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Retired US Ambassador John J. Maresca draws on his personal papers to offer a first-hand account of his role in negotiating the end of the Cold War with the USSR. As a special American Ambassadorial envoy, he symbolically opened direct US diplomatic relations with each of the newly independent states from the for-mer USSR following its dissolution. He recounts the situation in the region during that period, and how it has evolved into the situation of today. Maresca analyzes Putin's role and objectives, and concludes that the USA and the West in general must steadfastly oppose Putin's on-going effort to re-assemble Moscow's control over the full geographic scope of what was the USSR, starting with Ukraine.

After Ukraine's 2013–14 Revolution of Dignity, much Western attention to Ukrainian domestic policies has been focused on the country's “Europeanization” in the narrow and technical sense of the word, i.e. to its adoption of EU standards and legislation. In contrast, a parallel major transformation with no direct relation to Ukraine's EU association and accession—a multidimensional local governance and territorial reform—has been receiving less journalistic and scholarly coverage. That is in spite of the fact that the gradual decentralization process that Ukraine's first post-Euromaidan government started in April 2014 is an exceptionally far-ranging and already advanced transition. It redefines not only Ukrainian center-periphery interactions, but also state-society as well as government-citizen relations. This collected volume is one of the first of its kind and presents eleven narrowly focused research papers by Oleksandra Deineko, Melanie Mierzejewski-Voznyak, Maryna Rabinovych, Aadne Aasland, Max Bader, Igor Dunayev, Yuriy Palekha, Oleksii Sydorchuk, and the editors. The chapters illustrate specific problems as well as repercussions of Ukraine's ongoing local governance reform ranging from fiscal governance to party politics as well as wartime challenges.

Translation Studies have traditionally been known to be interdisciplinary. What better term to sum this up than boundaries? A term that means different things in different fields and can be applied to a multitude of topics. Political, personal, symbolic, or professional boundaries, boundaries of the mind as found in psychology, or boundaries in the sociological sense where they separate different fields of knowledge. From politics to geography, boundaries are everywhere. They need to be identified, drawn, or overcome—depending on circumstances and context. What are the boundaries translators and interpreters have to deal with? How do they relate to Translation Studies in general? Boundaries and translation go hand in hand. As the discipline grows and ever more elements of interdisciplinarity come into play, the more the question of what the boundaries of translation are needs to be asked. Some of the research topics presented in this collection may well extend the boundaries of the discipline itself, while others may look at the constraints and limits under which translators and translations operate, or showcase the role translation and interpreting play in overcoming social or political boundaries. It is with this in mind that the group of young researchers presented in this book has come together to create an overview of current research in Translation Studies. The papers offer insights into the state of the discipline in various nations, often touching on under-researched topics such as the role of translation in the creation of national as well as individual identities or the translation of popular music. They look at the role of culture and, more specifically, sociocultural influences on translation. At the same time, non-linguistic, intra- and extratextual factors are taken into account with particular attention to multimodality. What unites the papers collected is the general tendency to see translation as a means of bringing people together and enabling dialog, a means of overcoming ideological and social boundaries. By looking both to the past and the future of the discipline, the authors aim to (re)define the boundaries of Translation Studies.

After the break-up of the USSR, the former Soviet countries took different paths. While many of them face severe economic problems or have become only questionably democratic, Georgia's socio-political development has become a relatively successful post-Soviet transition story. A deeper understanding of Georgia can offer insights that are also useful for other transitional and developing states. Many of the good governance implications of the research papers assembled in this volume are highly relevant to the broader Caucasus region and other post-Communist countries. The contributions deal with central issues pertinent to Georgian public policy, administration, and politics, as well as to Georgia's ongoing struggle for independence and democracy. The collection illustrates a particularly revealing case in the comparative study of modern governance.

This volume of collected papers takes stock of what has become known about the war in eastern Ukraine's Donets Basin (Donbas) between April 2014 and mid-2020. It provides an introduction to the conflict and illustrates the key point of contention in the academic debate surrounding it—the question whether this war is primarily an internal Ukrainian phenomenon or the result of a covert Russian invasion. The contributions by recognized specialists from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and Japan offer multifaceted views and insights into this long-lasting conflict for both expert readers and those who are new to the topic. The volume's contributors are Tymofii Brik, Jakob Hauter, Sanshiro Hosaka, Yuriy Matsiyevsky, Nikolay Mitrokhin, Maximilian Kranich, and Ulrich Schneckener.

The bilingual, French–English journal Méthod(e)s, founded in 2015, is an African initiative with the objective to enlarge the methodological debates on the Global South. The desire for a strong understanding of methodology is to situate it above academic trends, thereby placing it in line with a universal history of the sciences. Just as calling dominant paradigms into question leaves room for creative opportunities, so does the comparison of theoretical approaches and technical models of data collection. Questions related to methods are not purely technical or merely philosophical reflections. The examination of the method used in scientific investigations necessarily leads us to question the validity and consequences of research results. From this point of view, the journal Méthod(e)s is not a forum for simple discussions on the mechanics of research but a tool to question social interests influencing academic research and giving it a political function. It is also intended to lead to a more critical look at the creation of theories dealing with the status of individuals and societies in Africa and the Global South. Méthod(e)s aims to bring into question, connect, and compare the theoretical, technical, and political foundations of the social sciences as applied to human societies. Each contribution is followed by a summary in the respectively other language. In order to ensure a broad intellectual reach, the editors reserve the right to include articles written in other languages. All the abstracts of the papers are also available in Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish.

Syria is undergoing a stage of transformation, including political and social changes. This unique book focuses on the transformations in creative industries and presents a collection of research papers describing and analyzing this pivotal period, in which their role evolved from producing tangible cultural products to becoming an active player in the maintenance of knowledge and a source of support and revenue.

