Gesellschaft / Politik

This book challenges widespread academic and media claims about the political relations between Russia and Belarus.

Die Ukraine war für die deut­sche Öffent­lich­keit lange Zeit ein fernes Land, nahezu eine terra inco­gnita . Sie wurde ent­we­der durch die ›rus­si­sche Brille‹ oder nur im Zusam­men­hang mit den deutschen Gräu­el­ta­ten des Zweiten Welt­kriegs betrach­tet. Deutsch­land ...

Die Ukraine ist das neue »West-Berlin« Ost-Europas. Die Annexion der Krim und die russische Invasion im Donbas zwangen Kyjiw zu rasantem Wandel. Vor zehn Jahren war die Ukraine noch ein postsowjetisches Land mit gespaltener Identität – heute ist sie ein Vorposten Europas, der nun bereits ...

Der Titel des Buchs Die Zukunft, die wir uns wünschen entstand aus dem Thema der UN-Generalversammlung 2020. Dieses Thema als Vorlage für einen Sammelband ergab sich nicht zufällig. In der heutigen Welt, in der die Menschheit durch ökologische Krisen und Epidemien, Kriege und punktuelle ...

Executing a Renaissance responds both to the poets, thinkers, and scholars who are again persecuted and executed by the Russian soldateska.

This book is a collection of stories from witnesses and victims of Russian war atrocities that occurred in Ukraine during the full-scale Russian invasion that started in 2022. It contains first-hand stories of killings, illegal detentions, torture, and heavy bombardments of the civilian ...

»Wir werden alle darauf trainiert, Angst zu haben«, sagte Maria Aljochina von der Punkband Pussy Riot in ihrem letzten Wort vor Gericht 2021 in Moskau. »Aber ein Käfig aus Angst ist schlimmer als ein Käfig aus Glas und Eisen. Man muss die Einstellung ›Ich kann ja doch nichts bewirken‹ ...

This book is a collection of personal reflections by scholars of different disciplines, offering a variety of perspectives on Russia’s war against Ukraine.

"Phantom Border" weaves together the social and ecological stories surrounding the border that divided the author’s native Germany during the Cold War.

These 21 stories, collected from diverse regions of Ukraine during the full-scale invasion, speak of courage, resilience, pain, death, love, and hope.

Heugenhauser untersucht die mediale Fokussierung auf das Krisenmanagement von Markus Söder und Armin Laschet.

Rossiyskoye vtorzheniye v Ukrainu v 2022 godu stavit pod ugrozu nezavisimost' strany i yeye shansy na razvitiye po zapadnomu obraztsu. No geroizm ukrainskogo naroda i nabirayushchaya silu natsional'naya identichnost' tol'ko ukreplyayut osnovaniya dlya razvorota strany na Zapad. Posle ...

Pomimo prakticheski polnogo razrusheniya suverennogo gosudarstva i izmeneniya global'nogo balansa sil, rossiyskoye vtorzheniye v Ukrainu v 2022 godu vedet k radikal'nym preobrazovaniyam v regionakh Vostochnoy Yevropy i Yevrazii, vklyuchaya samu Rossiyu. V 13 glavakh etogo sbornika ...

Neue Texte bezeugen Sigows Kyjiwer Kriegserfahrungen, ältere reflektieren die ukrainische „Revolution der Würde“ 2013/14.

Discover "Schiller-Code": Poetry, Spirituality, Ecology, Historical and Contemporary New Stories. In 2021, during the pandemic, the author discovered that her partner Michael is a descendant of the poet Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. This surprising revelation, combined with her work ...

Gian Marco Moisé explores the various ways in which corruption and informal governance converged and were shaped by everchanging power dynamics.

The post-Soviet Human attempted to establish free politics and economy, as well as to gain collective emancipation and personal freedom between 1989 and 2022.

L’Ucraina è ovviamente una parte integrante dell’Europa. Perciò, è necessario che gli europei sappiano cos’è l’Ucraina e chi sono gli Ucraini. Per la prima volta vengono fornite le risposte a queste domande in Ucraina Redux. Questo testo di facile lettura (con sei mappe storiche ...

