Regional integration

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James Bohman

"Today democracy is both exalted as the "best means to realize human rights" and seen as weakened because of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state. In this book, James Bohman argues that democracies face a period of renewal and transformation and that democracy itself needs redefinition according to a new transnational ideal. Democracy, he writes, should be rethought in the plural; it should no longer be understood as rule by the people (demos), singular, with a specific territorial identification and connotation, but as rule by peoples (demoi), across national boundaries. Bohman shows that this new conception of transnational democracy requires reexamination of such fundamental ideas as the people, the public, citizenship, human rights, and federalism, and he argues that it offers a feasible approach to realizing democracy in a globalized world."--Jacket.

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Maria Lensu and Jan-Stefan Fritz

"The existence of diverse ultimate values and value systems, or value pluralism, is an undeniable reality in the international sphere today. For example, the current debates between Western advocates of human rights and their primarily non-Western critics illustrate this phenomenon. The fundamental question facing normative theory in International Relations is how to reconcile value pluralism with an ethical orientation. In other words, how is it possible to organize human interaction, our lives together, in a manner that is appropriate/good/right/fair/just, in a world where there are diverse conceptions of appropriateness/goodness/rightness/fairness/justice? This volume incorporates a variety of contributions from well-known authors at the centre of the debate."--BOOK JACKET.

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Rıfat N. Bali

"Bu çalışma, Amerikan Millî Arşivleri'nde Safehaven kod adlı tasnif altında yer alan Türkiye ile ilgili dosyalar temel alınarak hazırlanmış bir araştırmadır. “Güvenli liman” anlamına gelenSafehaven Projesi, Birleşik Amerika Dışişleri Bakanlığı'nın 1944 yılında, Almanya'nın savaşı kaybedeceğinin belli olduğu bir tarihte, uygulamaya koyduğu bir programdı. Amacı; Naziler tarafından yağmalanmış varlıkların, “güvenli liman” olarak adlandırılan tarafsız ülkelerde gizlenmelerini engellemek ve savaşın bitiminde tarafsız ülkelerde mevcut bu Nazi varlıklarına el koymaktı. Elinizdeki bu çalışma, Amerikan Dışişleri Bakanlığı'nın bu programı Türkiye'de nasıl uyguladığını, hangi Türk işadamlarının ve Türk firmalarının bu program çerçevesinde soruşturulduklarını incelemekte."--Back cover.

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Eric Koch

Part detective story, part biography, this is the fascinating tale of Hilmar and Odette, both born illegitimately in Germany before the Second World War, both half-Jewish, both brought up by "Aryan" families. Eric Koch, having discovered that his well-to-do family has two skeletons in the closet (Odette is his half-sister and Hilmar is his step-cousin), embarks on a search into his family history and into the very different fates of these two "Half-Jews" who grew into adults as the Nazi party came to power. Hilmar's adoptive mother discovers he is a Jew, and (despite his being a dutiful, even loving, son) when the opportunity arises denounces him to the Gestapo. Hilmar's increasingly desperate attempts to escape deportation and stay with the woman with whom he has fallen in love prove futile. He finally falls victim to the machinery of oppression and is sent to Auschwitz. By contrast, Odette, never suspecting that she is part-Jewish, ascends the social ladder and comes to hobnob with the Nazi boheme in her Berlin salon. To ingratiate himself with the right people, her publisher husband dreams up new forms of propaganda to help the Nazi cause. Hilmar and Odette's parallel stories advance in step through this book, each casting light on the other. And around the fringes of their lives move the spectres of Napoleon, Joseph Goebbels, and Lili Marleen. The narrator's detective tale becomes a third story, as he probes his family's past and explores the shadowy territory where personal uncertainties and frailties meet the implacable sophistry of Nazi ideology.