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Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe
This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational dimensions. The current interest in creating disaster-resilient societies demands new histories of civil defence. Historical contextualization is essential in order to understand what is at stake in preparing, devising, and implementing forms of preparedness, protection, and security that are specifically targeted at societies and citizens. Applying the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to civil defence history, the chapters of this volume cover a range of new themes, from technology and materiality to media, memory, and everyday experience. The book underlines the social embeddedness of civil defence by detailing how it both prompted new forms of social interaction and reflected norms and visions of the ‘good society’ in an age where nuclear technology seemed to hold the key to both doom and salvation.
Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy
Recent studies on the meaning of cultural diplomacy in the twentieth century often focus on the United States and the Cold War, based on the premise that cultural diplomacy was a key instrument of foreign policy in the nation’s effort to contain the Soviet Union. As a result, the term “cultural diplomacy” has become one-dimensional, linked to political manipulation and subordination and relegated to the margin of diplomatic interactions. This volume explores the significance of cultural diplomacy in regions other than the United States or “western” countries, that is, regions that have been neglected by scholars so far—Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. By examining cultural diplomacy in these regions, the contributors show that the function of information and exchange programs differs considerably from area to area depending on historical circumstances and, even more importantly, on the cultural mindsets of the individuals involved.
Music and International History in the Twentieth Century
Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought to employ sound and harmony to influence allies and enemies, resolve conflicts, and export their own culture around the world. This book asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence, and how the cultural encounters fostered by music changes our ideas about international history.
Die Hamburger Sturmflut von 1962
This volume addresses environmental and technological dimensions of the Hamburg storm flood of 1962, a key event of contemporary German history that still lacks any systematical consideration. Our articles provide new insights into risk awareness and disaster control of modern societies, with a particular focus on the role of technology in the context of natural disasters, and questions of disaster control by the armed forces, offering new approaches for historical disaster research as well as contemporary history. The relations of nature-technology and society will be systematically addressed, while also dicussing new concepts such as "environmental coherence" or forms of resilience in urban and rural contexts. This German case study also shows that the experiences of the Second World War were still present in the perception of the storm flood. In order to embed this key event into a larger framework of coastal societies and their changing attitudes towards risk, nature and technology, we have included additional historical case studies about storm floods in the 18th and 19th century and comparable events in the Netherlands in 1953.
Versunkene Hoffnungen
Sebastian Rojek untersucht am Beispiel der Deutschen Marine erstmals systematisch Prozesse der Erwartungsweckung und Enttäuschungsverarbeitung während der langen Jahrhundertwende. Unter Berücksichtigung verschiedener Kommunikationsräume kann er zeigen, wie die Institution seit ihrer Gründung mit den hochgespannten Erwartungen des deutschen Kaiserreichs umging. Am Horizont blitzten Weltmachtträume auf, die 1918 in deprimierende Enttäuschungen mündeten und in der Weimarer Republik aufgearbeitet werden mussten. Die Marineführung hielt trotzdem an ihren alten Plänen fest und trug so maßgeblich zum Zweiten Weltkrieg bei. Die innovative Studie erlaubt ein vertieftes Verständnis der Marinegeschichteund der Kulturgeschichte der Politik. So entsteht ein differenziertes Bild der deutschen Seestreitkräfte, das in langfristige Entwicklungen von der Gründung des Kaiserreichs bis in die frühe Bundesrepublik eingebettet wird.
Gefährdung städtischer Infrastruktur durch Hochwasser
Mannheim und Dresden sind seit ihrer Gründung durch die Dynamiken des Wassers geprägt. Vor allem die zyklisch auftretenden Hochwasser führen zu Gefährdungen. Im kurzen 20. Jahrhundert existierte ein konstanter Umgang damit innerhalb der Städte. Die Studie fokussiert diese Bewältigungsstrategien, die unter dem Einfluss lokalspezifischer Faktoren wie der Stadtentwicklung sowie übergeordneten politischen und wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen standen.
"Die Stunde der Exekutive"
Die geheimen Planungen des Innenministeriums zeigen, wie Beamte den Schutz des Staates über die Sicherung demokratischer Grundrechte stellten. In der frühen Bundesrepublik war der Geltungsbereich demokratischer Grundrechte keineswegs gesichert. Inwiefern individuelle Freiheiten auch während eines Notstands uneingeschränkt Bestand haben sollten, war eine hart umkämpfte Frage. Während bislang die öffentlichen Proteste gegen die Notstandsgesetze im Vordergrund standen, zeigt Martin Diebel erstmals ausführlich die internen Planungen des Bundesinnenministeriums seit den 1950er Jahren. Deutlich wird, wie weitreichend Grundrechte wie die Meinungs- oder Versammlungsfreiheit im Fall von Unruh...
The European Central Bank, Institutional Aspects
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Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries
Industrial production in high-wage countries like Germany is still at risk. Yet, there are many counter-examples in which producing companies dominate their competitors by not only compensating for their specific disadvantages in terms of factor costs (e.g. wages, energy, duties and taxes) but rather by minimising waste using synchronising integrativity as well as by obtaining superior adaptivity on alternating conditions. In order to respond to the issue of economic sustainability of industrial production in high-wage countries, the leading production engineering and material research scientists of RWTH Aachen University together with renowned companies have established the Cluster of Excellence “Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries”. This compendium comprises the cluster’s scientific results as well as a selection of business and technology cases, in which these results have been successfully implemented into industrial practice in close cooperation with more than 30 companies of the industrial production sector.
Intelligent Robotics and Applications
The two volume set LNAI 7101 and 7102 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2011, held in Aachen, Germany, in November 2011. The 122 revised full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in topical sections on progress in indoor UAV, robotics intelligence, industrial robots, rehabilitation robotics, mechanisms and their applications, multi robot systems, robot mechanism and design, parallel kinematics, parallel kinematics machines and parallel robotics, handling and manipulation, tangibility in human-machine interaction, navigation and localization of mobile robot, a body for the brain: embodied intelligence in bio-inspired robotics, intelligent visual systems, self-optimising production systems, computational intelligence, robot control systems, human-robot interaction, manipulators and applications, stability, dynamics and interpolation, evolutionary robotics, bio-inspired robotics, and image-processing applications.
