Deutschland - Polen - Osteuropa

Deutschland - Polen - Osteuropa
Author: Dieter Bingen
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783447046275

Die Integration der ostmitteleuropaischen Staaten in die Europaische Union konnte nach verbreiteten Befurchtungen eine neue Teilung Europas entlang der polnischen Ostgrenze hervorrufen, die weder im deutschen noch im polnischen Interesse lage. Auch nach den Vorstellungen der Europaischen Union sollte keine neue Eiszeit in den Beziehungen zwischen Polen und seinen ostlichen Nachbarn anbrechen. Dabei kommt Polen und Deutschland aufgrund ihrer geographischen und politischen Lage eine Schlusselrolle bei der Schaffung einer gesamteuropaischen Architektur zu. Auf der Grundlage gegenseitiger Kenntnisnahme der jeweiligen wissenschaftlichen Kompetenz diskutierten fuhrende deutsche und polnische Osteuropaexperten in Darmstadt (2000) uber die Grundlagen fur eine gemeinsame EU-Ostpolitik und stellten in Brussel (2001) vor einem grosseren europaischen Kreis (=EU) ihre Uberlegungen zur Diskussion.Aus dem Inhalt: Innere Entwicklung und aussenpolitische Orientierungen: Russland, die Ukraine und Belarus seit 1990Die russische Enklave Kaliningrad im Kontext regionaler Kooperation Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der deutschen und polnischen Osteuropaforschung und -politik - Stereotype - Vorurteile - WahrnehmungenHenri Menudier uber Frankreich, Deutschland und die Ostpoliti

Germany and East-Central Europe

Germany and East-Central Europe
Author: Steve Wood
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2017-11-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351157426

This innovative volume analyzes historical, strategic and domestic political influences on the character and dynamics of the European Union's eastern enlargement. Its main focus is on interactions between Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, in political-diplomatic, commercial-economic and socio-cultural fields. The book also examines the wider European and international contexts to show that as enlargement advanced, we also witnessed an increase in the potential for conflict among EU members, old and new. Steve Wood provides an eclectic and topical appraisal, which identifies the German state as the crucial actor in both the enlargement venture and parallel processes of bilateral reconciliation. The book is recommended to those with interests in contemporary Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and European integration.

The Soviet-East German Military Alliance

The Soviet-East German Military Alliance
Author: Douglas A. Macgregor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1989
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521365628

The German Democratic Republic's emergence as the key political player within the Warsaw Pact has intensified debates concerning the critical East German military role in Soviet strategy for the future of Eastern Europe. Douglas Macgregor traces the origins of current collaboration to earlier forms of Russo-German military alliance.

Cross-Border Tourism in Protected Areas

Cross-Border Tourism in Protected Areas
Author: Marius Mayer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2019-02-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030059618

This book discusses how tourism between neighboring countries like Poland and Germany is hindered despite the Schengen Treaty. Taking protected areas in north-eastern Germany and north-western Poland as exemplary cases, it analyses the phenomenon of socio-economic and cultural barriers for cross-border tourism. It also presents the results of a representative online survey in both countries, and discusses socio-economic and geographical research on border areas, nature tourism in protected areas, national stereotypes and prejudices. As one of the very few source market studies on protected area tourism, it is relevant for scholars and practitioners (protected area managers, tourism professionals) alike providing them with insights into the implications for future research and tourism practice.

