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Broken Solidarities
Felix Anderl’s book is a stimulating analysis of the decline of social movements against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule. Reflecting on the transnational mobilizations of the 1990s, the book examines activists’ struggles to sustain their momentum. It shows how the opening up of world economic institutions contributed to complex rule in global governance, creating access for some while weakening their critique and fragmenting the overall movement. The book bridges international relations and social movement studies to observe international organizations and social movements in their interaction, demonstrating how social movements are divided and ruled in the absence of a ruler.
On Small War
Carl von Clausewitz has long been interpreted as the paradigmatic thinker of major interstate war. This book challenges this assumption by showing that Clausewitz was an ardent analyst of small war and integrated many aspects of his early writings on partisan warfare and people's war into his magnum opus, On War. It reconstructs Clausewitz's intellectual development by placing it in the context of his engagement with the political and philosophical currents of his own times - German Idealism, Romanticism, and Humanism. The central question that Clausewitz and his contemporaries faced was how to defend Prussia and Europe against Napoleon's expansionist strategy. On the one hand, the nationali...
Strategic Cultures in Europe
European countries work together in crisis management, conflict prevention and many other aspects of security and defence policy. Closer cooperation in this policy arena seems to be the only viable way forward to address contemporary security challenges. Yet, despite the repeated interaction, fundamental assumptions about security and defence remain remarkably distinct across European nations. This book offers a comparative analysis of the security and defence policies of all 27 EU member states and Turkey, drawing on the concept of ‘strategic culture’, in order to examine the chances and obstacles for closer security and defence cooperation across the continent. Along the lines of a consistent analytical framework, international experts provide case studies of the current security and defence policies in Europe as well as their historical and cultural roots.
Global Security Cultures
Why do politicians think that war is the answer to terror when military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Mali, Somalia and elsewhere has made things worse? Why do some conflicts never end? And how is it that practices like beheadings, extra-judicial killings, the bombing of hospitals and schools and sexual slavery are becoming increasingly common? In this book, renowned scholar of war and human security Mary Kaldor introduces the concept of global security cultures in order to explain why we get stuck in particular pathways to security. A global security culture, she explains, involves different combinations of ideas, narratives, rules, people, tools, practices and infrast...
Other People's Pain
This series promotes inquiry into the relationship between literary texts and their cultural and intellectual contexts, in theoretical, interpretative and historical perspectives. It has developed out of a research initiative of the German Department at Cambridge University, but its focus of interest is on the European tradition broadly perceived. Its purpose is to encourage comparative and interdisciplinary research into the connections between cultural history and the literary imagination generally.
Decoding Clausewitz
A pathbreaking critique of the thought of military studies icon Carl Phillip Gottfried von Clausewitz and his magnum opus On War that illuminates why and how that work should be viewed as much more mature, coherent, innovative, and complete than suggested by previous accounts.
Die Prävention von Terrorismus
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: 1,3, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Terrorismus als sicherheitspolitische Herausforderung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nach den Anschlägen des 11.September 2001 auf das World Trade Center und das Pentagon, rückte angesichts der nun verstärkt empfundenen Bedrohung durch den Terrorismus, der Begriff der Sicherheit wie auch die Frage nach der Bekämpfung des Terrorismus wieder vermehrt in das Interesse der Öffentlichkeit und Politik. Denn es ist keine leichte Aufgabe dem Terrorismus entgegenzuwirken, insbeso...
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Die Englische Schule unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Einordnung in die Theorien der Internationalen Beziehungen
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Geschichte der Internationalen Beziehungen, Note: 1,1, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft und Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Konfrontation oder Kooperation? In der Theorienlandschaft der IB konkurrieren die verschiedensten Weltanschauungen um gegenseitige Anerkennung. Die Englische Schule fokussiert sich auf die internationale Gesellschaft, die Überwindung von Anarchie in der internationalen Politik und die Herstellung internationaler Ordnung. Aus ihrer Sicht können anarchische Verhältnisse durch normative Integration der Staatenbeziehungen im Zaum gehalten werden...
