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320:"One method of the birth of a State may be illustrated as follows: In the hills of southern “Ruritania”, a bandit group manages to obtain physical control over the territory, and finally the bandit chieftain proclaims himself “King of the sovereign and independent government of South Ruritania”; and, if he and his men have the force to maintain this rule for a while, lo and behold! a new State has joined the “family of nations,” and the former bandit leaders have been transformed into the lawful nobility of the realm." — 287:(Yale University Press, 1998), addresses the question of the impact of the work of novelists and film-makers in shaping international perceptions of the Balkans in the framework of an anti-Western type of modernism which has received much criticism from other academics. Goldsworthy's theories consider stories and movies about Ruritania to be a form of "literary exploitation" or "narrative colonization" of the peoples of the Balkans. 149:"We do not need to have a security agreement with Indonesia so both of us will fight off the “Ruritanians”. That's not what the relationship is about," he said. "It is all about working together on the threats that we have to deal with, which are different types of threats." 156:
A British court, when contemplating a publication ban relating to a childhood sexual assault case, referred to the country of origin of the child as “Ruritania”, further explaining, "The boy was described in the judgment as having 'dual British and “Ruritanian”
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for on-air discussions of the crisis, in order to circumvent the terms of an agreement with the British government that prevented broadcasting details of the events before they were discussed in parliament.
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obtained good title to a camera which he bought in Ruritania is governed by Ruritanian law, even if the camera had been delivered on
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While discussing how new revolutionary leadership consciously or unconsciously may inherit certain elements of the previous regime,
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frequently use “Ruritania” as a placeholder-name when referring to a generic country in hypothetical scenarios in international law.
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use Ruritania and other fictional countries when describing a hypothetical case illustrating some legal point. Examples include:
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movements among Poles, Czechs, Serbians, Romanians, etc. In this story, peasant Ruritanians living in the "Empire of
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often uses "Poronia" and "Rurytania" to compare Poland to some Western or Utopian country, e.g. |
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Hope's setting lent its name to a literary genre involving fictional countries, which is known as
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Ruritania: A Cultural History, from the Prisoner of Zenda to the Princess Diaries
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for an unspecified country in academic discussions. The first known use of the
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used the word to describe the stereotype that characterized the vision of
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Ruritania has also been used to describe the stereotypical development of
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used “Ruritania” to discuss currency reform and other issues in economics,
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BBC radio used “Ruritania” in 1956, as a euphemism for Egypt during the
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Mortensen, Reid; Garnett, Richard; Keyes, Mary (24 January 2023).
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cited “Ruritania” as a fictional enemy when illustrating
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Inventing Ruritania: the imperialism of the imagination
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fictional country
Central Europe
Anthony Hope
The Prisoner of Zenda
placeholder name
demonym
Ruritanian romance
Jurists
international law
private international law
Briggs (2019)
Mortensen, Garnett & Keyes (2023)
Australian foreign minister
Alexander Downer
a security treaty
Australia
Indonesia
economist
L. von Mises
M. Rothbard
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
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Suez Crisis
nationalism
Eastern Europe
Ernest Gellner
pastiche
historical narratives
nationalist
Megalomania

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