Der vorliegende Band nimmt in der Reihe Body-Feeling und Body-Bildung eine Ausnahmestellung ein: Es handelt sich um eine Kompilation exzellenter Papers, die am Fachbereich Sozialwesen der Fachhochschule Bielefeld entstanden sind. Sie sollen als Arbeitsmaterialien dienen und anschaulich zeigen, welche herausragenden, im Sinne auch der Phänomenologie schöpferischen Forschungsarbeiten im Fachbereich stattfinden, und zugleich eine Inspiration für weitere phänomenologische Arbeiten sein. Leitbild war dabei immer Husserls Satz: Zu den Sachen selbst jenseits des Wortes! Wobei sich die Frage stellte, wie das in der Wissenschaft möglich sein soll, wenn doch der Buchstabe eines ihrer Werkzeuge ist. Dabei hilft Gregory Batesons Einsicht, dass die Karte nicht das Territorium ist, anders geschrieben: Worte in der Wissenschaft über das Leben sind nicht das Leben selbst. Radikaler formuliert noch der Phänomenologe Emmanuel Levinas, der wiederum behauptet, erst komme das Leben und dann die Erkenntnis. Im Zentrum des methodologischen Vorgehens der Phänomenologie liegt die transzendentale Reduktion bzw. die eidetische Reduktion. Was steckt hinter diesen Begriffen? Sie beschreiben den Vorgang der Wahrnehmung von Vorurteilen und deren Einklammerung beim wissenschaftlichen Erkennen. Das Ziel liegt in der Transformation der Autorin oder des Autors selbst. Es handelt sich also um einen Erkenntnisprozess, dessen Weg wiederum über die bewusste Analyse der Wahrnehmung von Phänomenen führt. Dabei geht es um das Ich der jeweiligen Autorin bzw. des jeweiligen Autors und um das individuelle Bewusstsein. Zu den Beiträgen: Charlotte Jäckel analysiert Ansätze aus Buddhismus und Gestalttherapie zu Achtsamkeit, Elisa Langsenkamp fragt nach dem Kern Sozialer Arbeit, Sarina Hettich beschäftigt sich mit dem Phänomen der Resonanz und Annika Hennig geht der Frage zu Scham in pädagogischen Prozessen nach.

The financial crisis of 2007–2009 exposed the weaknesses of the global over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market such as limited transparency regarding risk exposures, poor counterparty risk management practices, and the risk of contagion arising from interconnectedness in this market. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, regulators introduced worldwide legislative and regulatory changes aimed at increasing the transparency and stability of the financial markets. In this book, Dr. Olga Lewandowska explores those novel regulatory solutions and their impact. The main focus is on central counterparty (CCP) clearing that became mandatory for OTC derivatives under the new regulatory paradigm. In four research papers, she analyzes CCP from different risk perspectives and based on four diverse research methods. Her book offers a comprehensive assessment of the risk-reduction potential of the CCPs, their implications for the financial markets, and the practical challenges in the implementation of the recent financial market reforms.

This captivating volume brings together case studies drawn from four post-Soviet states—Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. The collected papers illustrate how the events that started in 1985 and brought down the USSR six years later led to the rise of fifteen successor states, with their own historicized collective memories. The volume's analyses juxtapose history textbooks for secondary schools and universities, and how they aim to create understandings as well as identities that are politically usable, within their different contexts. From this emerges a picture of multiple perestroika(s) and diverging development paths. Only in Ukraine—a country that recently experienced two popular uprisings, the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity—the people themselves are ascribed agency and the power to change their country. In the other three states, elites are, instead, presented as prime movers of society, as is historical determinism. The volume's contributors are Diana Bencheci, Andrei Dudchik, Liliya Erushkina, Marharyta Fabrykant, Alexandr Gorylev, Andrey Kashin, Alla Marchenko, Valerii Mosneagu, Alexey Rusakov, Natalia Tregubova, and Yuliya Yurchuk.

In post-Soviet Russian politics, Boris Nemtsov is one of the most tragic figures—and not only because he was shot dead, at the age of 56, in close vicinity to the Kremlin, the locus of Russia's power. The “transparency of evil” in this specific case was shocking: Nemtsov's murder was filmed by a surveillance camera. The video tape confirms the demonstrative and insolent character of the assassination. His death illuminated a core feature of the current regime that tolerates, if not incites, extra-legal actions against those it considers to be “foes,” “traitors,” or members of “the Fifth Column.” In this volume Boris Nemtsov is commemorated from different perspectives. In addition to academic papers, it includes personal notes and reflections. The articles represent a range of assessments of Nemtsov's personality by people for whom he was one of the leading figures in post-Soviet politics and a major protagonist in Russia's transformation. Some authors had direct experiences of either living in, or travelling to, Nizhny Novgorod when Nemtsov was governor there. The plurality of opinions collected in this volume matches the diversity and multiplicity of Nemtsov's political legacy. The volume's contributors include: David J. Kramer, Senior Director at the McCain Institute for International Leadership in Washington, DC; Miguel Vázquez Liñán, Associate Professor at Seville University; Yulia Kurnyshova, Research Fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Kyiv; Ekaterina Smagly, Director of the Kennan Institute in Kyiv; Henry E. Hale, Professor at The George Washington University in Washington, DC; Howard J. Wiarda (ᶧ2015), Professor at the University of Georgia; Sharon Werning Rivera, Associate Professor at Hamilton College; Tomila Lankina, Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Andre Mommen (ᶧ2017), Professor at the University of Amsterdam; Stefan Meister, Director at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin; Vladimir Gel'man, Professor at the University of Helsinki; Vladimir V. Kara-Murza, coordinator of the Open Russia movement and deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party of Russia.

This unique collection from Syria presents research papers focusing on topics in cultural research that are relevant to the current Syrian situation, especially with regard to the fundamental changes in the relationship of Syrians to the society they live in and the dynamic transformations they are witnessing. Through its unique inside views, the volume offers a fascinating alternative narrative of the current societal context in Syria. Ettijahat – Independent Culture is a Syrian cultural organization founded in 2011. Ettijahat seeks to involve independent culture and arts positively in the process of cultural and social change. Ettijahat supports artists and people engaged in cultural initiatives, works to build consensus and alliances between individuals and cultural institutions, promotes the arts and artists through regional and international platforms, helps Syrian communities in having access to culture and arts, and funds young researchers focusing on the current cultural and societal situation in Syria.

This truly unique collection is the essential guide to archival research on conservatism, the right wing, and the far right, offering a detailed overview of primary sources in all media (documents, film, video, sound recordings, microfilm and microfiche, cartoons, sheet music, newspaper art, etc.) housed in more than 4500 archives across 22 countries. Designed as an indispensable reference work for anyone researching in the field of right-wing politics, this astonishingly detailed account includes - collections of personal and institutional papers, - archives of right-wing periodicals in the Japanese, Romanian, and Russian languages, - collections of pamphlets, ephemera, vertical files, and press cuttings, - oral histories, - library-accessible commercial databases, - digitized collections and exhibitions, - archived web sites, - microfilm and microfiche collections with right-wing material. The description of each archive contains its physical address and other identifying information, a summary of its contents and highlights, lists of publications and web pages citing the archive, and links to online finding aids. This book will be a crucial guide for anyone conducting primary research in the field.

