englischSahra Wagenknecht’s late political ambitions sparked a public debate in Germany. Concerns were stressed regarding the potential collaboration of leftists and rightists typically referred to as Querfront. However, as a glance at history reveals, such cooperation of conflicting political [...]

englischThe effects of the climate crisis are marked by violence. However, due to a liberal understanding of violence, this violence is often not understood as such.

Jaafar Bambouk discusses the understanding of violence and its limits in relation to the climate crisis. He takes the existing liberal [...]

englischScientific policy advice is characterised by a vast number of expert committees, research institutions and consulting firms, which can be institutionally embedded to varying degrees. A distinction is made between internal advice within the political administrative system and external, [...]

englischAnimal gifts have shaped diplomacy since time immemorial: from Caesar's giraffe, Charlemagne's elephant and Pope Leo's rhinoceros, to Churchill's platypus, Nixon's pandas and Kohl's Komodo dragon. Until now, the empirical richness of this universal practice has remained unexplored. In this [...]

englischIs cancel culture damaging the political sphere in liberal and democratic societies? In this book, Alisa Lang uses case studies to examine the mechanisms of cancel culture and its influence on public discourse. From the perspective of communication theory, she shows the (secondary) [...]

englischThe high prevalence of corruption in sub-Saharan Africa has been empirically proven. However, the strong regional character requires the analysis of common factors that are causal or determining for today's situation. From a historical-analytical perspective Alexandra Hacke examines to what [...]

englischRight-wing extremism’s tendency towards fragmentation and individualisation can be observed more and more frequently. This is also the case with the Militia of Montana and the Identitarian Movement. In this book, Moritz Kinskofer analyses them through the lens of strain theory and compares [...]