German Domestic and Foreign Policy

Preface.- 1 Political Issues Under Debate. On the Meaning and Purpose of a Series of Political Science Lectures on Contemporary History.- 2 The Offences and Repudiation of Thilo Sarrazin. Are there Limits to Freedom of Political Opinion in Germany?.- 3 The Dispute Over the Veil. The Conflict Between Laicism (the Separation of State and Religion) and Religious Tolerance.- 4 The Globalisation of the Danish Cartoon Dispute.- 5 "Multiculturalism" or German Leitkultur as Maxims for the "Integration" of Foreigners.- 6 Integration or Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities. On the Future of Danish, Sorbian, Italian, Turkish and Other Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany.- 7 The Advantages and Risks of Multiple Citizenship.- 8 Denglish Instead of German? The Changing Use of Language in Germany.- 9 From the Constitutional Treaty to the Lisbon Treaty: Is the European Union on the Way to Becoming a Federal State?.- 10 Once Again: Was Germany Defeated or liberated on the 8th of May 1945?.-11 From the West European Commemoration of Auschwitz to a Pan-European Commemoration of Auschwitz and the GULag Archipelago - and Inevitable Consequence of the Eastward Extension of the EU for Commemoritan Policies.- 12 Expellers and Expelled. On an Appropriate Form of Commemoration.- 13 The "Defense of Germany in the Hindu Kush". The German Role in Afghanistan.- 14 Should Germany be a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council? On the Efforts to Reform the United Nations.

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 Center for Social Research, since 2009 Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Goethe University of Frankfurt.