This book illustrates why and how informality in governance is not necessarily transitory or temporary, but a constant in most systems of the world. The difference between various administrative structures is not whether informality is present or not, but where, in which areas, it is located. The essays gathered in this volume demonstrate that, in some cases, informal mechanisms are self-protective, while, in others, they are perceived as ‘normal'responses and a set of tactics for individuals, classes, and communities to respond to unusual demands. Where expectations—of the state, a company, or some commission—are too far from citizens'existing models of normative behavior, informal behavior continues to thrive. Indeed, new tactics are adopted in order to cope with disjunctions between theory and reality as well as to serve as contrasts to values imposed by a center of power, such as a central state, a city administration, or the management board of a large company. The focus of the papers contained in this book is two-fold and rests on an analysis of phenomena manifesting themselves “beyond” and “in spite of” the state. The first part deals with areas where the state is not always, or only marginally, active whilst the second analyzes activities performed in conflict with state regulations, i.e. behavior often studied from a criminal and legal standpoint.

The papers presented in this volume analyze the civil uprising known as Euromaidan that began in central Kyiv in late November 2013, when the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych opted not to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union, and continued over the following months. The topics include the motivations and expectations of protesters, organized crime, nationalism, gender issues, mass media, the Russian language, and the impact of Euromaidan on Ukrainian politics as well as on the EU, Russia, and Belarus. The goal of the book is less to offer a definitive account than one that represents a variety of aspects of a mass movement that captivated world attention and led to the downfall of the Yanukovych presidency. The authors comprise well known and younger scholars who work on contemporary Ukraine and its neighbors.

Post-communist democratic revolutions have, so far, taken place in six countries: Slovakia (1998), Croatia (1999-2000), Serbia (2000), Georgia (2003), Ukraine (2004) and Kyrgyzstan (2005). The seven chapters in this volume situate these events within a theoretical and comparative perspective. The volume draws upon extensive experience and field research conducted by political scientists specializing in comparative democratization, regime politics, political transitions, electoral studies, and the post-communist world. The papers by Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik, Henry Hale, Paul D'Anieri, David R. Marples, Taras Kuzio, Lucan A. Way and Steven Levitsky, as well as Anika Locke Binnendijk and Ivan Marovic explore different regime types and opposition strategies in post-communist states, the diffusion of opposition strategies between states in which democratic revolutions were attempted, the strategic importance of youth NGO's in mobilizing oppositions towards democratic revolutions, the use of non-violent strategies by the opposition, path dependent, theoretical and comparative explanations of the sources of successful and failed democratic revolutions, and the factors that lie behind divergent post-revolutionary trajectories.The volume represents a breakthrough in our understanding of why and how democratic revolutions take place in the post-communist world. It provides an integrated analysis of why such upheavals succeed in some, but fail in other states. The contributions point to, among other issues, why the post-revolutionary breakthroughs in Serbia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan have encountered obstacles, the ousted regime was never fully defeated and its representatives were able to launch counter-revolutions, as well as why, in Serbia and Ukraine, the political forces of the ousted regimes have returned to power in free elections held after democratic revolutions.Post-Communist Democratic Revolutions in Comparative Perspective will be important reading for scholars and policy makers alike.

Nell'officina del dizionarioIn a dictionary workshop Questo volume raccoglie gli atti del convegno organizzato dall'Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Lussemburgo, nel giugno 2006 sui dizionari, e contiene interessanti contributi originali su vari aspetti della lessicografia odierna. Le prime cinque comunicazioni vertono su vocabolari bilingui che abbinano italiano e lussemburghese (M. L. Caldognetto), polacco (E. Jamrozik), svedese (J. Nystedt), neerlandese (S. Vanvolsem), e sul lavoro collettivo per preparare vocabolari bilingui tascabili per lussemburghesi non nativi (J. Christophory). Le cinque comunicazioni successive sono dedicate a vari aspetti del lessico italiano (T. De Mauro, S. Ferreri, G. e L. Lepschy, M. Pfister, F. Sabatini). L'undicesima presenta il grande Oxford English Dic-tionary (J. Simpson). This volume contains the proceedings of the conference organized in June 2006 by the Italian Cultural Institute in Luxembourg. It offers original con-tributions on various aspects of contemporary lexicography. The first five papers concentrate on bilingual dictionaries, linking Italian to Luxem-burgish (M.L. Caldognetto), Polish (E. Jamrozik), Swedish (J. Nystedt), Netherlandish (S. Vanvolsem) and on the collective work leading to bilin-gual pocket dictionaries for non-native Luxembourgers (J. Cristophory). The next five are devoted to various aspects of Italian lexis (T. De Mauro, S. Ferreri, G. and L. Lepschy, M. Pfister and F. Sabatini), and the final pa-per concentrates on the renowned Oxford English Dictionary (J. Simpson).

Anchorage by fasteners and composite structures of steel and concrete have seen dramatic progress in research, technology and application over the past decades. The understanding of the fundamental principles underlying both disciplines has significantly improved. Concurrently, there has been rapid growth in the development of sophisticated new products and the establishment of international directives and codes to ensure their safe and economical use in a wide range of engineered structures. Although they deal with very similar problems, the two disciplines have developed independently from each other. To optimize the use of composite structures and fastenings to concrete, however, it is necessary to have knowledge of both: the local behavior of the fastening system and the global behavior of the structure. It became apparent that a forum offering the opportunity to expand and to exchange experience in the field of connecting steel and concrete would benefit all involved. Furthermore this forum would aid in the rapid dissemination of new ideas, technologies and solutions as well as explore new areas of research.This book forms the Proceedings of the 2 Symposium on “Connections between Steel and Concrete”. As the 1 Symposium in 2001 it brought together leading experts from all facets of the research, design, construction and anchor manufacturing community from around the world. Their lectures covered the topics:- test methods- behavior and design- dynamic loading: shock, earthquake, fatigue- durability- exceptional applications, strenghtening and structures- related topicsIn total 129 papers are gathered in these 2 volumes.

Post-socialist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe have been characterised by historically shaped crises and conflicts on all levels of political, economic and societal life. Minority and ethno-political conflicts, many of them currently at a stalemate, have severely hampered state-building and societal stability – and continue to do so. Contradictory interpretations of history prevent societies from forging a common identity and thus impede nation-building processes. Political and social identities exert an important influence on democratic and socioeconomic transformation processes. Taken together, the contributions in this volume reflect the wide variety of challenges and conflicts linked to ethnic, national, political, social and gender identities in post-socialist societies in Central and Eastern Europe. They not only serve to illustrate the significant differences among post-socialist transformations, but also highlight the variety of theoretical concepts and methodological approaches that can be used to analyse identity, its change and impact on societal developments.This book presents some of the best papers presented at the Changing Europe Summer School on “Crises and Conflicts in Eastern European States and Societies: Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones for Democratisation?“ held in Warsaw in September 2007.

