Stefano Bianchini

Eltion Meka

The Challenges of Democratization and Reconciliation in the Post-Yugoslav Space

Die Beiträge in diesem Buch analysieren die Herausforderungen in Post-Jugoslawien bezüglich Demokratisierung, Anerkennung und Versöhnung im Rahmen der europäischen Integration. Sie verfolgen einen interdisziplinären Ansatz, indem sie Probleme und Herausforderungen aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln betrachten, und führen diese erstmals gezielt in einem einzigen Werk zu dieser Region zusammen. Das Buch richtet sich dabei sowohl an Studierende als auch an Wissenschaftler und Forscher, die einen fundierten Zugang zu Post-Jugoslawien erhalten möchten.

Cédric Villani

Alexander Mielke

Eric A. Carlen

This volume collects the notes of the CIME course "Nonlinear PDE’s and applications" held in Cetraro (Italy) on June 23–28, 2008. It consists of four series of lectures, delivered by Stefano Bianchini (SISSA, Trieste), Eric A. Carlen (Rutgers University), Alexander Mielke (WIAS, Berlin), and Cédric Villani (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon). They presented a broad overview of far-reaching findings and exciting new developments concerning, in particular, optimal transport theory, nonlinear evolution equations, functional inequalities, and differential geometry. A sampling of the main topics considered here includes optimal transport, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, Riemannian geometry, and their links with sharp geometric/functional inequalities, variational methods for studying nonlinear evolution equations and their scaling properties, and the metric/energetic theory of gradient flows and of rate-independent evolution problems. The book explores the fundamental connections between all of these topics and points to new research directions in contributions by leading experts in these fields.

C.I.M.E. Summer School, Cetraro, Italy 2008, Editors: Luigi Ambrosio, Giuseppe Savaré

Nonlinear PDE’s and Applications

This timely book offers an in-depth exploration of state partitions and the history of nationalism in Europe from the Enlightenment onwards. Stefano Bianchini compares traditional national democratic development to the growing transnational demands of representation with a focus on transnational mobility and empathy versus national localism against the EU project. In an era of multilevel identity, global economic and asylum seeker crises, nationalism is becoming more liquid which in turn strengthens the attractiveness of ‘ethnic purity’ and partitions, affects state stability, and the nature of national democracy in Europe. The result may be exposure to the risk of new wars, rather than enhanced guarantees of peace.

Liquid Nationalism and State Partitions in Europe

Ranabir Samaddar

Rada Ivekovic

Sanjay Chaturvedi

The partition of the Indian subcontinent, the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the reunification of Germany, the continuing feud between two Koreas, the Irish peace process, the case of Israel/Palestine and the lingering division of Cyprus, have together given rise to a huge body of literature. However, studies of partitions have usually focused on individual cases. This innovative volume uses comparative analysis to fill the gap in partition studies and examines cross-cutting issues such as: * violence * state formation * union and regional unification * geopolitics * transition.

Stefano Bianchini

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