Transatlantic Dialogue Research Articles

From the DMCA to the DSA: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Online Platform Regulation and Copyright 

From the DMCA to the DSA: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Online Platform Regulation and Copyright 

Green Walls: Everyday Ecofascism and the Politics of Proximity

AbstractQAnon's rallying cry of “the storm” on January 6 and thereafter articulates a structural taxonomy of planetary scale and apocalyptic eschatology that pervades the environmental imaginaries of contemporary fascism. While they become visible only in times of emergency and states of exception, this essay argues that equal attention needs to be paid to expressions and operations of ecofascism in the mundane places and practices of everyday life. Expanding beyond the geographic and historical specificities of Nazism and its transatlantic dialogue with North American settler colonialism, this essay theorizes everyday ecofascism as an oiko-logics and oiko-nomics across borders, a transversal condition of deeply globalized, inextricably interconnected structures and systems.

Поэзия и наука: интранзитивное письмо Дени Роша и Джона Эшбери

The poetry of the 20th century has become a real linguistic laboratory. The transition from traditional (national) systems of versification to free verse and, what is especially important, to international free verse, which can be translated faster and with less distortion, made it possible to reduce the time gap in the reception of American authors in France and French authors in the USA. John Ashbury, a prominent representative of the New York School, who lived in France for about 10 years, Denis Roche and Marcelin Pleine — members of the editorial board of the avant-garde magazine Tel Quel, the theorist of intransitive writing R. Barthes were active participants in the transatlantic dialogue of poets in the middle of the 20th century. The texts of John Ashbery and Denis Roche are an international vers libre created according to the principle of intransitive writing. R. Barth, also participating in the French-American dialogue, analyses the peculiarities of writing of the period in question in his paper “To write is an intransitive verb” (1966). A poem is understood as a rhythmic inoculation of lived experience, which has a transformative power for the writer and the reader.

A Transatlantic Dialogue: The Estate Landscape in Britain, the Caribbean, and North America in the Eighteenth Century

A Transatlantic Dialogue: The Estate Landscape in Britain, the Caribbean, and North America in the Eighteenth Century

A Transatlantic Dialogue of the Tostoy Family Descendants, Participants in “The Golden Book of the Russian Emigration” Project

This article is devoted to the little-known but important details of a large-scale project of publishing a summarizing work on the life and activities of the post-1917 Russian emigration, named “The Golden Book of the Russian Emigration”. This project was conceived in the midst of the Society for the Protection of Russian Cultural Values Abroad in Paris (“OORKTs”) that was founded by D. P. Riabouchinsky, a prominent Russian émigré scientist in the field of aero and hydrodynamics, member of the French Academy of Science. In 1961, Riabouchinsky became the Chair of the Special European Executive Committee (Paris) for the Publication of the “Golden Book”. The American initiative group for the preparation and publication of the “Golden Book” was set up in September 1961. It was headed by Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya, the daughter of Leo Tolstoy and president of the Tolstoy Foundation (US). This article introduces for scientific use the previously correspondence between A. L. Tolstaya and Sergei Mikhailovich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy’s grandson, a doctor of medicine and deontologist, the author of works in tropical medicine and blood transfusion, who chaired the Special European Executive Committee for the Publication of the “Golden Book” since 1967. This correspondence that covers the period of 1966–1967 is concerned with establishing organizational relations between two centers of Russian dispersion, Paris and New York, and sheds light on the complicated workings of interpersonal relationships of project participants and on some causes of the project’s failure. The documents from two “Russian” archives in the USA, the Archive of the Russian Academic Group in the USA and the Archive of the Tolstoy Foundation, were used during the preparation of this article.

Building Common Approaches for Cybersecurity and Privacy in a Globalized World

The ongoing transatlantic dialogue on cybersecurity and privacy yielded a second conference at the New York University Center for Cybersecurity in October 2018. In a natural evolution, the New York conference used the foundation laid in the Berlin Conference to “build common approaches” to achieve better cybersecurity and privacy “in a globalized world.” This edited volume presents the fruits of the second conference. The assembled submissions show that the trans-atlantic dialogue remains critically important to finding and developing solutions to the global issues of cyber-insecurity and the continued erosion of privacy. Much important work remains to be done to identify and put into practice the many small but important steps that civil society, governments, and business can take to make the digital world a safer one. It is hoped that these papers will make a contribution to that end and serve as the basis for a third conference, perhaps in 2020 and perhaps in France.

Thinking through Style: Non-fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by Michael D. Hurley and Marcus Waithe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+359.