The central question addressed by the papers collected in this book is whether trade unions from the post-socialist states have successfully represented their interests at the EU level. At issue is not only their purely formal integration into umbrella organizations and EU bodies; of much greater concern is their actual participation in political decision-making processes and the resulting impact at the national and sub-national level. The book therefore examines the integration and Europeanisation of a vital part of those societies which joined the EU in 2004. The empirical focus is on case studies from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia.The book is based on the research project ‘Already arrived in Brussels? Interest representation of trade unions from the new EU member states at the EU level', which was – with financial support from the Otto Brenner Foundation – carried out under the guidance of the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen.

Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson takes a closer look at the often peculiar, sometimes incongruous physical movements and gestures that characters perform in Samuel Beckett's drama, viz. mis-movements. Sensitivity to the embodied aspects of life is topical in Beckett's drama, but such mis-movements underwrite the intrinsic connections between sense and sense-making to safeguard an ethics of interpretation founded on embodied cognition. Tracing Beckett's aesthetics of gesture back to its phenomenological and embodied roots, Einarsson suggests that the use of mis-movements in Beckett's drama is a methodological solution to the predicament of expression that exposes the injustices done by language to audiences as embodied knowers. More than interpretative dilemmas, mis-movements offer conduits for spectators to re-connect with embodied experience. Thus, they are the poetic means through which an alternative ethics of interpretation begins to emerge.

This book provides a systematic overview of hostile rhetoric on state-controlled Russian TV and shows how it laid the foundation for the Russian public's widespread acceptance of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. It reveals the strategies behind the Kremlin-directed television coverage of the Euromaidan, Russia's occupation of Crimea, and the first five months of the war in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine and demonstrates that, already in 2013–14, the hostile portrayal, dehumanization, and demonization of Ukraine was omnipresent on Russian TV. After a nuanced discussion of the concept of the enemy, the author compares the construction of enemies by the Russian state's major international and internal broadcasters – RT (Russia Today) and Channel One. The findings show that both channels purposefully elicited fear and hatred towards Ukraine and Western countries in their audiences. Notably, Channel One—lesser known within the Western pundits community—was more extreme and radical in its coverage than the globally known RT channel. To provide a broader context, Shestopalova also draws parallels between Russian state-controlled communication on Ukraine and Russia's wars of the two previous decades, namely those in Chechnya and Georgia.

Discover'Schiller-Code': Poetry, Spirituality, Ecology, Historical and Contemporary New Stories. In 2021, during the pandemic, the author discovered that her partner Michael is a descendant of the poet Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. This surprising revelation, combined with her work on educational books and the'Experience Growth'project, inspired her to explore deeper aspects of growth in both education and society. In'Schiller-Code,'the author demonstrates how true growth extends beyond school, blending knowledge, creativity, moral values, and spiritual development. The book also unveils the'Schiller-Code'project, revealing that Schiller was poisoned rather than dying from a chronic illness. Coincidentally, Michael's work is focused on'detoxification,'specifically in hazardous waste disposal. His lifelong dedication to ecological responsibility ties back to the garbage of war that Michael once dealt with, now resurfacing globally. It's as if Schiller's advocacy for peace has a timely message for us today. The book emphasizes that preserving the ecological environment relies on the'human'factor, and that true civilization encompasses both material and spiritual dimensions. Through real-life examples, the book underscores the importance of a conscious and sustainable lifestyle. Immerse yourself in'Schiller-Code'– a captivating fusion of Myth versus reality and religion versus science, philosophy versus everyday life, explore the essence of mindful living.

Viele Anleger glauben, dass das Erwirtschaften von Börsengewinnen etwas mit dem Herausfinden einer geheimen Formel zu tun hat, welche den Weg zu Glück und Reichtum weist. Darum verbringen sie Stunden über Stunden mit dem Studium von Aktienkursen, um irgendwelche Formeln ableiten zu können. Dabei verlieren Sie aber das große Ganze aus den Augen, nämlich ihre Portfoliostruktur. Letztendlich belegen viele Forschungser-gebnisse, dass die gewählte Vermögensstruktur bis zu 80% die Ertragskraft und die Schwankungsbreite (sprich: das Risiko) des Vermögens bestimmen. Umgekehrt bedeutet dies, dass lediglich 20% durch die Einzeltitelauswahl (Aktie A oder Aktie B der gleichen Branche?) sowie durch das so genannte Timing (kaufe ich besser heute oder morgen?) bestimmt werden. Darum sagen viele Experten, wenn es eine geheime Formel zum Börsenerfolg gibt, dann lautet sie: Portfoliomanagement. Rüdiger Götte erläutert in seinem vorliegenden Buch auf einfache Weise das Wesen des Portfoliomanagements und der Asset Allocation.

Anne-Marie Lachmund (Potsdam) Multimodal semiotic awareness mit dem populären Netzphänomen #Instapoetry im Italienisch- und Spanischunterricht fördern Judith Visser (Bochum) Hate Speech im romanistischen Fremdsprachenunterricht Corinna Koch (Münster) Verweise auf Herkunftssprachen bei der Wortschatzarbeit – eine Analyse aktueller Französischlehrbücher Joni Farida Nienaber & Karoline Henriette Heyder (Bremen) Performative mehrsprachige Verfahren im Französischunterricht: Les musiciens de Brême Rezensionen zu linguistischen und didaktischen Publikationen Zeitschriftenschau: Neues zur Didaktik der Romanischen Sprachen Profil: Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Michaela Rückl (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) Lehrveranstaltungen: Didaktik der Romanischen Sprachen (WiSe 2023/24)

Ukraine expert Winfried Schneider-Deters intervenes in the debate on Russia's war against Ukraine with three timely essays, written during the winter of war in Kyiv in 2022 / 2023. He critically discusses the ambivalent reception of Russian aggression not only in German society. Calls by intellectuals to stop arms deliveries and to negotiate and compromise with the aggressor are, in effect, calls for surrender; in the author's view, their signatories are thus making themselves into Putin's'useful idiots.'Schneider-Deters points out the parallels between Putin and Hitler and analyzes the Russian'Weimar syndrome'after the collapse of the Soviet Union as well as the roots of the current, specifically Russian fascism, the'Rushism'. He also gives a detailed account of the crimes committed by Russia's armed forces in Ukraine under international law. The International Criminal Court in The Hague does not have jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, the'supreme international crime'; Schneider-Deters discusses the possible steps to create a new international tribunal along the lines of the Nuremberg trials, a'Nuremberg II', in order to be able to hold the aggressor Putin criminally responsible.

