Can Germany Become a Major Ally of Ukraine? Counterintuitive Deliberations on a Coming Partnership between Kyiv and Berlin

World Affairs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 183 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-89
Author(s):  
Andreas Umland
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The West ◽  
German Government ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Political Economic

Over the last few years, intergovernmental affairs and the roles of individual countries within the West have started to shift. In response, Kyiv (Kiev) should reorder the priorities and emphases of its foreign political, economic, and cultural policies. The central focus of this re-orientation should be more resolute than the hitherto deepening of Ukrainian relations has been, not only with the German government but also with the broader political elite, industrial companies, and the civil society of the Federal Republic. A recent systematic study of German perceptions of Ukraine can help develop new approaches, initiatives, and policies to reach a new level of German–Ukrainian partnership.

Principled Pragmatism: The Eastern Committee of German Economy and West German–Chinese relations during the early Cold War, 1949–1958

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIOVANNI BERNARDINI
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
German Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
The West ◽  
German Government ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Trade Relations

AbstractThis article focuses on the interplay between the political authorities and economic actors in the Federal Republic of Germany in the process of establishing relations with the People's Republic of China after 1949. Within this framework, the article will assess the role played by the Ost-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft (Eastern Committee of German Economy), a semi-official organization recognized by the West German government. Both the ability of German economic actors and China's urgent need for economic contact with the West caused German-Chinese trade relations to circumvent the strict non-recognition policy followed by the West German government. The article also argues that, while economic relations heralded official recognition of the People's Republic of China by other Western European countries, in the case of the Federal Republic of Germany a division between the two spheres was finally accepted by the major actors involved, and ended only after the change of attitude imparted by the Nixon presidency in the United States during the early 1970s.

scholarly journals Theoretical considerations of post communist political elite; on focus Albania

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Merlinda Andoni
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
The Past ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

This article provides literature and empirical studies review on post-communist political elite. The most debatable question is if old nomeklatura has reproduced itself and is transformed in new elite, or circulation of new blood occurs. Although post communist political elite typology is different among post communist countries, some common theoretical considerations for analyzing it are noticed. This article aims to point out that legacy of the past and accumulation of political capital coupled with the political economic marketization of post communist political elite and civil society and intelligentsia are beneficiary for a thorough understanding of the topic

Network Euphoria, Super-Information Systems and the West German Plan for a National Database System

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-337
Author(s):  
Larry Frohman
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
National Database ◽  
Documentation System ◽  
The West ◽  
German Government ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Related Notion ◽  
Total Data ◽  
Drawing Board ◽  
Industrial Societies

Abstract Much attention has been devoted to planning as the key concept in political discourse of the Federal Republic from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Much less attention has been paid to the closely related notion of information. At the turn of the 1970s, one of the most important initiatives of the West German government in the informational domain was a proposed national database network. The conception of politics that underlay this project bundled the utopian aspirations associated with the use of computers to integrate and analyse information with the conviction that more, better and different kinds of information would make complex, industrial societies like the Federal Republic more governable. The West German database network embodied two complementary modernist visions: the dream of total data integration and the antithetical but equally seductive documentarian belief that the problems of information management could be solved by reducing the symbolic field within which information was always embedded to stable, elemental units of meaning. However, the plan for a national database network collapsed before it could even fully make it onto the drawing board. This article argues that the project failed not because of privacy concerns, but because these modernist visions quickly ran up against limits that were as much political and conceptual as technological. In the end all that was left was a documentation system for the federal government in which the connections to social planning, which had provided much of the original impetus for the system, had all but disappeared.