A thought-provoking and inspiring read—about the present as well as the future.

Der Krieg in der Ukraine begann nicht am 24. Februar 2022. Er begann acht Jahre zuvor in der ostukrainischen Donbas-Region. In seinem vielbeachteten Buch untersucht Jakob Hauter die Eskalation der Gewalt im Frühjahr und Sommer 2014. Er zeigt, dass es sich bei dem Konflikt auch bereits vor ...

This book examines the recent rise of the radical right in Italian politics in the years 2018–2022.

Toni Stenström provides a new and unique insight into one of Europe’s most unknown countries.

This book examines the powers of the UN General Assembly and the legal character of its resolutions from 2014 through 2023 on anspects of the Russo-Ukrainan war.

Based on interviews in the Russian-controlled Donbas with Ukrainian combatants, this book discloses dynamics of the mobilization, group formation, and fighting.

This collection of essays and articles (2019-2024 ) illuminates recent Russian international affairs through the lens of Moscow’s propaganda tactics.

This volume offers unique insights into the debates and perceptions of the EU’s involvement in the South Caucasus.

This book sheds new light on highly controversial moments of Ukrainian-Jewish relations.

Thumann chronicles Russia's descent into an increasingly totalitarian dictatorship and the path leading to the escalation of Putin's imperialist war in 2022.

This monograph explores the recent political history of Ukraine from a novel diachronic and comparative point of view.

The ‘Summer of Love’ brought all sorts of unusual people and events to London but perhaps nothing so extraordinary as the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation.

Volume two includes articles about the Russia-Ukraine war and argues that this tragic conflict was preventable.

Laruelle argumentiert, dass der Kampf um die Frage, wer faschistisch ist, ein Kampf um die Definition europäischer Identität ist.

This book analyzes security developments in Lithuania since 1988, a period marked by liberation, the collapse of the USSR, and the integration into NATO.

This book illustrates specific problems and repercussions of Ukraine’s ongoing local governance reform as well as wartime challenges.

Die Corona-Maßnahmen der Jahre 2020–2022 wurden mit Verweis auf „die Wissenschaft“ legitimiert.

Neben einer praxisorientierten Einführung in text- und bildgenerierende KI-Systeme bietet das vorliegende Buch zahlreiche unterrichtspraktische Beispiele.

Tepavcevic demonstrates that global crises challenge existing communities and generate various forms of migrant communities, loyalty, and resilience.

Ukraine expert Schneider-Deters intervenes in the debate on Russia's war against Ukraine with essays written during the winter of war in Kyiv in 2022/2023.

Written with a fierce love for Ukraine and its people, this is a testament to the courage of ordinary people committed to freedom while defending their homeland.

A tale of the joys and hardships of simple living, of an enduring curiosity about the world, of teachers and friends, of Chinese and American societies.

This book present the answers that Marxist dependency theory has formulated to development questions.

Contents Special Section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN VI Yuliya Yurchuk and Andreas Umland: Introduction. Reassessing Ukrainian Nationalism in the Light of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion since 2022 Per Anders Rudling: “Benderites,” "UkroNazis" and "Rashizm": ...

This method illuminates the materiality of human practice, which shapes the subject in ways that biological and cultural explanations cannot fully capture.

The book views the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity as an ongoing process in which societal, economic, political, and institutional developments are intertwined.

Vakhtang Kipianis Interviews mit ukrainischen Dissidenten legen Zeugnis ab über die Taten derer, die die Grundfesten des Gefängnisses "Sowjetunion" untergruben.

G20-Gipfel, Hamburg, 2017: Brennende Barrikaden, Plünderungen von Geschäften und auch polizeilich ausgeübte Gewalt.

This book delves into the complex and often contradictory relations between the South Caucasus and European Union (EU).

Diese Studie nimmt Chinas Diplomatie während des Ersten Weltkriegs als Hauptforschungsgegenstand.

