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The Gravediggers
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the Reichstag. In the shadows, would-be saviours of the nation vie for control. The great rivals are the chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher. Both are tarnished by the republic's all-too-evident failures. Each man believes he can steal a march on the other by harnessing the increasingly popular National Socialists - while reining in their most alarming elements, naturally. Adolf Hitler has ideas of his own. But if he can't impose discipline on his own rebellious foot-soldiers, what chance does he have of seizing power?
Asylum for Sale
This explosive new volume brings together a lively cast of academics, activists, journalists, artists, and people directly impacted by asylum regimes to explain how current practices of asylum align with the neoliberal moment and to present their transformative visions for alternative systems and processes. Through essays, artworks, photographs, infographics, and illustrations, Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry regards the global asylum regime as an industry characterized by profit-making activity: brokers who facilitate border crossings for a fee; contractors and firms that erect walls, fences, and watchtowers while lobbying governments for bigger “security” ...
NATO and the Russian War in Ukraine
For three decades after the Cold War, NATO member states no longer faced a major threat, and focussed on out-of-area operations. They took the opportunity to reduce defence spending and foster their own national defence industries; interoperability was limited to air and maritime missions on a small scale. The 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and war by proxy in eastern Donbass was a wake-up call, while China’s creeping seizure and fortification of islands in the South China Sea, as well as its relentless acquisition of Western technologies, similarly alerted the Western leadership to a less benign strategic environment. But the real shift occurred in 2022. China and Russia not only annou...
A Re-definition of Belonging?
Language and integration tests as a condition for naturalisation and various types of legal residence permits are topical issues in several European Member States. The introduction of the tests reflects a change in ideas on the relationship between legal status and integration. Since the introduction of the tests is a rather recent development, little is known of the effects of the formalised testing schemes. Whether the tests have in fact contributed to the integration of immigrants in the host society or whether they function as a mechanism for selection and exclusion is unknown. In this book, experts from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom analyse the policies concerning the integration of newcomers and/or future citizens in their countries.
The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic
A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler’s frightening rise to power. November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between rival political parties, the Weimar Republic is on its last legs. In the halls of the Reichstag, party leaders scramble for power and influence as the elderly president, Paul von Hindenburg, presides over a democracy pushed to the breaking point. Chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher spin a web of intrigue, vainly hoping to harness the growing popularity of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party while reining in its most extreme elements. These politicians struggle for control of a turbulent city where backroom deals and frightening public rallies alike threaten the country’s fragile democracy, with terrifying consequences for both Germany and the rest of the world. In The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic, Barth and Friedrichs have drawn on a wide array of primary sources to produce a colorful, multi-layered portrait of a period that was by no means predestined to plunge into the abyss, and which now seems disturbingly familiar.
The Gravediggers
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the Reichstag. In the shadows, would-be saviours of the nation vie for control.The great rivals are the chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher. Both are tarnished by the republic's all-too-evident failures. Each man believes he can steal a march on the other by harnessing the increasingly popular National Socialists - while reining in their most alarming elements, naturally. Adolf Hitler has ideas of his own. But if he can't impose discipline on his own rebellious foot-soldiers, what chance does he have of seizing power?
Gewalt Im Nahen Osten
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Krieg und Frieden, Militär, Note: 3,0, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Vorlesung: Globalisierung, politische Gewalt und internationaler Terrorismusbekämpfung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1571 Raketen, 1531 Granaten. Abgeschossen im Jahr 2008 vom Gaza-Streifen auf Süd-Israel, mutmaßlich durch die Partei und Terrororganisation Hamas. Sagt das israelische Außenministerium.1 Ismail Haniyeh, Ex-Ministerpräsident der Palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde und in der Hamas-Führungsetage, sagt: "We in Hamas are for peace and want to put an end to bloodshed."2 Zwei Konfliktparteien, zwei widers...
The Question of Unworthy Life
The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today—and the courageous countervoices Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s would these murders, as well as the coercive sterilizations of some four hundred thousand others classified as “feeble-minded,” be officially acknowledged as crimes at all. The Question of Unworthy Life charts this history from its origins in prewar debates about the value of disabled lives to our continuing efforts to unlearn eugenic thinking today. Drawing on a wealth of rare archival evidence, ...
Becoming Madam Chancellor
The first English-language scholarly book to provide an overview of the Angela Merkel's career and influence.
Die Geschichte der sozialliberalen Rüstungsexportpolitik
Deutschlands Aufstieg zu einem der größten Rüstungsverkäufer weltweit begann in der sozialliberalen Ära. Waffenexporte wurden zum Mittel der Politik, mit dem unterschiedlichste Motive verfolgt wurden: außen- und europapolitische Ziele ebenso wie Wirtschaftsinteressen. Erstmals wurde ein Konzept zur Rüstungsexportpolitik entwickelt, welches permanent dem Spannungsfeld zwischen Friedenspolitik und Bündnisverpflichtungen ausgesetzt war. Vor allem die Exportfrage aus der Rüstungskooperation mit Frankreich wurde wiederholt zur Belastungsprobe. Die diplomatiehistorische Studie untersucht die Konzepte und Entwicklungen aus den Quellen.
