Cosmopolitanism in the Face of Gridlock in Global Governance

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-258
Author(s):  
David Held
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
World War ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World

The chapter examines the impact of gridlock on multilateral politics, and the pathways beyond gridlock that states could promote in order to advance a more cosmopolitan form of global governance. The chapter traces the extent to which global politics has been shaped by a cosmopolitan agenda since the end of the Second World War. It then argues that we are at a political crossroads, with one road pointing to the rise of nationalism and authoritarianism while the other to a more cosmopolitan future. The chapter explores pathways of change that yield avenues of possible progress through and beyond gridlock, including avenues for states and people to pursue greater cosmopolitan responsibilities. The concluding section assesses the balance of risks to cosmopolitanism. While precedents and practices of cosmopolitan politics have been put in place, they remain deeply contested.

14. War and world politics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarak Barkawi
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern State ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World

This chapter examines how war fits into the study of international relations and the ways it affects world politics. It begins with an analysis of the work of the leading philosopher of war, Carl von Clausewitz, to highlight the essential nature of war, the main types of war, and the idea of strategy. It then considers some important developments in the history of warfare, both in the West and elsewhere, with particular emphasis on interrelationships between the modern state, armed force, and war in the West and in the global South. Two case studies are presented, one focusing on war and Eurocentrism during the Second World War, and the other on the impact of war on society by looking at France, Vietnam, and the United States. There is also an Opposing Opinions box that asks whether democracy creates peace among states.

scholarly journals Difrences in the national (historical) memories of Germany and Russia on the example of a railway disaster in Zielonka Pasłęcka in January 1945

2018 ◽  
Vol 300 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-275
Author(s):  
Tomasz Gliniecki
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Civilian Population ◽  
German Researcher ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Historical Memories ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World

This article presents divergent views of the national memories of the Germans and Russians, accumulated since the Second World War in two leading narratives, presenting the mnemonic syndromes of winners and losers. The railway disaster at Zielonka Pasłęcka in January 1945 and its consequences was used as a point of comparison. The author presents, amongst others, the impact of the work of the German researcher Heinz Timmreck, in the form of numerous reports from this incident, mainly highlighting the suffering of the German civilian population fleeing the region endangered by fighting. On the other side, the author presents memoirs of Soviet officers marked with personal ambitions and traces of vengeful attacks preserved in the military documentation. The juxtaposi�tion of the narratives and their comparison provides a new perspective, prompting changes in the mythologised memory of both nations.

14. War and world politics

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-239
Author(s):  
Tarak Barkawi
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern State ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World

This chapter examines how war fits into the study of international relations and the ways it affects world politics. It begins with an analysis of the work of the leading philosopher of war, Carl von Clausewitz, to highlight the essential nature of war, the main types of war, and the idea of strategy. It then considers some important developments in the history of warfare, both in the West and elsewhere, with particular emphasis on interrelationships between the modern state, armed force, and war in the West and in the global South. Two case studies are presented, one focusing on war and Eurocentrism during the Second World War, and the other on the impact of war on society by looking at France, Vietnam, and the United States. There is also an Opposing Opinions box that asks whether democracy creates peace among states.

scholarly journals Exile Dreams: Antifascist Jews, Antisemitism and the ‘Other Germany’

Fascism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 221-243
Author(s):  
Anna Koch
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
German Jews ◽  
German States ◽  
The Face ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Second World

Abstract This article examines the meanings antifascist German Jews invested in antifascism and highlights its role as an emotional place of belonging. The sense of belonging to a larger collective enabled antifascist Jews to hold onto their Germanness and believe in the possibility of an ‘other Germany’. While most German Jewish antifascists remained deeply invested in their home country in the 1930s, this idea of the ‘other Germany’ became increasingly difficult to uphold in the face of war and genocide. For some this belief received the final blow after the end of the Second World War when they returned and witnessed the construction of German states that fell short of the hopes they had nourished while in exile. Yet even though they became disillusioned with the ‘other Germany’, they remained attached to antifascism.

