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Cette série explore le monde complexe des études politiques allemandes modernes, couvrant la période de 1750 à nos jours. Elle examine les idées politiques, les institutions et les événements cruciaux qui ont façonné la trajectoire de l'Allemagne. Offrant des analyses perspicaces, elle constitue une ressource complète pour comprendre l'évolution politique de la nation.

Right-wing extremism in contemporary Germany
Germany's two unifications
Politics as a practical science
The new German Jewry and the European context
German federalism
Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

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  • Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

    The Politics of Memory

    • 254pages
    • 9 heures de lecture

    Exploring the resurgence of family narratives, this analysis delves into contemporary German literature, film, and discourse, highlighting shifts in cultural memory. It critiques the limitations of Germany's memory culture and identity debates, presenting essays that connect fiction, autobiography, and heritage films. The work offers a compelling theory of family stories and evaluates generational discourse, providing a comprehensive understanding of how these narratives shape and challenge the collective German identity.

    Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

  • German federalism

    • 232pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    3,5(2)Évaluer

    This book explores the German idea of federalism denoting 'diversity withinunity'. Historians, linguists and political scientists examine how federalism emerged in the Holy Roman Empire, was re-shaped by 19th Century cultural movements, and was adopted by the unified state in 1871 and again after 1945. The myth of federalism as a safeguard against totalitarianism is tested in regard to the Third Reich and the GDR. The book concludes with an outlook on German federalism's future in Europe.

    German federalism

  • The new German Jewry and the European context

    • 221pages
    • 8 heures de lecture

    Departing from the recent critical literature on the emergence of a new German Jewry, this volume proposes a new perspective on the post-1980s phenomenon of re-emerging Jewish culture in Germany as a case study for wider developments in Europe and the international context.

    The new German Jewry and the European context

  • Politics as a practical science

    • 288pages
    • 11 heures de lecture
    4,0(1)Évaluer

    Hennis has been a leading critic of German political life and thought for the last 50 years. In this selection from his writings on government and constitutionality he shows how the postwar reconstruction of democratic politics in Germany highlighted general problems of party politics and democratic order that have only recently been recognized.

    Politics as a practical science

  • Germany's two unifications

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    Germany's unique historical experience of undergoing national unification twice in a little over a century makes it a fascinating object of study. In this volume the processes of unification are analyzed from the point of view of historians, political scientists and literary historians. Because each event had quite different historical pre-conditions (the first having been long anticipated and pursued, whereas the second took virtually all participants by surprise), the processes of adjustment to it have differed in many ways.

    Germany's two unifications

  • Right-wing extremism in contemporary Germany

    • 260pages
    • 10 heures de lecture

    This study of the German right-extremist movement looks at the three rightist political parties, neo-Nazi groups, skinhead gangs, and New Right intellectuals. It poses the question whether, at a time of global recession, the existing democratic system is resilient enough to meet the challenges posed by the xenophobic and racist groups.

    Right-wing extremism in contemporary Germany

  • Nature, technology and cultural change in twentieth century German literature

    "This book traces how attitudes towards science and technology, nature and the environment in Germany shifted over the course of the twentieth century. It approaches them through discussion of a range of novels and plays, poems and essays largely new to English readers. In their narratives, which often have an autobiographical dimension, practical environmental problems and underlying issues of ecological ethics are brought to life and reflected on. The book draws on the ideas of British and American cultural theorists alongside German thinkers such as Heidegger and Adorno, and develops a new conception of cultural ecology explaining the role which writers have played in articulating and shaping conceptions of nature and naturalness, and the input of cultural discourse into environmental debate. The influence of Goethe and the Romantics, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Monism and the Life Reform Movement are traced in green thinking, and attention is given to the political implications of the reconfigurings of their ideas. Technological disasters, living in harmony with nature, hunting and allotment gardens are among the topics discussed."--Jacket

    Nature, technology and cultural change in twentieth century German literature

  • German writers and the politics of culture

    • 272pages
    • 10 heures de lecture

    Before the fall of the Berlin Wall many East German writers were praised in the Western world as dissident voices of truth, bravely struggling with the draconian constraints of living under the GDR's communist regime. However, since unification, Germany has been rocked by scandals showing the level to which the Stasi, the East German Secret Police, controlled these same writers. This is the first study in English to systematically explore how the writers have responded to the challenge of dealing with the Stasi from the 1950s to the present day.

