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24 Verschwundene. Deportiert aus dem Haus, in dem Ingke Brodersen wohnt. Ein "Judenhaus". Einige flüchten, andere verstecken sich. Von ihnen erzählt die Historikerin. Und von denen, die heute Zuflucht suchen. Hanns-Stephan ist zwölf, als er 1939 in London Liverpool Station auf dem Bahnsteig steht. Gerettet mit dem Kindertransport. Seine Mutter stirbt im Bombenhagel. Sein Vater Siegfried Jacob taucht unter und überlebt. Ihm gehört das Haus, in das andernorts vertriebene Juden zwangseingewiesen werden. Ein sogenanntes "Judenhaus", wie es auch in anderen Ländern Europas zu finden war. Als Ingke Brodersen in eine Wohnung im vierten Stock genau dieses Hauses einzieht, weiß sie nichts von Martha, Clara und Bertha. In einer beeindruckenden Recherche rekonstruiert sie die Lebenswege der Verfolgten. Und sie wendet sich denen zu, die heute Vertriebene sind: Safed aus Bosnien oder Aziz und Rana aus Kabul. So ist ihr Buch ein bewegendes Zeugnis des Gedenkens und gelebter Mitmenschlichkeit

"Unguarded Border: American Émigrés in Canada during the Vietnam War examines one of the largest exoduses from the United States, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when over 50,000 Americans immigrated to Canada during the Vietnam War. For many this emigration was the best way for them to resist military service. Women and non-draft-age men also left to accompany draft-age men or to escape the political and social atmosphere of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s with which they were at odds. Author Donald W. Maxwell provides a definitive history of this exodus that is compelling, accessible, and brimming with insightful observations. Canada was an attractive destination. It was very easy for Americans to enter. U.S. residents needed no passport to enter Canada and could, from 1966 to 1972, apply to immigrate to Canada from within Canada. Canadian immigration officials refused to extradite military deserters and draft resisters if they otherwise qualified as immigrants. Émigrés who succeeded in Canada did so by identifying a specific place in which they could enjoy life on their own terms while eschewing the nation and the responsibilities it places on its citizens. Further, they embraced cosmopolitanism, detached from civic engagement and political identification, which they exercised by traveling beyond the bounds of their own country, by accepting aid from religious groups, and by pursuing higher education with fewer restrictions than in the United States. By delving into rich archival resources and firsthand oral histories, Unguarded Border reclaims the multifaceted and complex history of these U.S. émigrés who might otherwise be lost to history"--

Introduction (David Boucher, Alexandros Koutsoukis, David Reidy, David Sullivan, Peter Sutch, and Howard Williams) -- Part I: The Ancient World -- Chapter 1. The Chinese Contribution to Theorizing International Relations (Rosita Dellios) -- Chapter 2.Thucydides and Social Processes: Beyond Tragedy (Alexandros Koutsoukis) -- Chapter 3. Stoicism, Cicero and Relations Among Nations (David Boucher) -- Part II: Early Christianity and Early Modern Christianity -- Chapter 4. Augustine, Realism, and their Revealed Truth (Huw L. Williams) -- Chapter 5. The Roman Empire and the Universal Church (Cary C. Nederman) -- Chapter 6. Crusader-Muslim Relations: The Power of Diplomacy in a Troubling Age (Suleiman A. Mourad) -- Chapter 7. The Conceptual Challenge: Europe and the New World (Camilla Boisen) -- Part III: The Westphalian Moment -- Chapter 8.Dynamic cosmopolis: The "Westphalian world order" and beyond (Georg Cavallar) -- Chapter 9.The Cosmopolitan Challenge: Cosmopolitan Ideas in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Oliver Eberl) -- Chapter 10. The Positivist Challenge, the Rise of Realism, and the Demise of Nationalism (Felix Rösch) -- Part IV: Colonialism, Decolonisation and Postcolonialism -- Chapter 11. Amílcar Cabral and the International: Race, Colonialism, Liberation (Branwen Gruffydd Jones) -- Chapter 12. Imperialism and its critics (Demin Duan and Howard Williams) -- Chapter 13. The African Challenge and its Aftermath: Colonial Legacies and the (Re)making of the International Legal Order (Sara Dezalay) -- Chapter 14. New Imperialism (Brett Bowden) -- Part V: Progress and Promise of International Law -- Chapter 15. Practicing Humanity: Humanisation and Contemporary International Political Theory (Peter Sutch and Oliver Pierce) -- Chapter 16. Hegel and International Political Theory (Tony Burns) -- Chapter 17. Just War Theory: Past, Present, and Future (Cian O'Driscoll) -- Chapter 18. Three Axial Ages of Religion, Law and Global Constitutionalism (Hauke Brunkhorst) -- Part VI: Challenges to Sovereignty, Territory and Borders -- Chapter 19. Conceptual Foundations of Sovereignty and the Rise of the Modern State (Silviya Lechner) -- Chapter 20. Nationalism and Intrastate Diversities (Andrew Vincent) -- Chapter 21. Universal Obligations: Jus Cogens and Obligations (Erga Omnes Christian Tomuschat) -- Chapter 22. Self-Determination and Secession: An Act of Collective Emancipation (Costas Laoutides) -- Chapter 23. Migration Across Borders (Gillian Brock) -- Chapter 24. Remedying Cosmopolitan Wrongs: Indigenous Peoples, Kant, and Historical Injustice (Timothy Waligore) -- Chapter 25.Women and War (Caron E. Gentry and Rebecca Wilson).

"While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the 1970s, there remains much debate about how to understand its significance and even how to define it. Is it best seen as an ideology of free market fundamentalism, a series of policy decisions gutting the public sector and breaking unions, or as an era of capitalist development with its own logic. Bringing his considerable intellectual breadth and characteristic generosity to bear on this question, Neil Davidson shows that to truly appreciate what is unique about neoliberalism, and what marks it out as a continuation of capitalism more generally, it is necessary to examine its social dimensions. What Was Neoliberalism? holds fast to Davidson's conviction that thoroughly understanding the past means being better prepared for the struggles of the future"--

An important task for scholars of cultural studies and the humanities, as well as for artistic creators, is to refigure the frames and concepts by which the world as we know it is kept in place. Without these acts of refiguration, the future could only ever be more of the (violent) same. In close dialogue with literary and cinematic works and practices, the essays of this volume help refigure and rethink such pressing contemporary issues as migration, inequality, racism, post-coloniality, political violence and human-animal relations. A range of fresh perspectives are introduced, amounting to a call for intellectuals to remain critically engaged with the social and planetary