Die Revolutionen in Europa beginnen immer auf Straßen und Plätzen. Träger sind die unteren Schichten der Gesellschaft von den Tagelöhnern bis zu den Handwerksmeistern, öfters unterstützt von Journalisten, Studenten und meist freiberuflichen Akademikern. Diese liefern in der Regel das ideologische Rüstzeug, sie sind manchmal die intellektuellen Antreiber, gelegentlich die Strategen des Straßenkampfes. Dennoch ist das verbindende Element aller Umwälzungen in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts deren bürgerlicher Charakter. Das Bürgertum bereitete sie dadurch vor, dass es seine Ideen der Neuordnung von Staat und Gesellschaft in Klubs und Medien propagierte und damit die Legitimität der monarchischen und aristokratischen Führungsrolle untergrub. Wenn auch nicht allein und auch nicht durchgehend, so hat es doch überwiegend den Gang der Entwicklung bestimmt. Dazu dienten ihm nicht zuletzt die Provisorischen Regierungen. Sie waren wie auch die Parlamente seine Institutionen. Mit ihnen strebten sie das genuin bürgerliche Revolutionsziel an: die Neuordnung des politischen Verbandes durch eine Verfassung konstitutionellen Typs… Da das Bürgertum nicht auf eine radikale Umgestaltung der Machtverhältnisse aus war, blieb der Adel in seinen Entwürfen ein Faktor der Politik. … Man könnte einen ironischen Widerspruch darin sehen, dass keine Revolutionsregierung im Europa der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts eine Institution von Revolutionären war. Dies gilt dann, wenn die Bezeichnung „Revolutionäre“ im landläufigen Sinne verwendet wird für die in den Straßen für die Besserung ihres Loses kämpfenden Massen. Zwischen dieser meist unorganisierten, wenig planvoll vorgehenden und vor Gewalt nicht zurückschreckenden Revolution und der institutionalisierten bürgerlichen bestand ein dialektisches Verhältnis. Es trat unmittelbar in der Beziehung dieser Massen zu den Revolutionsregierungen zutage. Deren Durchschlagskraft hing, solange gegen die alten Kräfte gekämpft wurde, ganz entscheidend von dem Druck ab, der von den Unterschichten ausging. War der Gegner überwunden, dienten die Regierungen oft als Instrument, um den bisherigen Kampfgefährten von der Macht fernzuhalten. (Aus dem Beitrag von Karsten Ruppert)

David Satter is one of the world's leading commentators on Russia. The two-volume book series Never Speak to Strangers is a collection of his articles and essays. Volume two includes articles about the Russia-Ukraine war and argues that this tragic conflict was preventable. David Satter's writings and interviews describe the psychological roots of the conflict. Picking up where the first volume left off, the second volume of Never Speak to Strangers includes material on the historical and psychological roots of Russian aggression, the Yeltsin and Putin regimes, and, in particular, Russia's war against Ukraine. David Satter shows that change could come to Russia in the wake of a defeat in Ukraine, but external events will not be enough to divert Russia permanently from foreingn aggression and internal repression. For that, what is required is something more fundamental, a recognition that world order must be based on universal moral values and a rejection once and for all of Russia's “special way”.

Chia Pao-yu is alive and well! The Beijing University pro-democracy activist is living in exile under an assumed name, Jean Valjaur (JV). As was rumored in the prequel, Year of the Earth Serpent Changing Colors, Chia was not executed for helping to organize the April-June 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Now in Paris, he witnessed the Bataclan terrorist attacks, the Yellow Vest protests, and survived the COVID-19 (or Horseshoe Bat) pandemic—after having survived the AIDS pandemic in China in the 1980s. He pursues his self-study of Asian influence on western culture with a focus on Pop artists and Beat poets. He likewise critiques the views of western “Maoists,” like Mylex H. Galvin—whom Chia depicts as a “Wokeist” before his time. During the pandemic lockdown, Chia reflects on the reasons why he became a pro-democracy, pro-environment and anti-nuclear dissident. In Paris, Chia finds work with the Foundation for Human Values Forever (HVF), directed by the charismatic feminist Bereft LaPlante. He meets dissidents like himself who have suffered for their political views and gender. Now as a French citizen, Chia participates in Hong Kong protests, and takes part in a conference on the'Future of China'in Washington, DC. There, he witnesses President Trump's threat to call in US G.I. Joes to repress protests in June 2020—that recalls the June 1989 Tiananmen Square repression by the Chinese Army (PLA). Back in Paris, he accidentally learns that the HVF Foundation finances questionable activities not related to humanitarian causes—and quits after a drunken LaPlante attempts to assault him sexually. The secretive Society for the Exploration of Cosmic Consciousness (SECC) publishes his “Planetary Manifesto”: If the U.S. Balding Eagle, the Chinese Red Dragon, the Russian Double-Headed Eagle cannot soon resolve their differences, then the popular hopes of “Barbies” and “Kens” for global peace will be crushed by the boots of “G.I. Joe.” Just after starting work for the SECC, Chia mysteriously disappears in a suspected trade-off for a Western spy held by Beijing—at least that is the “official” news story.

Several consecutive global crises, including the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the global economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the current war in Ukraine have put the lives of citizens of former Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union under threat. How do the most affected amongst them manage to survive global crises? How do their experiences from previous crises influence their behavior when a new global crisis emerges? Through a unique comparison of life paths of post-Yugoslav and post-Soviet migrants and their communities across Europe, the Americas, and Africa, Sanja Tepavcevic offers a novel theoretical approach revealing a relationship between loyalty to communities and resilience to global crises. For many post-Yugoslav and post-Soviet migrants, the (perception of) exclusion from communities that they belonged to prior to a crisis tends to reshape their sense of belonging and modifies their loyalty to and identification with a community or collective identity. These processes represent psychological and cultural (or ‘soft') forms of resilience. Similarly, as Tepavcevic demonstrates, greater physical (or ‘tangible') resilience shows itself in emigration and the formation of alternative communities. By combining and analyzing narratives, participant observations, and theories of resilience and loyalty borrowed from social, behavioral, and the natural sciences, Tepavcevic demonstrates that global crises challenge existing communities and generate various forms of migrant communities, loyalty, and resilience. Among others, social scientists, migration policy-makers, and migrants will benefit from reading this book.

