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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Thema der Integration von Einwanderern und deren Nachkommen ist in Deutschland wissenschaftlich-analytisch und politisch-normativ hoch umstritten.Migrationsforscher Stefan Böckler gibt mit seinem vorliegenden Essay wichtige Impulse für diese Debatte, indem er wesentliche Annahmen des Mainstreams des deutschen Integrationsdiskurses einer kritischen Überprüfung unterzieht. Er gelangt zu dem Ergebnis, dass dieser Mainstream in zentralen Hinsichten auf unhinterfragten Prämissen, logischen Fehlschlüssen und widersprüchlichen Argumentationsmustern beruht und dabei selbst vor groben Verfälschungen empirischer Forschungsergebnisse nicht zurückschreckt.Diese Defizite beruhen, so führt Böckler aus, darauf, dass der kritisierte Mainstream weniger von einem objektiven und sachorientierten Umgang mit dem Ist-Zustand von Integrationsprozessen geleitet wird als vielmehr von vorausgesetzten Annahmen darüber, woran sich solche Prozesse orientieren sollen ¿ Annahmen, die ihrerseits Ausdruck einer zugrunde liegenden Ideologie sind.Stefan Böckler plädiert eindringlich für ein ausschließlich an logischer Stimmigkeit und empirischer Triftigkeit orientiertes Vorgehen: So könnten nicht nur der wissenschaftlich-analytische Diskurs über Integrationsfragen und auch die politische Debatte über diese Fragen erheblich versachlicht werden, sondern es wären auch viel eher ausgewogene Perspektiven für notwendige praktische Schritte zur Integration in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft zu entwickeln.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 124 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In our daily lives, the rule of law matters more than anything and yet remains an invisible presence. We trust in the rule of law to protect us from governmental overreach, mafia godfathers, or the will of the majority. We take the rule of law for granted, often failing to recognize its demise¿until it is too late. For under attack it is, not only in the growing number of authoritarian countries around the world but in Europe, too.As a citizen¿s guide, this book explains in plain language what the rule of law is, why it matters, and why we have to defend it. The starting point is to ask why EU efforts to promote the rule of law in candidate countries have succeeded or failed, and what this tells us about what is happening inside the EU. The authors move on to suggest ways of strengthening the rule of law in Europe and beyond. This book is a call to action in defense of the most precious human invention of all time.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 178 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book draws on the author¿s experience from 26 years of Ukrainian diplomatic service in, among others, Bonn, Berlin, Washington, and Vienna, and his work as a speechwriter to most Ukrainian foreign ministers for the last two decades. Scherbäs captivating essays reflect his views of international affairs from a Ukrainian perspective. His deliberations are presented in uncomplicated, plain language. The articles assembled here have repeatedly caused discussion in Ukraine and abroad.By his opponents, Scherba is often described as being surprisingly undiplomatic and even provocative. For instance, his article ¿Why nationalism can¿t be the national idea of a European Ukraine¿, published on a Ukrainian nationalist website, stirred considerable controversy in Ukraine. Aside from explaining Kyiv¿s take on some key issues of international relations, these essays provide insights into Ukrainian political thinking since the start of Russiäs military aggression in 2014, and into the painful political intramural fights in Ukrainian society ever since.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -At 11 öclock in the evening of 20th August 1968, the armies of four Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, crossed the borders of Czechoslovakia, starting the ¿Operation Danube¿. Literally overnight the Czechoslovak experiment with Alexander Dub¿ek¿s liberalization reforms was transformed from living reality into history. Although the Soviet Union¿s action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for both the unity of the communist bloc and the establishment of the new Soviet foreign doctrine. This book brings the international context of the 1968 crisis in Czechoslovakia to the center of attention. It brought together experts from within as well as from without Central Europe with the hope of igniting, or, perhaps better, re-igniting an international discussion on the Prague spring, its origins, its unfolding, its aftermath, and, most importantly, the international context.The volume¿s contributors are: Ljubodarg Dimi¿, Jakub Drábik, Mihail Gruev, Slavomír Michálek, Miklós Mitrovits, Jackques Rupnik, Alexander Stykalin, Miros¿aw Szumi¿o, Michal ¿tefanský, and Virgiliu TarauBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Europa ist selbst dreißig Jahre nach den grundlegenden Umwälzungen von 1989/90 noch immer mit der Auseinandersetzung und Aufarbeitung der Folgen beschäftigt und befindet sich weiterhin in einem permanenten Krisenmanagement-Modus. Seine maßgeblichen Akteure suchen unverändert Platz und Rolle. Was sind ¿ gerade auch für Deutschland ¿ die Lehren aus jenen Jahren, damit wir Europa für die Zukunft besser wappnen können Aufbauend auf seinen Erinnerungen und Beobachtungen in vier Jahrzehnten deutscher, europäischer und internationaler Politik gibt Joachim Bitterlich überzeugende Antworten für die zukünftige Gestaltung Europas und richtet damit zugleich ¿ unter eingehender Würdigung der Ära Helmut Kohls ¿ einen Appell an die gegenwärtigen europapolitischen Akteure, sich auf die essentiellen Elemente der europäischen Einigung zurückzubesinnen.Das Buch bietet eine Fülle an Insider-Informationen und erlaubt dem zeitgeschichtlich und politisch interessierten Leser einen einmaligen Blick hinter die Kulissen des politischen Geschäfts.