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Sportive Challenges
Sportive Challenges
What football clubs are currently facing
by Jochen Ressel
Sports associations, clubs and sports facilities are confronted with numerous questions and are required to provide answers.
Thinking about the role of Austria in Europe
Thinking about the role of Austria in Europe
To which culture does Jacob Christoph Rad belong, who was born in Switzerland, grew up in Galicia, lived in Vienna and, as a factory director, invented the sugar lump in Moravia?
First published in “Society” No 378, December 2020 -June 2021.
By Emil Brix
Honorary President of the Austro-British Society.
Social Media Oligarchy
Sarajevo’s uniqueness and Europe’s weakness
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Sarajevo’s uniqueness and Europe’s weakness
The Dayton Agreement officially ended the War in Bosnia 25 years ago - what we can learn from mistakes and why a more robust, common EU foreign policy is needed.
First published in “Wiener Zeitung” 14.12.2020
By Philipp Jauernik
The True Meaning of Culture
Identity
Identity
The strange case of English Nationalism.
By Wolfgang Geissler
Ambassador Colin Munro, fellow Austro-British Society board member and Chairman of the United Kingdom Citizens in Austria suggested after reading my recent Blog "From Assimilation to Integration, from Separation to Marginalisation" that I should be concentrating on the subject of Identity in greater detail, which I am going to do now. Identity is after all the core risk factor for acculturative stress due to immigration for both: the immigrant and the host culture, which I had previously discussed.