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Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian guru-figures (Gandhi, Tagore and Vivekananda) and their white disciples serviced a larger politics of respectability, tied to exigencies of Indian cultural and nationalist politics. Indophile deployments in transnational projects like the abolition of indentured labour and global Hinduism, while anti-colonial, were not quite emancipatory. Such deployments - in Africa, America, Fiji and India - frequently reproduced deep hierarchies around race, class, caste and gender. Unifying distinct strands of western discipleship within a shared tradition of Indophilia, Passages Through India offers a new methodological framework that situates self and subjectivity as central to processes of global mobility and migration

Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine hat Europa radikal verändert und eine epochale Verschiebung der Weltentwicklungen ausgelöst. Deutschlands lang gepflegte Illusionen über Krieg und Frieden haben das Land und Europa erpressbar und verwundbar gemacht. Der Sicherheitsexperte Christian Mölling analysiert die sicherheitspolitische Lage und zeigt, was sich ändern muss, damit uns nicht fatale Folgen drohen. Das geht weit über eine besser ausgerüstete Bundeswehr hinaus. Seit Trump steht fest, dass die transatlantische Partnerschaft besser auf der eigenen Stärke Europas als auf blindem Vertrauen in die USA beruhen sollte. Putins Imperialismus und Chinas Weltmachtambitionen setzen auf das Recht des Stärkeren, ökonomische Abhängigkeiten und politische Spaltung. Europa muss sich auf eine jahrzehntelange Auseinandersetzung mit autoritären Regimen vorbereiten. Überfällig ist nicht eine neue Friedens-, sondern eine Sicherheits- und Konfliktordnung. Dabei geht es nicht primär um einen militärischen Konflikt, sondern um politische, technologische und ökonomische Handlungsfähigkeit und Selbstbestimmung Deutschlands und Europas und den Umgang mit dem Klimawandel. Deutschland und Europa brauchen eine Strategie, um die eigenen Interessen in einer dauerhaft unfriedlichen Welt durchzusetzen, und die bereits künftige Konflikte und Machtverschiebungen mitdenkt. In diesem Buch beschreibt Christian Mölling, wie diese neue Sicherheits- und Konfliktordnung für Europa aussehen kann, auf welche mittel- und langfristigen Auseinandersetzungen wir über den Ukrainekrieg hinaus vorbereitet sein müssen und welche Rolle der Frieden darin spielt

Drawing inspiration from the work of Maria Todorova, Re-Imagining the Balkans displays the breadth of Balkan Studies today in twenty-nine chapters authored by a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars. The volume seeks to address how to incorporate the regions of East and Southeast Europe into broader scholarly trends and epistemological currents, while retaining local and regional expertise. The contributions include new research on historical legacies, (geo)politics, generations, memory, and cultural transfers, fresh methodological and historiographical interventions, and novel pedagogical insights. Collectively, the authors display cutting-edge knowledge, orient the general reader in the state of the field, and demonstrate the importance of Southeast Europe for the study of European, transnational, and global history

Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, dictators and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on military decision-making, from over-ambitious goals to disregarding intelligence, terrain, or enemy capabilities. This not only wastes the lives of civilians, the enemy and one's own soldiers, but also fails to achieve geopolitical objectives, and usually lays the seeds for more wars down the line. Conflict scholar and former soldier Mike Martin takes the reader through the hard, elegant logic to fighting a conclusive interstate war that solves geopolitical problems, and reduces future conflict. In cool and precise prose, he outlines how to orchestrate military forces, from infantry to information, and from strategy to tactics.

The coastal belts and hinterlands of East Africa and South Asia have historically shared a number of cultural traits, commodities and cosmologies circulated on the wings of the monsoon winds. The forced and voluntary migrations of Asians and Africans across the Indian Ocean littoral over several centuries have reverberated in the memories, literatures, travelogues and religious, architectural, and socio-political imaginations of both the regions. And, they continue to do so in various forms and platforms.This book explores nuances of various narratives on these long-term transcultural exchanges with a special focus on India. It explores the ways in which Africa and Africans have been narrated in South Asian history and culture in order to unravel the nuanced layers of reflexive, rhetorical, stereotypical, populist, racialist, racist and casteist frameworks that informed diverse narratives in vernacular texts, songs, films and newspaper reports. Emphasizing the interdisciplinary approaches of narratology, Afro-Asian studies, and Indian Ocean studies, the contributors enunciate how the African lives in South Asia have been selectively remembered or systematically forgotten. Through multi-sited ethnographies, multilingual archival researches and interdisciplinary frameworks, each chapter provides theoretical engagements on the basis of empirical research in such regions as Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Hyderabad and Mumbai as well as in Sri Lanka. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture

In Poland, contemporary political actors have constructed a narrative of Polish history since 1989 in which Polish and Jewish involvement with communism has created a national concept of we. Weaponizing the Past explores the resulting implications of national belonging through a lens of collective memory. Taking a constructivist approach to electoral politics and nation making in Poland s past, this volume s dual line of inquiry articulates why and how elites politicize the past, what effect this politicization produces, and contextualizes this politicization to illustrate contemporary production of anti-Semitism