The Impact of Secularism on Religious Beliefs and Practices

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Adibah Binti AbdulRahim
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Practical Aspect ◽  
The West ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT Secularism is the most serious challenge of modernity posed by the West. Its main ideology is to liberate man from the religious and metaphysical values and expel religion from the practical aspect of man’s life. It clearly presents its materialistic viewpoint which is cut off from Divine, Transcendent or Supernatural principles and does not refer to and is isolated from Revelation. In terms of its intensity and scope as well as its discernable effects upon people’s mind, the repercussion of secularism is so pervasive and universal. It gives a great impact on every facet of life including individual and family lives as well as educational, political, economic and social-cultural realm. Most importantly, secularism affects the very tenets of traditional religious beliefs and practices. This paper tries to focus on the danger of secularism and its principles which are contradict to the religious worldview.  

“Asia for the Asians,” Bushido, and Japanese War Crimes in the Netherlands East Indies, 1942 to 1946

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred L. Borch
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
East Asian ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
White Race ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Netherlands East Indies ◽  
Important Exception ◽  
Political Economic

The 300,000 Europeans and Eurasians residing in the Indies in March 1942 soon learned that the Japanese occupiers planned to implement political, economic, and cultural policies that would integrate the newly “liberated” colony into the “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.” This goal of “Japanization” was to transform everyone living in the Indies into loyal subjects of the Emperor, with one important exception: “Asia for the Asians” meant there was no place for the white race in the Netherlands East Indies (NEI). Additionally, the Japanese in the archipelago were true believers in the warrior code of Bushido, which led to widespread mistreatment of prisoners of war and spilled-over into the treatment of civilian internees. This chapter explains how the Japanese intended to eradicate Dutch civilization and how the “Asia for the Asians” philosophy and Bushido code of behavior resulted in the commission of horrific war crimes, especially against whites and Eurasians.

Abortion and Judicial Review of Statutes

1977 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst Livneh
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
German Law ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
French Law ◽  
The West

It is difficult to see the connection between these two topics, but on 25 February 1975 the Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany gave a decision of great importance in both fields, and although Israel adheres to another system of law, in the opinion of the writer, this decision is of great interest here too.The amendment of the German law relating to abortions, whose constitutionality was examined in the judgment mentioned, is part of a reform movement spreading from Europe to the Americas in the West and to Russia, India and Singapore in the East. It began to have influence upon legislation between the two wars (Russia 1920, Scandinavia and Switzerland in the 1930's), but gathered momentum particularly during the last decade (one of the earlier laws in this series is the English Abortion Act, 1967; one of the latest, the French Law of 17 January 1975).

Anti-Catholicism in Germany, Britain, and the United States: A Review and Critique of Recent Scholarship

2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjule Anne Drury
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Irish Question ◽  
Political Economic

The past two decades have seen an efflorescence of works exploring cultural anti-Catholicism in a variety of national contexts. But so far, historians have engaged in little comparative analysis. This article is a first step, examining recent historical literature on modern British and American anti-Catholicism, in order to trace the similarities and distinctiveness of the turn-of-the-century German case. Historians are most likely to be acquainted with American nativism, the German Kulturkampf, continental anticlericalism, and the problems of Catholic Emancipation and the Irish Question in Britain. Many of the themes and functions of anti-Catholic discourse in the West transcended national and temporal boundaries. In each case, the conceptualization of a Catholic ‘other’ is a testament to the tenacity of confessionalism in an age formerly characterized as one of inexorable secularization. Contemporary observers often agreed that religious culture—like history, race, ethnicity, geography, and local custom—played a role in the self-evident distinctiveness of peoples and nations, in their political forms, economic performance, and intellectual and artistic contributions. We will see how confessionalism remained a lens through which intellectuals and ordinary citizens, whether attached or estranged from religious commitments, viewed political, economic, and cultural change.