This issue is on the Kremlin’s recent turbo-charging of Russia’s information warfare, 24-hour TV, and social media activity has expanded on traditional pro-Russian sentiments among Western academics, experts, and journalists.

Eperjesi and Kachura uncover in this second volume effects of the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia.

Hannes Schreiber bietet eine fesselnde Zusammenschau der Entwicklungen und Entscheidungen die im Vorfeld des Krieges in der Ukraine stattfanden,

The authors of this volume challenged institutional orthodoxy and pushed back against this outpouring of social media.

Den radikalen Bruch Peters des Großen mit den russischen Traditionen „empfanden die Zeitgenossen (…) geradezu (als) revolutionär“ und „der Eindruck der Reform im Abendland (…) war ein ungeheurer.“

Wie kommt es, dass viele Linke besonders anfällig für russische Narrative über den russisch-ukrainischen Krieg sind?

This book breaks into the black box of Russian cultural diplomacy’s ideological underpinnings and modi operandi.

This book investigates the making of Ukraine’s foreign policy towards the European Union and Russia between February 2014 and February 2015.

The volume deals with the issue of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and its historical legacy in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine.

The book presents research which moves the theorization of friendship beyond western confines to consider the themes in cross-cultural and decolonized contexts.

This book explores China's approach through the Developmental Peace framework, promoting sustainable peace through multi-dimensional development.

This study examines the presidencies of Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

This book presents a collection of reportages from Ukraine spanning roughly one year, from February 2022 to February 2023.

Adlers analysis focuses not only on Ukraine and the current war, but above all on Germanyʼs role—in economic, political, and media terms.

Beiträge zu Theorie, Strategie und Positionierung der chinesischen Außenbeziehungen seit der Reform- und Öffnungspolitik sowie seine internationale Beziehungen.

This book contains words woven with emotions and experiences of ordinary people who have become heroes.

Teper', kogda uchenyye dolzhny byt' uchitelyami, menedzherami, media-katalizatorami, analitikami, fandrayzerami i inflyuyenserami: kak nayti khoroshiy balans mezhdu ozhidayemym ot vas i chto vy khotite sdelat'? Kakiye konferentsii poseshchat'? Kak nayti den'gi, chtoby poyekhat' tuda? Stoit li ...

Shekhovtsov’s essays delve into practices of Russian political warfare designed to advance Moscow’s objectives in European countries and certain African states.

Ukraine has been the first to face and, at times, to set in motion processes with worldwide consequences.

The book’s contributors investigate how the Kremlin’s recent turbo-charging of Russia’s information warfare has expanded on traditional pro-Russian sentiments.

Die vorliegende Veröffentlichung basiert auf Gesprächen, die im Juli 2016 mit afghanischen Flüchtlingen in Deutschland geführt wurden.

The war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022 - Jakob Hauter investigates the escalation of violence in the spring and summer of 2014.

Overall, this book furnishes important insights into uncertainty in political life and how the discipline of political science is coming to terms with it.

The totalitarian movements represented by the PNF and the NSDAP and the totalitarian regimes that they underpinned became the role model for all revolutionary nationalists in the inter-war period and synonymous with totalitarian, mass-based revolutionary

Bilan fasst in prägnanter Form die aktuelle wissenschaftliche Diskussion zusammen und stellt eine qualitative Analyse ausgewählter Experten-Interviews vor.

Sterbling schlägt einen neuen Ideologiebegriff vor – unter maßgeblicher Berücksichtigung grundlegender Zusammenhänge.

Leukavets applies here Putnam’s two-level game-theoretical approach in combination with findings from Europeanization literature and democracy promotion studies.

This issue is on the downplaying of Russian nationalism, misinterpretations of the 2014 crisis, sympathetic portrayals of Crimea’s occupation, and the use of the term “civil war” rather than “Russian–Ukrainian war” for the Donbas conflict.

Les réflexions menées dans cet ouvrage procèdent d’une démarche pluridisciplinaire. Elles portent sur les mutations socio-économiques, politiques et culturelles qui caractérisent nos sociétés contemporaines. La numérisation de la vie de l’homme a engendré un nouvel humanisme ...