<i>Thinking through Style: Non-fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century</i>. Edited by Michael D. Hurley and Marcus Waithe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+359.

ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЇ ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКОЇ ПОЛІТИКИ США У ДРУГІЙ ПОЛОВИНІ ХХ СТОЛІТТЯ

The article deals with the European aspects of the US foreign policy in the 2nd half of the 20th century. It also includes studies of the transatlantic relations of the described period and the exploration of an American influence on European integration processes. It is determined that the United States has demonstrated itself as a partner of the Western governments in the post-war reconstruction and further creation of an area of US security and prosperity. At the same time, it is noted that the American presidents have differently shaped their administrations’ policies towards Europe. The greatest supporter of the European integration processes was President Eisenhower. Among other things, the US President believed that Europe would become a key ally of the United States, thus, he considered the union of Sweden, Greece, Spain and Yugoslavia as a solid foundation for building a “United States of Europe”. After Eisenhower administration, European affairs, to a lesser extent, were taken up by such Presidents as Johnson, Carter, Reagan and Clinton. Showing no personal interest, Kennedy, Nixon and Bush-Sr. were forced to support the transatlantic dialogue, understanding the inevitability of European integration and the need for the United States to cooperate with the new consolidated actor. The United States aimed to strengthen its position in the European space, moving to that purpose by using NATO mechanisms and applying the policies of American protectionism against the communist threat. The main competitor of the United States for strengthening national positions in Europe was France led by General de Gaulle, who believed that the affairs of Europe should be resolved by European governments without the American intervention. However, NATO continued to serve as a springboard for the U.S. involvement in European affairs. At the end of the 20th century, through the close links between the EU and NATO, the USA received new allies from Central and Eastern European countries. It is concluded that after the end of World War II, Europe needed an assistance that the United States willingly provided in exchange for the ability to participate in European issues, solving and partly controlling the integration processes. The study found that, despite the varying degree of the American interest in transatlantic affairs, Europe has consistently been remaining a zone of national interest for the United States.

El fracaso del diálogo migratorio transatlántico en Vientos de agua

Este artículo analiza las connotaciones afectivas del diálogo transatlántico que propone la serie hispano-argentina Vientos de agua en su proyecto de instaurar una comunidad de significado común para todos los sujetos víctimas de estructuras de dominación, ya sean políticas o económicas. A través de las historias paralelas de Argentina y España, se establece una conexión entre el poder disruptivo del fascismo español a principios del siglo XX con el del capitalismo en Argentina a principios del siglo XXI, proponiendo la deconstrucción de una serie de estructuras binarias herederas del discurso colonial al establecerse las categorías universales de víctima e inmigrante. Consideramos este proyecto fallido dado el tratamiento de ciertos personajes que en última instancia quedan excluidos del circuito afectivo. Concluimos que estas estrategias se resuelven en la preponderancia del espacio peninsular, así como en la exclusión del elemento indígena y africano de la supuesta nueva comunidad de significado, resultando en el fracaso del dialogo migratorio transatlántico.

Intermediaries &amp;amp; Private Speech Regulation: A Transatlantic Dialogue - Workshop Report