The Enemy in Contemporary Film

The Enemy in Contemporary Film
Author: Martin Löschnigg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110590034

Culture and conflict inevitably go hand in hand. The very idea of culture is marked by the notion of difference and by the creative, fraught interaction between conflicting concepts and values. The same can be said of all key ideas in the study of culture, such as identity and diversity, memory and trauma, the translation of cultures and globalization, dislocation and emplacement, mediation and exclusion. This series publishes theoretically informed original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual, and film studies. It fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue on the multiple ways in which conflict supports and constrains the production of meaning, on how conflict is represented, how it relates to the past and projects the present, and how it frames scholarship within the humanities. Editors: Isabel Capeloa Gil, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal; Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick, UK, Catherine Nesci, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Editorial Board: Arjun Appadurai, New York University, Claudia Benthien, Universität Hamburg, Elisabeth Bronfen, Universität Zürich, Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara, Joyce Goggin, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University, Ansgar Nünning, Universität Gießen, Naomi Segal, University of London, Birkbeck College, Márcio Seligmann-Silva, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, António Sousa Ribeiro, Universidade de Coimbra, Roberto Vecchi, Universita di Bologna, Samuel Weber, Northwestern University, Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania, Christoph Wulf, FU Berlin, Longxi Zhang, City University of Hong Kong

Complicity and the Politics of Representation

Complicity and the Politics of Representation
Author: Cornelia Wächter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019-03-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1786611201

This book explores the concept of complicity with regard to the politics of representation. Over the past decades,complicity critique has evolved and become integral to literary and cultural studies. Nonetheless, the concept of complicityremains fundamentally underresearched. Addressing topical and exigent concerns such as white supremacy, war and displacement, child abuse and mentalism, this timely volume explores how producers, texts, consumers and critics can either intentionally or unwittingly become complicit in the creation and perpetuation of social harm – and how the structures supporting such complicities can be resisted. The contributors aim to raise awareness and lay the groundwork for a utopian ‘radical unfolding’ that enables not just non-complicity, i.e. the refusal to be complicit, but anti-complicity – the active and collective resistance to social harm.

Models of European Civil Society

Models of European Civil Society
Author: Adam Jarosz
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2018-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1527521443

The following volume is devoted to the issues of European models of civil societies. The aim of the authors is not to exhaust the whole topic but to bring forward some studies related to the civil society, both in the historical but also present perspective. Civil society is an important factor in a well-functioning state and crucial for developing a real, active and conscious community, which is able to control the state and its’ servants. Even more importantly, when the state fails to react to negative developments or leaders misuse their power to enforce it in fulfilling its duties, and in the most radical, or dramatic cases to replace it or change the governors. Democratic order gives the society enough tools to do this and the internet, social media and other new means of communication improve the level of self-organisation and shorten the time for potential reactions.

The German Minority in Interwar Poland

The German Minority in Interwar Poland
Author: Winson Chu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2012-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 110855640X

The German Minority in Interwar Poland analyzes what happened when Germans from three different empires - the Russian, Habsburg and German - were forced to live together in one new state. After the First World War, German national activists made regional distinctions among these Germans and German-speakers in Poland, with preference initially for those who had once lived in the German Empire. Rather than becoming more cohesive over time, Poland's ethnic Germans remained divided and did not unite within a single representative organization. Polish repressive policies and unequal subsidies from the German state exacerbated these differences, while National Socialism created new hierarchies and unleashed bitter intra-ethnic conflict among German minority leaders. Winson Chu challenges prevailing interpretations that German nationalism in the twentieth century viewed 'Germans' as a single homogeneous group of people. His revealing study shows that nationalist agitation could divide as well as unite an embattled ethnicity.

Germans, Poland, and Colonial Expansion to the East

Germans, Poland, and Colonial Expansion to the East
Author: R. Nelson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2009-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230618545

This incisive collection probes the history of colonialism within Europe and posits that Eastern Europe was in fact Germany s true "colonial" empire. Through a series of interdisciplinary essays ranging from 1850 to the European Union of today, this collection explores the idea that Germany s relationship with Poland and Eastern Europe had many similarities to the practice of "overseas" colonialism. As the contributing scholars aptly demonstrate, the history of Germany s relationship with Poland contains all the trappings of the classic colonial encounter, from its structures of power and control, racism and cultural chauvinism, to the implementation of wholesale scientific experimentation in a "lawless" environment.