englischHow can (radical) democracy be taught, learned and experienced? How can theory and practice be united? At Bielefeld University, these questions were put to the test in a threefold democratic seminar experiment. This anthology documents the experiences and reflections of the participants and [...]
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englischThis anthology aims to address a void in the debates on assisted dying and assisted suicide, which are dominated by legal, medical, theological and practical–ethical perspectives. Liberal institutionalisation of assisted suicide has been within reach since the Federal Constitutional Court's [...]
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englischThe secular state’s noblest virtue is restraint; its principle is freedom in and of faith. The increasing importance of Islamic law requires this freedom and its boundaries drawn for the sake of the secularity of the state to be reassessed.
The contributions collected in this volume [...]
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englischThis research study is intended to provide a decidedly political perspective on a topic that is otherwise primarily examined in legal and ethical disciplines: the question of ownership of the human body. It is analysed here using the example of the ownership of human tissue that is used in [...]
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englischDespite peacebuilding efforts between Ukraine and Poland, the author shows that the conflict between the two nations, with its violent zenith in the 20th century, remains unresolved. Looking at Andrei Sheptyts’kyi, Ukrainian Greek Catholic metropolitan between 1901 and 1944, as well as the [...]
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englischDiscussions on the topic of resilience often focus on how a society or political system can be made resilient. This perspective of resilience management is not pursued in this book. Rather, it is about normative orientations in multiple crises, about vulnerability, about resilience [...]
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englischThe study of trade agreements contains a knowledge gap in relation to Rules of Origin. In their simplest form, Rules of Origin are legal standards through which goods benefit from preferential market access and which prevent tariff fraud, but in practice they have mushroomed to create [...]
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englischIt has been proven that images of humans influence our perceptions, our thoughts and our actions and are therefore of almost incalculable importance for our social coexistence. This book therefore asks what images we—as with prejudices, unintentionally as it were—create of other people and [...]
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englischThe yearbook on European integration, compiled by the Institute of European Politics in Berlin, has documented the process of European integration in an up-to-date and detailed way since 1980. The result is a unique record of contemporary European history over a 43 year period. The 2023 [...]
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englischIt has been proven that images of humans influence our perceptions, our thoughts and our actions and are therefore of almost incalculable importance for our social coexistence. This book therefore asks what images we—as with prejudices, unintentionally as it were—create of other people and [...]
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