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 346 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume of collected papers takes stock of what has become known about the war in eastern Ukraine¿s Donets Basin (Donbas) between April 2014 and mid-2020. It provides an introduction to the conflict and illustrates the key point of contention in the academic debate surrounding it¿the question whether this war is primarily an internal Ukrainian phenomenon or the result of a covert Russian invasion. The contributions by recognized specialists from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and Japan offer multifaceted views and insights into this long-lasting conflict for both expert readers and those who are new to the topic.The volume¿s contributors are Tymofii Brik, Jakob Hauter, Sanshiro Hosaka, Yuriy Matsiyevsky, Nikolay Mitrokhin, Maximilian Kranich, and Ulrich Schneckener.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Britain does not have a written constitution. It has rather, over centuries, developed a set of miscellaneous conventions, rules, and norms that govern political behavior. By contrast, Bosniäs constitution was written, quite literally, overnight in a military hanger in Dayton, USA, to conclude a devastating war. By most standards it does not work and is seen to have merely frozen a conflict and all development with it. What might these seemingly unrelated countries be able to teach each other Britain, racked by recent crises from Brexit to national separatism, may be able to avert long-term political conflict by understanding the pitfalls of writing rigid constitutional rules without popular participation or the cultivation of good political culture. Bosnia, in turn, may be able to thaw its frozen conflict by subjecting parts of its written constitution to amendment, with civic involvement, on a fixed and regular basis; a ¿revolving constitution¿ to replicate some of that flexibility inherent in the British system. A book not just about Bosnia and Britain; a standard may be set for other plural, multi-ethnic polities to follow.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 380 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Li-Chun Hsiao attempts to rethink, under the rubric of globalization, several key notions in postcolonial theory and writings by revisiting what he conceives as ¿the primal scene of postcoloniality¿¿the Haitian Revolution. He unpacks and critiques the post-structuralist penchants and undercurrents of the postcolonial paradigm in First-World academia while not reinstating earlier Marxist stricture. Focusing on Edouard Glissant¿s, C. L. R. James¿s, and Derek Walcott¿s representations of Toussaint L¿Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution, the textual analyses approach the issues of colonial mimicry, postcolonial nationalism, and postcoloniality in light of recent reconsiderations of the universal and the particular in critical theories, and psychoanalytic conceptions of trauma, identity, and jouissance. Hsiao argues that postcolonial intellectuals¿ characteristic celebration of the Particular, together with their nuanced denunciation of the postcolonial nation and the Revolution, doesn¿t really do away with the category of the Universal, nor twist free of the problematic of the logics of difference/equivalence that sustains the ¿living on¿ of the nation-state, despite an ever expanding globality; rather, such a postcolonial phenomenon is symptomatic of a disavowed traumatic event that mirrors and prefigures the predicament of the postcolonial experience while invoking its simulacra and further struggles centuries later.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 180 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -People are often surprised to learn that although the current global levels of food production are sufficient to feed all of humanity, the problems of undernourishment increase year by year in many countries. Economic growth, while important, is not a guarantee for reducing hunger. The intensification of income concentration worldwide, in the face of the persistence of millions of hungry families, demonstrates that economic interest is not guided by the needs of humanity. Moreover, the problem of food no longer refers to the lack of food alone. Many people are still unaware that our diets are not simply choices of taste and tradition but the result of international dynamics driven by geopolitical factors, the trajectory of capitalism, and other ulterior forces.The authors deepen the link between international relations and food security by exploring the humanitarian and ethical importance of a solution to the problem of hunger; the role of the state as a strategically relevant actor in achieving food security; and the nature of the problem of food security in a world in which the rationale guiding food production and distribution is a capitalist one.