englischFor the states of the Western Balkans, the years 2020 and 2021 also had negative and in many respects challenging consequences due to the coronavirus pandemic – a trend that will continue.

Against this background, the study of the KFIBS research group “Southeast Europe” examines the [...]

englischNering was the most influential architect in Brandenburg-Prussia around 1700. For the first time, the author contextualises Nering's work and subjects it to critical analysis. Nering transferred the style and quality primarily of Italian architecture to the Mark, which, as a strict, sober [...]

englischIn the GDR, fiction took on the function of a surrogate public sphere, since the mass media did not provide it. This is also true of literature set in the scientific establishment and milieu, a segment comprising some 150 texts. The handbook makes this segment accessible. On the one hand, it [...]

englischGhost notes are ubiquitous in the rhythm of popular music: quiet notes or beats played between louder ones, filling in the metric grid. Nina Düvel's qualitative expert interviews with drummers explore for the first time why musicians use them and how they relate to the perception of groove [...]

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, [...]

englischSince the Federal Constitutional Court lifted the ban on the organised promotion of suicide in Germany, a comprehensive and multi-perspective discourse on assisted suicide has emerged. The German Ethics Council has discussed the right to suicide and the phenomenology of the desire to die and [...]

englischTeachers in nursing education sometimes find the start of their career and phases of their professional life very stressful. Using guided interviews, Tara Engelmann identifies stress factors such as the reform of nursing education towards generalist training, the workload, the discrepancy [...]

englischThe coronavirus pandemic has left many people feeling very insecure. Nastasia Lehmann identifies partnerships as one coping strategy. In her quantitative empirical study, the author uses an online survey to investigate the importance of the security aspect in partnerships and partner [...]

englischLarge-scale extraction of natural resources is an essential economic linchpin for many countries that are part of the global periphery. Using qualitative case studies and process tracing, this book examines key external factors in order to explain why countries adhere to resource [...]

englischIn a case study of Ireland and Spain, the author establishes a framework that explains how reforms were enabled in the EMU during the eurozone crisis through a mechanism of interdependence between the member state and the European levels. The strong interconnection between both levels proved [...]