International Politics

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.

Preface.- 1 The Structures of Conflict and Cooperation in the East of Europe.- 2 Limits on the Future Expansion of the European Union. On the Disputed Membership of Turkey, Ukraine and Other States.- 3 Kosovo and Elsewhere. Military Interventions in Defence of Human Rights ("Humanitarian Interventions").- 4 Bosnia and Herzegovina - EU Policy in Deadlock.- 5 Federalisation - A First Step Towards the Division of Belgium?.- 6 A Temporary or Terminal Failure of the UN Plans for Cyprus.- 7 The Castling of Presidential Functions by Vladimir Putin.- 8 The Creation of New Fronts Between Russia and the West in the South Caucasus.- 9 On the Way to Two, Three, or Four Kurdistans?.- 10 The Jewish-Arab Conflict Over State Formation and Consolidation Solidation in the Near East.- 11 International Aspects of the Permanent Crisis in Iraq.- 12 The Iranian Atomic Programme - A Reason for the Deployment of Defensive Missiles in Europe or Another Military Intervention by the USA?.- 13 Escalating Conflict in Korea Due to Nuclear Armament? Or Prospects for National Reunification?.- 14 Commemoration of Genocide as a Contemporary Political Weapon. The Example of the Ottoman Genocide of the Armenians.- 15 The Toleration of Genocide in Africa - From Rwanda to Darfur.- 16 The Han Chinese Ehno-Nationalisation of China (Tibet, Xingjiang).