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Seit einigen Jahren lässt sich eine Renaissance der politischen Kulturforschung beobachten, wofür nach Meinung des Autors zwei Gründe ausschlaggebend sind. Erstens wiederholt sich die Erfahrung, welche die Begründer der politischen Kulturforschung bereits vor über 60 Jahren gemacht hatten: Demokratische Institutionen allein garantieren keine stabile demokratische Entwicklung. Zum zweiten hat seit den Terroranschlägen von 9/11 die Frage nach der Rolle kultureller Faktoren in der Politik an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Debatte um den "Kampf der Kulturen" gemäß Samuel Huntington hat jedoch gezeigt, dass es für die politische Kulturforschung von zentraler Bedeutung ist, was sie unter Kultur versteht. Nicht zuletzt deshalb sind zahlreiche Versuche unternommen worden, den Kulturbegriff zu systematisieren und zu definieren. Die Renaissance der politischen Kulturforschung ist jedoch nicht mit einer konzeptionellen, theoretischen und methodischen Kontinuität zur klassischen Politischen Kulturforschung in der Tradition von Almond und Verba gleichzusetzen. Vielmehr wurden auch in der Politikwissenschaft im Zuge des "cultural turn" kulturwissenschaftliche Theorien rezipiert und die politische Kulturforschung neu fundiert. Der Autor diskutiert in seinem Beitrag zunächst beide Stränge der politischen Kulturforschung und zeigt anschließend am Beispiel des Nationenbegriffs, wie sich eine kulturwissenschaftlich informierte politische Kulturforschung ihrem Gegenstand nähert. (ICI2)

This report supplements CRS Report RL34438, International Violence Against Women: U.S. Response and Policy Issues. It provides an overview of recent U.N. efforts to address VAW by the Secretary-General and highlights key U.N. interagency efforts. The report also discusses selected U.N. funds, programs, and agencies that address international violence against women. It does not measure the extent to which VAW is directly addressed or is part of a larger initiative or program.

THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT NATIONALISM AS A GENERAL PHENOMENON MUST BE STUDIED NOT ONLY AS AN ISOLATED CASE WITHIN A PARTICULAR COUNTRY, BUT AS AN INTERACTION BY WHICH ONE NATIONALITY INSPIRES ITS NEARBY NEIGHBORS TO NATIONALIST ACTIVITY THROUGH MUTUAL COMMUNICATION AMONG GROUPS. THIS STUDY USES THE EASTER REBELLION OF 1916 IN IRELAND AS A POINT OF REFERENCE. TO ILLUSTRATE THE IMPLICATIONS OF CROSS-REFERENTIAL NATIONALISM, THE AUTHOR EXAMINES REACTIONS TO THE IRISH QUESTION AMONG CATALAN NATIONALISTS IN SPAIN, AFRO-AMERICAN NATIONALISTS IN THE US, AS WELL AS TWO FIGURES FROM BRITISH COLONIAL JAMAICA.

Transformative communities and enlarged loyalties. When philosophy paints its blue on gray : irony and the pragmatist enlightenment / Robert Brandom ; The unexamined frontier : Dewey, pragmatism, and America enlarged / David H. Kim ; Pragmatism and solidarity with the past / Max Pensky ; Mead on cosmopolitanism, sympathy, and war / Mitchell Aboulafia ; Deliberating about the past : decentering deliberative democracy / James Bohman -- The racial nation. Race, nation, and nation-state : Tocqueville on (U.S.) American democracy / Lucius T. Outlaw ; William James on nation and race / Harvey Cormier ; Race, culture, and black self-determination / Tommie Shelby ; Prophetic vision and trash talkin' : pragmatism, feminism, and racial privilege / Shannon Sullivan -- The tragedy and comedy of empire. The unpredictable American empire / Richard Rorty ; Transcending the "gory cradle of humanity" : war, loyalty, and civic action in Royce and James / Eduardo Mendieta ; Pragmatism and war / Robert Westbrook ; Laughter against hubris : a preemptive strike / Cynthia Willett ; Interview with Cornel West, conducted by Eduardo Mendieta

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Modern Identities -- 1. Resurrecting Manhood: Sin Ch'ae-ho -- 2. The Quest for Feeling: Yi Kwang-su -- Part Two: Women -- 3. Signs of Love for the Nation -- 4. Devoted Wives, Divided Nation -- Part Three: Men -- 5. Park Chung-hee's Agrarian Heroes -- 6. Students and the Redemption of History -- 7. Monumental Histories -- Epilogue: Kim Dae-jung's Triumph -- Notes -- References -- Index

Under the pressure of internal and external developments the South African government dropped what had been its dominant concept of a segregated multi-nation state, announcing instead the new basic concept of an integrated one-nation state. This basic concept, however, does not imply that a one-nation South Africa will be governed according to democratic criteria and the principle of majority rule without regard to race. The new concept calls into question institutions and practices of apartheid that have developed over many decades and it will inevitably lead to the search for a new national identity among whites as well. (DÜI-Sen)

Constructing humanitarian intervention -- The emergence of human rights discourse in the Security Council: domestic repression in Iraq, 1990-1992 -- State collapse in Somalia and the emergence of Security Council humanitarian intervention -- From nonintervention to humanitarian intervention: contested stories about sovereignty and victimhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The perpetrator state and Security Council inaction: the case of Rwanda -- International law, human rights, and state sovereignty: the Security Council response to killings in Kosovo -- Complex conflicts and obstacles to rescue in Darfur, Sudan -- The responsibility to protect, individual criminal accountability, and humanitarian intervention in Libya -- Causal stories, human rights, and the evolution of sovereignty

[v.1] On the rights and duties of nations in time of peace.--[v.2] On the rights and duties of nations in time of war. ; Mode of access: Internet.

[v. 1] On the rights and duties of nations in time of peace.--[v. 2] On the rights and duties of nations in time of war. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Given that religion can contribute to the unity and integration of societies as well as to the reinforcement of division within societies, the role of Christianity in the process of nation building in West-Africa is studied. The article describes salient aspects of the relations between the missionaries and the political administrations and European traders, the cultural and political aims of the missionaries and the role of the Independent Churches and societies. It is concluded that the Christian Churches contributed in various ways to the processes of nation-building and nationalism in West-Africa. This section is followed with an account of the relations between the various church formations and the state in West-Africa. The whole article is concluded with some reflection on contemporary tendencies towards measuring the value of a religion in terms of the contribution it can make to national development and movement in the direction of civil religion.