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NKIDP e-Dossier No. 7: East German Documents on Kim Il Sung’s April 1975 Trip to Beijing
May 16, 2012
NKIDP is pleased to announce the addition of 4 new documents on Kim Il Sung’s 1975 visit to Beijing to the Digital Archive. Introduced by Ria Chae, the documents demonstrate Kim’s changing unification strategy and his increasingly distant relationship with China in the mid-1970s. more
Conference Report: The Cold War: History, Memory, and Representation
Apr 25, 2012
H-Soz-u-Kult has released a report on the CWIHP co-sponsored conference The Cold War: History, Memory, Representation, which was held from 14-16 July 2011 at the European Academy in Berlin. more
Localizing Islam in Europe: Turkish Islamic Communities in Germany and the Netherlands
March 14, 2012 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Ahmet Yükleyen demonstrates how Islam and Europe have shaped one another and challenges the idea that Islamic beliefs are inherently antithetical to European secular, democratic, and pluralist values. Through comparing five different forms of religious communities among Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany, Yükleyen’s rich ethnography shows that there is no single form of assimilated and privatized "European Islam" but rather Islamic communities and their interpretations and practices that localize Islam in Europe. more
Conference Report: The Cold War: History, Memory, and Representation
Apr 25, 2012H-Soz-u-Kult has released a report on the CWIHP co-sponsored conference The Cold War: History, Memory, Representation, which was held from 14-16 July 2011 at the European Academy in Berlin.
Call for papers: France and the German Question
Feb 06, 2012Call for papers for "France and the German Question, 1945-1990," February 7-9, 2013
Radio Free Europe: 60 Years in the Service of Free Poland
Dec 06, 2011The first in a series of several events planned in Poland to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the inauguration of Radio Free Europe's Polish broadcasts from Munich on May 3, 1952.
Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar Hope M. Harrison was featured in The Washington Post
Oct 28, 2011Harrison discussed the 50th anniversary of the American/Soviet showdown at Checkpoint Charlie—an incident that some feared would trigger nuclear war.
Localizing Islam in Europe: Turkish Islamic Communities in Germany and the Netherlands
March 14, 2012 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Ahmet Yükleyen demonstrates how Islam and Europe have shaped one another and challenges the idea that Islamic beliefs are inherently antithetical to European secular, democratic, and pluralist values. Through comparing five different forms of religious communities among Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany, Yükleyen’s rich ethnography shows that there is no single form of assimilated and privatized "European Islam" but rather Islamic communities and their interpretations and practices that localize Islam in Europe.
Germany’s Historical Euro Responsibility
March 01, 2012 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm
Over the past two decades, united Germany has accepted its political EU integration responsibility to move toward a European Monetary Union, to introduce the euro, and now to resolve the current Eurocrisis. There is little doubt, Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel argues, that Germany is obligated to support EU integration, constitutionally, historically, and morally.
Occupied Economies: An Economic History of Nazi-Occupied Europe, 1939-1945
April 11, 2012 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
What were the consequences of the German occupation for the economy of occupied Europe?
NKIDP e-Dossier No. 7: East German Documents on Kim Il Sung’s April 1975 Trip to Beijing
NKIDP is pleased to announce the addition of 4 new documents on Kim Il Sung’s 1975 visit to Beijing to the Digital Archive. Introduced by Ria Chae, the documents demonstrate Kim’s changing unification strategy and his increasingly distant relationship with China in the mid-1970s.
Whither Pax Atomica? - The Euromissiles Crisis and the Peace Movement of the early 1980s
As the failure of Pax Atomica seemed more and more imminent, the soaring anxiety, alarm, apprehension and mistrust of the national governments across Europe contributed to the success of the 1980s peace movement.
NKIDP e-Dossier No. 4: The Rise of Kim Jong Il - Evidence from East German Archives
NKIDP is pleased to announce the addition of four new documents to the Digital Archive on the rise of recently deceased North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Newly obtained East German documents reveal that the late North Korean leader had been groomed from as early as 1974 to take over the helm of the North Korean state.
