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Invasions of personality rights by the media
English summary: This volume contains the lectures given at an international conference on the subject of Invasions of Personal Privacy by the Media. The authors deal with the protection of the personality from the media in an analysis of the individual legal systems in the member states of the European Union, discussing this in detail from the perspective of scholarly and legal practice, history of the law, comparative law, conflict of laws and interdisciplinary aspects. The lectures pertain to basic issues in connection with the Caroline decision handed down by the German Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights, they present individual national laws, deal with t...
No God But Gain
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and as many as 100 million Africans died as a result of the slave trade. The U.S. constitution set a 20-year time limit on U.S. participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of abolitionism on both sides of the Atlantic, despite numerous laws and treaties passed to curb the slave trade, and despite the dispatch of naval squadrons to patrol the coasts of Africa and the Americas, the slave trade did not end in 1808. Fully 25 percent of all the enslaved Africans to arrive in the Americas were brought after the U.S. ban--3.2 million people. This breakthrou...
Historical Perspectives on Democracies and their Adversaries
This book historicizes the debate over how democratic regimes deal with anti-democratic groupings in society. Democracies across the world increasingly find themselves under threat from enemies, ranging from terrorists to parties and movements that undermine democratic institutions from within. This compilation of essays provides the first historical exploration of how democracies have dealt with such anti-democratic forces in their midst and how this impacted upon what democracy meant to all involved. From its inception in the nineteenth century, modern democratic politics has included fundamental debates over whether it is undemocratic and dangerous to ban parties with anti-democratic objectives and whether democracies should defend themselves, if necessary with violence, against perceived anti-democratic forces. This volume shows that implicit conceptions of democracy and democratic repertoires become explicit, fluid, and contested throughout these confrontations, not only within democratic parties, but also among their adversaries. Both sides have, at times, used force or limited the expression of ideas, thus blurring the lines between who is democratic and who is not.
The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States
Terrorism's roots in Western Europe and the USA This book examines key cases of terrorist violence to show that the invention of terrorism was linked to the birth of modernity in Europe, Russia and the United States, rather than to Tsarist despotism in 19th century Russia or to Islam sects in Medieval Persia. Combining a highly readable historical narrative with analysis of larger issues in social and political history, the author argues that the dissemination of news about terrorist violence was at the core of a strategy that aimed for political impact on rulers as well as the general public. Dietze's lucid account also reveals how the spread of knowledge about terrorist acts was, from the ...
Responses to Cyber Terrorism
The one issue touched on repeatedly by the contributors of this publication is the difficulty of arriving at a definition of cyber terrorism. A NATO Office of Security document cautiously defines it as “a cyber attack using or exploiting computer or communication networks to cause sufficient destruction or disruption to generate fear or to intimidate a society into an ideological goal.” But the cyber world is surely remote from what is recognized as terrorism: the bloody attacks and ethnic conflicts, or, more precisely, the politically-motivated “intention to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a ...
Terrorismus in den Medien - Wie der Terrorismus sich die westlichen Medien zu nutze macht
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Politik - Sonstige Themen, Note: 1,3, Freie Universität Berlin (Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Terrorismus in den Medien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Am frühen Morgen des 11. April 2004, zwischen 7:39 und 7:42 Uhr Ortszeit, explodierten in der spanischen Hauptstadtmetropole Madrid, im Umkreis der drei Bahnhofsstationen: Atocha, El Pozo und Santa Eugenias, fast zeitgleich, zehn Sprengsätze; und das drei Tage vor den spanischen Parlamentschaftswahlen.Dabei kamen etwa 191 Menschen zu Tode und 2051 wurden verletzt. Spaniens Bürger und ganz Europa wurden plötzlich Zeuge der "gewaltigen Kraft" des islamistischen Terr...
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000
Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany. With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification—and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany’s evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history—the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime—are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany’s leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A global history for a global age, Germany in the World is a bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation’s history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation’s borders.
Terror
In June 2016, a French policeman was stabbed to death in a Paris suburb. His assailant gained access to the victim’s flat, where he murdered the policeman’s partner in front of their three-year-old son. While negotiating with members of the special forces, the murderer posted live footage of himself and his victims on Facebook. Acting in the name of the so-called Islamic State, the perpetrator, who would later be shot and killed, single-handedly applied one of the fundamental tenets of modern terrorism: it is not the act of violence itself that counts, but the images of it that are brought into circulation. Once released, nothing and no one can eradicate these images and the visual battl...
Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich
This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a good life to so-called 'Aryan' Germans, carried out by the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude. Julia Timpe traces Kraft durch Freude's practices and propaganda from 1933 through the Second World War, and analyses Nazi-organized sports classes, entertainment events, and beautification campaigns for industrial sites and the countryside, as well as Kraft durch Freude's activities in entertaining German soldiers and concentration camp guards. Contributing to newer scholarship which focuses on the integratory force of the Nazi promise of a unified 'racial community' of all 'Aryan' Germans, this book highlights that Kraft durch Freude's 'everyday production of joy' was central to Nazism, closely connected to the destructive side of the Third Reich, and ultimately a major reason for Nazism's success among the German population.
Vergessen, was Eltern sind
"Diese Studie setzt sich kritisch mit dem Phänomen der sogenannten Väterliteratur auseinander. Aus den durchaus erfolgreichen autobiographischen "Väter-Büchern", die zumeist in den Siebzigerjahren des 20. Jahrhunderts erschienen sind, lesen viele Literaturwissenschaftler "Kritik am Vater als dem symbolischen Vertreter der Macht und des Gesetzes". Das Aufkommen dieses angeblich neuen Genres gilt gemeinhin als Begleiterscheinung der sogenannten neuen Subjektivität. Die Frage, inwiefern solche Begriffe und Konstrukte haltbar und anschlussfähig sind, wird in der Arbeit zentral behandelt. Dabei wird das Konzept einer "Väterliteratur" auf der Basis ausführlicher Textanalysen und einer kritischen Aufarbeitung der bisherigen Forschung zum Thema grundsätzlich in Zweifel gezogen."
