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Simon Huemer, Die europäische Wahrnehmung des Königreichs Dänemark nach der Einführung der Lex Regia: Die Rezeption von und Debatte über Robert Molesworths Account of Denmark als Diskurs über die absolute Monarchie anhand seiner Deutung der danske Enevælde von 1694 bis ca. 1770
No full textBridging Brexit and the Values Crisis: From Constitutional Resistance to Deliberation?
Full text linkThis paper considers the creation of new deliberative mechanisms to address the EU’s values crisis. The starting point is that recent legal and financial measures may seem to be inducing compliance by Poland and Hungary with EU Rule of Law norms. However, even if these changes are sincere, they will not address the underlying malaise of ideological disagreement. Instead, the paper proposes that the Article 7 TEU mechanism should be reformed to provide a platform for genuine deliberation between all of the Member States, with routes that may lead to EU Treaty amendment, the granting of opt-outs, or pressure upon resistant Member States to consider withdrawal under Article 50 TEU
Why They Gave: CARE and American Aid for Germany after 1945
No full textWhat motivates people to give to those in need? How do their actions reflect the historical moment in which they occur? Founded in 1945, the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE) allowed U.S. citizens to send humanitarian aid to friends, family, and strangers overseas. Germany was the most popular destination for CARE packages, with numbers exceeding those of all other European destinations combined. Maximilian Klose examines why Americans were more likely to give aid to their recently defeated enemies than to their allies or to the victims of Nazi aggression. Embedding a diverse selection of case studies in the social, cultural, and political debates of the early postwar era, the study finds that these acts of giving were much more than altruistic deeds. In fact, donors used humanitarianism for their own purposes. Some gave to people who reflected their own worldview and sense of importance, or who could strategically advance their power on either side of the Atlantic. Others supported causes they considered essential to the progress of German-American relations in the early Cold War. In all cases, humanitarianism was at least as much about the donor as it was about the recipient
