Internationale Beziehungen

Das sogenannte "Dritte Reich" ändert 1933 alles in Deutschland. Die erste Demokratie im Lande (die sogenannte Weimarer Republik) wurde radikal abgeschafft und ein faschistisches, totalitäres "arisches" Herrenvolk übernahm die Macht.Gleichzeitig wurde der nächste, noch grausamere Weltkrieg und ein antisemitischer Völkermord geplant und umgesetzt, beides Schreckensszenarien, die in der Geschichte der Menschheit Ihresgleichen suchen.Anhand von Medienbeispielen der Jahre 1933 ("Machtergreifung") und 1936 (Olympische Spiele in Berlin) machen wir uns ein "Spiegelbild", was von diesen Veränderungen, wie und in welcher Form in der öffentlichen und teilweise bereits gleichgeschalteten Presse sichtbar wurde.Wie ging man vor, was lancierte man und was wurde verschwiegen?Obwohl eine reichhaltige Quellenlage vorliegt, ist sie jedoch durch Urheberrechte und andere Einschränkungen in ihrer Nutzbarkeit stark limitiert. Deshalb nutzen wir das Bestmögliche, was das nationale und (EU-)internationale Zitatrecht hergibt, um in diesen Spiegel hineinzuschauen und, übertragen auf heutige Verhältnisse, insbesondere in unserer Zeit wachsam zu ergründen, was ein solcher "Spiegel" tatsächlich zeigt bzw. zu zeigen vermag.Tauchen wir ein in eine zeitgenössische Alltagswelt von Politik und persönlichen Geschichten und erleben hautnah den Zeitenwandel zwischen der ersten deutschen Demokratie der Weimarer Republik und der Morgendämmerung des deutschen Faschismus, der, mit seiner antisemitischen und totalitären Ausprägung, den Boden für einen weiteren Weltenbrand des 20. Jahrhunderts legen wird.Seien wir gemahnt, dass unsere gewohnte Alltäglichkeit oft nur die Illusion einer friedlichen und immer gleich bleibenden Welt vorgaukelt. Eine Zeitenwende, wie 1933, ist 2022, durch einen neuen Krieg in Europa, inzwischen realiter bereits wieder eingetreten!

This book offers a rich understanding of the politics behind clashing perspectives towards contemporary foreign policy challenges ranging from immigration policy controversies to COVID-19 pandemic responses, climate change to the China trade war.

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good. Instead, our views on trade have polarized between two extremes: 'free trade' ideologues who regard trade as an end in itself, and 'protectionists' who view it as a destructive force to be contained. But there is another way to trade - one with the interests of people, not profit, at its heart.<BR><BR>In this visionary work Christian Felber, founder of the Economy for the Common Good movement, offers a dazzling new paradigm for the global trading order. Confronting the 'free trade religion' which has reigned since Adam Smith, Felber champions an alternative approach in which trade serves the wider interests of society, incorporating the key issues of our time: human rights, climate change, and the growing divide richer and poorer countries. He proposes the groundbreaking idea of an 'Ethical Trade Zone', founded on a principled approach to tariffs and trade policies, and built with international cooperation on trade, taxation and labour.<BR><BR>Penetrating and passionate, Christian Felber shows how this brave new economic world can be built democratically from the grassroots up, and how trading for good can be made a reality.

This book analyses the relationship between Pakistan and China in the post 9/11 period against the backdrop of Pakistan's domestic politics and proposes that the major source of continuity in the ties between the two countries is represented by the military.

This book seeks to interrogate how contemporary policy issues become 'securitized' and, furthermore, what the implications of this process are.

First published in 1985, this book is about an important episode, and two of its sequels, in Beijing's long struggle to achieve two goals, by force if necessary: First, to prevent the US from detaching Taiwan from China; and second, to end the Chinese Civil War by bringing Taiwan under the rule of Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party.

In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of refugees since the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The warning signs of impending catastrophe that had built over years were downplayed by Western backers of the political transition, and only when the exodus began did the world finally come to acknowledge a catastrophe that had been long in the making.<BR><BR>In this updated edition of the book that foreshadowed a genocide, Francis Wade explores how the manipulation of identities by an anxious ruling elite laid the foundations for mass violence. It asks: who gets to define a nation? How can democratic rights be weaponised against a minority? And why, at a time when the majority of citizens in Myanmar had begun to experience freedoms unseen for half a century, did much-lauded civilian leaders like Aung San Suu Kyi become complicit in the most heinous of crimes?

Recent transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean are reviewed to depict and explain the new trends shaping regional blocs and cooperation in the Americas.