War and Reconstruction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire L. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
Soviet Science ◽  
World War ◽  
Deaf Identity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World

This chapter considers the impact of the Second World War and its aftermath on the deaf community. Deaf people sat at the nexus of a number of important postwar shifts, including a call for increased state welfare support for a populace that had endured extreme suffering, the rise of a new materiality in the face of postwar shortages, and the expression of new conflicts in the spheres of Soviet science and education. While VOG’s organizational structures were strengthened after the war, in part to respond to the needs of deafened veterans, the changing conception of the “normal” complicated the notion of deaf identity that had been developing in the 1920s and 1930s, opening spaces for new ways of seeing and treating deafness.

scholarly journals Demitologizacja polskiej historii w reportażach literackich Pawła Smoleńskiego

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 165-174
Author(s):  
Monika Wiszniowska
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
World War ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Second World

Paweł Smoleński adds an important voice to the critical discussion about Polish history. In his books such as Pochówek dla rezuna, Syrop z piołunu. Wygnani w akcji „Wisła” and Krzyżyk niespodziany. Czas Goralenvolk (written together with Bartłomiej Kuraś) the author reveals the dark side of incidents that occurred during the Second World War and soon after. With full consciousness of the stereotypes and tradition fixed in the Polish memory, shows his relation to the history of na-tion from, on the one hand, and excavates from it the essence that may and should lead to a better understanding of the present time, on the other. Using the biography of ordinary people, Smoleński, showing the full value of private, colloquial, sometimes internally discrepant voices, reconstructs the process of passing into silence, political control of reminiscences and historical falsehood. His books are stories written to warn. First of all, it is very good literature with a universal message. Smoleński shows in a very in-teresting way the “human measure of history,” helplessness of ordinary people in the face of politics and formal institutions, the easiness of controlling the reaction of masses and power of the language of propaganda. His books open the way for a better review of difficult past times but also, what is more important, help to better understand the present.

JEWISH IDENTITY IN THE FACE OF ANTI-SEMITISM

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 895-900
Author(s):  
ELISABETH ALBANIS
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Anti Jewish ◽  
Second World

A history of the Jews in the English-speaking world: Great Britain. By W. D. Rubinstein, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Pp. viii+539. ISBN 0-312-12542-9. £65.00.Pogroms: anti-Jewish violence in modern Russian history. Edited by John D. Klier and Shlomo Lambroza. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xx+393. ISBN 0-521-40532-7. £55.00.Western Jewry and the Zionist project, 1914–1933. By Michael Berkowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+305. ISBN 0-521-47087-0. £35.00.Three books under review deal from different perspectives with the responses of Jews in Western and Eastern Europe to the increasing and more or less violent outbursts of anti-Semitism which they encountered in the years from 1880 to the Second World War. The first two titles consider how deep-rooted anti-Semitism was in Britain and Russia and in what sections of society it was most conspicuous, whereas the third asks how Western Jewry became motivated to support the Zionist project of settlement in Palestine; all three approach the question of how isolated or intergrated diaspora Jews were in their respective countries.

scholarly journals Second World War conflict archaeology in the forests of north-west Europe

Antiquity ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (342) ◽  
pp. 1275-1290 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Passmore ◽  
Stephan Harrison ◽  
David Capps Tunwell
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Recent Survey ◽  
Support Structures ◽  
World War ◽  
Conflict Archaeology ◽  
North West ◽  
Military Support ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World

Concrete fortifications have long served as battle-scarred memorials of the Second World War. The forests of north-west Europe, meanwhile, have concealed a preserved landscape of earthwork field fortifications, military support structures and bomb- and shell-craters that promise to enhance our understanding of the conflict landscapes of the 1944 Normandy Campaign and the subsequent battles in the Ardennes and Hürtgenwald forests. Recent survey has revealed that the archaeology surviving in wooded landscapes can significantly enhance our understanding of ground combat in areas covered by forest. In particular, this evidence sheds new light on the logistical support of field armies and the impact of Allied bombing on German installations.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document