Politikwissenschaft

David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union in June, 1976 as the correspondent of the Financial Times of London and entered a country that was a giant theater of the absurd. After 1982, he was banned from the Soviet Union but allowed back in 1990, and finally expelled in 2013 on the grounds that ...

The work contributes to the literature on contested states, as well as to the understanding of nation and state building, state formation, and sovereignty.

The monograph explores the causes and conditions of post-communist nationalist revivals focusing on the re-emergence of Cossack movements in Russia and Ukraine.

Energiewende, Mobilitätswende, Kohleausstieg: Klimawandel und CO2-Emissionen werden in Deutschland heftiger diskutiert denn je – auch mit Blick auf Globalität und internationale Zusammenarbeit. Der vorliegende Sammelband gewährt originären Einblick in die in China dazu stattfindende ...

This volume describes how the new societies survived this period of regime change, economic crises, internal wars, political drawbacks, and social innovations.

Bancroft provides an ethnographic account of the reality in north Kosovo, mixing first-hand interviews and anecdotes with historical background and academic insight.

Den Sozialismus oder radikalen Demokratismus grundsätzlich zu kritisieren, wäre niemandem in den Sinn gekommen. ... Kritik am Sozialismus und Radikalismus war eine unerhörte Häresie.

Over the last three decades, migration management in the newly independent states which emerged from the ruins of the USSR in 1991 has become a tool for staking out zones of influence, a winning slogan for election campaigns, and a handle on the domestic population. Such an instrumentalization ...

The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 2013–2014.

In the US as well as in Europe, migration and migration policy is one of the top issues. This timely volume gathers distinguished authors from academic institutions throughout Europe addressing the growing importance of migration policy making and the refugee crisis that European Union member ...