Unreal Cities: the Veterans’ Homecoming and the Fate of Postwar Noir by Benoît Tadié

“…Noir fiction was shaped, in the aftermath of World War II, by a generation of ex-servicemen who wrote, under the guise of crime stories, about the difficulty of returning to American cities and civilian life. …”
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Open Water Jumping: Clearing Obstacles in the Negotiation of French Rights to The Black Stallion by Cécile Cottenet

“…The story of the introduction of the series in France in the aftermath of World War II, and its inclusion in this now-classic library of children’s texts, is largely unknown. …”
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From Uncle Tom to Nat Turner: An Overview of Slavery in American Film, 1903-2016 by Melvyn Stokes

“…Yet, it is noted, even in films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939), there were sequences that challenged this interpretation and hinted at the brutality and exploitation of the institution. In the aftermath of World War II, a more critical view of slavery began to emerge on film. …”
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Future of European Security Policies: Is Geopolitical Europe Possible? by Ahmet K. Han, Çiğdem Üstün

“…Since the aftermath of World War II, the pursuit of European autonomy in ensuring its security began with the 1950s French proposal for a pan-European defense force, though never realized. …”
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JAPANS’S CHINA STRATEGY by A. A. Kireeva

“…Japan’s China strategy in the aftermath of World War II prior to 2010-2011 can be characterized as engagement with elements of containment. …”
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Local Self-Governments in Hungary: Recent Changes through Central European Lenses by Csaba Lentner, Szilard Hegedus

“… This article provides an overview of the regulatory environment of the Hungarian system of local self-government based on the methods of legal dynamics and economic analyses in a historical perspective tracing events back to the aftermath of World War II. The starting point of the analysis is 1947, the launching of soviet type command economy in Hungary. …”
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The die is cast: Sweden and Finland’s long road to NATO by E. V. Korunova

“…The first section considers the formation of the non-aligned strategies of Finland and Sweden in the aftermath of World War II, which took the form of the so-called Paasikivi-Kekkonen and Unden doctrines, respectively. …”
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