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Religion and identity
The role of religious identity in social communities has gained importance in the past few years, as many questions about individual and collective identity have been brought up in the fields of science and everyday life. Religion, despite the process of secularisation, remains an important component of human identity. Increasingly, religion is also becoming an object of political influence. This volume argues that religion actually determinates various phenomena in the political sphere today.
Religious policy
Denomination policy is an important part of the public life of the state. Central and local governments search for models that enable the shaping of relations between the state and denominational associations. This is also of significance in relation to the changes associated with migration and fluctuation of followers of various faiths. How is this search carried out? What does it lead to? The book analyzes the phenomenon of religious politics. In addition to concrete case studies, the volume includes contributions dealing with theoretical issues, such as methodological problems of research on religions and beliefs as a factor hindering the formation of religious politics, studies of religious politics as a component of research on religious politics, the search for regularities in the relationship between religious politics and geopolitics.
Remembering Communism
Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, including history, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, the volume examines the mechanisms and processes that influence, determine and mint the private and public memory of communism in the post-1989 era. The common denominator to all essays is the emphasis on the process of remembering in the present, and the modalities by means of which the present perspective shapes processes of remembering, including practices of commemoration and representation of the past. The volume deals with eight major thematic blocks revisiting specific practices in communism such as popular culture and everyday life, childhood, labor, the secret police, and the perception of “the system”.
Right-Wing Radicalism Today
This book highlights recent developments in the radical right providing comparative analysis of current extremist activity in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. It reveals the growing amount of connections and continuities of rightwing movements and ideologies across national borders. Subjects covered include: Who joins radical right parties and why? Recent developments in parties in Eastern & Western Europe The transatlantic cross-fertilisation of ideological perspectives How the US extreme-right has changed since the emergence of the Tea Party movement This will be essential reading for all students and scholars within an interest in the contemporary radical right and extremism.
Peace at All Costs
Although it was characterized by simmering international tensions, the early Cold War also witnessed dramatic instances of reconciliation between states, as former antagonists rebuilt political, economic, and cultural ties in the wake of the Second World War. And such efforts were not confined to official diplomacy, as this study of postwar rapprochement between Poland and West Germany demonstrates. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace at All Costs follows Polish and German non-state activists who attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s, showing how they achieved modest successes and media attention at the cost of more nuanced approaches to their national histories and identities.
Nationalistische Politik und Ressentiments
What influence do nationalistic thinking and mutual resentments have on relations between Germans and Poles? In this volume, twelve historians, political scientists and social scientists from German, Poland and the Czech Republic shed light on the links between German and Polish nationalism. They set out from the German Empire's increasingly radical policy towards Poland and the antagonism between Germans and Poles that prevailed around the turn of the 19th/20th century. A lot of space is devoted to the absolute low-point of German-Polish history, which was of course the Nazi occupation of Poland during the 2nd world war, and the subsequent expulsion of Germans from the areas east of the Oder and the Neiße. Contrary to impressions given in the media, there are hardly any resentments between the populations of these two countries today – which is the reassuring conclusion of the volume.
Staatssozialismen im Vergleich
Am Beispiel der Sowjetunion, Polens, der Tschechoslowakei, Ungarns, Rumäniens, Bulgariens, der DDR sowie der Sonderfälle Jugoslawien und Albanien analysieren die Autoren des Bandes drei Forschungsfelder, die für Bestand und Stabilität der staatssozialistischen Systeme von zentraler Bedeutung waren: die Staatsparteien als monopolistische Herrschaftsträger, die Sozialpolitik als wichtigstes Medium der Herrschaftslegitimation und die Rolle von Opposition und Widerstand infolge des Scheiterns autokratischer Regimelegitimierung.
Von einer Freundschaft, die es nicht gab
Die Beziehung zwischen dem Ministerium für Staatssicherheit und dem polnischen Innenministerium bzw. dessen Geheimdienst war eine der schwierigsten innerhalb des Warschauer Paktes. Der Band beschreibt das Mit- und Gegeneinander beider Geheimdienste anhand umfangreicher Quellenrecherchen und in detaillierter Betrachtung ihrer divergierenden Interessenlagen. Hinter der Fassade einer offiziell verordneten und vertraglich vereinbarten Freundschaft herrschte abgrundtiefes Misstrauen. Die polnische Perspektive offenbart zudem überraschende Schwachstellen der Stasi. Den zeitlichen Schwerpunkt bilden die Jahre 1974 bis 1990, doch nimmt die Studie auch die frühen Jahre seit 1949 in den Blick. Im frostigen Verhältnis der verbündeten Geheimdienste spiegelt sich stets auch das problematische Verhältnis der beiden »Bruderstaaten« zueinander.
The Extreme Right in Europe
The present work deals not only with the well-organized right extremism in modern Europe as well as with its function in proper political parties, but equally includes two additional, broader approaches: the militant branches and subcultures that exist, including some paramilitary phenomena in Eastern Europe; and the broad realm of their political ideas and cultural trends and the influence they exert on European political culture.
Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
What impact has EU membership had on party politics in Central and Eastern Europe? Although there is an emerging body of literature on the Europeanization of political parties, most of these accounts focus exclusively on Western Europe. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches including detailed studies of party programmes and manifestos, analysis of the media, semi-structured interviews and expert surveys, this collection provides not just conceptually informed, but also empirically rooted analyses of party politics in Central and Eastern Europe during the first four years of EU membership. In particular, the contributions assess the impact of EU membership on parties...
