"Featuring new evidence on: the end of the Cold War, 1989; the fall of the Wall; Sino-Soviet relations, 1958-59; Soviet missile deployments, 1959; the Iran Crisis, 1944-46; Tito and Khrushchev, 1954. ; "Fall/Winter 2001" ; Caption title. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; "Featuring new evidence on: the end of the Cold War, 1989; the fall of the Wall; Sino-Soviet relations, 1958-59; Soviet missile deployments, 1959; the Iran Crisis, 1944-46; Tito and Khrushchev, 1954. ; Mode of access: Internet.
Compilation of the keynote address and papers presented at the Conference on Cold War Archives in the Decade of Openness sponsored by the Department of Defense and the Library of Congress and held at the Library, June 28-29, 2000, highlighting the collections of the Defense Department's Open House Program deposited in the European Division of the Library. ; Edited by Frank N. Schubert. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.
At head of title: 89th Congress, 1st session. Committee print. ; Hearings, with special t.p., called pt. 9 of Winning the cold war: the U.S. ideological offensive. ; At head of title: 89th Congress, 1st session. Committee print. ; Mode of access: Internet.
In: Die Natur der Gesellschaft: Verhandlungen des 33. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Kassel 2006. Teilbd. 1 u. 2, S. 3867-3878
"Das suggestive Potential von Performanzen beruht ganz allgemein darauf, den Eindruck beim Publikum zu erwecken, die jeweilige Darbietung, selbst wenn sie im metaphorischen oder auch tatsächlichen Sinne in luftiger Höhe auf dem Drahtseil erfolgt, sei insofern das 'Natürlichste auf der Welt', wenn durch die bruchlose Perfektionierung der expressiven Form deren letztendliche Konstruiertheit in Vergessenheit gerät. Gelungene Performanzen verwandeln so gesehen Helmuth Plessners anthropologisches Grundgesetz 'natürlicher Künstlichkeit' in 'künstliche Natürlichkeit', sie stiften in ihrer emotional vereinnahmenden und rational nur schwer dechiffrierbaren Ästhetik gleichsam selbstevidenten Sinn und beendigen damit Kontingenz. Der Kniefall Willy Brandts im Jahre 1970 vor dem Warschauer Ghetto-Denkmal kann als eine der entscheidenden politischen Performanzen nach 1945 gewertet werden, deren symbolische Legitimität spätestens im Jahre 2000 von der deutschen Presse einstimmig bestätigt wurde, als der polnische Ministerpräsident Jerzy Buzek und Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder auf dem Areal des ehemaligen Ghettos, direkt gegenüber des Ghetto-Denkmals, ein 'Willy-Brandt-Denkmal' einweihten, das auf einer Relieftafel den knienden Brandt zeigt. Eine entscheidende Frage lautet daher, wie es zu erklären ist, dass Brandts Geste, die gemessen am diplomatischen Protokoll des ursprünglich vorgesehenen Kranzlegung-Rituals im Grunde einen Störfall darstellte, dennoch nicht als solcher, sondern als geradezu auratisches Ereignis gewertet wurde. Eine andere, ebenso entscheidende Frage lautet wiederum, wie es gelingen kann, die an der Konkretheit von Zeit, Ort und Person haftende Authentizität von Performanzen massenmedial zu transportieren, ohne das Erlebnis des Auratischen zu zerstören. Die Analyse des Kniefalls zeigt, dass die Symbolik der Performanz gerade nicht durch den Umweg über die Medien Schaden erlitt, sondern dass dem Kniefall überhaupt erst durch die narrative Interpretationsschlaufe der Presse sein eigentlicher Symbolwert zuerkannt wurde. Symbolizität und Performanz einerseits und mediale Narrativierung andererseits sind hier als zwei Kommunikationskanäle zu begreifen, deren jeweilig spezifisches Vermögen der Sinnproduktion sich reziprok dynamisierte." (Autorenreferat)
This essay, composed for a first-year writing seminar on 20th century foreign policy, compares the biographies of Kissinger and Brzezinski as elite immigrant academics in the Cold War era. The author finds that both men's immigrant backgrounds played critical roles in informing their evaluation of the United States' political policy regarding Soviet communism. For additional context, listen to theauthor's reflection on the piece below.
Cold matters on a number of different levels. It has become a political instrument that helps to establish common ground for the cold regions of the globe. As a metaphor, it suggests an impassioned and controlled outlook on life. Physically, cold produces environments where people can freeze and starve to death. Psychologically, it may serve as the route to self-discovery, since it has the capacity to strip away everything except the most essential aspects of the self. Historically, cold has usually been surrounded by negative associations but more recently, it has become a theme to explore in words and pictures and exploit in marketing strategies. At the beginning of the twenty-first century there are signs that indicate that cold is becoming increasingly "cool." At such a juncture, it is vital to assess the cultural meaning of snow, ice and cold since conventional ideological and metaphorical connotations of the concepts are destabilised. Cold Matters launches the monograph series linked to The Journal of Northern Studies. This interdisciplinary journal concentrates on life in the northern parts of the globe, and is published by Umeå University and Sweden's northernmost Royal Academy, the Royal Skyttean Society.
Post-cold war concept of security is based on realistic postulates and emphasises a concept of state, forces,power and national interests. Military and political concept of security was dominant while the relations between the superpowers was based on the so called bipolar balance of power. Identity of states was realised by membership in military, political and economic organisations. The strategy of returning to the era of nuclear weapons reaches its full flowering. The crucial point of security after the end of Cold war consists of searching for giving answers to the threats coming from the outside and abilities of states to maintain their independent integrity against changed relations among the powers, which potentially may become enemies. Under such circumstances powers should not be ignored in any interpretation of any aspect of security, for realistic theories of international relations are still of great influence in the field of security. They will be modified in different conditions and will act in the sense of enlarged concept of security - instead of dominant concepts of political and military security typical for the Cold War era, economic, social and environmental factors will appear. Basic weakness of the realistic theories of security is in the lack of recognising the importance of cooperation between main factors in international community. This failure will be replaced neo realistic and liberal and institutional theories of security which emphasises the concept of cooperation in the first place. Concepts of power, forces and integral processes will be observed within the context of changes in the international relations.
