englischThis volume uses historiographical and literary texts from the Pahlawī era (1921-1979) to examine discourses on heroised actors. Based on the observation that Iranian mythology prefigures historians' assumptions about history, the study traces the changing approaches of state-affiliated [...]
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englischThe book provides a comprehensive overview of the possibilities and limits of content moderation on digital platforms. The author examines the national as well as the European legal framework and conducts an in-depth analysis of the relevant case law which has been growing dynamically since [...]
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englischJoseph Schumpeter was not a political theorist or constitutional lawyer. However, the essays in this volume show that reflecting on his brilliant insights and provocative exaggerations is stimulating in various ways. Schumpeter is concerned the coevolution of modern statehood and a [...]
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Vorerst ist nicht absehbar, dass es in näherer Zukunft ein Umweltgesetzbuch gibt, das alle umweltrechtlich relevanten Regelungen – vergleichbar dem Sozialrecht – zusammenfasst und einheitlich normiert. So bleibt es bei der Vielzahl an Einzelregelungen. Das Klausurtraining stellt die typischen [...]
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englischDeeply marked by the experience of the Fronde during his minority, when the people and the nobles had threatened the authority of the crown, Louis XIV conceived the idea of transforming the new genre of opera, imported from Italy, into a vehicle for monarchical propaganda, intended as much [...]
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englischAny interest in a scientific field requires at least a rudimentary knowledge of its technical language, at least of the basic concepts on which judgement and reasoning are based. This propaedeutic study provides an introduction to the technical language of politics. It is not binding and [...]
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englischIn his Ode to Joy (1785), Friedrich Schiller unfolds dreamlike perspectives of the future; he sketches an alternative world in which justice, peace and freedom prevail and "all men [...] become brothers". Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (1824) lends it a higher value, transfiguring its [...]
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englischWe live in times of crisis. Crisis, disorder, insecurity, uncertainty and upheaval seem to be the sign of our times. This anthology deals with the state in crisis. The term state in crisis combines two semantic levels: First and foremost, the expression refers to crises of the state, to [...]
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englischThe anthology analyses the development of the two overlapping epidemics HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C in Central Asia and China against the background of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Both epidemics have a significant impact on public health and particularly affect drug users. [...]
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Vorerst ist nicht absehbar, dass es in näherer Zukunft ein Umweltgesetzbuch gibt, das alle umweltrechtlich relevanten Regelungen – vergleichbar dem Sozialrecht – zusammenfasst und einheitlich normiert. So bleibt es bei der Vielzahl an Einzelregelungen. Das Klausurtraining stellt die typischen [...]
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