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Vier Jahrzehnte hatten die beiden Supermächte nichts Dringlicheres zu tun, als mit gigantischem Aufwand die gegenseitige Vernichtung vorzubereiten. Wie war es möglich, dass sich die USA vor einer nie ernsthaft drohenden kommunistischen Invasion fürchteten? Und wie kam es umgekehrt zur sowjetischen Nervosität Anfang der 1980er Jahre, als man in Moskau mit einem nuklearen Überraschungsschlag rechnete? Was waren es für Menschen, welche die Geheimdienste aufbauten und wie dachten die Militärs wirklich? Der Autor befasste sich aus Passion ein Jahrzehnt mit der Geschichte von Geheimdiensten im Kalten Krieg. Dabei entdeckte er viele Begebenheiten, die jedenfalls nicht in deutscher Sprache erzählt wurden, etwa die Biographie des berüchtigten CIA-Begründers Allen Dulles oder des Anfang der 1960er Jahre obersten Militärs General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer. Den Juristen fasziniert der Widerspruch, dass Staaten, die eigentlich dem Recht verpflichtet sind, im Gegenteil Organisationen unterhalten, deren Aufgabe eben genau der Bruch fremden Rechts ist. Der Autor führte lange Gespräche mit Experten und Akteuren hinter den Kulissen, darunter mit "NATO-Spion" Rainer Rupp, Rotarmist Stanislaw Petrow und Bärbel Bohley, die es mit dem MfS aufnahm. Die Geschichte der Geheimdienste im Kalten Krieg eröffnet auch einen Blick auf die Mentalität und das Verhalten der heutigen Geheimdienste, die anscheinend frei Schalten und Walten können und offenbar keine Grenzen kennen. Autor Markus Kompa ist Rechtsanwalt für Medienrecht und interessiert sich für Geheimnisvolles und Täuschungen aller Art.

The Cold War is understood as an encompassing cultural agenda according to which an enduring global peace and welfare under the leadership either of the United States or the Soviet Union was being promised. In the West the notion of "One World" had become popular; it indicated the idea of a safe and united world based on the security and well-being of common people throughout the world, provided by US world leadership. However, when one of the former allies, the Soviet Union, started to express similar ambitions on its own agenda it became an increasingly distracting factor for the global vision of "One World" under the leadership of the United States. As much as the "Weltanschauungen" and the political legitimation rhetoric between the two competitors for world peace differed, many of its means and measures - especially in the field of education - were surprisingly similar. This chapter demonstrates this thesis, taking the example of the genealogy of PISA, understanding it as a tool whose roots have been developed ideologically and methodologically in the course of the Cold War. (DIPF/Orig.).

Der Verfasser untersucht die Dynamik der Weltgesellschaft zwischen den 1980er Jahren und der gegenwärtigen globalen Wirtschaftskrise. Er stellt fest, dass diese Entwicklung durch wachsende ökonomische, politische, soziale und kulturelle Missverhältnisse und Polarisierungen gekennzeichnet ist. Hier sieht er die Erklärung für die gegenwärtige Wirtschaftskrise, die als eine Kulmination dieser Fehlentwicklungen gedeutet wird. Er plädiert für eine globale Politik, deren zentrales Merkmal eine Gerechtigkeit sein sollte. Diese soll durch die gleichmäßige Verteilung von Produktionskapazitäten, Ressourcen, Innovationen und Prosperität zwischen den Regionen der Weltgesellschaft zum Ausdruck kommen. (ICB)

Diese Arbeit widmet sich der Evangelikalisierung der amerikanischen Militärkultur aus dem interdisziplinären Blickwinkel der Nordamerikastudien. Im Zuge dieses kulturellen Transformationsprozesses wurde der Charakter der an sich säkularen staatlichen Institution der Streitkräfte zunehmend von evangelikaler Religiosität geprägt. Die Ursprünge dieser Entwicklung liegen im Kalten Krieg, der, als manichäische Auseinandersetzung mit dem "gottlosen" Kommunismus, auf amerikanischer Seite durch eine dezidiert christliche Religiosität begleitet wurde. In der aus sieben Kapiteln bestehenden Arbeit wird der Begriff des Evangelikalismus aus religionswissenschaftlicher und historischer Perspektive definiert und anschließend in drei weiteren Kapiteln die historische Genese der Evangelikalisierung des US-Militärs untersucht. Anhand statistischer Daten des US-Verteidigungsministeriums und religionsdemographischer Erhebungen, sowie mittels eines breiten Spektrums recherchierter Presseartikel, wird im sechsten Kapitel ein "Gegenwartsbefund" erstellt. ; This Master's thesis addresses the Evangelicalization of the U.S. military culture, from the interdisciplinary perspective of North American Studies. In the course of this cultural transformation process, the armed forces' character changed from a secular institution to one increasingly influenced by Evangelical religiosity. The origin of this development is located in the early Cold War, which was perceived as a Manichean struggle with "godless" Communism. Therefore, for Americans, an explicitly Christian religiosity became an integral component of the Cold War. In this research paper, comprised of seven chapters, the term "Evangelical" will be initially be defined on the basis of religious and historical studies, while the following three chapters address the historical genesis of the Evangelicalization of the U.S. military. Based on statistical data of the U.S. Department of Defense, surveys of U.S. religious demographics and a broad spectrum of media research, the sixth chapter offers an account of the current situation.

