Jochen Hippler

Andrea Lueg

Laila Friese

Western perceptions of the Middle East have all too often been simplified. Islamic culture can easily be stereotyped in the Western media and even in this century the orient has been romanticized. Here, five writers from widely different backgrounds argue that these perceptions are maintained in the current policies of Western governments and institutions.

Western Perceptions of Islam

The Next Threat

Véronique Sina

Corinna Hauswedell

Nina Heindl

Margret Johannsen

Die Frage nach der Darstellbarkeit des Holocaust wird bis heute kontrovers diskutiert. Wähhrend die nationalsozialistischen Gräueltaten einer anhaltenden Erinnerung und damit auch einer fortlaufenden Darstellung bedürfen, scheint jeder Versuch der Repräsentation der Shoah ob der Grausamkeit der begangenen Verbrechen zwangsläufig an seine künstlerischen und medialen Grenzen zu geraten. Der interdisziplinäre Sammelband geht dieser zwangsläufigen Unzulänglichkeit und gleichzeitigen Notwendigkeit der Repräsentation, diesem Paradoxon der (Un-)Darstellbarkeit des Holocaust, anhand unterschiedlicher künstlerischer und medialer Schwerpunktsetzungen nach.

Künstlerische und mediale Repräsentationen des Holocaust

Notwendige Unzulänglichkeit

What is the News World Order? To President Bush, it offered a convenient justification for Western intervention in the Gulf, proclaiming a better and fairer world in which international law would be upheld. Bush's declaration may have been little more than a public relations exercise, but it remains true that the certainties of the old order have vanished. It becomes more important than ever that we understand the shifting contours of the new order. In this timely study, Jochen Hippler reconstructs the ideology and the reality of the so-called New World Order, and puts the current restructuring into a broader and more meaningful historical context.Pax Americana? offers no global models. Nor does it attempt to suggest concrete proposals for political action. It provides, instead (and more importantly) a firm basis for meaningful discussion and greater understanding of the global changes that affect us all.

Hegemony and Decline

Pax Americana

Jochen Hippler

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