    German writers and the politics of culture

  • The dual transformation of the German welfare state

    • 192pages
    • 7 heures de lecture

    This book breaks new intellectual ground in the analysis of the German welfare state. Peter Bleses and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser argue that we are witnessing a dual transformation of the welfare state, which is caused by the emergence of new dominating interpretative patterns. Increasingly, the state reduces its social policy commitments towards securing the achieved living standard of former wage earners, which in the past had been the key normative principle of social policy in Germany, while at the same time public support and services for families are expanded.

    The dual transformation of the German welfare state

  • Phantoms of war in contemporary German literature, films and discourse

    Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays on contemporary German literature are complemented by explorations of heritage films and museum discourse. Together these essays put forward a compelling theory of family narratives and a critical evaluation of generational discourse.

    Phantoms of war in contemporary German literature, films and discourse

  • German national identity in the twenty-first century

    • 196pages
    • 7 heures de lecture

    Wittlinger takes a fresh look at German national identity in the 21st century and shows that it has undergone considerable changes since unification in 1990. Due to the external pressures of the post-cold war world and recent domestic developments, Germany has re-emerged as a nation which is less hesitant to assert its national interest.

    German national identity in the twenty-first century

  • Germany's uncertain power

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    After Berlin's refusal to back Washington in its policy in Iraq in 2003, German foreign policy has again become the subject of debate. How has German foreign policy changed in recent years? Where is German foreign policy headed now? This volume provides answers to those questions, based on careful analysis of recent developments in a range of key policy areas by an authoritative group of German and international scholars.

    Germany's uncertain power

  • Britain, Germany and the future of the European Union

    • 240pages
    • 9 heures de lecture

    Britain, Germany and the Future of the European Union outlines the changes in British and German European policies which have been characteristic of a process of normalization in both countries. Schweiger examines possible areas for cooperation between Britain and Germany on major European issues (institutional and procedural reform, EMU, economic reform, CFSP and enlargement) and the potential significance that such a working partnership could have within the enlarged European Union.

    Britain, Germany and the future of the European Union

  • Germany's new foreign policy

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    This is the first attempt of its kind to analyse foreign policymaking in reunified Germany. The contributors cover all actors and institutions that influence foreign policy directly or indirectly, taking into account modern Germany's wider foreign relations. To this end, they examine not only classical foreign policy institutions like the Chancellery, Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence, but also other organisations such as specialised ministries, the Länder Parliament, political parties, NGOs, and the media. Built on the insights of practical experience in diplomacy, administration and Parliament as well as academic research, this volume offers an invaluable guide to German foreign policy since reunification and projects its future development at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

    Germany's new foreign policy

  • The Left Party in contemporary German politics

    • 224pages
    • 8 heures de lecture

    This is the first book in either English or German to analyse the development of Germany's newest political party, the Left Party. It compares and contrasts the party's development with that of Germany's most well-known outsider party - the Greens. It also analyses the party's performance in office in two eastern German Länder. Finally, the book also puts the merger between the PDS and the WASG under the microscope before speculating on the party's future prospects.

    The Left Party in contemporary German politics

  • Germany and the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union

    • 280pages
    • 10 heures de lecture

    This study assesses the influence of German policy makers on EU policy and the impact of EU membership on foreign policy making at the national level. The book concludes that limitations remain on the Europeanization of German foreign and security policy and Germany's ability to play a leading role in military crisis management.

    Germany and the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union

  • Germany's gathering crisis

    • 253pages
    • 9 heures de lecture

    This book analyzes German politics and economy. It analyzes the gathering crisis during the Red-Green government, the governments efforts to impose a reform agenda, the impact of the 2005 federal elections, and provides an evaluation of the success of the Grand Coalition in meeting these challenges in the run-up to the 2009 elections.

    Germany's gathering crisis

  • Germany's EU policy on asylum and defence

    Integrating insights from foreign policy analysis, integration theory, and social theory and providing an in-depth analysis of both refugee and security policy, the book develops an innovative framework for analysis that is capable of accounting for an incremental 'de-Europeanization' in Germany's EU policy.

    Germany's EU policy on asylum and defence

  • Germany and the common foreign and security policy of the European Union

    • 265pages
    • 10 heures de lecture

    Germany has played a leading role in the development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union. This study assesses the influence of German policy makers on EU policy and the impact of EU membership on foreign policy making at the national level. The book concludes that limitations remain on the Europeanization of German foreign and security policy and Germany's ability to play a leading role in military crisis management.

