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Book Problems of a New International Economic Order

Download or read book Problems of a New International Economic Order written by and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politische Partizipation in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Download or read book Politische Partizipation in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland written by Achim Koch and published by VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. This book was released on 2001-01-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der sechste Band der Buchreihe "Blickpunkt Gesellschaft" befaßt sich mit dem Thema "Politische Partizipation". Auf der Grundlage der Allgemeinen Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS) 1998 wird in den Beiträgen des Bandes ein breites Spektrum unterschiedlicher Formen politischer Beteiligung analysiert: von der Teilnahme an Wahlen über parteibezogene Partizipation und politisches Protestverhalten bis zu gewalttätigen politischen Handlungen. Verschiedene theoretische Modelle zur Erklärung politischer Partizipation werden dabei herangezogen. Daneben wird in einzelnen Beiträgen gezielt die Rolle spezifischer Determinanten politischer Beteiligung - wie z.B. der Mediennutzung - untersucht. Wie läßt sich die Beteiligung an Wahlen erklären, wenn doch die eigene Stimme kaum einen Einfluß auf den Wahlausgang hat? Was sind die Ursachen für das geringere politische Engagement von Frauen im Vergleich zu Männern? Welche Rolle spielt die Mitgliedschaft in Organisationen und Vereinen für das politische Teilnahmeverhalten? Diese und weitere Fragen werden in dem vorliegenden Buch behandelt.

Book Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die europ  ische Einigung 1949 2000

Download or read book Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die europ ische Einigung 1949 2000 written by Mareike König and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seit ihrer Grundung spielt die Bundesrepublik eine wichtige Rolle im historisch einmaligen Prozess der europaischen Einigung. Der Sammelband entwickelt eine moderne historische Perspektive auf die bundesdeutsche Europapolitik unter Berucksichtigung sowohl der handelnden Personlichkeiten als auch der gesellschaftlichen, kulturellen, okonomischen und internationalen Triebkrafte und Wandlungen. Nach einer Einfuhrung in die Trends und Kontroversen der Integrationshistoriographie behandeln 28 Beitrage von Historikern und Politologen die Europapolitik der Bundesregierungen von Adenauer bis zur Gegenwart, das Denken und Wirken deutscher Entscheidungstrager in Bonn, Berlin und Brussel sowie das Europabewusstsein ausgewahlter Bundesprasidenten. Im zweiten Teil geht es um gesellschaftliche Krafte und Aspekte wie Mentalitaten, Medien, Industrie und Landwirtschaft. Im dritten und vierten Teil werden Schlusselmomente wichtiger bilateraler Partnerschaften analysiert und die innerdeutschen Sonderbeziehungen von 1949 bis zur deutschen Einheit im Hinblick auf den Integrationsprozess untersucht. Abschliessend wird ein Blick auf die Entwicklung der europaischen Verfassung und das Wechselverhaltnis zwischen nationaler und europaischer Identitat geworfen. "... the collection is undoubtedly one of the most complete and wide-ranging historical examinations of the debates in the Federal Republic during the integration process. Its numerous contributions are both excellent and original." German History "Mareike Konigs und Matthias Schulzes Sammelband ist als eine gelungene Zusammenstellung zentraler ... Aspekte deutscher Europapolitik zu wurdigen. Insbesondere die Darstellung der DDR-Europapolitik gehort zu den Glanzlichtern des Bandes [...] so ist das Buch ein spannender Einstieg in viele geschichtswissenschaftlich relevante Fragen." H-Soz-u-Kult der "... informative Band, der insbesondere als Kompendium zu den europapolitischen Schwerpunkten der deutschen Bundeskanzler Einsatz in Studium und Lehre finden wird." Zeitschrift fur Politikwissenschaft

Book The German Constitution

Download or read book The German Constitution written by Germany and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Germany

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  • Author : Neil MacGregor
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2015-09-29
  • ISBN : 1101875674
  • Pages : 636 pages

Download or read book Germany written by Neil MacGregor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany—porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald—to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.

Book Culture and International History

Download or read book Culture and International History written by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural factors and thus hopes to sharpen the awareness for the cultural approach to international history among both American and non-American scholars. The first part provides a methodological introduction, explores the cultural underpinnings of foreign policy, and the role of culture in international affairs by reviewing the historiography and examining the meaning of the word culture in the context of foreign relations. In the second part, contributors analyze culture as a tool of foreign policy. They demonstrate how culture was instrumentalized for diplomatic goals and purposes in different historical periods and world regions. The essays in the third part expand the state-centered view and retrace informal cultural relations among nations and peoples. This exploration of non-state cultural interaction focuses on the role of science, art, religion, and tourism. The fourth part collects the findings and arguments of part one, two, and three to define a roadmap for further scholarly inquiry. A group of" commentators" survey the preceding essays, place them into a larger research context, and address the question "Where do we go from here?" The last and fifth part presents a selection of primary sources along with individual comments highlighting a new genre of resources scholars interested in culture and international relations can consult.

Book Index of NLM Serial Titles

Download or read book Index of NLM Serial Titles written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.

Book Wisdom and Compassion

Download or read book Wisdom and Compassion written by Marylin M. Rhie and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crown and Veil

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  • Author : Ruhrlandmuseum Essen
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780231139809
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Crown and Veil written by Ruhrlandmuseum Essen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crown and Veil offers a broad introduction to the history and visual culture of female monasticism in the Middle Ages, from the earliest communities of Late Antiquity to the Reformation. Scholars from numerous disciplines offer a wide range of perspectives not to be found in any other single book on the subject, placing the art, architecture, literature, liturgy, religious practices, and economic foundations of these communities within a wide historical and cultural context. Long considered marginal to mainstream history, nuns and canonesses in fact had a profound influence on medieval culture. Revered and admired as models of piety, they commanded considerable prestige and exercised a significant degree of political power. Whether acting as producers or patrons of art, nuns were widely celebrated for their imaginative accomplishments. Focusing on the visual culture of female monastic communities in the German Empire, Frankish Gaul, Langobard Italy, and Anglo-Saxon England, this volume underscores the richness of largely unfamiliar material and its role in shaping distinctive forms of religious life.

