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Jerusalem ist ein zentraler Streitpunkt in dem seit gut hundert Jahren andauernden israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikt. Obgleich es in der Vergangenheit erhebliche Annäherungen gab, scheiterten alle Bemühungen. Die heutige Situation bietet kaum Anlass für Hoffnung. (APuZ)

It has become common practice to draw on the Social Science Citation Index (SS-CI) to assess the quality of political science journals. While this seems to be adequate for journals published in English, it appears to be inappropriate with regard to non-English journals such as the German-language Zeitschrift fur Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB). For this reason our assessment of the quality of the ZIB draws on two alternative criteria: we analyze on the one hand whether the ZIB has developed its own substantive profile, i.e. a thematic core which coincides with theoretical and methodological pluralism; and we analyze on the other hand ZIB's academic relevance, i.e. whether it is used for publication and cited by a heterogenous community of relevant IR scholars. The ZIB fares pretty well against both criteria, thus testifying the high quality standards it has reached in the two decades of its existence. ZIB publications seem to be key for academic careers in German IR, perhaps more so than some publications in English speaking SSCI-listed journals. Adapted from the source document.

Ausgangspunkt des Beitrags ist die Frage, ob der Begriff des Konflikts die "Leerstelle" zwischen den neuen Sicherheitsbegriffen auf der einen sowie den Beschreibungen des weltpolitischen Systems bzw. der Weltgesellschaft auf der anderen Seite füllen kann. Zu diesem Zweck nimmt der Beitrag einige Konzepte von Weltgesellschaft näher in Augenschein, vor allem den Weltgesellschaftsbegriff im Rahmen des Ansatzes der "international society" der so genannten Englischen Schule (Barry Buzan 2004), den Weltgesellschaftsbegriff der "Forschergruppe Weltgesellschaft" sowie den Weltgesellschaftsbegriff in der Luhmann'schen Theorietradition. Die Untersuchung verdeutlicht, dass alle Traditionen von Weltgesellschaftsanalyse genug Anhaltspunkte liefern, dass sie nicht nur als Konflikttheorien fungieren, sondern auch als Weltgesellschaftstheorien zur Identifizierung und Analyse konkreter Konflikte und Konfliktformationen in den Internationalen Beziehungen. In diesem Sinne lässt sich von den Weltgesellschaftstheorien ein Beitrag zur Füllung der eingangs erwähnten Leerstelle erwarten, die der Konfliktbegriff in den auf die postnationale Konstellation gerichteten "new security studies" bisweilen markiert. In einer post-nationalen Konstellation geht es eben nicht nur um Sicherheit und Risiko, sondern in einem viel grundlegenderen Sinne auch um Konflikt, sowohl auf empirischer als auch theoretischer Ebene. (ICH)

1. Middle East Christianity in World Society: A Historical-Sociological Perspective on the Past and Present of Global/Local Entanglements -- 2. Eastern Christian Subjectivities and Islam's Hegemony in the Arab World -- 3. Between Communalism and State-building: Lebanon's Christians and the New Arab Disorder -- 4. "Modernization in the Name of God": Christian Missionaries, Global Modernity, and the Formation of Modern Subjectivities in the Middle East -- 5. World Society Contexts of the Politics of Being Christian in the Middle East -- 6. Sectarianism and Terrorism: The Libya Beheadings and ISIS Violence Against Egypt's Copts -- 7. Pilgrim Popes: How the Catholic Church Makes a Difference in World Society and the Middle East.

Der Reader beinhaltet Beiträge aus der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung sowie der Sicherheitsforschung, und er bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Theorie und Empirie in diesen Forschungsbereichen.In diesem Sammelband kann die Entwicklung und Genese theoretischer Ansätze nachvollzogen werden. Auch verdeutlicht der Reader, wie neue Forschungsgegenstände in diesen Forschungsfeldern erschlossen wurden.Durch kommentierte Bibliographien werden die Beiträge in den Kontext aktueller Debatten gesetzt. Damit eignet sich der Reader zur Konzeption von Referaten und Kursen. Er kann sowohl in Einführungs- als auch weiterführenden Seminaren als Grundlage verwendet werden.Mit Beiträgen von:Thorsten Bonacker, Aurel Croissant, Christopher Daase, Sandra Dieterich, Anna Geis, Andreas Hasenclever, Hartwig Hummel, Simon Koschut, Stefan Marschall, Peter Mayer, Thomas Metz, Harald Müller, Klaus Schlichte, Niklas Schörnig, Nicolas Schwank, Alexander Spencer, Christoph Trinn, Uwe Wagschal und Lisbeth Zimmermann

Klappentext: It is generally assumed that regional integration leads to stability and peace. This book is a systematic study of the impact of European integration on the transformation of border conflicts. It provides a theoretical framework centred on four 'pathways' of impact and applies them to five cases of border conflicts: Cyprus, Ireland, Greece/Turkey, Israel/Palestine and various conflicts on Russia's border with the EU. The contributors suggest that integration and association provide the EU with potentially powerful means to influence border conflicts, but that the EU must constantly re-adjust its policies depending on the dynamics of each conflict. Their findings reveal the conditions upon which the impact of integration rests and challenge the widespread notion that integration is necessarily good for peace. This book will appeal to scholars and students of international relations, European politics, and security studies studying European integration and conflict analysis.

It is generally assumed that regional integration leads to stability and peace. This book is a systematic study of the impact of European integration on the transformation of border conflicts. It provides a theoretical framework centred on four 'pathways' of impact and applies them to five cases of border conflicts: Cyprus, Ireland, Greece/Turkey, Israel/Palestine and various conflicts on Russia's border with the EU. The contributors suggest that integration and association provide the EU with potentially powerful means to influence border conflicts, but that the EU must constantly re-adjust its policies depending on the dynamics of each conflict. Their findings reveal the conditions upon which the impact of integration rests and challenge the widespread notion that integration is necessarily good for peace. This book will appeal to scholars and students of international relations, European politics, and security studies studying European integration and conflict analysis

In our article, we analyze gender norms in Turkey. We are interested in how such norms are transformed or reified in light of global/local interplays in contemporary world society. The case of Turkey is usually studied with a view to a persistent gap between national/global constitutional and legal provisions that promote gender equality, on the one hand, and a seemingly resistant everyday reality, on the other. While our research in the Turkish province of Hatay confirms that such a gap persists, we nevertheless detect meaningful transformations of gender norms in everyday practice. Our research, which focuses in women's positioning in higher education, indicates that such transformations occur in particular through everyday spatial practices, inter alia through what we refer to as local tactics of mobility by women seeking higher education. While there is no linear and direct diffusion of gender norms from the global/national to the local, we nevertheless observe significant global/local interplays to which these local norm transformations relate. These interplays can be well captured on the basis of constructivist theories of modernity. More specifically, by drawing from theories of world society and global governmentality, we conceive of these spatial practices as a diffusion of forms of (female) modern subjectivities, engendered by modern technologies of the Self, through which women in Hatay locate themselves in relation to a world society shaped by societal differentiation and social exclusion. Transformations or reifications of gender norms in Hatay are thus not so much the result of a direct diffusion of global gender norms. They are rather triggered indirectly through spatial practices on the local level that are, in turn, embedded within a world societal horizon that promotes modern subjectivities in response to societal differentiation and social exclusion.