World Politics as a Cultural Mission. Foreign Cultural Policy and the Educated Bourgeoisie in Germany on the Eve of the First World War

After the First World War, foreign cultural policy became one of the few fields in which Germany could act with relative freedom from the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. In this context the Hamburg doctors Ludolph Brauer, Bernhard Nocht and Peter Mühlens created the Revista Médica de Hamburgo (as of 1928 Revista Médica Germano-Ibero-Americana), a monthly medical journal in Spanish (and occasionally in Portuguese), to increase German influence especially in Latin American countries. The focus of this article is on the protagonists of this project, the Hamburg doctors, the Foreign Office in Berlin, the German pharmaceutical industry, and the publishing houses involved.

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Een nieuwe kijk op de Vlamse Hogeschool. De Duitse bezettingspolitiek en de universiteiten van Gent en Warschau tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog in een transnationaal perspectief

WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging ◽

10.21825/wt.v74i2.12103 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 74 (2) ◽

pp. 142-167

Author(s):

Kristof Loockx

Keyword(s):

Cultural Policy ◽

First World War ◽

World War ◽

German Occupation ◽

Custom Made ◽

The First World War ◽

New Perspective ◽

National Perspective ◽

Sphere Of Influence ◽

First World

Dit artikel belicht de Duitse bezettingspolitiek en de universitaire hervormingen te Gent en te Warschau tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Hoewel beide hervormingen vrij goed zijn bestudeerd, heeft een comparatief vergelijk amper aandacht gekregen in de historiografie. Nochtans brengt een confrontatie van de Duitse cultuurpolitiek in de twee regio’s heel wat inzichten naar voren. Het transnationaal perspectief laat namelijk zien dat een nieuw licht wordt geworpen op de (Vlaams-)nationalistische kaders waarin de Vlaamse Hogeschool meestal geplaatst wordt. Geboren uit hetzelfde Duitse annexionisme – ditmaal via de omweg van het culturele en intellectuele leven – schreef het bezettingsregime een ambitieus plan uit, door in te spelen op de heersende kwesties met als doel de Duitse invloedssfeer in Europa uit te breiden. Gezien de uiteenlopende context waarin de strijd voor het hoger onderwijs tot wasdom was gekomen, ontwikkelde het bezettingsregime een programma op maat van beide regio’s.________A new perspective on the Flemish University: The German occupation policy and the Universities of Ghent and Warsaw during the First World War from a trans-national perspective.This article analyses the German occupation policy and the university reforms in Ghent and Warsaw during the First World War. Although each of the reforms has been studied fairly well, a comparative study has hardly received any attention in the historiography. Nevertheless, an investigation of the German cultural policy in the two regions produces many insights. The trans-national perspective demonstrates in fact that a new light may be cast on the (Flemish) nationalistic contexts, in which the Flemish University is usually placed.Derived from the same German drive for annexation – this time via the detour of cultural and intellectual life – the occupying authorities worked out an ambitious plan by responding to the prevailing issues with the objective to expand the German sphere of influence in Europe. In view of the different context in which the struggle for higher education had matured, the occupying authorities developed a programme that was custom-made for each of the regions.

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The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics

Cataclysm 1914 ◽

10.1163/9789004262683_002 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 1-20

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

World Politics ◽

Modern World ◽

World War ◽

The First World War ◽

First World

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World Politics in the Mid-Twentieth Century

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670500042236 ◽

1948 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 154-173 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Hans J. Morgenthau

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

Second World War ◽

World Politics ◽

Western World ◽

World War ◽

Religious Wars ◽

Moral Tradition ◽

The First World War ◽

Second World ◽

First World

From the end of the religious wars to the First World War, the modern state system was kept together by the intellectual and moral tradition of the Western world. That tradition imposed moral and legal limitations on the struggle for power on the international in a certatin measure, maintained order in the international community and secured the independence of its individual members. What is left of this heritage today? What kind of consensus unites the nations of the world in the period following the Second World War?

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Political Science and World Stabilization

American Political Science Review ◽

10.2307/1950344 ◽

1950 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 1-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Quincy Wright

Keyword(s):

Balance Of Power ◽

First World War ◽

World Politics ◽

The Other ◽

World War ◽

Human Race ◽

Atomic Weapons ◽

Precise Calculation ◽

The First World War ◽

First World

Few persons who look at the world thoughtfully are complacent. It is difficult to believe that the balance of power will become more stable. Quite the contrary! A degree of bi-polarity in world politics has been reached which compels each of the opposing groups to bend its efforts to bring the remaining neutrals into its orbit and to augment its power. If the war which each regards as a possibility should come, each wants to be sure that it will not be the loser. The race in atomic weapons and armaments of all kinds is on and experience suggests, as in the rivalries between sections before the American Civil War and the rivalries between alliances before the first World War, that such a race will eventuate in war.There is no balancer in a bi-polar world, nor are there uncommitted powers which may cast their lot on one side or the other in a crisis. The process of nucleation about the two poles makes prediction of the power potential of each more and more feasible. It becomes increasingly clear to one side that time is with it and to the other that time is against it. Under such circumstances each expects war and it can be anticipated that the side which becomes convinced that time is against it will start the war. Fortunately there are still many unknown variables in the present situation. No precise calculation is yet possible, though it may be in the course of a few years. However, if war comes, there are few who doubt that atomic weapons would be used and that the human race would face disaster.

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