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The USSR¿s dissolution resulted in the creation of not only fifteen recognized states but also of four non-recognized statelets: Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria. Their polities comprise networks with state-like elements. Since the early 1990s, the four pseudo-states have been continously dependent on their sponsor countries (Russia, Armenia), and contesting the territorial integrity of their parental nation-states Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova. In 2014, the outburst of Russia-backed separatism in Eastern Ukraine led to the creation of two more para-states, the Donetsk People¿s Republic (DNR) and the Luhansk People¿s Republic (LNR), whose leaders used the experience of older de facto states. In 2020, this growing network of de facto states counted an overall population of more than 4 million people.The essays collected in this volume address such questions as: How do post-Soviet de facto states survive and continue to grow Is there anything specific about the political ecology of Eastern Europe that provides secessionism with the possibility to launch state-making processes in spite of international sanctions and counteractions of their parental states How do secessionist movements become embedded in wider networks of separatism in Eastern and Western Europe What is the impact of secessionism and war on the parental states The contributors are Jan Claas Behrends, Petra Colmorgen, Bruno Coppieters, Nataliia Kasianenko, Alice Lackner, Mikhail Minakov, and Gwendolyn Sasse.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In this study of three of Barbara Pym¿s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women¿s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. Varghaiyan reveals how the rhetoric of women¿s humour enables Pym¿s female characters to survive in the patriarchal culture and to unsettle it.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Kremlin has sought to establish an exclusive Russian sphere of influence in the nations lying between Russia and the EU, from Georgia in 2008 to Ukraine in 2014 and Belarus in 2020. It has extended its control by means of military intervention, territorial annexation, economic pressure and covert activities. Moscow seeks to justify this behavior by referring to an alleged threat from NATO and the Alliance¿s eastward enlargement. In the rhetoric of the Kremlin, NATO expansion is the main source for Moscow¿s stand-off with the West.This collection of essays and analyses by prominent politicians, diplomats, and scholars from the US, Russia, and Europe provides personal perspectives on the sources of the Russian-Western estrangement. They draw on historical experience, including the Russian-Western controversies that intensified with NATO's eastward expansion in the 1990s, and reflect on possible perspectives of reconcilitation within the renewed transatlantic relationship.The volume touches upon alleged and real security guarantees for the countries of Eastern and Central Europe as well as past and current deficits in the Western strategy for dealing with an increasingly hostile Russia. Thus, it contributes to the ongoing Western debate on which policies towards Russia can help to overcome the deep current divisions and to best meet Europe¿s future challenges.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book provides a new understanding of fictocriticism¿a genre stemming from metafiction, écriture feminine, and postmodernism¿via original creative and experimental writing devoted to the issue of the contemporary self, offering a reinvigoration of fictocriticism as a writing strategy.Cholewa explores questions surrounding what fictocriticism is and what it can do, and the essential paradox between theories surrounding fictocriticism suggesting how ¿freeform¿ it is, yet how non-freeform and chameleonic it still seems to be due to its lack of theoretical ¿rules¿. Evaluating fictocriticism as both an art form and as a vehicle for higher theory and criticism, he offers and proposes further academic attention across a plethora of sociocultural, artistic, scientific, educational, political, and historical fields.Propelled by the work(s) of Roland Barthes, the ¿godfather of fictocriticism¿, the ultimate goal of this research and text is to provide new and expanded reading tools that both explain the subjectivity and context of fictocritical writings and simultaneously innovate on the form.