Book Germany and the European East in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book Germany and the European East in the Twentieth Century written by Eduard Mühle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did German society perceive the European East during the short twentieth century? What were the mental maps Germans constructed as their images of the European East? How did these images alter over time due to changing political systems and to what extent did those mental perceptions influence political action and the relationship between Germany and Eastern Europe?Tackling questions such as these, this book looks at the complicated relationship between Germany and the European East. Politically significant, this relationship was often fraught with tension, always delicate and never easy. The book looks at the social, cultural and political contexts that shaped the German image of the East during the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the Federal Republic. In addition, it charts the mental maps that German society constructed with respect to single constituent parts of Eastern Europe, such as Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic States and the Soviet Union.The contributors consider how the relationship was transformed from one of hostility to one more conciliatory in character by the end of the twentieth century.

Book The Europeanization of National Foreign Policies Towards Latin America

Download or read book The Europeanization of National Foreign Policies Towards Latin America written by Lorena Ruano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who shapes the European Union's policy towards Latin America? How has this EU policy modified individual member states' relations with the region? This book provides a comparative account of seven member states' bilateral links with Latin America since 1945, in the context of their EU membership and based on the concept of 'Europeanization'. It illustrates how and why the main architects of this EU policy have been Spain and Germany. In contrast, Poland, Sweden and Ireland, which had little previous interaction with Latin America, have developed their current relations with that region virtually as a result of their EU membership. The United Kingdom and France lie in the middle: they have been influential in certain policy-areas and key periods in history, while they have adapted to what is done at the EU level in others. Practitioners, established academic experts as well emerging scholars in the field bring to be bear a novel combination of pioneering research and cutting edge conceptual analysis on this important but neglected area of the EU's foreign relations.

Book Demonstrating Reconciliation

Download or read book Demonstrating Reconciliation written by Hannfried von Hindenburg and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1950s and early 1960s, the West German government refused to exchange ambassadors with Israel. It feared Arab governments might retaliate against such an acknowledgement of their political foe by recognizing Communist East Germany–West Germany’s own nemesis–as an independent state, and in doing so confirm Germany’s division. Even though the goal of national unification was far more important to German policymakers than full reconciliation with Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust, in 1965 the Bonn government eventually did agree to commence diplomatic relations with Jerusalem. This was due, the author argues, to grassroots intervention in high-level politics. Students, the media, trade unions, and others pushed for reconciliation with Israel rather than the pursuit of German unification. For the first time, this book provides an in-depth look at the role society played in shaping Germany’s relations with Israel. Today, German society continues to reject anti-Semitism, but is increasingly prepared to criticize Israeli policies, especially in the Palestinian territories. The author argues that this trend sets the stage for a German foreign policy that will continue to support Israel, but is likely to do so more selectively than in the past.

Book The U s  Congress And The German Bundestag

Download or read book The U s Congress And The German Bundestag written by Uwe Thaysen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the lawmaking bodies of the United states and the Germany and their constitutional duties and limitations. It is a first ever joint US-German parliamentary study that compares and contrasts two of the democratic West's most powerful legislatures.

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  • Publisher : Brill Archive
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book written by and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Germanies

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  • Author : Michael Gehler
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2020-10-07
  • ISBN : 1789143551
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Three Germanies written by Michael Gehler and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945, Germany has experienced recurring turmoil and reinvention. In this ambitious book, Michael Gehler explores the political path Germany has taken since the Yalta Conference, observing the different Germanies against the background of the Cold War, European integration, and international relations. Written from an independent perspective, it provides a valuable assessment of our own times, as he shows how the three Germanies (Bonn, Pankow, and today’s “Berlin Republic”) sought to establish governments that could create stable states.

Book Recent Social Trends in West Germany  1960 1990

Download or read book Recent Social Trends in West Germany 1960 1990 written by Wolfgang Glatzer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The People   s Car

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  • Author : Bernhard Rieger
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2013-04-16
  • ISBN : 0674075757
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The People s Car written by Bernhard Rieger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Berlin Auto Show in 1938, Adolf Hitler presented the prototype for a small, oddly shaped, inexpensive family car that all good Aryans could enjoy. Decades later, that automobile—the Volkswagen Beetle—was one of the most beloved in the world. Bernhard Rieger examines culture and technology, politics and economics, and industrial design and advertising genius to reveal how a car commissioned by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche became an exceptional global commodity on a par with Coca-Cola. Beyond its quality and low cost, the Beetle’s success hinged on its uncanny ability to capture the imaginations of people across nations and cultures. In West Germany, it came to stand for the postwar “economic miracle” and helped propel Europe into the age of mass motorization. In the United States, it was embraced in the suburbs, and then prized by the hippie counterculture as an antidote to suburban conformity. As its popularity waned in the First World, the Beetle crawled across Mexico and Latin America, where it symbolized a sturdy toughness necessary to thrive amid economic instability. Drawing from a wealth of sources in multiple languages, The People’s Car presents an international cast of characters—executives and engineers, journalists and advertisers, assembly line workers and car collectors, and everyday drivers—who made the Beetle into a global icon. The Beetle’s improbable story as a failed prestige project of the Third Reich which became a world-renowned brand illuminates the multiple origins, creative adaptations, and persisting inequalities that characterized twentieth-century globalization.