Contents Special Section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN VI Yuliya Yurchuk and Andreas Umland: Introduction. Reassessing Ukrainian Nationalism in the Light of Russia's Full-Scale Invasion since 2022 Per Anders Rudling: “Benderites,”'UkroNazis'and'Rashizm': Studying the Historical Ukrainian Far Right in Times of Disinformation and Hybrid Warfare Jakub Bornio: The Polish–Ukrainian Dispute over the Volhynian Massacres: Investigating the Logic behind the Polish Narrative Article Natia Gamkrelidze: From “Dependent” to “Neutral” Neighbor: The Evolution of Russian Images of Georgia from 1991 to 2020 Review Essay Illia Chedoluma: Looking Back on a Century of Ukrainian Historiography: Reflections on Serhy Yekelchyk's Writing the Nation: The Ukrainian Historical Profession in Independent Ukraine and the Diaspora (ibidem Press, 2023)

Diese Studie nimmt Chinas Diplomatie während des Ersten Weltkriegs als Hauptforschungsgegenstand und konzentriert sich unter Berücksichtigung innenpolitischer Kämpfe hauptsächlich auf die Annahmen und Anwendungen außenpolitischer Entscheidungsträger und Umsetzer der Außenpolitik Chinas im Ersten Weltkrieg. Auf der Grundlage einer umfassenden Untersuchung der Bestände diplomatischer Archive werden wir die Mängel der vorigen Forschung ausgleichen und Chinas Diplomatie im Ersten Weltkrieg als Ganzes untersuchen. Insbesondere unter der Prämisse, die vorhandenen Forschungsergebnisse der akademischen Kreise vollständig zu absorbieren, werden Chinas Neutralität nach dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs, die Diskussion über die Frage der Teilnahme am Krieg innerhalb Chinas, die Umsetzung der chinesischen „Arbeiter als Soldaten-Politik“ und die Diskussion über das chinesisch-deutsche Zerwürfnis und die Kriegserklärung sowie die endgültige Entscheidung, die Entsendung der chinesischen Truppen nach Sibirien, die Teilnahme Chinas an der Pariser Friedenskonferenz und andere wichtige Knotenpunkte systematisch behandelt. Der Schwerpunkt dieser Studie liegt bei der systematischen Klärung des Kontextes des Ersten Weltkriegs in China. Es wird diskutiert, inwieweit im Kontext der raschen politischen Turbulenzen im Land, als man sich mit beiden Lagern der Alliierten auseinandersetzen musste, die chinesische Diplomatie gewählt und die Interessen Chinas gewahrt werden konnten. In diesem Buch werden soweit möglich die subtilen und komplizierten Beziehungen zwischen China und den Vereinigten Staaten, Russland, Großbritannien, Frankreich, Japan, Deutschland und anderen Ländern gemeinsam analysiert. Es wird dabei besonders auf das Zusammenspiel von Innenpolitik und Diplomatie geachtet.

The twentieth century was filled with many tragedies. During the Second World War, Babyn Yar – a ravine outside Kyiv where victims were shot dead and dumped into pits – became a prominent symbol of the destruction of the European Jews during the Holocaust. This deadly process began in September 1941 with the murder of nearly 34,000 Jews and continued over the next several years with the shootings of tens of thousands more Jews as well as the Roma people, the mentally ill, Soviet prisoners of war, Ukrainian national activists, Communist party members, and ordinary residents of Kyiv taken as hostages. Bringing together leading scholars, Babyn Yar presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most traumatic sites in the Ukrainian experience of the war. The book provides an overview of the geographical space of the ravine and the historical conditions in Europe and Ukraine leading up to the war. It details the mechanism by which Nazi Germany carried out the 1941 massacre and the on-going killing of Jews and non-Jews at Babyn Yar during the remaining years of the war. Drawing on depictions in personal memoirs, oral history, literary works, art, cinema, and music, the book analyses in great detail the ways in which Babyn Yar has been remembered by survivors. In doing so, Babyn Yar sheds light on one of the twentieth century's most terrible human tragedies and the importance of preserving its memory.

This fascinating autobiography offers not a success story; nor a paean to the resilience of the human spirit; nor a search for identity constrained by class, race, and gender or the other usual suspects; nor a tearjerker that engenders in the Western reader a sense of superiority or schadenfreude. Rather, it is a tale of the joys and hardships of simple living, of an enduring curiosity about the world, of teachers and friends, of marriage and divorce, of Chinese and American societies, of tofu and jalapeños, of character flaws and personality quirks, of humbug and folly.

This research intricately examines the reverberations of the Partition of India in 1947, with a focused exploration into the marginalisation endured by the Muslim community in its aftermath. Through a meticulous historical analysis, the study elucidates the socio-political and cultural forces at play during this pivotal period of Indian history. What sets this research apart is its innovative incorporation of Anita Desai's literary masterpieces, notably Clear Light of Day and In Custody, as a unique vantage point for understanding the Muslim experience post-Partition. Negotiating the complexities of historical and literary analysis presents a notable challenge, as does sensitively addressing the profound ramifications of marginalisation. Methodologically, the research employs a multidisciplinary approach, blending historical research methods with nuanced literary interpretation. The findings unearth the nuanced layers of Muslim marginalisation, shedding light on its subtle yet pervasive manifestations. The research's novelty lies in its interdisciplinary framework, seamlessly weaving together historical inquiry and literary exploration to offer a holistic understanding of the enduring impacts of Partition. Ultimately, this study bears significant implications for academia, fostering cross-disciplinary dialogue and enriching perspectives on the enduring legacy of Partition in India.

This book views the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, from a broad systemic perspective, as an ongoing process in which societal, economic, political, and institutional developments are intertwined. The Euromaidan and further developments, especially the Russian aggression, accelerated the westward reorientation of the economy, strengthened institutional checks and balances (for instance, through decentralization), changed the main social cleavage from an ethnolinguistic one to a division between urban creative and “oligarchic” classes, reshaped identity towards formation of a political nation, and increased the role of modernizing forces, especially civil society. However, so far, the Revolution has failed to bring about, despite some progress, a critical mass of changes regarding the rule of law while much of the economy remains rent-oriented. If modernizing forces are prudently managed, Ukraine has a chance to move forward on an evolutionary path. Otherwise, new disruptions are possible.

