THE IUC WORKING PAPER SERIES aim at generating interest for the ideas and research outcomes presented at IUC-activities. The working papers should be of academic quality and can vary along the whole range of disciplines and subjects addressed in IUC-courses and conferences. The working papers may differ in format: from a research paper, a position paper, an essay to a report. Participants in IUC-activities are eligible to publish and to submit papers that were presented during an IUC-activity.
The project has started in December 2020. Papers are published all through the year, as soon as the review process is finished.
The initiative of IUC-course directors to nominate papers is welcomed.
Reviewers: Nebojša Blanuša, Vječeslav Bohanek, Carmen Ciller Tenreiro, Vida Demarin, Silvia Ghilezan, Gorm Harste, Renata Jambrešić Kirin, Lee Kendall Metcalf, Steffen Roth, Paul Stubbs, Majda Trobok
Additional reviewers may come from IUC course directors or lecturers, depending on the subject of the paper.
Scientific Committee: Wieger E. Bakker, Kirstin Drenkhahn, Sigmund Grønmo, Snježana Prijić-Samaržija and Walther Ch. Zimmerli
Publisher: Association Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Don Frana Bulića 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, CROATIA
ISSN: 2787-5717
Editor in Chief: Wieger E. Bakker
2024/02/ACH
Exploring the Social Space in Theory and Practice
Sebastian Wendland and Leila Rudzki
In an essay, the authors of the University of Wuppertal want to devote themselves to the theory and practical methodology of "exploring and researching social space" in the context of socially just urban planning and, in doing so, first present positions of historical and contemporary urban planning and architectural criticism (such as from the Charter of Athens (cf. source year), urban planning concepts by Robert Moses as well as by Jane Jacobs and Jan Gehl) and set them against each other against the background of the consideration of researching social space.
Media, Arts, Culture and History
2024/001/BSSR/LEPG
PALESTINE – ISRAEL – GERMANY History and Politics in Moving Contradictions
Heinz Sünker
The relationship between the Zionist movement, which resulted in the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, and native Arabs in Palestine is conflictual and contradictory and has been so since before the current war in Gaza and Hamas’s attack on Israel. This research report brings together several texts authored by critical Israeli, Palestinian and international intellectuals.
Behavioural studies, Society and Religion
Law, Economics, Politics and Governance
2023/003/LEPG
Center for Legal Practices as Instruments for Access to Justice in Southern Brazil
Claudio A Klaus Jr, Carla Piffer, Levi Hülse
The Center of Legal Practices is intended to guarantee law students a field of experience and knowledge that constitutes possibilities for the articulation of theory and practice, in order to develop skills, habits, and attitudes relevant and necessary for the acquisition of professional skills.
Law, Economics, Politics and Governance
2023/002/MACH
An IUC Guardian Angel - Remembering Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes
Jelena Obradović Mojaš
This paper presents a special overview on the role and relevance of Dr Kathy Wilkes for the IUC in times of war and peace.
Media, Arts, Culture and History
2023/001/MACH
Selected Images - Half a Century of Activity at the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik
Jelena Obradović Mojaš
This paper presents ‘selected images’ of the exceptionally rich and diverse activity of the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik throughout half a century of its existence, as well as institutional power of its academic mission of expanding international dialogues, con-ceived and founded in the visionary mind of Academician Ivan Supek in the 1970s.
Media, Arts, Culture and History
2022/002/LEPG/BSR
Universities and the Future of Inclusive International Scientific Cooperation
Henk Kummeling
The paper has been presented as a Keynote lecture during the IUC 50th anniversary conference on Fostering Inclusive Internationalisation. It deals with the necessities of internationalisation, addresses barriers, and offers some possible suggestions for overcoming internationalisation obstacles in science and education.
Law, Economics, Politics and Governance
Behavioural studies, Society and Religion
2022/001/LEPG/MACH/PPS
Little Rock Revisited – On the Challenges of Training One’s Imagination to Go Visiting
Ringo Rösener
In this working paper, I ask whether or not whites could and should write about concerns of People of Color. To this end, I deal with Hannah Arendt’s controversial article “Reflections on Little Rock” from winter 1958/59.
Law, Economics, Politics and Governance
Media, Arts, Culture and History
Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
2021/003/BSR/LEPG/PPS
Board-Level Codetermination in Germany - The Importance and Economic Impact of Fiduciary Duties
Dieter Sadowski
The empirical accounts of the costs and benefits of quasi-parity codetermined supervisory boards have long been inconclusive. A valid economic analysis of a particular legal regulation must take the legal specificities seriously, otherwise, it will be easily lost in economic fictions of functional equivalence.
Behavioural studies, Society and Religion
Law, Economics, Politics and Governance
Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
2021/002/PPS/LEPG
What Happens is Unimaginable! About the „Yellow Vests“
Gérard Raulet
The French ‘yellow vests’ movement is anything but an episodic protest movement. It questions both the liberal and the republican conception of political representation.
Law, Economics, Politics and Governance
Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
2021/001/BSSR/LEPG/ES/HLS
The Great Reset. Restratification for Lives, Livelihoods, and the Planet
Steffen Roth
In reviewing the Great Reset, an initiative launched by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in response to the global coronavirus crisis, this perspective article considers the scenario of an epochal transition from capitalism to “restorism”.
Behavioural studies, Society and Religion
Law, Economics, Politics and Governance
Earth and Sustainability
Health and Life Sciences
2020/002/LEPG
Referendums, for Populists Only? Why Populist Parties Favour Referendums and How Other Parties Respond.
Lars Brummel
This study analyses how populist parties in Austria, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands defend a greater use of referendums and how their non-populist counterparts respond to this populist call for referendums
Law, Economics, Politics and Governance
2020/001/BSR-PPS
Catholicism and the Frankfurt School
Rudolf J. Siebert and Michael R. Ott
The paper concentrates on the modern disunion and conflict between the religious and the secular, revelation and enlightenment, faith and autonomous reason in the Western world and beyond.
Behavioural studies, Society and Religion
Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
