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Constitutional Discourses in East Asia Today: China vs. Korea

The East Asian states such as China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam have taken radically different trajectories of state-making in modern history. Korea and Japan today are rated as full democracies whereas China and Vietnam are the single-party authoritarian political systems. Despite their fundamental differences, scholars have noted the authoritarian developmental state of 1960-70s Korea and …

Dr. Lav Znidarčić, Catholic Employee, Croatian Prisoner and Long-Term President of the Crusade Organization (Split, August 14, 1918 – Zagreb, December 23, 2001)

Based on unpublished archival material and recent literature, the author researched the life and work of Dr. Lav Znidarčić, a Catholic worker, Croatian prisoner and longtime president of the Great Crusade, the leading Catholic organization in the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was the president of the Great Crusade (VKB) in the period from 1942 …