German Domestic and Foreign Policy Political Issues Under Debate - Vol. 2 /

This volume analyses current German domestic and foreign policy debates of international relevance. By reflecting their contemporary historical background and discussing the logic behind the different positions in a dispute, the author considers issues such as whether Muslim women should be allowed...

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Main Author: Jahn, Egbert. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47929-2
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1 Political Issues Under Debate. On the Meaning and Purpose of a Series of Political Science Lectures on Contemporary History
  • 2 The Offences and Repudiation of Thilo Sarrazin. Are there Limits to Freedom of Political Opinion in Germany?
  • 3 The Dispute Over the Veil. The Conflict Between Laicism (the Separation of State and Religion) and Religious Tolerance
  • 4 The Globalisation of the Danish Cartoon Dispute
  • 5 "Multiculturalism" or German Leitkultur as Maxims for the "Integration" of Foreigners
  • 6 Integration or Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities. On the Future of Danish, Sorbian, Italian, Turkish and Other Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 7 The Advantages and Risks of Multiple Citizenship
  • 8 Denglish Instead of German? The Changing Use of Language in Germany
  • 9 From the Constitutional Treaty to the Lisbon Treaty: Is the European Union on the Way to Becoming a Federal State?
  • 10 Once Again: Was Germany Defeated or liberated on the 8th of May 1945?
  • 11 From the West European Commemoration of Auschwitz to a Pan-European Commemoration of Auschwitz and the GULag Archipelago - and Inevitable Consequence of the Eastward Extension of the EU for Commemoritan Policies
  • 12 Expellers and Expelled. On an Appropriate Form of Commemoration
  • 13 The "Defense of Germany in the Hindu Kush". The German Role in Afghanistan
  • 14 Should Germany be a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council? On the Efforts to Reform the United Nations.