This book examines the domestic and international dimensions of European Union (EU) competition policy, particularly mergers, anti-competitive practices and state aids. The authors argue that important changes in EU competition policy are having profound effects on the global political economy, and these changes are best understood as European Commission responses to new domestic and international pressures. Using a two-level game analytical framework that is both intra-EU and global in scope, Damro and Guay investigate a wide variety of domestic and foreign public and private actors that interact in crucial ways to determine the development and implementation of EU competition policy. They address this broad question: In what ways do changing external and internal factors affect the evolution of the EU's competition policy and the role that the Commission plays in it? Among the conclusions is that the EU - and particularly the European Commission - has become a leading global regulator.

Through US military history, Lavender directly confronts the dominant US viewpoint of redemptive violence, the concept that a nation can use its military to improve the human condition. Alternatives are presented in order to encourage the current recessive worldview that supports conflict resolution, cooperation, collaboration and peaceful efforts.

Why are some transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) highly effective, while others are not? The contributors compare 21 transnational PPPs that seek to provide collective goods in the field of sustainable development.

This is the first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally in order to persuade Edward Heath's government to follow a more amenable course throughout the 'Year of Europe' and to convince Harold Wilson's governments to lessen the severity of proposed defence cuts. Such diplomacy proved effective against Heath but rather less so against Wilson. It is argued that relations between the two sides were often strained, indeed, to the extent that the most 'special' elements of the relationship, that of intelligence and nuclear co-operation, were suspended. Yet, the relationship also witnessed considerable co-operation. This book offers new perspectives on US and UK policy towards British membership of the European Economic Community; demonstrates how US détente policies created strain in the 'special relationship'; reveals the temporary shutdown of US-UK intelligence and nuclear co-operation; provides new insights in US-UK defence co-operation, and re-evaluates the US-UK relationship throughout the IMF Crisis.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

This study explores how the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) actually works on the ground affecting corporate climate strategies. It covers general sector responses as well as systematic comparative studies of companies across the sectors. The latter enables improved understanding of causal effects and the role of interaction between different policy instruments and other factors impacting corporate climate strategies. The study explores a broad set of mechanisms at play potentially linking the EU ETS to company climate strategies. These include how corporate norms of responsibility are affected by the EU ETS and how economic incentives provide opportunities for innovation. The book's main contribution lies in the systematic examination of corporate responses to the EU ETS from a broad empirical and analytical social science perspective covering companies in all main EU ETS sectors: electric power, oil, cement, steel and pulp and paper.

Every three weeks, a major political crisis begins somewhere in the world. The United States intervenes in less than a fifth of them. But that is still a new U.S. intervention about every two months. And almost all of them are civilian interventions; less than a third involve the military.

The main scope of the book is to explore the current difficulties in the Southern flank of the EU, and the theoretical predicaments regarding the concept of ‘state sovereignty’, through an analysis of the Greek socio-economic crisis. The academic audience of the book lies in the three disciplines of Politics, International Relations and European Law respectively.

This book focuses on China's increasing involvement in global governance as a result of the phenomenal rise of its economy and global power. It examines whether and in what ways China is capable of participating in multilateral interactions; if it is willing and able to provide global public goods to address a wide array of global problems; and what impact this would have on both global governance and order. The book provides a comprehensive assessment of China's increasing influence over how world affairs are being managed; how far China, with increasing clout, interacts with other major powers in global governance, and what the consequences and implications are for the evolving global system and world order. This book is the first to explore China's engagement with global governance in traditional and new securities.

Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this classic text presents a comprehensive survey of the many alternative theories that attempt to explain the causes of interstate war. For each theory, Greg Cashman examines the arguments and counterarguments, considers the empirical evidence and counterevidence generated by social-science research, looks at historical applications of the theory, and discusses the theory’s implications for restraining international violence. Cashman examines theories of war at the individual, substate, nation-state, dyadic, and international system levels of analysis. Written in a clear and accessible style, this interdisciplinary text will be essential reading for all students of international relations.

Tangled Titans offers the most current and comprehensive assessment available of United States–China relations. In this definitive book, leading experts consider the past, present, and future of this complex relationship through an in-depth exploration of its historical, domestic, bilateral, regional, and global contexts. Never in modern history have two great powers been so deeply intertwined, the contributors argue, yet so suspicious and potentially antagonistic. Students will find Tangled Titans essential reading to understand the current dynamics and future direction of relations between the world’s two most important powers.

This book charts the EU's response to the challenge of energy security with a focus on the foreign policy dimensions and examines how the EU's approach to energy security is played out in different producer countries and regions.