On the Way of Democracy’s Development: FRG and «Europe of Citizens»

2011 ◽  
pp. 33-43
Author(s):  
A. Sindeev
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
The West ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Western European ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The Way

At a first glance, the article is treating a private issue, namely that of the feasibility of the concept of a “Europe of citizens” in the Federal Republic of Germany. However, while discussing it we have to analyze at least three fundamental issues. 1). What is the West German democracy? 2). How democracy and Western/European integration are interlinked? 3). To what extent the concept of a “Europe of citizens” is able to lead both integration and democracy from the currently difficult situation in which are these two main components of the contemporary Western civilization?

scholarly journals Restrictions on Some Western Songs: A Counter Hegemony Effort by the West Java Regional Indonesian Broadcasting Commission

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Ikhsano ◽  
Yolanda Stellarosa
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Western Music ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Political Society ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The West ◽  
West Java

Restriction on the broadcasting  of 17 western songs considered full of sexual aspects in the Indonesian province of West Java has given rise to  polemic and criticism. Various reactions, both negative and positive, emerged. Instead of supporting the restriction the Indonesian public appeared to blatantly oppose the policy made by the West Java  Regional Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPID). It is interesting to analyze and study this phenomenon more deeply through the great concepts of Gramsci’s counter hegemony.  Of course, a mature and strategic counter hegemony is needed  to counter   western music hegemony in the  country. The study of counter hegemony has not been widely discussed, especially when it comes to the counter of the counter hegemony itself and this can be the novelty of this study. This phenomenon is analyzed through critical perspective by conducting literature study in several online media sites  related to the topic of this research. The results show that the counter hegemony which was not carried out systematically and strategically with regard to  the restrictions on the broadcasting of 17 western songs in the province of West Java did not yield a fruit in the form of  the hegemony’s downfall. The hegemony of western songs remains strong.  The failure of counter hegemony will strengthen the hegemony of  western songs in Indonesia. For its part, it is necessary to have mature planning and strong collaboration  between political society and civil society to make the counter hegemony run well in an attempt to undermine the hegemony.

scholarly journals Um ministério com cultura: Gilberto Gil e os exercícios de antropologia aplicada

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (57) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Segata ◽  
Adriana Donato
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Culture System ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
The Relationship

Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre o Ministério da Cultura na gestão do Ministro Gilberto Gil e o processo de formulação das principais políticas gestadas no período 2003 a 2008. O primeiro tópico apresenta os principais mecanismos da gestão Gilberto Gil: Sistema Nacional de Cultura, reformulação da Lei Rouanet, Programa Cultura Viva – Pontos de Cultura, Plano Nacional de Cultura e Vale-Cultura. O segundo tópico faz uma reflexão sobre a relação da “ampliação do conceito de cultura” em sua dimensão antropológica e simbólica – ideia implementada pelo ministro – para novas diretrizes das políticas culturais gestadas em seu mandato. Por fim, traz uma reflexão sobre a contribuição da abertura não somente conceitual, mas também a abertura do diálogo entre diversos atores da sociedade civil neste processo de construção das novas diretrizes e das novas políticas culturais no Brasil a partir de 2003.Palavras-chave: Gilberto Gil. Cultura. Antropologia. Democratização. Políticas Públicas  A ministry with culture: Gilberto Gil and the exercises in applied anthropologyAbstract: This paper presents a study on the Ministry of Culture in the administration of Minister Gilberto Gil and formulating the central policies implemented from 2003 to 2008. The first topic presents the main mechanisms of the Gilberto Gil administration: the Sistema National Culture System, the reformulation of Lei Rounet, the Program Cultura Viva – Pontos de Cultura, the Plano Nacional de Cultura and the Vale-Cultura. The second topic reflects the relationship between the “expansion of the concept of culture” in its anthropological and symbolic dimension – an idea implemented by the minister – for new guidelines for cultural policies created during his term. Finally, the work reflects on the contribution of conceptual opening and the opening of dialogue between different civil society actors in this process of construction of new guidelines and new cultural policies in Brazil from 2003 onwards. It reflects on how a set of anthropological defenses to traditional, popular and ethnic knowledge, practices, and knowledge converted into an “anthropological concept of culture” guided a vision of democratizing government that is resistant to European models of culture.Keywords: Gilberto Gil; Culture; Anthropology, Democratization; Public Policies

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