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Mit den ""Frankfurter Dokumenten"" erteilten die westalliierten Militärgouverneure den Ministerpräsidenten ihrer Besatzungszonen im Juli 1948 den Auftrag zur Ausarbeitung einer Verfassung für den Weststaat. Die Autorin stellt den Beitrag der Länder zur Entstehung der Bundesrepublik in das Zentrum ihrer Untersuchung und fragt nach den Motiven und Interessen hinter den Entscheidungen. Neben dem Aspekt der Verfassung behandelt sie das Problem des Besatzungsstatuts und der Ländergrenzenreform. Ihre Studie zeigt, welche bedeutende Leistung Ministerpräsidenten 1948 vollbrachten: Trotz länderpolitisc

Discourses of danger are a significant part of security & identity politics. They serve well for analyzing the construction of both security through identity politics & identity through security policy. In this article, the declaration of the Vilnius Group of Feb 2003 is used as a point of departure. The author discusses the construction of state & national identities in Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania throughout the 1990s by means of security policy, danger discourse, & mechanisms of exclusion. He argues that the replacement of Russia as a threat to Baltic security (in documents & policy manifestations) is a reflection of a relaxation of Baltic-Russian relations as well as an ingredient of the pre-accession strategy toward NATO. Political-military threats are replaced by cultural ones, while Russia, hitherto frequently represented as a concrete danger, gives way to abstractions such as "international terrorism.". Adapted from the source document.

The new form of international terrorism shows complex relations to the capitalist globalisation process. It is argued that the present international system - despite of the absolute economic and military dominance of the 'strong states' under US-leadership - is marked by a fundamental lack of political hegemony. The crisis of politics resulting from this 'non hegemonial' situation is based in a fundamental contradiction of the neoliberal globalisation project. The reactions of the dominant states to the terrorist attacks are suited to deepen and to intensify this political crisis. (Prokla / FUB)

Hans-Henning Schröder ; Eberhard Schneider ; Zsfassung in engl. Sprache ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 4 Z 68.247-1992,16/28

hrsg. von Ronald G. Asch . ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- PVA 2001.5218

The East European states have had to confront five challenges in establishing democratic control over their armies: they have had to overcome structures inherited from the socialist era, prevent independent action by the army, ensure that the army could not be misused, build up democratic norms & decision-making processes, & gain civilian expertise. For a long time, democratic control over the armed forces did not advance beyond the level of formal institution building. It became clear that the main problem was not the need to prevent military intervention in politics, but rather, to construct effective mechanisms guaranteeing civilian input, control, & feedback. Adapted from the source document.

The commissions on the surveillance and registration of Swedish communists by the military and police secret services have published their reports. Although clear-cut and realistic images of the communist enemy obviously have been lacking, there has been quite some activity by the security forces. Because of dubious suspicion, people engaging in leftwing political affairs – not necessarily sympathising with communism or the Sovjet Union – have been refused or lost their jobs. Both reports leave many questions open, and often they do not even ask the relevant ones. There is the need for another commission combining expertise on methods in historical research and leftwing politics in Sweden.