Study Tours, Trade Fairs, Publicity Campaigns - German-American Business Encounters and Cold War Anxieties

Author(s):  
S. Jonathan Wiesen
2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra T. Barnes

Abstract:U.S. involvement in Africa is growing following threats of terrorism and interruptions in oil production and because of desires by foreign corporations to expand their activities on the continent. The response of American policymakers has been to establish a stronger military presence that will engage in counterterrorism initiatives and police oil installations. The goals and extent of this buildup, and the ideology legitimating it, are new. They are departures from Cold War policies. Similarly, the response of American business leaders to weaknesses in the infrastructure and political order of African states leads them to establish their own forms of community development, known as strategic philanthropy, so as to protect and expand local markets. Despite these major developments, the media are not informing the public. This article examines the implications of these military and business initiatives for African nations and the reasons for lack of information about them.


2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott H. Krause

AbstractThis article focuses on the joint campaign of “remigrés” and American authorities to “westernize” the local Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin during the early Cold War. The years 1948 to 1958 witnessed one of postwar Germany's most bitter intraparty struggles for leadership within the Berlin SPD, where a faction of remigrés led by Ernst Reuter and Willy Brandt wrestled for control with the so-calledKeulenriegearound Franz Neumann. Examining clandestine American support for the remigré faction, which included favorable media coverage and considerable financial contributions, this article focuses in particular on the political maneuvering of a German-American network around Shepard Stone, political advisor to U.S. Commissioner John McCloy. An investigation of the postwar power struggle within the Berlin SPD offers fresh perspectives on three related subjects: the role of remigrés in postwar Germany history; the political clout of informal German-American networks; and West Berlin as an alternative laboratory of German democratization.


2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Hazael Avila-Rojas ◽  
Iván Pérez-Neri

El estudio de los aminoácidos inhibidores GABA (ácido ????-aminobutírico) y glicina puede resultar en una paradoja pues ambos son también excitadores: el primero de ellos, si actúa en diferentes etapas de desarrollo del sistema nervioso central; y el segundo, si lo hace a través de diferentes receptores. Aún con esto, el GABA no es el neurotransmisor más popular; Google devuelve cerca de un millón y medio de resultados para “aminobutyric acid” en contraste de los más de 13 millones para “dopamine”, aunque su nombre es usado en una amplia variedad de casos. Junto con gamma-aminobutyric acid, GABA es también la sigla de Gay Auckland Business Association (http://gaba.org.nz), de Greater Arizona Bicycling Association (http://www.bikegaba.org) y de German American Business Association (http:// www.gaba-network.org), además de ser el nombre de una comercializadora de piedras preciosas (http://gaba.com.mt) y de un restaurante de sushi (http://gabasushi. com). Por su parte, la glicina es el aminoácido más sencillo y pequeño; tanto, que ni siquiera existe en las dos formas quirales (L y D) que presentan todos los demás; pero puede ser tan relevante que la sustitución de uno solo de sus residuos en una molécula de colágeno causa diversas enfermedades. Adicionalmente, la glicina tiene un sabor dulce, por lo que se utiliza en ocasiones como sustituto de azúcar para quienes padecen diabetes; pero quizá lo más excitante de este pequeño aminoácido inhibidor es que sea uno de los compuestos orgánicos que han sido encontrados en la superficie de un cometa, lo que apoya la teoría de que la vida en la Tierra pudo provenir del espacio.


2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAROLINE JACK

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, millions of theatergoers, students, and industrial workers saw one or more animated short films, shot in Technicolor and running eight to nine minutes, that were designed to build public support for the principles and practices of free enterprise. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation quietly funded the production of this series of cartoons, titledFun and Facts about American Business, through multiple grants to industrial animation house John Sutherland Productions via Harding College, an evangelical college in rural Arkansas that would become known nationally for its anti-communist and conservative political activism. This article examines the creation and distribution of theFun and Factsfilms in the years 1946 through 1952 as a notable case of ephemeral film and as an example of the Cold War public relations movement known as “economic education.” Further, the article examines the consequences of economic education as a conceptual category on the production and distribution of Cold War industrial propaganda.


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