Category: Political History Theory

Spanish-Italian kinfolk and the impression of the foremost Powers examines advanced family among Spain and Italy, starting in 1943 and carrying on with till 1957, contending that the connection can't be tested in isolation and needs to be understood in its broader context.

Der franquistische Terror in Spanien während und nach dem Bürgerkrieg ist erst in den letzten Jahren in seinem ganzen Ausmaß bekannt geworden. Die Gräben, die in der Vergangenheit aufgerissen wurden, entzweien bis heute die
Gesellschaft und spiegeln sich in vielen aktuellen politischen Debatten wider.

Kunst und Politik sind seit jeher auf das Engste miteinander verflochten. Künstler werden vom politischen Geschehen inspiriert und interpretieren es individuell, entwerfen Gegenwelten, visualisieren Utopien, idealisieren und prangern an. Gleichzeitig stand und steht die Kunst immer auch im Dienste der Politik. Es sind seit Jahrtausenden die politisch Mächtig(st)en, die sich als Stifter, Heilsbringer oder Herrscher portraitieren lassen, die als Mäzene Künstler protegieren um ihren Ruhm mittels Kunstwerken für die Nachwelt anschaulich zu sichern suchen. Später sind es Nationaldenkmäler, Staatskunst und -architektur, die von dem Wert und teilweise auch der Überlegenheit bestimmter Systeme, Ideologien oder Gesellschaften zeugen sollen. Trotz dieser engen Verbindung ist die „Kunst“ an sich nie ein Untersuchungsgegenstand oder Analysekriterium der Politikwissenschaft gewesen, werden Kunstwerke kunsthistorisch kaum in ihrer Funktion für politische Systeme – additionally aus politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive – betrachtet. Der vorliegende Band versteht sich somit als eine „Handlungsanleitung zur interdisziplinären Offenheit“ – er möchte Interesse wecken für die Schnittmengen, die sich zwischen Kunst und Politik ergeben und will gleichzeitig zu neuen, übergeordneten Fragestellungen anregen.

Seit dem Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts sind „neue“ oder „asymmetrische“ Kriege, die in zerfallenen Staaten, gegen Milizen, Warlords oder Terroristen geführt werden, zur Regel geworden. Die auf das Staatensystem des Westfälischen Friedens zugeschnittene Lehre des gerechten Krieges, nach der in der Philosophie und im Völkerrecht kriegerische Handlungen traditionell bewertet werden, wird so auf die Probe gestellt. Philipp von dem Knesebeck identifiziert diejenigen Aspekte asymmetrischer Konflikte, die Herausforderungen für die Lehre des gerechten Krieges darstellen und zeigt anhand von Beispielen Ansätze für ihre Bewältigung auf. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt hierbei auf dem Einfluss, den neue Waffensysteme wie Drohnen und Cyberwaffen auf die Kriegsführung haben. Zudem stellt der Autor eine modifizierte model der Grundlagen der Lehre des gerechten Krieges vor und weist nach, dass diese für die meisten Parteien der neuen Kriege akzeptabel ist.​

This path-breaking booklet argues that practices of the sacred are constitutive of recent secular politics. Following a practice of enquiry in anthropology and political thought, it examines how restrict occasions form the political mind's eye and collective identification. As an experiential and cultural truth, the sacred emerges inside, and concurrently transcends, transgressive dynamics resembling revolutions, wars or globalisation. instead of conceive the sacred as a spiritual doctrine or a metaphysical trust, Wydra examines its adaptive services as origins, truths and order that are traditionally contingent throughout time and transformative of political aspirations. He means that the brokenness of political fact is an enduring situation of humanity, so that it will proceed to supply quests for the sacred, and transcendental political frames. operating within the spirit of the genealogical mode of enquiry, this booklet examines the secular assets of political theologies, the democratic sacred, the communist mind's eye, eu political id, the resources of human rights and the connection of victimhood to new wars.