The Wikimedia/Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information (WIII) at Yale Law School has released a comprehensive report synthesizing key insights from intermediary liability and online speech and expression experts in Europe and the United States. The report focuses on the critical but complicated issue of private speech regulation on the internet and the connections between platform liability laws and fundamental rights, including free expression. The report reflects discussions held at “Intermediaries & Private Speech Regulation: A Transatlantic Dialogue,” an invitation-only workshop convened by WIII, featuring leading internet law experts from the United States and Europe. This report highlights insights and questions raised by leading academics and legal practitioners during the event, providing theoretical ideas, practical experiences, and directions for further research on rapidly evolving questions of intermediary liability from a uniquely transatlantic perspective. (Nothing in the report necessarily reflects the individual opinions of participants or their affiliated institutions.) Key takeaways from this report include the following: Europe and the United States must work together to protect online free expression and access On issues of intermediary liability and online speech, the United States and Europe have much more in common than not. Focusing too much on differences between Europe and the United States can lead to unproductive division of resources and intellectual efforts, particularly if the goal is to protect global democratic values of free expression and access. While the development of the early internet may have reflected primarily American values, today’s internet ecosystem is also shaped by the growing influence of the European Union. Future international standards must also include perspectives from other nations and regions, as the internet is global. Collaboration between countries on online speech issues can be helpful and should be encouraged. Regulatory solutions for online speech issues must address the entire internet ecosystem Regulating internet intermediaries is not enough to protect online speech. Regulations must conceptualize and regulate the growing data economy. Some large tech companies are now extremely powerful, with the largest intermediary companies having as much international negotiation power as nation-states. The increasingly disparate power of a few large tech platforms may also lead to a loss of decentralized discourse and increased difficulties for new competitors to enter the market. The law should protect free speech and expression rights against abuses from government as well as from corporations. Policymakers must narrowly tailor regulations to protect online free speech and expression Policymakers should avoid creating overly broad regulations and instead tailor regulations narrowly to best address consumer harms. One way to do this might be to craft regulations that distinguish between types of intermediaries or perhaps between types of harms. Another option for tailoring regulations is to craft regulations tailored toward protecting or managing different types of speech. There may also be alternative or additional models that include either hybrid state-industry regulatory regimes or models that give greater weight to civil society and to individuals. Industry and civil society must work together to combat harmful indirect speech regulation States are using corporate terms of service and content takedown mechanisms as a form of indirect speech regulation. This indirect speech regulation is effectively a form of prior restraint. When states use intermediaries as proxies for speech regulation, this has a negative impact on rights to free speech and free expression. Indirect speech regulation lacks transparency, and there is no accountability or redress for citizens whose speech has been silenced. Practical strategies to fight against this problem include: 1) calling for greater government transparency, through the FOIA process or through NGO audits; 2) working with companies to gather information, for use in academic and policy research; 3) advocating for individuals and groups who have been disproportionately harmed; and 4) other forms of advocacy, including amicus briefs, policy papers, and impact litigation. New laws can create better models for future regulation of online speech By analyzing failures of existing regulations and noting successes, academics and advocates can create better models for future regulations of online speech. Future regulatory models for protecting free expression online can draw from: U.S. legal concepts from media and telecommunications regulations, including the “must carry” obligation and consumer protection law; U.S. First Amendment and property law doctrine; European human rights law regarding freedom of expression; and precedent from both the United States and Europe regarding due process. Other new frameworks that can be useful in shaping future regulation include the information fiduciaries model and the implementation of strong duty of care standards. Regulatory models can also include incentivization of systemic, architectural solutions on the part of companies.

Mary Hays’s Biography of María de Estrada, a Spanish Woman in the American Conquest

This article focuses on Mary Hays’s entry of María de Estrada in her Female Biography (1803), and how this English writer dealt with issues of gender, race, religion and nation by means of the mere inclusion of Estrada in this collection of women’s biographies. It studies the life of María de Estrada as inscribed in the fruitful transatlantic dialogue between the Iberian metropolis and the American continent at the beginning of the sixteenth century. In the analysis of her ordeal, issues of colonization are intermingled with those of ethnic persecution. De Estrada is believed to have been a Jew suffering difficulties in the Spanish city of Toledo; she had later an additional plight as a foundling girl living with the Gypsies in order to blur her origin, and thus escape ethnic cleansing. Subsequently, her role as an expatriate woman, who would leave her country of origin on board of a ship in the Hernán Cortés Expedition, is also analyzed.

Context for Nietzche’s death of God

Abstract A common graffiti about Nietzsche, death and God turns up in Slovakia fashioned in The T-Shirt to add context to its reductive representation in popular culture. Takes on faith and country in a transatlantic dialogue leave God aside to establish man as the dividing agent.

Trans-Atlantic death methods: disciplinarity shared and challenged by a common language

The different countries that death and dying researchers reside within often shape not only research agendas but also research methodologies. The United Kingdom and the United States are two examples of countries that share a common language and intellectual history but their discourses on death have been very different. These differences are partly explained through cultural practices, and also government funding of research, definitions of death and end-of-life planning education. In this article, we argue that early death scholarship in the United States impacted death research and outcomes in both the US and the UK, but that recent scholarship in both countries has caused the two countries to diverge in two major areas: (1) the methodological approaches to death studies and (2) the educational training of medical and hospice personnel in direct contact with the dying. We argue that in order for death studies to fully benefit from trans-Atlantic dialogue on death, both countries need to move towards a more integrated trans-disciplinary model.

