Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from successful negotiations with mediocre outcomes. Failure in this study pertains to a set of negotiating sessions that were convened for the purpose of achieving an agreement but ...

This book traces the development of the OSCE from the opening of negotiations in 1973 of the Helsinki Final Act up to its 50th anniversary in 2025, focusing on the transition from a bridge between Eastern and Western Europe (and the US and Canada) during the final 15 years of the Cold War to its post-Cold war focus on managing conflicts in the post-communist regions of Europe after the Cold War. It analyzes developments in this region as a competition between realist and liberal/institutio...

"Streiten verbindet – Vom rechten Umgang mit Menschen und Konflikten" thematisiert das weite Gebiet des Streitens und der Konflikte auf populäre Weise. Es wird versucht, das Entstehen der verschiedensten Arten von Konflikten auf individueller Ebene, auf der Ebene einer Gruppe und zwischen einzelnen Gruppen aufzuzeigen. Mit zwei Mechanismen der Konfliktauslösung wird die Frage, wie Streit und Konflikte entstehen können, fortgeführt. Verschiedene Konflikte, wie sie im täglichen Leben anzutre...

The notion that neutrality is a phenomenon only relevant to the Cold War is false in many ways. The Cold War was about building blocks, neutrality about staying out of them. From 1975 until the end of the Cold War, neutral states offered mediation and good offices and fought against the stagnation of the détente policy especially in the framework of the CSCE. After the end of the Cold War, neutral states became active in peace-operations outside of military alliances. The concept of neutra...

Nyhedsmedierne har traditionelt været de primære kilder til politisk information og de centrale arenaer for debat. Men med udbredelsen af internettet og sociale platforme som f.eks. Facebook, X, Instagram og TikTok har det politiske informationsmiljø ændret sig markant. Borgerne har i dag adgang til et langt større medieudbud end tidligere, og personlige præferencer og algoritmer påvirker i høj grad deres forbrug af nyheder. Nyheder, mediebrug og magt undersøger fem centrale udfordringer i...

This collection examines the theory, practice, and application of state neutrality in international relations. With a focus on its modern-day applications, the studies in this volume analyze the global implications of permanent neutrality for Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States. Exploring permanent neutrality’s role as a realist security model capable of rivaling collective security, the authors argue that permanent neutrality has the potential to decrease ma...

Oft sind die Gleichnisse Jesu, allgemein biblische Texte, schwer zu verstehen, und ihre Bedeutung für das tägliche Leben bleibt uns verschlossen. In dieser Broschüre wird versucht, dem Leser Kerngedanken unseres christlichen Glaubens wie Gottvertrauen, Rechtfertigung und Gnade nahe zu bringen und aufzuschliessen.

Comparing Political Journalism is a systematic, in-depth study of the factors that shape and influence political news coverage today.Using techniques drawn from the growing field of comparative political communication, an international group of contributors analyse political news content drawn from newspapers, television news, and news websites from 16 countries, to assess what kinds of media systems are most conducive to producing quality journalism.Underpinned by...

This book gathers the proceedings of the International Symposium on Plastics Technology, which was held on March 10, 2020 in Aachen, Germany, and was organised by the Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and Craft at RWTH Aachen University. Peer-reviewed by an international scientific committee, the conference proceedings comprise the papers presented by the international speakers. Topics covered include- circular economy- extrusion- lightweight techn...

This volume presents a mix of translations of classical and modern papers from the German Didaktik tradition, newly prepared essays by German scholars and practitioners writing from within the tradition, and interpretive essays by U.S. scholars. It brings this tradition, which virtually dominated German curricular thought and teacher education until the 1960s when American curriculum theory entered Germany--and which is now experiencing a renaissance--to the English-speaking world, where i...

Georg Hopmann, gestandener Anwalt am Landesgericht in Köln, meldet sich 1914 freiwillig zum Dienst an der Waffe. In seinen Aufzeichnungen und Briefen schildert er nüchtern und unprätentiös die täglichen Begebenheiten, Freuden und Mühsalen des Frontsoldaten. Zuerst von der Winterschlacht in der Champagne 1914/15, wo er ein erstes Mal verwundet wird, dann von der Aisne-Front 1916, wo er ein zweites Mal verwundet wird, und schliesslich von seinem zweiten Einsatz an der Aisne, wo er 1917 den H...

This first comprehensive overview of reactive extrusion technology for over a decade combines the views of contributors from both academia and industry who share their experiences and highlight possible applications and markets. They also provide updated information on the underlying chemical and physical concepts, summarizing recent developments in terms of the material and machinery used.As a result, readers will find here a compilation of potential applications for reactive extru...