whilst do states decide to undertake a penitent stance in the direction of the earlier? whilst do they decide to provide apologies for old misdeeds, supply repayment for his or her sufferers and contain the darker aspects of background into their textbooks, public monuments and museums? while do they decide upon to not accomplish that? And what are the political effects of ways states painting the prior? This publication pursues those questions by way of interpreting how governments in post-1945 Austria, Germany and Japan have wrestled with the tough legacy of the second one global battle and the effect in their guidelines on nearby politics in Europe and Asia. The booklet argues that states can reconcile over ancient matters, yet to take action calls for better political will and imposes better charges than is often learned. even as, in an more and more interdependent global, failure to take action may have a profoundly disruptive impression on neighborhood kinfolk and feed harmful geopolitical tensions.

A well timed publication for this risky time in America’s historical past whilst the need of the folks is passed over via the ability constitution of the political parties.

Thomas Jefferson had a great knowing of human nature and weak spot. In 1821, he wrote: “Our state is now taking so regular a path as to teach by means of what highway it is going to move to destruction, to wit; through consolidation of energy first, after which corruption, it’s invaluable consequence.” He used to be taking a look forward and writer Neal Herrick provides Jefferson’s therapy for reversing the decline that he observed coming. Herrick demands a extra practical procedure than looking ahead to agencies to erode their gains by means of doing extra for society. He considers landmark situations that facilitated, for instance, the move of cash from the company global to Congress, and argues that it's time to revise the structure of the U.S. with a second constitutional conference and a bi-partisan strategy.

The Civil conflict put the U.S. structure lower than unprecedented--and, to this present day, nonetheless unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the 1st time in a single e-book the U.S. structure and its usually neglected cousin, the accomplice structure, and the methods the records formed the fight for nationwide survival.

Previous students have tested wartime demanding situations to civil liberties and questions of presidential strength, yet Neely argues that the constitutional clash prolonged to the biggest questions of nationwide lifestyles. Drawing on judicial evaluations, presidential kingdom papers, and political pamphlets spiced with the typical immediacy of the partisan press, Neely unearths how judges, legal professionals, editors, politicians, and govt officers, either North and South, used their constitutions to struggle the struggle and retailer, or create, their country.

Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation illuminates how the U.S. structure not just survived its maximum try out yet emerged better after the warfare. That this occurred at a time while the nation's very lifestyles was once threatened, Neely argues, speaks finally to the knowledge of the Union management, particularly President Lincoln and his imaginative and prescient of the yankee nation.

A sequence of crises opened up within the latter a part of the 1st decade of the 21^st Century which mixed to exacerbate already profound stipulations of world financial inequality and poverty within the world’s poorest nations. In 2007, the unsound lending practices that prompted a cave in within the US housing marketplace ushered in a broader financial hindrance that reverberated through the international economic climate. This financial shockwave had an international influence, triggering not only instability in different industrialized international locations, but in addition of their constructing international opposite numbers, additionally highlighting deficiencies within the present buildings of worldwide governance to guard the world’s poorest and such a lot disadvantaged.

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This e-book bargains solutions to questions raised concerning the position of world governance within the attenuation and amelioration of global poverty and inequality. The participants interrogate the position of platforms of governance at a time of worldwide financial difficulty and carrying on with environmental degradation opposed to a backdrop of acceleration in inequalities inside of and among groups and around the globe.

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Evaluating how latest platforms might be reformed or redesigned to be more desirable at addressing problems with poverty and inequality and offering a accomplished dialogue of a variety of worldwide governance projects this paintings should be crucial analyzing for college kids and students of world governance, diplomacy and foreign enterprises.

The US-European dating is still the nearest and most crucial alliance on this planet. given that 1945, successive American presidents each one placed their very own touches on transatlantic kinfolk, however the literature has reached simply into the presidency of Lyndon Johnson (1963–9). this primary research of transatlantic family in the course of the period of Richard Nixon indicates a fancy, turbulent interval in which the postwar interval got here to an finish, and the trendy period got here to be on either side of the Atlantic by way of political, monetary, and armed forces relations.