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.