Eleanor Roosevelt at the United Nations: “Diplomacy from Below” and the Search for a New Transatlantic Dialogue

In 1945, Truman appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as a member of the American delegation to the first session of the United Nations in an effort to send a signal to the many associations who wanted to have a role in the redefinition of the post-war democratic order. ER’ s commitment to peace and social justice was an expression of internationalism ‘from below’, which was convinced that the challenge to enlarge and make democracy more inclusive, more respectful of gender, racial, and ethnic differences had to be won not only in the domestic political sphere but also in the international one. The paper will explore the intrinsic contradiction which was at the root of ER’ s engagement in the UN. On the one hand, she was conscious of her official status as American officer and the symbol of the American democratic model; on the other, her will to give expression and voice to the questions posed by American and European civic associations and their commitment to democracy, social justice and human rights in the growing Cold War climate provoked tensions and ambiguities that proved difficult to solve.

Desertor de un ejército forastero: Seoane y el movimiento para un arte abstracto en Argentina

This article analyzes how the Argentinean art magazine Ver y Estimar received the art exhibitions spanning from 1948 to 1955, in Buenos Aires, by the Argentinean-Galician artist Luis Seoane. During those years, the magazine, led by art critic Jorge Romero Brest, advocated for the imposition of geometric abstraction as the hegemonic trend to be followed in order for Argentinean art to engage with the international development of modernity. This essay shows the fictional quality of those accounts meant to institute hegemonic models for the consumption of cultural productions. These are processes leading to the configuration of a canon, composed by choices and omissions. And the main purpose of this canon is to legitimize a given discourse—rather than creating knowledge about an art object in relation to the conditions of its production. This article shows how, in analyzing Seoane's paintings, the first omission is related to his belief in an idea of a popular art as one meant to be effective beyond museums' walls. Critics of the time also disregarded Seoane's conception of his own work as a process based on an idealization of art's potential for building a transatlantic dialogue with both Galician history and culture. At the same time, Seoane's shapes are a result of his effort to establish a dialogue on art techniques, interacting with the different voices present in the metropolitan art scene of postwar Buenos Aires.

Participatory Practices in Community Services for the Unemployed Poor

This article was previously presented as a paper at the International Conference“Ethics and Integrity of Governance: A Transatlantic Dialogue.” We focus on families in poverty, a group who is currently often excluded from civic engagement. We want to stimulate thinking about the inclusion of their voices in policy formation, implementation, and evaluation. We go deeper into a new practice of activation of the long-term unemployed, namely community services, situated in the social economy sector in Flanders (Belgium). After introducing the basic concepts, we formulate arguments in support of a competence approach and a participatory approach. Then we touch on the problematic of the translation of this approach into policy criteria.

The transatlantic dialogue on Iran: the European subaltern and hegemonic constraints in the implementation of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran

ABSTRACTThis article analyses the US–EU transatlantic dialogue on the Iranian nuclear dossier with a particular view to the implications for EU foreign policy on Iran. Doing so, it uses neo-Gramscian scholarship to put the EU’s “over-compliance” with Iran sanctions into perspective. Constrained by the imperatives of hegemonic coercion in the form of US financial Iran sanctions against third country entities and with the hegemonic consent of a Western US-led “historic bloc”, Europe was relegated to a subaltern below its mediatory potential. It will be shown how this finding complicates the EU’s ambition to renew relations with Iran. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with experts and delegation members from the P5+1, this article thus analyses “the normative element” in the transatlantic security dialogue on Iran at a time where the latter is undergoing a sea change in the wake of the implementation of the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” of July 2015.

American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910–55: The Politics of Enchantment

American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910–55: The Politics of Enchantment

Financial services regulation and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement

Together, the EU and the USA dominate the global financial services industry. This dominance, coupled with the inherent risk of regulatory arbitrage, suggest that the financial services sector is an area ripe for transatlantic economic and regulatory cooperation. While historically transatlantic dialogue centred on market liberalisation, after the 2008 global financial meltdown the focus shifted to regulatory reform. The EU sees the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership as an opportunity to establish a transatlantic financial services regulatory council, while the USA opposes a shift from the current informal Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue (FMRD). An analysis of post-2010 regulatory reforms finds that regulatory convergence has taken place without a tightly integrated transatlantic regulatory body. The study concludes that differences in political ideology, institutional structures, and regulatory capacity largely explain disagreement between the EU and the USA as to the most effective for...

A Transatlantic Dialogue: Affective Considerations in Sheridan's &lt;em&gt;The School for Scandal&lt;/em&gt; and Royall Tyler's &lt;em&gt;The Contrast&lt;/em&gt;

A Transatlantic Dialogue: Affective Considerations in Sheridan's &lt;em&gt;The School for Scandal&lt;/em&gt; and Royall Tyler's &lt;em&gt;The Contrast&lt;/em&gt;