This book analyzes security developments in Lithuania since 1988, a period marked by liberation from nearly fifty years of Soviet occupation, the collapse of the USSR, and the integration of the country into NATO. Furmonavicius focuses on how Lithuania achieved liberation and how the country's consequent search for integration into the European and Transatlantic security framework has influenced the evolution of both its own and transatlantic security. “Furmonavicius'book offers an extremely useful and essentially pioneering interpretation of Lithuania's recovery of its national being.” Anthony Packer (1940-2014), former Honorary Counsellor of Lithuania in Cardiff, UK ​“Furmonavicius provides a broad outline of Lithuanian history, with special attention to the period between March 11, 1990, and January 13, 1991. For this period, Furmonavicius cites many sources, many of them difficult to find. He provides a very useful bibliography for students of this period.” Ignas K. Skrupskelis, Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina'In this detailed study of how Lithuania strove to integrate itself into European and Transatlantic security structures, Furmonavicius reveals the enduring importance of this strategic region, strikingly relevant to our own unsettled times.” Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Professor of History, University of Tennessee “Furmonavicius reminds us of the crucial role played by Lithuania in liberating itself from Soviet occupation and hastening the end of the Soviet Union, and highlights the strategic importance of the Baltic States for European security and stability. Furmonavicius uses unique sources, including documents from the private collection of US Secretary of State James Baker, interviews with President Vytautas Landsbergis and Foreign Ministers of Lithuania Juozas Urbšys and Algirdas Saudargas.” Patrick Salmon, Chief Historian, Foreign & Commonwealth Development Office, UK

Ist die Gesellschaft gespalten? Kaum eine Frage wurde in den letzten Jahren häufiger gestellt. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Gesellschaft schon darüber gespalten ist, ob es eine nennenswerte Spaltung gibt. Im Zentrum der Debatte steht die Frage, inwiefern Identitätspolitik die Menschen auseinanderdividiert, sie gegeneinander in Stellung bringt und den sozialen Zusammenhalt erodieren lässt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes diskutieren diese Fragen in Bezug auf das vor über 30 Jahren veröffentlichte Buch The Disuniting of America von Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., das im Jahr 2020 erstmals in der Reihe »Impulse« in deutscher Übersetzung unter dem Titel Die Spaltung Amerikas erschienen ist. Sie gehen der Frage nach, warum der identitätspolitische Samen der Spaltung, dessen nachteilhafte Folgen Schlesinger für die US-Gesellschaft der frühen 1990er-Jahre beschrieb, zwischenzeitlich auch in anderen westlichen Ländern, insbesondere in Deutschland, einen gut bestellten Nährboden gefunden hat und was das für unser Land bedeutet. Mit Beiträgen von: Josette Baer, Alan Davison, Oleg Dik, Egon Flaig, Frank Furedi, Nils Heisterhagen, Sandra Kostner, Stefan Luft, Henning Nörenberg, Anton Sterbling, Levent Tezcan, Peter Unfried, Vojin Saša Vukadinović und Barbara Zehnpfennig.

American-born Larissa Babij is at home in Kyiv when Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Her grandparents left Ukraine amidst the violence of World War II, and nearly 80 years later, she is fleeing the advancing Russian army. A Kind of Refugee chronicles the first year of all-out war in Ukraine through vivid dispatches that Babij sent to readers abroad. In cities flooded with refugees and bustling with humanitarian aid efforts, or while supporting an innovative military unit making DIY drones, Babij examines Ukrainian cultures of cooperation. Reflecting on her American upbringing, she ponders the premium that Western societies—shaped by the traumatic history of WWII—place on security. Back in Kyiv, sirens, Russian missile strikes, and long periods of darkness organize her days. This moving account of taking responsibility for your home and your history concludes with several essays on theater published between 2015 and 2018. Written with a fierce love and admiration for Ukraine and its people, this book is a testament to the courage of ordinary people committed to freedom while defending their homeland.

Die US-amerikanische TV-Serie FlashForward (2009–2010) beruht auf der Prämisse, dass die gesamte Weltbevölkerung einen flash foward – einen kurzen Blick in ihre Zukunft – erfährt. Im Zentrum der Erzählung steht die Disruption der Zeithorizonte, das Hereinbrechen der Zukunft in die Gegenwart. Elke Möller diskutiert Formen serieller Konstruktionen von Zukunft in FlashForward – von der Mikroebene einzelner Bausteine wie Intro, Recap und Cliffhanger bis zur Makroebene der Einbindung der Serie in das lineare Fernsehprogramm. Anhand der Narration werden physikalische, philosophische und zeittheoretische Gedankenspiele analysiert und in den Kontext von Erwägungen zu televisueller Serialität gestellt, so etwa das Motiv der potenziell endlosen Fortsetzbarkeit einer Serie. Möllers Studie schließt auf diese Weise an serientheoretische Diskurse an, die in der Ästhetik der Zeitlichkeit einen spezifischen Attraktions- und Innovationswert televisueller Serien erkennen und leistet somit einen Beitrag zum Verständnis serieller Zeitlichkeit generell.

This book examines the recent rise of the radical right in Italian politics in the years 2018–2022. The authors set the rise of the radical right within the context of electoral volatility and fragmentation that has underpinned post-1945 Italian politics and examine right-wing party competition between the two main radical right parties, Lega and Fratelli d'Italia, alongside the important shifts that have transformed the traditional center-right coalition (coalizione di centro-destra) in Italian politics. The volume concludes with implications for the global trajectory of the rise of different populist and radical right parties across Europe and the European Union, with many of these radical right parties now becoming significant political players across the world.

The 1967 ‘Summer of Love'brought all sorts of unusual people and events to London but perhaps nothing so extraordinary as the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation. The congress, organized by the American ‘anti-psychiatrist'Joe Berke, with help from Leon Redler, R.D. Laing, David Cooper, and a host of students, ex-students, psychiatric ‘patients', and secretaries, took place at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm Road over two weeks during July, and was designed to ‘demystify human violence in all its forms, the social systems from which it emanates, and to explore new forms of action.'But that bald summary of the purpose of the congress, accurate as it is, hardly does justice to its immediate achievements or to its long-term significance. Mingling with the many then famous speakers: Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Marcuse, Paul Goodman, Stokely Carmichael, Gregory Bateson, C.L.R. James, Julian Beck, Emmett Grogan, Thich Nhat Hanh, Paul Sweezy, John Gerassi, and Lucien Goldmann, were many younger people who arrived with their own ideas and who themselves went onto distinguished and influential careers in the arts, politics and academia. One was the American artist Carolee Schneemann, who devised a happening which was performed on the last day of the congress. Another was the British psychoanalyst and feminist Juliet Mitchell. A third was the American feminist, Angela Davis. This book, which is in part a biography of Joe Berke, traces the Congress from its origins in the United States to its major outgrowth The Anti-University of London, and concludes with some brief reflections on the congress's relevance to today's ‘revolutionary'identity-based politics.

