World Political Challenges

Preface.- 1 The Wondrous Growth of Nation-States in the Age of Globalisation.- 2 Democracy and Nationalism - Twin Children of the Sovereignty of the People.- 3 A Global-Human Perspective: The United Nation States of Europe and the World.- 4 The Peace Congress of the Socialist International in Basel, November 24-25, 1912.- 5 A Century of Wars and Striving for peace since the Peace Congress of Basel.- 6 Sarajevo 1914. A Century of Debate About the Guilt for the First World War.- 7 On the Saying: There have Always Been Wars. There will Always Be Wars as Long as Humanity Exists.- 8 The Present Clash of Religious Communities and Regional Civilisations in the Global Civilising Process.- 9 Geopolitics - An Ideology for the Legitimising the National Socialist Policy of Conquest or a Scientific and Political Field, That Is Unappreciated Today?.- 10 Democratization or the Restoration of Dictatorship as the Outcome of the Arab Rebellion.- 11 "With What Ink Remains": Stabbing a Pen Into the Hornet's Nest of Israeli, Jewish and German Sensitivities.- 12 Kashmir - Flashpoint for a Nuclear War or Even a Third World War?.- 13 The New Western War of Intervention in Mali.- 14 Linguistic Assimilation of All Citizens or Minority Protection: Åland Islands.- 15 Canada: Has It Passed the Tests as a Multicultural Nation, or Hasthe Democratic Secession of Quebec Been Postponed?.- 16 The Exacerbation of the Competition Between Brussels and Moscow Over the Integration of Ukraine.

Studies in History, Political Science, Geography, and Pedagogics in Marburg/ Lahn, Berlin, Bratislava, 1974-1990 Research Director at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, 1975-1993 Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, 1993-2005 Chair/Professor of Political Science and Contemporary History at the University of Mannheim, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Copenhagen, Irvine, Cal., Vilnius, 1993-2009 Research area and project director at the Mannheim Centre for Social Research, since 2009 Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Goethe University of Frankfurt.