During the Cold War, there was no confrontation between the super powers actual aggression. Today it is treading in world politics while common ways. But the own superiority is still the final goal of 'Great'. But where is this Europe? The mastermind and co-designer of the authoritative German Ostpolitik under Willy Brandt outlined his views on the international situation and advocates for a European Security Policy. Adapted from the source document.

Bildbeschreibung, written in 1984, is undoubtedly the most hermetic text in the work of the East-German dramatist Heiner Müller. In this prose text, referred to by its author as 'a play', an ungraspable "I" vainly attempts to piece together an image to construct a coherent whole. When one compares this with Müller's other works, Bildbeschreibung makes disconcerting reading because of its apparent lack of any political dimension. A thorough analysis however reveals that the traumas of Germany's twentieth century history underpin the narrative. Moreover, the desperate attempts by the "I" to build itself into a proper "self" through the (re)-construction of the undecipherable image, hark back to the difficulties one has to conceptualize History after the end of what Jean-François Lyotard calls 'the grand narratives'. Bildbeschreibung stages these difficulties in terms of history as drama. The "landscape between steppe and savannah" under "a Prussian blue sky" turns out to be the GDR in the 1980s, a country tossed and torn between the anguish of the ending of the historical process as described by the theories of post-history and the hope of a new dynamism made possible by the end of the Cold War. ; Bildbeschreibung, written in 1984, is undoubtedly the most hermetic text in the work of the East-German dramatist Heiner Müller. In this prose text, referred to by its author as 'a play', an ungraspable "I" vainly attempts to piece together an image to construct a coherent whole. When one compares this with Müller's other works, Bildbeschreibung makes disconcerting reading because of its apparent lack of any political dimension. A thorough analysis however reveals that the traumas of Germany's twentieth century history underpin the narrative. Moreover, the desperate attempts by the "I" to build itself into a proper "self" through the (re)-construction of the undecipherable image, hark back to the difficulties one has to conceptualize History after the end of what Jean-François Lyotard calls 'the grand narratives'. Bildbeschreibung stages these difficulties in terms of history as drama. The "landscape between steppe and savannah" under "a Prussian blue sky" turns out to be the GDR in the 1980s, a country tossed and torn between the anguish of the ending of the historical process as described by the theories of post-history and the hope of a new dynamism made possible by the end of the Cold War.

This article discusses the growing role of China in UN peacekeeping operations since 1989. First, the reasons for the non-engagement of China after its admission to the UN and its Security Council in 1971 are described to stress the difference of the Chinese behavior after the end of the Cold War. Second, the increasing Chinese activity in UN peacekeeping is shown by describing China's gradually changing behavior in three areas: voting in the Security Council, personnel contributions to peacekeeping operations and financial contributions to the UN peacekeeping budget. In the end, the article suggests that China's growing role in UN PKO could be understood as an important part of China's peaceful rise policy. Adapted from the source document.

In June 1997, we were sitting Semen Simmel lectures at the Humboldt-Universitat Berlin often in a nearby cafe and discussed about Semen lecture about developments in Germany before and after 1990, and over the local political science. Here, the conversation came to semen essay about totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, EC text of over 300 pages, in the investigated Juan Linz non-democratic political systems in the 20th century. The methodological clarity and intellectual sovereignty, developed a taxonomy of ideal types of political rule with the Linz based less empirically verifiable parameters, fascinated us. Especially since this system was coined by the pure pursuit of scientific knowledge, so get along completely without ideological foundation, legitimation offset pieces and the intellectual resentment of the Cold War. Adapted from the source document.