From The Common Soviet Threat to the Rhetoric Of A 'Delinquent' Germany

From The Common Soviet Threat to the Rhetoric Of A 'Delinquent' Germany
Author: Leo Kempe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-01-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783346991393

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject American Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg Center for American Studies), language: English, abstract: This research paper illustrates the transatlantic relationship between the United States and Germany before President Trump took office in 2016. It uses the historical context of the Cold War and its aftermath, as well as German Reunification to explain what the relationship looked like, how it changed over time, and what it means for both countries. Illustrating cooperative dynamics in the military and in politics, it is further discussed if the relationship between the United States and Germany could be considered "special". In the conclusion, the paper argues that we should invest our resources in keeping the important political and socio-cultural ties alive to form an enduring alliance.

Hierarchies in World Politics

Hierarchies in World Politics
Author: Ayşe Zarakol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108416632

This book showcases the best new international relations research on hierarchy and moves the discipline forward in this new direction.

Killing Hope

Killing Hope
Author: William Blum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-07-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1350348198

In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'.

The Fourth Reich

The Fourth Reich
Author: Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108497497

The first history of postwar fears of a Nazi return to power in Western political, intellectual, and cultural life.

Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust

Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

A popularly written and illustrated history of the Holocaust. Deals with all of the victims of the Nazis' genocidal campaign: communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Poles and other Slavs, and Soviet POWs, as well as the "racial enemies" - Afro-Germans, the mentally and physically disabled, Gypsies, and Jews. Jews were regarded by the Nazis as the foremost "racial enemy". Pp. 110-156, "The Holocaust", deal specifically with the destruction of the Jews - from the first Nazi anti-Jewish measures in Germany, through the "Kristallnacht" pogrom and murders of Jews in Poland and the USSR, to the total mass murder in the death camps.

Stalin's World

Stalin's World
Author: Sarah Davies
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300182813

Drawing on declassified material from Stalin’s personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world—both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offices and viewed the world largely through the prism of verbal and written reports, meetings, articles, letters, and books. Analyzing these materials, Sarah Davies and James Harris provide a new understanding of Stalin’s thought process and leadership style and explore not only his perceptions and misperceptions of the world but the consequences of these perceptions and misperceptions.

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)
Author: John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2003-01-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0393076245

"A superb book.…Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—Barry R. Posen, The National Interest The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear, eloquent prose, John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no: a rising China will seek to dominate Asia, while the United States, determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon, will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening. The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable.

The Cambridge History of Communism

The Cambridge History of Communism
Author: Norman Naimark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781107133549

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts analyze archival sources from formerly Communist states to re-examine the limits to Moscow's control of its satellites; the de-Stalinization of 1956; Communist reform movements; the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance; the growth of Communism in Asia, Africa and Latin America; and the effects of the Sino-Soviet split on world Communism. Chapters explore the cultures of Communism in the United States, Western Europe and China, and the conflicts engendered by nationalism and the continued need for support from Moscow. With the danger of a new Cold War developing between former and current Communist states and the West, this account of the roots, development and dissolution of the socialist bloc is essential reading.

Blinders, Blunders, and Wars

Blinders, Blunders, and Wars
Author: David C. Gompert
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2014-11-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0833087789

The history of wars caused by misjudgments, from Napoleon’s invasion of Russia to America’s invasion of Iraq, reveals that leaders relied on cognitive models that were seriously at odds with objective reality. Blinders, Blunders, and Wars analyzes eight historical examples of strategic blunders regarding war and peace and four examples of decisions that turned out well, and then applies those lessons to the current Sino-American case.