Lars Hoffmann - Böcker

"Kajorna över S:t Pauli" är en roman som utspelar sig i Göteborg under sent 1970-tal. Sju år har gått, vi får åter möta Folke och människorna i hans liv. I fristående fortsättning av ”Jag bor Kortedala” hälsas vi välkomna till Redbergsplatsen, Olskroken, Bagaregården, Lunden, Kålltorp… Kärlek, vänskap, arbete, biografer, Kaféer, dricksfontäner, gnisslande spårvagnar och musik i den bästa av världar ett år i slutet av 1970-talet. Under det skenbart stillsamma livet finns en oro: hur ska det gå? Vilka val gör vi? Och över kyrktornet flockas kajorna, vakar och samlar sig för natten.

In recent years, Turkey has become an ever more important actor on the international stage. However, Turkey-EU relations still remain in a state of flux. The EU and Turkey seem to have moved apart in their political aspirations after Turkey’s EU accession talks faced a stalemate over the Republic of Cyprus’ EU accession as a divided island. Likewise, both Turkey and the EU have recently faced new socio-political realities, such as the Eurozone crisis, the Arab Spring and the Turkish government’s shifting foreign policy towards the Middle East region. Such developments have rendered EU membership potentially a less desirable prospect for an increasingly self-confident Turkey. In light of these recent events, this book explores the evolving challenges and opportunities facing the more than 50-year old Turkey-EU relationship. This volume focuses particularly on the role of the Cyprus issue, the potential for closer Turkey-EU cooperation in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, the impact on Turkish citizens and politics, as well as the concept of Europeanization, especially in relation to Turkey’s democratic reform process. In drawing together perspectives from the disciplines of international relations, political science and law, this book offers a unique, interdisciplinary outlook towards the changing role of Europe in Turkey’s political discourse.This book will be of interest to researchers and students of Turkey-EU relations, EU external relations Law, Europeanization and Turkish and Middle Eastern politics.

In recent years, Turkey has become an ever more important actor on the international stage. However, Turkey-EU relations still remain in a state of flux. The EU and Turkey seem to have moved apart in their political aspirations after Turkey’s EU accession talks faced a stalemate over the Republic of Cyprus’ EU accession as a divided island. Likewise, both Turkey and the EU have recently faced new socio-political realities, such as the Eurozone crisis, the Arab Spring and the Turkish government’s shifting foreign policy towards the Middle East region. Such developments have rendered EU membership potentially a less desirable prospect for an increasingly self-confident Turkey. In light of these recent events, this book explores the evolving challenges and opportunities facing the more than 50-year old Turkey-EU relationship. This volume focuses particularly on the role of the Cyprus issue, the potential for closer Turkey-EU cooperation in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, the impact on Turkish citizens and politics, as well as the concept of Europeanization, especially in relation to Turkey’s democratic reform process. In drawing together perspectives from the disciplines of international relations, political science and law, this book offers a unique, interdisciplinary outlook towards the changing role of Europe in Turkey’s political discourse.This book will be of interest to researchers and students of Turkey-EU relations, EU external relations Law, Europeanization and Turkish and Middle Eastern politics.

The wider project of which this book is a part, set out to investigate the constitutional structures of the EU Member States. As part of this comparative enterprise this work sheds light on the intricate interconnections which exist between Member State governments and their national parliaments. Although in many cases governments only exist and function as a consequence of parliamentary support, it is the executive that is usually the focal point of political life and that sets the nation's political course and drives forward its legislative agenda. Arguably, this perception is based on the political customs that surround government/parliament relations rather than the constitutional fundament upon which they are built. This book therefore provides an in-depth analysis of how these two institutions, the executive and the legislature, relate to one another from a constitutional law as well as a constitutional politics perspective.To do so this the work takes a comparative approach to examining how electoral laws, government formation processes, legislative practices, executive prerogatives, and the scrutiny of EU legislation shape the role governments and parliaments play and how they interact across the EU's Member States.

Wie lassen sich ostdeutsche Jugendliche im Jahr 2010 am treffendsten beschreiben? Ist die heutige Jugend resigniert und rechtsextrem oder optimistisch und tolerant? Die Ergebnisse der siebten Erhebung der im Jahr 1991 begonnenen Zeitreihenstudie „Jugend in Brandenburg“ zeigen, dass die Wertorientierungen, Einstellungen und Zukunftspläne der Jugendlichen in Ostdeutschland im zwanzigsten Jahr der Deutschen Einheit nicht mehr den alten Klischees entsprechen: Die Jugend ist besser als ihr Ruf, und sie reagiert sensibel auf den gesellschaftlichen Wandel. Das Buch wendet sich sowohl an Sozialwissenschaftler als auch an Interessierte aus den Bereichen Politik, Schule, Jugendhilfe, Polizei und Justiz.

In Brjansk, wo im September 1941 der deutsche Angriff auf Moskau begann, befassten sich russische und deutsche Wissenschaftler mit der Frage, inwieweit in der bewegten Geschichte des 20.