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The Politics of Military Force
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

The Politics of Military Force

The Politics of Military Force examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture. Once considered a strict taboo, so-called out-of-area operations have now become widely considered by German policymakers to be without alternative. The book argues that an understanding of how certain policies are made possible (in this case, military operations abroad and force transformation), one needs to focus on processes of discursive change that result in different policy options appearing rational, appropriate, feasible, or even self-evident. Drawing on Essex School discourse theory, the book develo...

Citizens into Dishonored Felons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Citizens into Dishonored Felons

Over the course of its history, the German Empire increasingly withheld basic rights—such as joining the army, holding public office, and even voting—as a form of legal punishment. Dishonored offenders were often stigmatized in both formal and informal ways, as their convictions shaped how they were treated in prisons, their position in the labour market, and their access to rehabilitative resources. With a focus on Imperial Germany’s criminal policies and their afterlives in the Weimar era, Citizens into Dishonored Felons demonstrates how criminal punishment was never solely a disciplinary measure, but that it reflected a national moral compass that authorities used to dictate the rights to citizenship, honour and trust.

Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective

This incisive study combines the two subjects and views the migration scholarship through the lens of the gender perspective.

Annual of German and European Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 572

Annual of German and European Law

  • Categories: Law

German law has been of long-standing interest and increasing relevance around the world, but access for researchers and practitioners very frequently was limited by the necessity of German language proficiency. Offering English-language access to these fields, the Annual of German & European Law is a significant contribution to the global discourse on and study of German, European and Comparative law. Each volume presents: (1) articles - original, cutting-edge scholarship from the fields of German and European law; (2) jurisdictional reports - comments on the latest caselaw from Germany's most significant courts and the case-law of the European courts having importance for Germany; (3) book ...

Rootedness and Acculturation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Rootedness and Acculturation

German-Americans represent the largest self-declared ancestry group in the United States of America. The period from the 200th anniversary celebration of Germantown's founding in 1883 to the end of the First World War was an age of intense turmoil within the ranks of German-American communities. These decades were marked by a massive political and cultural realignment as well as major contributions to the (self-)definition of German-Americanness. Historians and sociolinguists with backgrounds in German or American studies offer a fresh look at a critical period in the history of German-American communities.

European Migration Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 901

European Migration Law

  • Categories: Law

This title provides a comprehensive overview of European migration law. More than three dozen directives and regulations are discussed throughout this volume, together with numerous court judgments, international treaties, reform proposals, and factual developments. This careful inspection of EU legislation and cases is accompanied by analyses of domestic and international developments, as well as contextual factors influencing the real world of migratory movements. Across eighteen chapters, Daniel Thym discusses core features of visas and border controls, asylum and legal migration, integration and return, association agreements, and international cooperation. The work consists of two parts...

European Immigrants in Britain 1933-1950
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

European Immigrants in Britain 1933-1950

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Citizenship
  • Language: en

Citizenship

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"The book is concerned not just with 'formal' or legal citizenship, but also with the related development of political participation, economic privileges and social rights. Fahrmeir argues that rather than being separate facets of one 'citizenship', these elements were (and continue to be) available to groups that only partly coincide with the community of legal citizens. And he considers whether the combined effects of regionalism, European unification, 'post-democracy' and economic globalization are eroding state citizenship or whether increased immigration controls and stringent criteria for nationality render it as relevant today as ever."--Jacket.

Re-Location 1-7
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Re-Location 1-7

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Re:Location 1-7/Shake' has, among other things, shown the work of more than 110 artists from 24 countries, held 21 exhibitions over a 3-year period, taken place in 8 art centres in 8 countries in Europe and beyond, worked with 10 curators, produced 3 newsletters, published 2 catalogues, built 1 website, commissioned more than 30 essays by 23 authors, some translated into 6 languages by a team of 17 translators, produced 1 televised evening broadcast on 2 TV channels."--[Vol. 2], p. 9.

Explanation Within the Bounds of Religion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 564

Explanation Within the Bounds of Religion

This book deals with the question of whether religious worldviews fulfil an explanatory function in the lives of believers. After rebutting some common objections to this claim, the author proposes to understand the explanatory nature of religious belief along the lines of inference to the best explanation. This proposal is qualified in view of the peculiar nature of religious belief: It is stressed that the type of explanation concerned occurs within the bounds of religion alone, and loses its sense apart from the religious form of life. In unfolding his argument, the author draws heavily on ideas of explanation developed in the philosophy of science, pointing to differences and comparisons between religious and scientific explanations. The author concludes by considering some specific things that theism explains.