Als die Komponisten Europa verließenZahlreiche, besonders jüdische Komponisten versuchten, vor dem Nationalsozialismus ins Ausland zu fliehen. Diejenigen, die sich retten konnten, hatten im Exil aber oft Schwierigkeiten, ihre Karriere fortzusetzen.Michael Haas erzählt die bewegenden Geschichten vieler Größen der Klassik, wie etwa Erich Wolfgang Korngold, der für Hollywood komponierte, oder Kurt Weill, deren Musik sich jedoch durch ihr neues Leben im Ausland...

What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler’s Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although some of their works were celebrated, these composers had lost their familiar cultures and were forced to navigate xenophobia as well as entirely different creative terrain. Others, far less fortunate, were in a kind of...

While many texts on international relations deal only with ideologies, this book goes beyond discussion of ideology to provide an understanding of how global economics, politics, and society operate. The book begins with a history of the International Studies Association, which was founded to develop empirically-based knowledge and was opposed to ideological “isms” as biased guides to policy.The book focuses on four major paradigms—Marxian, Mass Society, Community Building, and Rati...

Clemens, der Erzähler des Buches, ist nahe der 50 und damit Teil einer Generation, die weit verwirrter ist, als ihr zukommt. Selten zuvor hat eine Generation ähnlich gut gelebt, auch wenn ihr Lamento über gefährdete Rentenansprüche nicht enden will. Clemens trifft auf seiner episodisch verwobenen Reise durch die Welt 50-jähriger Wohlstandsbürger ideale Paare, schmerzresistente Personalleiter, Scheidungsopfer und -gewinner, neurotische Unternehmensberater, buddhistisch begabte Therapeuten, ...

Political science has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with many specializations and subfields that do not talk to one another. This book offers a solution that will advance the field from mid-level theory to engage in cross-fertilization through metatheoretical paradigms. The book begins with a history of political science from the nineteenth century to the present, followed by a paradigmatic history of political science including 6 metatheories in the pre-behavioral era, 12 in the behav...

This book describes racist rule in Hawai’i during the first half of the twentieth century and how statehood made possible a fundamental transformation. Based on a multicultural ethos, top political power shifted from Whites to Japanese and later to other racial groups. Racism was eliminated in the economy, environmental policies were modified, government operations became more multicultural, and the desires of Native Hawaiians to recover what had been lost from the days of the Kingdom of H...

The book asserts that every individual and government operates according to an “operational code”—a set of guiding principles that shape decisions and actions, often invisible yet profoundly influential. Operational codes, rooted in culture, diplomacy, and politics can foster cooperation or ignite conflict when they collide. From the origins of the concept in Cold War foreign policy analysis to its application across cultural, governmental, and global norms, this book offers the first comp...

Weaving a critique of major power intervention into political history, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Cambodia from 1953 to the present.Since gaining its independence in 1953, Cambodia has been treated as a pawn by more powerful countries. China, Vietnam, the United Nations, and especially the United States have played a role in shaping Cambodia's history, from propping up the Khmer Rouge regime to restricting its economic opportunities.Mich...

With a foreword written by former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, this book portrays President Barack Obama as a true child of Hawai'i and explains why he believes that America can achieve even more greatness by learning from the multicultural customs of the 50th state.Obama's aspiration to transform the United States using Hawai'i as his model has been a conspicuous theme in his books and speeches over the years. In them, he extols Hawai'i's multicultural ...

Das Phänomen der "inneren Emigration" ist auf dem Gebiet der Exilmusik hinreichend untersucht. Weniger dagegen das der "inneren Rückkehr". Musikwissenschaftler Michael Haas untersucht in seinem Essay in Kursbuch 198 beispielhaft die Artefakte zweier Wiener Komponisten, an denen eine "innere Rückkehr" sichtbar wird: Musik, die nie für ein hörendes Publikum gedacht war, sondern einzig von der Sehnsucht gespeist ist, an einen Ort zurückzukehren, der Heimat bedeutete.

This book identifies why presidents, prime ministers, and other leaders of countries often make blunders in foreign policy. Blunders have been recognized within the study of foreign policy, but no central methodology or theory has developed to provide a way to avoid future disasters. Options are often presented to leaders of countries by advisers who do not always assess which policies will best serve national interests. Presidents, prime ministers, and other leaders of countries then have...

The disastrous handling of the coronavirus (Covid-19) in the United States calls out for an explanation of who is to blame for a disease that could have been contained but instead became an epidemic. Donald Trump, who plays so many roles in life, was unable to fathom how to deal with the problem, but others in his administration made serious mistakes as well. Readers will discover the scope of the errors in an entirely factual, chronological account from the first word about the outbreak t...