englischThis thesis provides an overview of the genesis and meaning of the transatlantic phenomenon and tendentious term Genscherism. Integrated into the strand of research of the New Cultural Approach on Diplomatic History, this scientific study illustrates that the traces of criticism of [...]

englischIn the Covid 19 pandemic, quick, collectively binding decisions were required despite incomplete knowledge. Old heuristics failed. The system of scientific policy advice had to be reoriented. Hubertus Nietsch describes the conflict of goals between contingent knowledge and political [...]

englischThe struggle between myth and logos determines all forms of politics. But on what does its outcome depend? Russia and Europe provide an unparalleled example here, because at first glance the two oppose each other like myth and logos. Enlightenment came from the West, Russia resisted. [...]

englischBy linking governmentality and habitus-field theory, the publication makes a contribution to medical sociology, in the context of which the lack of fit of industrial-economic approaches in relation to the morphology of forms of care is illustrated using the example of the hospital. The [...]

englischCan modern society adapt to terrorist threats without risking its own existence?

Using the example of counterterrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1950–2020, in this study the author examines how society deals with security problems in the modern age: she questions whether this [...]