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During its occupation by the United States and throughout the 1950s, Germany experienced one of the most dramatic intellectual, cultural, and educational transformations in history. Historians have often observed the intrusion by the USA into German intellectual and institutional life as part of the USA's overall plan to 're-educate' Germany and to tie it to its own political traditions and Cold War goals. Through examination of the political theories and academic educational reforms of Carl J. Friedrich, one of the most important intellectuals of the Cold War, this article argues that US policies were simultaneously shaped and determined by intellectual traditions from the Weimar period. It shows how Friedrich's educational theories, which had a tremendous influence on both US and German academic establishments after the war, were developed already in the context of the Weimar-era 'Heidelberg School' and the political theories of Max Weber. Through this example, the article seeks to offer a new and more complex picture of Germany's postwar democratization in general.

The two most celebrated intellectuals of the Weimar period — Carl Schmitt on the right and Walter Benjamin on the left — were fascinated by the role of crime in modern politics. In order to shed light on this neglected element of their work, this article explains how crime became a central category in their political theory and a crucial component in their narratives of modern history. Furthermore, it elucidates how both men simultaneously came to characterize their society as a whole, and not only fractions of it, as criminal in essence. Though many have seen the connection between Schmitt and Benjamin as a continuous dialogue, this study contends that the similarity between their theories of criminal politics should be interpreted not as a direct discussion, but within the context of wide debates regarding the origins of crime as well as the blending of criminal and political discourses that occurred during the Weimar period.

In the decades following the era of decolonization, global Christianity experienced a seismic shift. While Catholicism and Protestantism have declined in their historic European strongholds, they have sustained explosive growth in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This demographic change has established Christians from the Global South as an increasingly dominant presence in modern Christian thought, culture, and politics.Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity unearths the roots of this development, charting the metamorphosis of Christian practice and institutions across five continents throughout the pivotal years of decolonization. The essays in this collection illustrate the diverse new ideas, rituals, and organizations created in the wake of Western imperialism s formal collapse and investigate how religious leaders, politicians, theologians, and lay people debated and shaped a new Christianity for a postcolonial world.Contributors argue that the collapse of colonialism and broader cultural challenges to Western power fostered new organizations, theologies, and political engagements across the world, ultimately setting Christianity on its current trajectory away from its colonial heritage. These essays interrogate decolonization s varied and conflicting impacts on global Christianity, while also providing a novel framework for rethinking decolonization s modern legacies. Taken together, this book charts the relationship between decolonization and Christianity on a truly global scale.Contributors: Joel Cabrita, Darcie Fontaine, Elizabeth A. Foster, Udi Greenberg, David Kirkpatrick, Eric Morier-Genoud, Phi-Vân Nguyen, Justin Reynolds, Sarah Shortall, Lydia Walker, Charlotte Walker-Said, Albert Wu, Gene Zubovich

Die Studie widmet sich den Ursprüngen zweier einschneidender Prozesse – der Transformation Nachkriegsdeutschlands von der nationalsozialistischen Volksgemeinschaft zu einer liberalen Demokratie und der ideologischen Genese des Kalten Kriegs. Im Zentrum der Studie stehen fünf deutsche Emigranten, der politische Denker und Protestant Carl J. Friedrich, der sozialistische Politikwissenschaftler Ernst Fraenkel, der katholische Publizist Waldemar Gurian, der liberale Anwalt und Jurist Karl Loewenstein und schließlich Hans Morgenthau, Politikwissenschaftler, Jurist und Theoretiker auf dem Gebiet der internationalen Beziehungen. Sie alle hatten sich intensiv an den politischen Debatten der Weimarer Zeit beteiligt, überlebten die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus im Exil in den Vereinigten Staaten und avancierten dort zu einflussreichen amerikanischen Intellektuellen und Politikberatern. Udi Greenberg folgt ihren Spuren und zeigt unter Einbeziehung ideengeschichtlicher und politischer Perspektiven, dass der Grundstein für Deutschlands demokratischen Wiederaufbau wie auch für die transatlantische Nachkriegsordnung auf Erfahrungen der Weimarer Republik basierte. Von der Zwischenkriegszeit in Deutschland bis zum Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts beleuchtet die Untersuchung fünf Persönlichkeiten, ihre Ideen und daraus folgende politische Entscheidungen, die das Verhältnis Deutschlands zu Amerika und das Gefüge des Kalten Kriegs nachhaltig prägten.