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Orientalism is a doctrine based on the isolation of the East (opposed to the West) as a special cultural, ideological, historical and sociopolitical phenomenon and reference point in the implementation of cultural or political activities, which was started in the colonial era between the 18-th and 19-th centuries. It is divided into three main stages: colonial, post-colonial and the new Orientalism. Orientalism was created by the European world to study the countries of the East in the following directions: direct...

Political stability appears to have returned to the Gambia since the constitutional crisis that confronted the Country following the controversial presidential elections of December 2016. ECOWAS through the indefatigable efforts of the ECOMIG and the resolve of most West African Countries helped to resolve the disputed polls and return normalcy to the small West African nation. The action of ECOWAS in the Gambia has been likened to in scientific literature, political discourse and the media to a military invasion,...

Object: is to formulate provisions that basically would constitute an integral and consistent view of the role and significance of developing the legal framework for international cooperation in the context of responding to natural disasters. Methods: special historical methods, such as specific historical, comparative historical and chronological methods, as well as historical and legal and complex methods, which allowed to go beyond formal research and study the development of the legal field of the internationa...

In her paper, the author analyses legal regulations from 17th, 18th and 19th century whose content might point to the life in joint family households. She compares the Vlach Statute, Military Border Rights and the General Military Border Law taking into consideration the inheritance matter and land ownership. From these categories, she draws political causes of forming, long existence and division of joint family households. Moreover, the author analyses joint households in the context of a military society which ...

Christ’s Resurrection, despite its historical evidences available in the New Testament writings, is indeed a rock (gr. ?????, „solid stone”, 1 Cor. 10: 4) for the ones who believe in order to stronger believe, but for the skeptical ones it is a stumblingstone (gr. ?????????, „occasion of apostasy”, Rom. 9: 32), so, in this view, it is of less help in present times in order to prove that Christ’s message is still topical. There is, still, another historical fact that can become an unshakable proof, despite its frag...

In the article the authors studied the activities of the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage in Russia and abroad, they identified the stages of development of this movement both in Russia and around the world. The authors use the methodological techniques and methods adopted in science, use both general scientific, historical and cultural methods. The historians note the features of each of the presented stages and identify the role of individuals and state, regional and scient...

The aim of the article is to analyse the attitude of the Polish Socialist Party – former Revolutionary Faction (PSPfRevFr) towards the Reform camp in the period 1928-1935. This party appeared on the Polish political scene as a result of a split that took place in the Polish Socialist Party (PSP), against the background of party members' attitude towards J. Pilsudski after the coup d'etat he had carried out in May 1926. For two years in the PSP there was a rivalry between two factions, which finally ended with the ...

The article considers the negative factors of the human impact on the environmental situation during the largest world wars. The analysis of various sources made by the authors resulted in the conclusion that this problem remains underestimated in the scientific community up to the present and enjoys little popularity with historians and ecologists, which leads to the gaps in large environmental studies and modern projects. Unfortunately, today the factor of the adverse impact on the environment is neither a suffi...

Italy is a country with the centuries-old history, the country which has given the world a lot of great rulers and strategists, politicians and scientists, philosophers and artists. The research is aimed at examining the main directions and priorities of the foreign policy of Italy with Russia. Italy is one of the countries which has special relations with Russia. The fact that Italy prefers involving Russia in the European affairs to containing it doesn’t imply its automatic agreement with Moscow on all issues. W...