Eckart Conze - Böcker

This book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political as well as cultural responses to both the arms race of the 1980s and the ascent of nuclear energy as a second, controversial dimension of the nuclear age. Diverse in its topics and disciplinary approaches, Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s makes a fundamental contribution to the emerging historiography of the 1980s as a whole. As of now, the era's nuclear tensions have been addressed by scholars mostly from the standpoint of security studies, focused on the geo-strategic deliberations of political elites and at the level of state policy. Yet nuclear anxieties, as the essays in this volume document, were so pervasive that they profoundly shaped the era's culture, its habits of mind, and its politics, far beyond the domain of policy.

This book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political as well as cultural responses to both the arms race of the 1980s and the ascent of nuclear energy as a second, controversial dimension of the nuclear age. Diverse in its topics and disciplinary approaches, Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s makes a fundamental contribution to the emerging historiography of the 1980s as a whole. As of now, the era's nuclear tensions have been addressed by scholars mostly from the standpoint of security studies, focused on the geo-strategic deliberations of political elites and at the level of state policy. Yet nuclear anxieties, as the essays in this volume document, were so pervasive that they profoundly shaped the era's culture, its habits of mind, and its politics, far beyond the domain of policy.

For more than a century, the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 has remained an object of historical scrutiny. As an attempt to consolidate peace in the wake of World War I and to prevent future conflict, it was instrumental in shaping political and social dynamics both nationally and internationally. Yet, in spite of its implications for global conflict, little consideration has been given to the way the Paris Peace Conference constructed a new global order. In this illuminating and geographically wide-ranging reassessment, The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 reconsiders how this watershed event, its diplomatic negotiations and the peace treaties themselves gave rise to new dynamics of global power and politics. In doing so it highlights the way in which the forces of nationality and imperiality interacted with, and were reshaped by, the peace.

The bourgeois sky of values ​​is just being rediscovered: evocations of a new bourgeoisie have filled the media with very different political stripes in recent years. But is there still a social formation in Germany and in Europe after the bourgeois age that stands in the tradition of the bourgeoisie? In order to get closer to the question of bourgeois continuities, but also to redefine "bourgeoisie", the contributions seek out certain fields of action which 19th century research has characterized as "bourgeois". The focus is on five such "places": civil society, everyday culture, education and training, business, politics and the state. The publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht draws attention to the fact that the article by Holger Nehring in this volume in some places both in the text as well as in the accompanying footnotes, takes over text passages and documents without the necessary evidence verbatim or only slightly paraphrased. Read our statement:

Das Pfadfinden als Erziehungs- und Bildungsidee ist über 100 Jahre alt und heute in mehr als 200 Ländern verbreitet. Knoten knüpfen, Feuer machen, ein Zeltdorf errichten, den Wald erkunden, auf Fahrt gehen – Kinder und Jugendliche auf der ganzen Welt gestalten ihre Freizeit mit und bei den Pfadfindern. Die pädagogischen Grundkonzepte und historischen Wandlungsprozesse dieser weltumspannenden Bewegung wurden jedoch bislang von der Forschung kaum berücksichtigt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes bündeln mit interdisziplinärem Zugang Wissen und Forschungsergebnisse über die Pfadfinderbewegung in Deutschland und analysieren die Erziehungs- und Bildungsaktivitäten im Kontext von Lokalität und Internationalität. Sie nehmen Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft des Pfadfindens in den Blick und fokussieren sowohl die historische Entwicklung vor dem Hintergrund der Dynamik gesellschaftspolitischer Rahmenbedingungen als auch die Gestaltung zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts.

This book presents a selection of revised and updated papers presented in September 2018 at the International Conference ‘Rethinking the Crime of Aggression: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives’, which was held in Marburg, Germany, and hosted by the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials (ICWC). In light of the activation of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court concerning the crime of aggression, international experts from various disciplines such as law, history, the social sciences, psychology and economics came together to enhance the understanding of this complex and challenging matter and thereby opened a cross-disciplinary dialogue regarding aggressive war and the crime of aggression: a dialogue that not only addresses the historical genesis of the current situation, the content of the new aggression provisions, their implementation in practice and their possible regulatory effects, but also instigates perspectives for investigating future developments and issues. Stefanie Bock is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, International Criminal Law and Comparative Law in the Department of Law at the Philipps University of Marburg in Germany and Co-Director of the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials. Eckart Conze is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History in the Department of History at the Philipps University of Marburg in Germany and Co-Director of the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials.