Global Table

Global Table
Author: BMW-Stiftung Herbert Quandt,
Publisher: Verlag Herder GmbH
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2016-02-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3451809486

Der BMW Foundation Global Table versammelt Entscheider aus Europa und den neuen Gestaltungsmächten zu einem sektoren- und generationsübergreifenden strategischen Dialog. So soll ein stärkeres Bewusstsein für die Bedeutung gemeinsamer Führungsverantwortung bei der Lösung globaler Herausforderungen geschaffen werden. Fernab herkömmlicher Differenzen findet hier zwischen Entscheidern aus Europa und den emerging economies Dialog auf Augenhöhe statt, bei dem die Beteiligten gemeinsame Interessen und Konvergenzräume ausloten, statt sich auf vorgefertigte Meinungen zu konzentrieren. "Looking at these new questions of order, one thing stands out straight away: they all transcend boundaries. They transcend national borders, and they transcend sectoral boundaries. The debate about the future of the international order is a debate in which foundations, particularly those operating internationally, play a major role. " Frank Walter Steinmeier, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Germany "In order to find sustainable solutions for today's complex issues, big corporations need to assume social and environmental responsibility and engage in cross-sector dialogues like the BMW Foundation Global Table.” Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, BMW AG, Munich, Germany "This book should be read by anyone interested in a true and trustful dialogue between Europe and the emerging powers.” Norbert Röttgen, Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, Deutscher Bundestag, Germany

Global Identity in Multicultural and International Educational Contexts

Global Identity in Multicultural and International Educational Contexts
Author: Nigel Bagnall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2015-03-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317632176

The increased movement of people globally has changed the face of national and international schooling. Higher levels of mobility have resulted from both the willing movement of students and their families with a desire to create a better life, and the forced movement of refugee families travelling away from war, famine and other extreme circumstances. This book explores the idea that the complex connections created by the forces of globalisation have led to a diminishing difference between what were once described as international schools and national schools. By examining a selection of responses from students attending international schools in Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Philippines and Switzerland, the book discusses key issues surrounding identity and cosmopolitan senses of belonging. Chapters draw from current literature and recent qualitative research to highlight the concerns that students face within the international school community, including social, psychological, and academic difficulties. The interviews provide a rich and unique body of knowledge, demonstrating how perceptions of identity and belonging are changing, especially with affiliation to a national or a global identity. The notion that international students have become global citizens through their affiliation to a global rather than a national identity exhibits a changing and potentially irreversible trend. Global Identity in Multicultural and International Educational Contexts will be of key interest to researchers, academics and policy makers involved with international schooling and globalised education.

The Berlin Reader

The Berlin Reader
Author: Matthias Bernt
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2014-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 383942478X

By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting and important metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitors with an overview of the most central discussions on the tremendous changes Berlin experienced since the fall of the wall. It covers a wide range of issues, including inner city renewal, housing and the local economy, gentrification and other urban conflicts. The book breaks ground in two dimensions: first, by offering also non-German speakers an insight into the very controversial debates after reunification, and, second, by highlighting the ambivalent consequences of Berlin's urban transformation in the past decades.

The Berlin-Baghdad Express

The Berlin-Baghdad Express
Author: Sean McMeekin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2011-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674058534

The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for their own political, economic, and military ends. The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinating story of how Germany exploited Ottoman pan-Islamism in order to destroy the British Empire, then the largest Islamic power in the world. Meanwhile the Young Turks harnessed themselves to German military might to avenge Turkey’s hereditary enemy, Russia. Told from the perspective of the key decision-makers on the Turco-German side, many of the most consequential events of World War I—Turkey’s entry into the war, Gallipoli, the Armenian massacres, the Arab revolt, and the Russian Revolution—are illuminated as never before. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, McMeekin forces us to re-examine Western interference in the Middle East and its lamentable results. It is an epic tragicomedy of unintended consequences, as Turkish nationalists give Russia the war it desperately wants, jihad begets an Islamic insurrection in Mecca, German sabotage plots upend the Tsar delivering Turkey from Russia’s yoke, and German Zionism midwifes the Balfour Declaration. All along, the story is interwoven with the drama surrounding German efforts to complete the Berlin to Baghdad railway, the weapon designed to win the war and assure German hegemony over the Middle East.

