauma, mas de um testemunho. Palavras-Chave: Testemunho; Ditadura Civil-Militar; Flashback. The article interprets the film Batismo de Sangue (2007), through the cinematic form of the flashback, around the torture and death of Frei Tito. Our hypotheses are: this film tries to deal with the legal amnesia imposed by the Amnesty Law of the crimes of the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship (1964-1985); since the testimonial ethic (Agamben and Gagnebin), we understand the film itself as a flashback, not of trauma, but of testemonie. Keywords: Testemonie; Dictatorship; Flashback.
The paper describes a simple and efficient control loop decoupler for TITO (two inputs, two outputs) control systems. The inverted decoupling approach is used, and the feedforward filters are just ...static gains. The feedforward gains are determined in two ways, from a static analysis and from optimization. By investigating several cases found in literature, it is found that the two sets of feedforward gains are very close. The control loop decoupler is implemented in an industrial DCS system and simulation experiments as well as laboratory tests show that a significant reduction of the coupling is accomplished. Automatic tuning of the feedforward gains is derived and implemented in the system as well.
•A PID control loop decoupler is presented.•It is based on inverted decoupling using static feedforward.•Design methods and automatic tuning procedures for the feedforward gains are presented.•A significant reduction of the coupling for several cases found in literature is obtained.•The decoupler is implemented in an industrial DCS system.
The paper examines the theme of female cross-dressing as a transgression and overcoming of an ethical limes as identity fiction. The article takes into consideration some fifteenth century Latin ...theatrical texts with particular attention to the comedies of the humanist Tito Livio Frulovisi whose plots concern the motif of disguise and other literary and narratological suggestions (clara.fossati@unige.it). Il contributo esamina il tema del travestimento femminile come trasgressione e superamento di un limes di carattere etico nel significato di finzione di identita. L'articolo prende in considerazione alcuni testi teatrali latini del Quattrocento con particolare attenzione alle commedie dell'umanista ferrarese Tito Livio Frulovisi le cui trame ruotano attorno al motivo del travestimento e ad altre suggestion' letterarie e narratologiche. Keywords: Tito Livio Frulovisi, teatro latino del Quattrocento, travestimento femminile, trasgressione; Tito Livio Frulovisi, female cross-dressing, fifteenth century Latin theatrical texts, transgression.
L’articolo analizza la quaestio de veneficiis del 331 a. C., la prima nella storia di Roma (Liv. viii 18), sviluppatasi da una delle tante pestilentiae del periodo altorepubblicano, culminata nel ...processo per veneficium e nella condanna di un folto gruppo di matrone. Alla base della vicenda vi è l’interferenza di piani fra sicurezza pubblica, salute dei cittadini e comportamento femminile, che genera due soluzioni distinte, una giudiziaria e laica (la quaestio) e una religiosa e prodigiale (il clavus a dictatore fixus). Se nella versione liviana l’aspetto processuale si presenta oggettivo e cronachistico, più problematico appare quello religioso, anche per la dimensione politica che viene proiettata su tutta la vicenda dall’associazione delle matrone venefiche alle rivolte plebee, risolte tramite lo stesso piaculum.
In Yugoslavia, the 1980s were a period of economic and political crisis, but also a time of a gradual liberalisation of the society and the start of its movement towards a multiparty system and ...breakup. By easing impediments of censorship in culture, which was the domain of the ruling communist party, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (ZKJ), a space opened up for artists to raise some traumatic and problematic topics from the Yugoslav past, such as Goli Otok and the clash with the Cominform. The manner in which these topics were addressed in 1980s Yugoslav films suggests that the influence of ZKJ over cultural and social life was waning, but also that the Party still tried to promote its version of the past with propaganda films such as Visoki napon (High Voltage). Accordingly, this article represents a contribution to studying and understanding the social and political situation in the final decade of socialist Yugoslavia, as viewed through the lens of cultural history.
Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation uses original readings of Machiavelli’s texts to develop a new theoretical model of democratic practice. Christopher Holman identifies two unique ...ideas in Machiavelli through his rearrangement of Machiavellian concepts. The first, drawn primarily from The Prince, is an image of the individual human being as a creative subject that seeks the exteriorization of desire via political creation. The second, drawn primarily from The Discourses on Livy, is an image of the democratic republic as a form of regime in which this desire for creative self-expression is universalized, all citizens being able to affirm their psychic orientation toward innovation through their equal access to political institutions and orders. Such institutions and orders, to the extent that they function as media for the expression of a fundamental human creativity, must be arranged so that they are capable of continual interrogation and refinement.
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