Zwei Jahre nach Beginn der Großinvasion Russlands in der Ukraine beschuldigen sich beide Länder weiterhin gegenseitig des Faschismus. Einerseits hat Moskau eine kohärente Ideologie um die Idee herum aufgebaut, eine antifaschistische Macht zu sein, die Europa und seine traditionellen Werte vor einer liberal-faschistischen Bedrohung rettet, und rechtfertigt die Invasion im Namen einer Neuauflage des „Großen Vaterländischen Krieges“, also des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Die Ukraine hingegen – und mit ihr die Mehrheit der mitteleuropäischen Länder – sieht in Russland ein faschistisches Regime und eine faschistische Gesellschaft, die Nationalismus, Imperialismus und Revanchismus in sich vereint, die liberal-demokratische Ordnung bedroht und eine barbarische, nicht-europäische Identität verkörpert. In diesem 2021 verfassten Buch, das um ein Nachwort aus dem Jahr 2022 ergänzt wurde, stellt Marlene Laruelle den von beiden Seiten verwendeten Begriffsrahmen'Faschismus'in Frage, erörtert die Relevanz des auf Russland angewandten Faschismusetiketts sowie seine Implikationen und untersucht die Rolle von Faschismus sowie Antifaschismus in Russlands Nationsbildung. Sie argumentiert, dass der Kampf um die Frage, wer faschistisch ist, ein Kampf um die Definition europäischer Identität und die Einbeziehung oder den Ausschluss Russlands in diese Identität ist.

Why is it that even after two centuries of formal political independence and after the implementation of policies that were supposed to lead them to development, Latin American countries have not managed to overcome underdevelopment, poverty, and dependency? Why are the contradictions inherent to capitalism exacerbated in Latin America, in such a way that this region appears as the denial of the civilising promises inaugurated by capitalist modernity? Why do the asymmetrical relations in the world system and labour super-exploitation tend to deepen in the region, instead of being reduced? Why do the main social processes that challenge the capitalist relations of exploitation and domination take place in the ‘periphery'of the system, not in its imperialist core? The essays collected in this book present the answers that Marxist dependency theory has formulated to these and other questions, by highlighting the processes and relations that characterise the heterogeneous deployment of capitalism as a world system and that define the particularities of Latin American dependent capitalism: the super-exploitation of labour-power, unequal exchange, the rupture in the cycle of capital, among others. It also highlights the relevance of the perspective inaugurated by Marxist dependency theory to explain the current problems of Latin America.

Die Corona-Maßnahmen der Jahre 2020–2022 wurden mit Verweis auf „die Wissenschaft“ legitimiert. „Wissenschaft“ stand im Rampenlicht und wurde als Rettung gepriesen. Der Preis für diesen Ruhm war allerdings hoch – wenn Wissenschaft der Politik eindeutige Ansagen machen sollte, dann musste die wissenschaftliche Normalität, der Meinungsstreit mithilfe rationaler Argumente, ausgehebelt werden. Dieser Band zeichnet für verschiedene Disziplinen – von den Naturwissenschaften über die Medizin bis zu den Geisteswissenschaften – nach, wie dies gelingen konnte und wie Medien diesen Prozess unterstützten, indem sie ebenfalls den kritischen Blick vergaßen. Die übergreifende These ist dabei, dass die Instrumentalisierung der Wissenschaft nicht aus heiterem Himmel kam, sondern durch längerfristige Entwicklungen ermöglicht wurde. Weil die Beiträger selbst aus Wissenschaft und Medien kommen, wissen sie, wovon sie sprechen.

This book offers a fascinating insight into how film as a medium can portray political thought. Josette Baer's collection of seven essays is the first publication of this kind; her analysis covers films such as The Best of Enemies and The Lost Daughter, and the TV series Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul in an interdisciplinary approach to politics, philosophy, and film.

Neben der deutschen Literatur Prags (»Prager Kreis«) bildet die deutschsprachige Dichtung der Bukowina eine kompakte exterritoriale Literaturlandschaft, in der sich in der Zwischenkriegszeit zwei Generationen deutschjüdischer Dichter etabliert hatten. Zu der älteren gehören Alfred Margul-Sperber, Rose Ausländer, Alfred Kittner und Moses Rosenkranz, zu der jüngeren Immanuel Weißglas, Alfred Gong, Paul Celan und Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger. Infolge politischer Erschütterungen der 1930er Jahre, des Zweiten Weltkriegs und des kaleidoskopischen Regimewechsels in der Bukowina mussten diese Dichter ihre Geburtsstadt Czernowitz verlassen und versuchen, in der Fremde heimisch zu werden – in Bukarest, Düsseldorf, New York oder Paris. Heute sind ihre Gedichte Teil der Weltliteratur. Die in diesem Buch versammelten Beiträge geben ihre tragischen Lebens- und Dichterwege in lebendiger, plastischer Weise wieder.

Are you studying a subject in the humanities or social sciences? Do you have a long essay, dissertation, or thesis to write? This short guide is for international students, mature students, all students uncertain as to how to proceed. You won't have time to read more than you need to, so the student-friendly text is kept to a minimum. Advice is given concerning your title, what you might cover in your introduction; your review of the literature—your analysis of the ‘received opinion'on the subject; your own counter-argument; your sources and use of evidence; and your conclusion. A number of short, illustrative passages are included, written by distinguished authors, as well as a summary structure plan, and exemplar essay.

What are the Seven Deadly Sins? Are they still acknowledged breaches of morality and ethical norms in our Western societies in the Third Millennium? The Seven Deadly Sins present an ethical catalog, a moral mirror for princes and rulers that originates in Catholic Christianity. This little book, however, is not primarily about religion, on the contrary: It respects the Greek origins of Western thought that have survived beyond Christian faith, praises the scientific achievements of the Enlightenment, and looks at our contemporary world with critical eyes. It is a unique blend of scientific analysis, analysis of Western contemporary culture and, lastly, satire. The authors, a group of friends living in Europe, present diverse views on a wide range of topics. Their principal intention is to open a debate about ethics, science, scepticism, and hypocrisy. A thought-provoking and inspiring read—about the present as well as the future.

Im Herbst 1961 lief der KGB-Attentäter Bogdan Staschinski nach Westdeutschland über. Nachdem er der CIA seine Geheimnisse verraten hatte, wurde Staschinski vor Gericht gestellt. Der Prozess hatte unter anderem das öffentlichkeitswirksamste Attentat des Kalten Krieges zum Gegenstand – die Ermordung des ukrainischen Nationalistenführers Stepan Bandera 1959 in München. Die durch den Fall Staschinski ausgelöste Öffentlichkeit zwang den KGB, seine Vorgehensweise im Ausland zu ändern, und trug dazu bei, die Karriere von Alexander Schelepin zu beenden – einem der ehrgeizigsten und gefährlichsten sowjetischen Funktionäre. Staschinskis Geschichte inspirierte Filme, Theaterstücke und Bücher. Darunter war auch Ian Flemings letzter James-Bond-Roman Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt über das sowjetische Spionagehandwerk mit explodierenden Paketen, raffiniert inszenierten Vertuschungsaktionen, Doppelagenten und doppeltem Spiel. Der Mann mit der Giftpistole bietet einen unvergleichlichen Einblick in die Schattenwelt der Spionage im Kalten Krieg.