Spatial Turns

Spatial Turns
Author: Jaimey Fisher
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9042030011

The phrase "spatial turns" signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the context of German culture, history, and theory. Migrating from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new centrality of space has transformed social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular culture, and the visual arts. Spatial Turns brings together essays that apply a spatial analysis to German literature and other media and engages with specifically German theorizations of space by such figures as Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The volume is organized in four sections: "Mapping Spaces" addresses cartography in all forms and in its intersection with culture; "Spaces of the Urban" takes up one of the key sites of spatial studies, the city; "Spaces of Encounter" considers how Germany has become a contact zone for multiple ethnicities; and "Visualized Spaces" concerns the theorization of space in film and new media studies.

Branding Berlin

Branding Berlin
Author: Katrina Sark
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2023-07-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000914216

This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin. Branding Berlin: From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe presents a cultural analysis of Berlin’s cultural production, including literature, film, memoirs and non-fiction works, art, media, urban branding campaigns, and cultural diversity initiatives put forth by the Berlin Senate, and allows readers to understand the various changes that transformed the formerly divided city of voids into a hip cultural capital. The book examines Berlin’s branding, urban-economic development, and its search for a post-Wall identity by focusing on manifestations of nostalgic longing in documentary films and other cultural products. Building on the sociological research of urban branding and linking it with an interpretive analysis of cultural products generated in Berlin during that time, the author examines the intersections and tensions between the nostalgic views of the past and the branded images of Berlin’s present and future. This insightful and innovative work will interest scholars and students of cultural and media studies, branding and advertising, urban communication, film studies, visual culture, tourism, and cultural memory.

The New Economy in Transatlantic Perspective

The New Economy in Transatlantic Perspective
Author: Kurt Huebner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2005-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134306989

What’s left from the new economy? This book takes an unfashionable perspective and shows that despite all the mistaken ideas and exaggerations, the technological changes of the 1990s still have important effects today. Economic history shows that technological revolutions tend to generate deep economic and social crises before a temporary state of equilibrium is reached. The established modes of accumulations and regimes of regulation of national capitalisms and international capitalism have been undermined by the collapse of the high tech asset bubble. Financial markets are still in disarray. What can be observed, however, is that national economies are better positioned to tackle the crisis than others. Why is this? This and other important questions are tackled by an international team of contributors including Daniele Archibugi, Harald Hagemann, Bruno Amable, Martin Heidenreich and David Gibbs. This volume should be of great interest to all those working at the intersection of international politics and economics.

Regional Leadership in the Global System

Regional Leadership in the Global System
Author: Daniel Flemes
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780754679127

This collection emphasizes the role of regional powers in intra-regional, interregional and global contexts, analyzing the rise of regional powers from a comparative perspective. In so doing, the book explains how these powers have power to shape regional and global politics.

Artistic Lives

Artistic Lives
Author: Kirsten Forkert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317178246

Artistic Lives examines cultural production as a non-standard, self-directed, and frequently unpaid activity, which is susceptible to developments that affect the availability of unstructured time. It engages with discourses which have historically had little to do with the arts, including urban sociology and social policy research, to explore the social conditions and identities of ordinary artists, revealing the importance of the cost of living or access to housing, benefits or employment in determining who is able to become an artist or sustain an artistic career. The book thus challenges recent policy discourses that celebrate the ability of cultural producers to create something from nothing, and, more generally, the myth of creativity as an individual phenomenon, divorced from social context. Presenting rich interview material with artists and arts professionals in London and Berlin, together with ethnographic descriptions, Artistic Lives engages with debates surrounding Post-Fordism, gentrification and the nature of authorship, to raise challenging questions about the function of culture and the role of cultural producers within contemporary capitalism. An empirically grounded exploration of the identity of the modern artist and his or her ability to make a living in neoliberal societies, Artistic Lives will be of interest to students and scholars researching urban studies, the sociology of art and creative cultures, social stratification and social policy.

The New Transnationalism

The New Transnationalism
Author: K. Dingwerth
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230590144

This book explores what the privatization of global rule-making means for democracy. It reconstructs three prominent rule-making processes in the field of global sustainability politics and argues that, if designed properly, private transnational rule-making can be as democratic as intergovernmental rule-making.