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2023: Toward a Postnational History of Eurasia: Deconstructing Empires, Denationalizing Groupness
2023
Issue 4/2023 Bringing Agencies Back: Ecosystems of Humanism and Posthumanism
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2023Issue 3/2023 Rethinking the Politics of Naming and the Logic of Groupness
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2023Issue 2/2023 Citizenship and Participation in Imperial and National Polities
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2023Issue 1/2023 Dynamics of Imperialism and Nationalism in Eurasia
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2022: The Rise and Fall of the State as an Institution and an Analytical Concept
2022
Issue 4/2022 The Role of the State in Projects of Social Improvement
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2022Issue 3/2022 The State of the Nation and Empire: Was there a Difference?
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2022Issue 2/2022 Imagining Leviathan in Myth, Religious Ideas, Literature, and Ideology
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2022Issue 1/2022 The Neverending Story of State-Building: Who Was Making the Power Work and How?
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2021: Historicizing Diversity
2021
Issue 4/2021 Projects: Designing a Rational Arrangement of Diversity
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2021Issue 3/2021 Anomie: Everything Is So Confusing
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2021Issue 2/2021 Transgression: Diversity as a Sin and a Crime
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2021Issue 1/2021 Norm: Diversity as a Natural Order of Things and Lived Experience
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2020: When Postimperial Meets Postnational: Envisioning New Forms of Groupness in Historical Perspective
2020
Issue 4/2020 Groupness and Its Discontent: Historical Visions of the “Post” Order
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2020Issue 3/2020 “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”: Hybridity, the Nationalizing Empire, and Imperialist Nation
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2020Issue 2/2020 “We the People”: The “Nation” between Tribe and Republic
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2020Issue 1/2020 “In a Fit of Absence of Mind”: The Mechanism of Empire-Building
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2019: Hybrid Conflicts and Diverse Societies: Civil Wars and Global Peace
2019
Issue 4/2019 Adjusting Scale: Global Conflicts – Local Consequences, and Vice Versa
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2019Issue 3/2019 The Social Contract: In Theories and in Practices
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2019Issue 2/2019 Civil Wars in Empires and Nations
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2019Issue 1/2019 Encounters and Disengagements in the Imperial Situation
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2018: Rethinking Hybridity and Purity in a Global Perspective
2017: The Global Condition: Local Names for Universalism
2017
Issue 4/2017 When Global Becomes Local: Modern Mobilities and the Reinvention of Locality
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2017Issue 3/2017 Making Sense of Imperial and Post-Imperial Conditions in a Global Context
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2017Issue 2/2017 Dynamics of Self-Organization and Revolution: Order out of Chaos and the Collapse of the Old
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2017Issue 1/2017 When Local Becomes Global: Agencies and Subjectivities in Imperial Context
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2016: Situating in Empire: Agencies and Subjectivities in Imperial Spaces
2016
Issue 4/2016 Imperial Alternatives: Imagery of the Post-Imperial Order
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2016Issue 3/2016 The Political Economy of Empire: Balancing Power, Resources, and Diversity
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2016Issue 2/2016 Experiencing the Imperial Situation: Understanding Diversity
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2016Issue 1/2016 Subjects of Empire, Objects of Governance: Imperial Agencies and Agents
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2015: Does the Past Have a Future?