Chilling analysiert den derzeitigen Zustand der Europäischen Union aus einer realpolitischen Perspektive.

This book investigates state-building, distorted identities, and separatism in the Republic of Moldova.

Dietrich sheds light on a critical yet politically practicable notion of cosmopolitanism which centers on the individual and is framed by a set of universal principles.

Dalbergs demokratietheoretisch und ideengeschichtlich analysierte Denken ist Ausdruck eines Ideentransfers westlicher sowie östlicher politische Gedanken.

This book traces the conversion of wealth into political influence through vote-buying and of the transformation of political influence back into wealth.

Das Buch richtet sich an im Bereich der Umweltpädagogik Tätige und alle, die Interesse daran haben, Umweltbildung und Integration zusammen zu denken.

Bildung wird als Bildung des ganzen Menschen gedacht – also als ein vielschichtiger dynamischer Prozess.

An extraordinary journey that traces one woman’s story across Ukraine’s difficult twentieth century.

This book uses the prism of security sector reform (SSR) to trace the co-evolution of the Western Balkans as part of the EU/Europe security community.

This book details how Russia’s February 2022 open invasion of Ukraine has led to the biggest military conflagration and refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.

The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative has produced a flurry of activities both in the countries of the South Caucasus and in Russia.

When this book was written, it was the story of one death among many in the war in Eastern Ukraine. After February 24, 2022, it became the story of a country under severe attack.

The book analyzes the philosophical enterprise over the last thirty to forty years in Belarus, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Russkie emigranty, pokinuvshie svoiu stranu posle pobedy bol´shevistskoi revolutsii, stali svideteliami i zhertvami pervoi v istorii popytki prevrashcheniia totalitarnoi utopii v deistvitel´nost´. Mnogie iz nikh poniali, chto sobytiia 1917 g. byli lish´ pervym aktom obshcheevropieskoi ...

This book seeks to understand him as perhaps the most eminent representative of a school of thought that is here defined as ‘post-Soviet esotericism’.

In Statu Nascendi is a peer-reviewed journal that investigates specific issues through a sociocultural, philosophical, and anthropological approach to understand the complexity of contemporary crisis, instability, and warfare situations in which the “stage-of-becoming” plays a vital role. ...

Themen der Ausgabe sind: -Ideokratie oder Demokratie? Gesellschaftspolitische Diskurse im russischen Exil am Beispiel der Eurasierbewegung und der „Novyj Grad“-Gruppe -Zwischen Untergang und Neuordnung: Zum Bild einer postdemokratischen Gesellschaft bei Nikolaj Berdjaev -Simon L. ...

This volume delves into a key part of the comprehensive Russian administrative and territorial reform of the 2000s.

This book provides a detailed narrative analysis of the historic events in and around Ukraine from 2013 to 2019. These years were almost as significant for Ukraine as the achievement of independence in 1991. That was because Ukraine was in danger of losing its independence again after the ...

This book provides a detailed narrative analysis of the historic events in and around Ukraine from 2013 to 2019. These years were almost as significant for Ukraine as the achievement of independence in 1991. That was because Ukraine was in danger of losing its independence again after the ...

Wie erleben junge Menschen mit Migrationserfahrung die Phase des Erwachsenwerdens in der Aufnahmegesellschaft? In diesem Band kommen Frauen zu Wort, die in ihrer Kindheit bzw. frühen Jugend aus dem Iran nach Deutschland immigrierten. Auf der Basis biografischer Interviews begibt sich die ...

Bernd Klewitz plädiert in seiner facettenreichen, fundierten Darstellung für die stärkere Vernetzung von Inhalt und Sprache in einer kombinierten Unterrichtsstrategie. Dabei steht die Vertiefung der Inhalte selbst für ihn an erster Stelle, denn – in Analogie zur Theorie des Weimarer ...

More than three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, several conflicts over territory and political influence in Eastern Europe persist. This volume gathers new empirical and conceptual perspectives on the situation regarding security and human rights in the EU's eastern neighborhood. ...