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 314 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Il viaggio: un momento prezioso e privilegiato dalle variegate opportunità e dagli imprevedibili sviluppi. La via per penetrare l¿ignoto, per introdursi in se stessi in modo naturale, spontaneo; la via dell¿incontro. Un percorso che, al di là delle ragioni per cui si intraprende, produce sempre una distanza, aprendo nuovi contesti e suscitando in chi ne è protagonista un ventaglio di emozioni.Tutto ciò può essere mirabilmente realizzato, e messo a disposizione di tutti, attraverso la costruzione letteraria. Lo dimostrano gli scritti qui raccolti, introdotti e commentati: testi che videro la luce nel primo trentennio del secolo scorso e che in alcuni casi, del tutto ingiustamente, il tempo ha fatto cadere nell¿oblio, nonostante la loro modernità ed espressività e le possibilità di identificazione che li rendono ampiamente fruibili; testi che dunque è importante mantenere in vita, perché dalla, e per la vita dell¿immaginazione furono creati. Dando respiro e voce all¿idea silenziosa del viaggio, essi ci trasportano sull¿Atlantico di Sfinge, nell¿arsura del Sahara di da Verona, nell¿India dai molti volti di Gozzano, addirittura attraverso la pianura e l¿Appennino tosco-emiliano sull¿agile bicicletta di Panzini, e non solö. Tra loro profondamente eterogenei, sono tutti ugualmente imbevuti della forza trasmessa dall¿obiettivo dell¿impresa, che a sua volta comporta la condivisione sia degli sforzi, sia della progressiva gratificazione che è il congruo premio del personaggio.Recepire, assaporare e far proprie queste appassionanti storie, attualizzandone il messaggio, con la soddisfazione di poterlo arricchire della propria interpretazione personale, sarà allora l¿occasione per una nuova, reiterata partecipazione all¿esperienza del viaggio, senz¿altro una tra le forme più intriganti del vissuto possibile dell¿uomo.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 164 pp. Italienisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In den 1930er-Jahren, nach der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten in Deutschland, geriet das Gebiet der heutigen Slowakischen Republik, das Teil der Tschechoslowakei war, in den Blickpunkt deutscher NS-Ökonomen: Es sollte eine wichtige Rolle beim Aufbau einer neuen ¿deutschen Großraumwirtschaft¿ in Mittel- und Südosteuropa spielen. Nach dem Zerfall der Tschechoslowakei und der Gründung eines unabhängigen slowakischen Staates im März 1939 verstärkten sich die deutsch-slowakischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen weiter. Der neue Staat agierte als politischer und wirtschaftlicher Vasall NS-Deutschlands.Ludovít Hallon zeichnet die Entwicklung der slowakisch-deutschen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen von 1939¿1945 und die wechselseitigen Abhängigkeiten nach. Mit akribischer Archivarbeit gibt er anhand der komplexen Vertragsbeziehungen beider Staaten nicht nur einen Einblick in die nationalsozialistische Außenpolitik, sondern auch in das politische Kalkül des Vasallenstaates und die innenpolitischen Verhältnisse in der noch jungen Republik. Hallon beleuchtet die Rolle deutscher Banken und Unternehmen bei der Enteignung jüdischer Bürger ebenso wie die wirtschaftliche Ausbeutung der Slowakischen Republik durch NS-Deutschland, die sich zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges verschärfte und in der Zerschlagung eines antifaschistischen Aufstands und der Besetzung der Slowakischen Republik durch deutsche Truppen gipfelte.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 306 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Les écrits réunis dans cet ouvrage visent à scruter l¿¿uvre de Jean Copans dans une histoire du temps présent (sans présentisme aucun), à comprendre ce qüil nous dit de l¿anthropologie du contemporain, de l¿actualité d¿une science de l¿Homme. Auteur, engagé dans la vie de multiples institutions, pédagogue reconnu, collaborateur, lecteur et contributeur dans la vie des revues (L¿Homme, Cahiers d'études africaines; Politique africaine, Current Anthropology), chercheur français présent sur les lignes de fronts du dialogue avec l¿anthropologie nord-américaine, la contribution scientifique de Jean Copans, élève de Georges Balandier et disciple intellectuel de Paul Mercier, est remarquable aussi bien par son implication dans la recherche en train de se faire que par ses lectures et par ses commentaires qui en font à la fois un chroniqueur, un observateur et un analyste du temps présent. Alors que l¿anthropologie du contemporain est toujours en quête d¿un épistème, l¿¿uvre de Jean Copans ouvre parfaitement une voie originale et durable, pour comprendre le sens du contemporain en anthropologie. Les contributeurs au volume, auteurs internationalement reconnus, Maurice Aymard, Momar-Coumba Diop, David B. Coplan, Gérald Gaillard, Ingolf Diener, Laurence Espinosa, Frederick Cooper, Paul Diedhiou, Gaye Daffé, Nicolas Monteillet, Cheikh Anta Babou, Pascal Depoorter, Patrice Yengo, Julien Bondaz, Laurence Boutinot, Christophe Baticle, Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo, Benoît Hazard, Abel Kouvouama et Pierre Bouvier proviennent de disciplines variées, de différentes générations de chercheurs et d¿horizons géographiques multiples. Au fil des pages se dévoile l¿étendue des travaux de Jean Copans, depuis ses premières recherches sur les nationalismes et la «mouridologie», en passant par la classe ouvrière en Afrique (noire), ses engagements sur les sécheresses de 1973, jusqüà ses réflexions sur la sociologie politique et sur les intellectuels en Afrique. Sans céder au tropisme de l¿inventaire, l¿ouvrage reprend les observations de ce chroniqueur avisé et analyste pertinent des tumultes du temps présent pour comprendre ses prises de position, parfois hétérodoxes, dans l¿exercice d¿une anthropologie attentive aux tensions entre l¿unité théorique de la discipline, l¿éclatement des objets, des terrains, et de ses définitions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 506 pp. Französisch.