englischThis book focuses on a previously undiscovered work by the famous Jewish social work pioneer Siddy Wronsky (1883–1947) from Berlin. In her novel 'Sand and Stars', Wronsky describes the immigration of four young Jews from Nazi Germany to Palestine, and their educational work and mission in [...]

englischAchieving ambitious expansion targets for onshore wind energy is a key component of Germany’s energy transition. Effective steering is to be achieved using a variety of instruments. The failure to achieve the expansion targets illustrates the complexity of this project.

Based on political [...]

englischThis book examines the exemplary function of German education policy in the early phase of Japanese colonial rule on Taiwan on the basis of the inspection tours carried out on behalf of the Taiwan General Government (Taiwan sotokufu) in the German Empire (1895-1914). The analysis of the [...]

englischChanges in the working world due to artificial intelligence and robots are a hot topic, yet well-founded answers from an ethical perspective are lacking. This book provides these in a scientific manner and is the result of a multi-year research project by the Universities of Lucerne and [...]

englischThis book examines the transformation of higher education in Turkey after 1980 through Foucault's historical method, discourse analysis and the concept of dispositif in the field of higher education research. Foucault's method is seen as holistic and historical. Discourse analysis is used to [...]

Unter Berufung auf Aristoteles erklärte Arno Baruzzi Sein und Wahrheit zum eigentlichen Thema der Philosophie. Der Band präsentiert im Gedenken an Baruzzi in interkultureller Perspektive zwölf Beitrage von Autoren aus fünf Ländern, die sich mit den Beziehungen von Welt und Wahrheit auseinandersetzen [...]

englischParliaments are subject to a wide range of criticism. This makes it all the more important to provide reliable knowledge about their legal and political foundations, tasks, achievements and challenges. Democracy, in which society as a whole is expressed in its plurality and through which it [...]

englischThis political science analysis of the negotiation of the GDPR shows how a coalition of data protection advocates was able to enshrine an unprecedentedly high level of data protection in law thanks to the interaction of numerous factors and despite resistance from industry and some EU member [...]

Deutschland kommt bei der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung, trotz Onlinezugangsgesetz und ambitionierter Digitalisierungsprogramme, nur langsam voran. Der Sonderband untersucht die Digitalisierungspraxis in den fortgeschrittenen Verwaltungsbereichen Kfz-Zulassung, Bauaufsicht, Steuerverwaltung und [...]

englischAccording to the military, politicians, think tanks and the media, modern societies are part of ongoing 'information warfare'.

Cyberspace allows military operations to address (civil) society, its values, norms and goals through language, communication and global networking. Its goal is to [...]