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IN THIS ARTICLE THE AUTHOR CLAIMS A NEW/OLD SPECTRE IS HAUNTING EUROPE - THE SPECTRE OF NATIONALISM. EVERYONE UNDERESTIMATED ITS FORCE AND POTENTIAL BEFORE 1989 AND IN THE POST COLD WAR WORLD. NOW, ALMOST EVERYONE IS STRUGGLING TO COME TO TERMS WITH IT. THIS ARTICLE LOOKS CLOSELY AY GERMANY, WHICH IS BEING ACCUSED OF A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF THAT POWERFUL ETHOS. THE NEONATIONALISTS IN THE SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY (SPD) CRITICIZE THE POST-REUNIFICATION SPD FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE IS THE PARTY'S FAILURE TO DEVELOP A PATRIOTIC IDENTITY. INSTEAD, THEY ARGUE, THE SPD UNDERESTIMATED THE FORCE OF NATIONALISM IN A POSTMODERN WORLD, WHILST IT STILL NURTURES INTERNATIONALIST ILLUSIONS.

Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza has fallen victim to other than humanitarian considerations.

UIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020 ; This study presents the history of European unity in the contemporary period and how the European federation project was being presented for the constitution of the United States of Europe. Then the way to a European Union with one voice, in the history of European integration, in a sovereignty shared by the States, not always uniting all the members, in the same integration, posing the question of a Europe at different speeds. At European crossroads, it is not always possible to reach an understanding among all nations, on how to achieve this European Union. It is here that the question arises of a Europe at various speeds, in which some states agree to further deepen, and others, or due to the lack of possibility of convergence, for eco-nomic reasons, as in the case of the Euro, are left out of certain integration policies. However, what we want to reflect on is that the process of European construction maintains its unity around its fundamental values, although policies can adjust to concrete situations, which do not invalidate their essential nature, ends and objec-tives, or that is, despite these different "speeds", depending on the situation and the will of the states, the project itself always maintains the European Union as a whole. ; publishersversion ; published

Transregional Europe continues a line of argument developed in European Society (2008), Europe Since 1989 (2016) and Contemporary Europe (2017). It integrates work in human geography and planning with related scholarship in history and the other social sciences, covering public perceptions of European macro-regions and EU macro-regional planning. Are Europeans increasingly thinking, like North Americans, of their (sub-) continent in broad North/South and East/West categories? Are the macro-regional constructs such as the Danube or Baltic region identified or constructed by European policy-makers real, imaginary, or both? What is the relation between Europe and Eurasia and their respective political structures? Transregional Europe bridges the gap between stereotypical generalisations about southerners, the 'wild East', and so on and the constructions assembled by national and transnational policy-makers. It should be of interest to students of Europe within a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary programmes: not just sociology or European studies but also human geography, politics, economics, international relations and cultural studies.

This paper examines the discourse around anti-Semitism in Germany since 2000. The discourse makes use of the figure of the Jew for national security purposes (i.e. via the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the trope of the "dangerous Muslim") and the politics of national identity. The article introduces the concept of the "War on Anti-Semitism", an assemblage of policies about national belonging and security that are propelled primarily by white racial anxieties. While the War on Terror is fought against the Muslim Other, or the War on Drugs is fought against predominantly Latinx and Black communities, the War on Anti-Semitism is ostensibly fought on behalf of the racialized Jewish Other. The War on Anti-Semitism serves as a pretext justifying Germany's internal and external security measures by providing a logic for the management of non-white migration in an ethnically diverse yet white supremacist Europe.
In 2000, a new citizenship law fundamentally changed the architecture of belonging and im/migration by replacing the old Wilhelminian jus sanguinis (principle of blood) with a jus soli (principle of residency). In the wake of these changes and the resulting racial anxiety about Germanness, state sponsored civil-society educational programs to fight anti-Semitism emerged, targeting predominantly Muslim non-/citizens. These education programs were developed alongside international debates around the War on Terror and what came to be called "Israel-oriented anti-Semitism" in Germany (more commonly known as "Muslim anti-Semitism").
Triangulated through the enduring legacy of colonial racialization, the Jew and the Muslim are con/figured as enemies in socio-political German discourses. This analysis of the War on Anti-Semitism has serious implications for our understanding of "New Europe". By focusing on the figure of the Jew and the Muslim, the implications of this work transcend national borders and stress the important connection between fantasy, power, and racialization in Germany and beyond.

Are collective memories currently changing in the land where the"past won't go away?" Long dominated by memory of the Holocaustand other Nazi-era crimes, Germany recently witnessed the emergenceof another memory based on the same period of history, butemphasizing German suffering. Most commentators stress the noveltyand catharsis of these discussions of supposedly long-repressedand unworked-through collective traumas and offer predominantlypsychoanalytic explanations regarding why these memories onlynow have surfaced. However, thanks to "presentist" myopia, ideologicalblinders, and the theoretical/political effects of Holocaustmemory, much of this discourse is misplaced because these Germancenteredmemories are emphatically not new. A reexamination ofthe evolution of dominant memories over the postwar period in theFederal Republic of Germany is necessary in order to understandand contextualize more fully these current debates and the changesin dominant memories that may be occurring—tasks this article takesup by utilizing the memory regime framework.

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