2014: Assemblage Points of the Imperial Situation: Places and Spaces of Diversity
2014
Issue 4/2014 Spontaneous Bricolage, Masters of Assemblage, and Their Contested Blueprints
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2014Issue 3/2014 Ghettos and Time Gaps (bezvremenie): Negativity as “the Moment of Truth”
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2014Issue 2/2014 Crossroads and Multiple Temporalities: Contact Zones and Middle Grounds
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2014Issue 1/2014 Zeit und Raum: Adjacent Spaces, Overlapping Epochs
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2013: Freedom and Empire: Dialectics of Diversity and Homogeneity in Complex Societies
2013
Issue 4/2013 Emancipation of Researchers Through the Decentralization of Normative Models
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2013Issue 3/2013 Freedom as an Object of Intellectual Import and Export: Lost in Translation, Found in Transla
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2013Issue 2/2013 Freedom and Order: Interpreters and Intermediaries – Entrepreneurs of Groupness
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2013Issue 1/2013 How Do We Understand Freedom Today? Free Interpretations and Predetermined Models
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2012: Structures and Cultures of Imperial and Post-Imperial Diversity
2011: Second World – Second Time? The Concept of the “Second World” at the Crossroads of Social Sciences and Imperial History
2011
Issue 4/2011 The Second World Between Comparative and Global Histories
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2011Issue 3/2011 Time of the Second World: Imperial Revolutions and Counterrevolutions
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2011Issue 2/2011 The Second World Beyond Geopolitics: Political Trajectories and Spatial Configurations
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2011Issue 1/2011 The Diversity of Otherness: Studies of the Second World and New Historical Paradigms
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2010: Friends, Foes, and Neighbors: Ascribing Meaning to Imperial Political, Economic, and Social Order
2010
Issue 4/2010 War and Imperial Society: Dynamics of “Friendship” and “Hostility”
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2010Issue 3/2010 Neighbor: Social and Political Encounters in the Imperial Context
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2010Issue 2/2010 Political and Economic Unions: Dialectics of Poverty, Wealth, and Political Domination
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2010Issue 1/2010 Ascribing Stance: Making Friends and Enemies in Imperial Contexts
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2009: Homo Imperii: The Imperial Situation of Multiple Temporalities and Heterogeneous Space
2009
Issue 4/2009 From Homo Imperii to Civitas: Projects of Imagined Imperial Communities
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2009Issue 3/2009 Maison des sciences de l’Homme: Human Sciences in the Empire
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2009Issue 2/2009 Homo Imperii in Space and Time: Settling and Unsettling Imperial Spaces
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2009Issue 1/2009 Narrating the Multiple Self: New Biographies for the Empire
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2008: Gardening Empire
2008
Issue 4/2008 Nature and Nurture: Ecology of Imperial Gardens
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2008Issue 3/2008 Vandalizing the Garden: Multiple Forms of Violence in the Imperial Space
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2008Issue 2/2008 Gardening the Imperial Subject: Intimate and Collective in the Imperial Space
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2008Issue 1/2008 Imperial Exceptionalisms: Mechanisms and Discourses
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2007: The Imperium of Knowledge and the Power of Silences
2006: Anthropological Reflections on Languages of Self-Description of Empire and Nation
2006
Issue 4/2006 The Letter of the Law: the Institutionalization of Belonging to Polity
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2006Issue 3/2006 The Chorus of Nations: Constructing and Describing Group Unity
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2006Issue 2/2006 Conversations about Motherland: Individual and Collective Experiences of “Homeland”
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2006Issue 1/2006 Language Difficulties: How and Why We Write the History of Empires and Nations
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2005: Languages of Self-Description in Empire and Multinational State
2005
Issue 4/2005 Discussing Imperial Legacy: Archaisms and Neologisms
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2005Issue 3/2005 Empire & the Challenge of Nationalism: Searching for Modes of Self-Description
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2005Issue 2/2005 Languages of Self-Description in Empire and Multinational State
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2005Issue 1/2005 Empire: The Lexicon of Praxis and the Grammar of Analysis
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2004: Archaeology of Memory of Empire and Nation
2004
Issue 4/2004 Reconciliation through the Past: Pan-European Perspective
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2004Issue 3/2004 Historical Memory and National Paradigm
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2004Issue 2/2004 Memory Repressed, Silenced, and Lost
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2004Issue 1/2004 Heterogeneity of Imperial and National Memory
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2003: Imperial Borders and Liminalities
2003
Issue 4/2003 The Limits of Marginality: Jews as “inorodtsy” in Continental Empires
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2003Issue 3/2003 Searching for the Center: Russian Nationalism
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2003Issue 2/2003 Beyond the Borders: Political and Economic Migrations, Internal and External Exile
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2003Issue 1/2003 Russian Empire: Boundaries and Frontiers
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2002: The Russian Empire/USSR and Paradoxes of Modernization
2002
Issue 4/2002 Socioeconomic Sturctures and Paradoxes of Imperial Modernization
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2002Issue 3/2002 Russian Society: Structures and Cultures
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2002Issue 2/2002 Organization of Political Space of Empires and Nations
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2002Issue 1/2002 “Russia’s “Special Path” and Varieties of Imperial and National Experiences of Modernization
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