    Germany and the common foreign and security policy of the European Union

  • Power and German foreign policy

    • 272pages
    • 10 heures de lecture
    3,7(3)Évaluer

    What will German foreign policy look like in 2015? This book dares to speculate by making a provocative argument: what drives German foreign policy is its power position in Europe and on the international stage. By examining German manoeuvres in the Balkans, its role in European Monetary Union, and its leadership in curbing Europe's proliferation of WMD technology, Crawford shows how German power is linked to its "embedded hegemony" in Europe and the changing state of its economy. Together these forces shape German foreign policy.

    Power and German foreign policy

  • The challenge of German culture

    • 231pages
    • 9 heures de lecture

    A wide-ranging collection of essays by leading British, American and German scholars, covering German literature, culture and politics from the Middle Ages to the present day. Based mainly on original research, the individual contributions reveal the rich complexity and vitality of contemporary German studies.

    The challenge of German culture

  • Germany's new right as culture and politics

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    Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics is the first full-length study in English of the New Right in Germany and it breaks new ground by considering the New Right as both a political and a cultural movement. This approach reveals the problems that arise when a political movement seeks to embrace culture as the foundation for a political programme. The book examines the often contradictory motives that feed into New Right political pronouncements and explores the cultural thinking that feeds into extreme political commitment.

    Germany's new right as culture and politics

  • Mass media, culture and society in twentieth century Germany

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    This volume is the first wide-ranging study of the rise of the mass media in Germany from a social and cultural-historical perspective. Going far beyond the conventional focus on the organizational structures or aesthetic content of the media, it investigates the impact they have had on twentieth-century German society under widely varying political systems, and how in turn the media and their uses were shaped by the wider social, political and cultural context

    Mass media, culture and society in twentieth century Germany

  • The European policy of the German social democrats

    • 240pages
    • 9 heures de lecture

    This book examines the EU policy of the German Social Democrats (SPD) after German unification, following their rise to power in 1998 and their record in office under Chancellor Schröder. The study deals with policy formation in the SPD through an analysis of the opportunity structures for policy-making in the EU, Germany and the party itself.

    The European policy of the German social democrats

  • Party politics in Germany

    Party Politics in Germany is the only English-language study of its kind and examines the phenomenon of party politics in the Federal Republic through comparison across time and space. It draws upon new data from the 2002 Federal elections and recent Land elections, as well as on a far more explicitly comparative literature than is generally found in single-country studies. The book not only sheds new light on political phenomena in Germany but also allows students of the comparative method to apply some of the key concepts, models and approaches with which they are familiar to the rich context of a single country study.

    Party politics in Germany

  • Contemporary Germany and the Nazi legacy

    • 288pages
    • 11 heures de lecture
    4,0(2)Évaluer

    This book examines a range of public debates on the Nazi legacy in Germany since Gerhard Schröder's SDP-Green coalition came to power in 1998. Topics include patterns of remembrance, the Walser-Bubis controversy, the Holocaust monument in Berlin and disputes about national pride, anti-semitism and German victimhood. A central theme is the 'dialectic of normality', whereby references to the Nazi past impact upon normality in the present. The book is a valuable resource for students of contemporary German politics, history and culture.

    Contemporary Germany and the Nazi legacy

  • The varieties of capitalism paradigm

    • 184pages
    • 7 heures de lecture

    How do the environments in which businesses operate condition their success or failure? Such questions have long been of interest in the fields of business, economics and politics. They have gained in importance as a result of heightened competitive pressures associated with "globalization". While some see certain institutions as burdens, others see them as a blessing. This book thoroughly examines the main claims of the most important contribution--the Varieties of Capitalism paradigm--to this debate in recent years.

    The varieties of capitalism paradigm

  • Germany, civilian power and the new Europe

    In 1990, the future of Europe's international politics hinged on two questions. How would unification affect the conduct of German foreign policy? Would those institutions that had given security and prosperity to Western Europe during the Cold War now do the same for the entire continent, and if so, how. The intersection of these questions is the topic of this book, which explores, quite plainly, what made Germany's policies towards its immediate Eastern neighbours tick.

    Germany, civilian power and the new Europe

  • Political parties and public policy in the German Länder

    • 263pages
    • 10 heures de lecture

    This book considers the extent to which, and in what circumstances, political parties affect public policy. It explores the regional level in Germany; using case studies in the areas of education, childcare and family, and labour market policy. In particular, the author explores whether party politicians make a difference to policies.

    Political parties and public policy in the German Länder