Politikwissenschaft

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

Retired US Ambassador John J. Maresca draws on his personal papers to offer a first-hand account of his role in negotiating the end of the Cold War with the USSR.

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 ...

»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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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": ...

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?

Der Ukraine-Kenner Winfried Schneider-Deters greift in die bundesdeutsche Debatte um Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine ein.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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. ...

Methodologically, the book illustrates the added value of investigating elections from a multilevel perspective.

Contents Special Section: Russia`s Annexation of Crimea III Gergana Dimova and Andreas Umland: Introduction. Perspectives on Russia’s 2014 Annexation of Crimea: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations Greta Lynn Uehling: The Personal Stakes of Political Crisis: The 2014 ...

Motyl questions conventional wisdom, exposes its inconsistencies and weaknesses, and encourages readers to rethink their views.

This volume examines which interests and motivations some select countries in East-Central Europe and the Caucasus have towards Ukraine.

The third instalment of this multi-volume project presents a selection of archival sources from the time of Ukraine’s Revolution on Granite in October 1990.

Der vorliegende Band erscheint innerhalb der Reihe Chinesische Perspektiven: Politik, in der in Zusammenarbeit mit führenden chinesischen Verlagen grundlegende und einflussreiche Werke, die den Diskurs in China prägen, erstmals einem deutschsprachigen Publikum zugänglich gemacht werden. ...

The book provides a tableau of the emblematic figures of the war in the Donbas. It not only presents tragedies, but also human moments and noble deeds.

In Statu Nascendi is a peer-reviewed journal that aspires to be a world-class scholarly platform encompassing original academic research dedicated to the circle of Political Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Theory of International Relations, Foreign Policy, and the political Decision-making ...

Going from classic to contemporary authors, the authors of this volume consider theorists that provided contributions that became representative of trends, schools of thought and original theoretical perspectives, and that grew into the backbone of Marxist thought: Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, ...

This compilation of essays explores the intersection of international politics in the post-Yugoslav states with a focus on foreign influences.

The contributors to this volume show that the themes of empire, colony, and national liberation movements can be addressed in a European continental as much as in Asian, Latin American, or African contexts. There is a further benefit from a within-Europe comparison: It calls into question the ...

The book explains the conceptual relevance of the right to be elected, its interrelatedness with the right to vote and its significance for democratic systems.

Filipova argues that Poland’s, Bulgaria’s, and Russia’s dominating conceptions of national identity have shaped these countries’ foreign policy behavior.

This collection investigates the political economy of international relations between the Soviet bloc (the “East”) and the developing world (the “South”).

Oleksandra Keudel proposes a novel explanation for why some local governments in hybrid regimes enable citizen participation while others restrict it.

1917 errichteten die Bolschewiki in Russland das erste totalitäre Regime der Moderne, das die von Marx und Engels entwickelte Utopie zu verwirklichen suchte.

Es wird insbesondere die Komplexität des Konflikts in und um die Ukraine seit Beginn der Euromaidan-Revolution Ende 2013 verdeutlicht.

The “Joint Declaration of Twenty-two States,” signed in Paris on November 19, 1990 by the Chiefs of State or Government of all the countries which participated in World War Two in Europe, is the closest document we will ever have to a true “peace treaty” concluding World War II in ...

The contributors delves deeper into recent theoretical constructions of various post-Soviet majorities, the ideologies, and some policy prescriptions.

This monograph provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of the ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire and USSR.

For many people, Pakistan is a rogue state, but for those who think of it as Pakistani citizens do, it is the place where they are confronted with dangers and issues to which they answer with incredible courage and dignity. This volume, a reflection on Pakistan’s history from a ...

From its roots in revolution and war, Ukraine’s Azov movement has grown from a militia of fringe far-right figures and football hooligans fending off Russian-backed forces into a multipronged social movement that has become the envy of the global far right. In this first English-language book ...

Traditionally, far-right terrorism has been the black swan of terrorism studies—receiving less attention than Jihadi extremism. In this book, William Allchorn takes a deep dive into multiple geographical locales and the online space of far-right movements, uncovering the crisis narratives that ...

This study launches a systematic inquiry into the nature of the concept of humanitarian intervention, focusing on its primary function of the protection of the endangered civilian populations who find themselves at the grave risk of genocide. This is strengthened by a recollection of selected ...

The book offers innovative perspectives on regional studies of the Caucasus by looking into forms of inter-regionalism in the Black Sea–South Caucasus area.

This book examines the evolution of post-Euromaidan de-Sovietization beyond the issues of toppling of old statues and implementation of new anti-totalitarian laws.