This book discusses the impact of cultural diversities and identities on regional and interregional cooperation, as well as on multilateralism. Employing a comparative approach to organizations such as ASEAN, MERCOSUR, SAARC, and the African and European Unions, this volume seeks to understand their distinctive features and patterns of interaction. It also explores the diffusion of multidimensional interregional relations, including but not limited to the field of trade. Scholars from several disciplines and four continents offer insights concerning the consequences of both multiple modernities and the rise of authoritarian populism for regionalism, interregionalism, and multilateralism. The Covid-19 pandemic confirmed the decline of hegemonic multilateralism. Among alternative possible scenarios for global governance, the "new multilateralism" receives special attention. This book will be of key interest to European/EU studies, economics, history, cultural studies, international relations, international political economy, security studies, and international law.

This book discusses the impact of cultural diversities and identities on regional and interregional cooperation, as well as on multilateralism. Employing a comparative approach to organizations such as ASEAN, MERCOSUR, SAARC, and the African and European Unions, this volume seeks to understand their distinctive features and patterns of interaction. It also explores the diffusion of multidimensional interregional relations, including but not limited to the field of trade. Scholars from several disciplines and four continents offer insights concerning the consequences of both multiple modernities and the rise of authoritarian populism for regionalism, interregionalism, and multilateralism. The Covid-19 pandemic confirmed the decline of hegemonic multilateralism. Among alternative possible scenarios for global governance, the "new multilateralism" receives special attention. This book will be of key interest to European/EU studies, economics, history, cultural studies, international relations, international political economy, security studies, and international law.

This edited book focuses on the dynamic balance between global cultural diversity and multilateral convergence in relevant policy areas that involve actual and potential policy convergences (and divergences): the environment, trade, peace and security, and human rights. It offers theoretical reflections about the impact of the concept of multiple modernities on new ideas, cultural backgrounds, and/or national or regional particularities. An interdisciplinary team of authors combines comparative policy analysis with theoretical dialogue about the conceptual, institutional, normative, and political dimensions of a new kind of multilateral cooperation. Finally, the book concludes that by stimulating an intercultural dialogue which goes beyond a mere "rational choice" approach, we can foster progress through a better understanding of the opportunities and limitations offered by a pluralist, varied, post-hegemonic, and multilayered form of multilateral cooperation. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European/EU studies, economics, human rights, climate change, history, cultural studies, international relations, international political economy, security studies, and international law.

Seit 2006 ist die neue Bauordnung von Berlin in Kraft, die weitgehend die Regelungen der Musterbauordnung 2002 aufgreift. Die aktuelle Berliner Bauordnung beruht auf den grundsätzlichen Erwägungen, sich im Verfahrens- wie im materiellen Recht auf die aus heutiger Sicht notwendigen Regelungen zu beschränken. Teilziele sind - Stärkung der Eigenverantwortung der am Bau Beteiligten, - Reduzierung der Prüfprogramme der Baugenehmigungsverfahren, - Deregulierung und Vereinfachung des materiellen Bauordnungsrechts. Die 6. Auflage des bewährten Kommentars liefert aktuelle Erläuterungen, in die Praxiserfahrungen der letzten zwei Jahre Eingang fanden. Ausführlich behandelt werden unter anderem das Abstandsflächenrecht, der Brandschutz, die am Bau Beteiligten, die bauaufsichtlichen Verfahren, die Behandlung des Bauantrages, die Prüfung bautechnischer Nachweise und die Regelungen über Bauprodukte und Bauarten.

This book examines the role of the cultural factor, and patterns of its interaction with social, economic and political developments, in fostering identity-based new populisms and various forms of political authoritarianism across the globe. Comparing authoritarianism in the Asian and Western context, this book attempts to shed light on the different ways in which new political actors make use of cultural traditions or constructs in order to justify their claims to power and challenge the culture of modernity as understood in the Western world. Lastly, the book focuses on the consequence of these new challenges for multilateral cooperation at regional and global levels, asking the question: is the world going towards fragmentation and anarchy or a pluralist and innovative form of multilateral cooperation? This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of populism and authoritarianism studies, democracy, global governance and more broadly to international relations.

This book represents the first discussion from a political science perspective of the concept of Multiple Modernities in three dimensions. First taking stock of the discussions of the concept itself, the book then connects the concept to more recently developed analytical and normative concepts that concretize it, before finally opening up a discussion about its implications and consequences for the political dimension. Written by outstanding scholars in the field, the book addresses four principal concepts - Good Society, Good Governance, Human Security and Varieties of Capitalism. It determines whether and to what degree these concepts enable us to discover the commonalities and differences that distinguish the emerging multiple modernities in our time with respect to their political implications and consequences. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of political theory, political economy, international relations, comparative politics and sociology.

This edited book focuses on the dynamic balance between global cultural diversity and multilateral convergence in relevant policy areas that involve actual and potential policy convergences (and divergences): the environment, trade, peace and security, and human rights. It offers theoretical reflections about the impact of the concept of multiple modernities on new ideas, cultural backgrounds, and/or national or regional particularities. An interdisciplinary team of authors combines comparative policy analysis with theoretical dialogue about the conceptual, institutional, normative, and political dimensions of a new kind of multilateral cooperation. Finally, the book concludes that by stimulating an intercultural dialogue which goes beyond a mere "rational choice" approach, we can foster progress through a better understanding of the opportunities and limitations offered by a pluralist, varied, post-hegemonic, and multilayered form of multilateral cooperation. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European/EU studies, economics, human rights, climate change, history, cultural studies, international relations, international political economy, security studies, and international law.

Bone and Cartilage Engineering provides a complete overview of recent knowledge in bone and cartilage tissue engineering. It follows a logical approach to the various aspects of extracorporal bone and cartilage tissue engineering. The cooperation between a basic scientist and a clinician made it possible to structure the book's content and style according to the interdisciplinary character of the field. The comprehensive nature of the book, including detailed descriptions of laboratory procedures, preclinical approaches, clinical applications, and regulatory issues, will make it an invaluable basis for everyone working in this field. This book will serve as a fundamental tool for basic researchers to establish or refine tissue engineering techniques as well as for clinicians to understand and use this modern therapeutic option.

Bone and Cartilage Engineering provides a complete overview of recent knowledge in bone and cartilage tissue engineering. It follows a logical approach to the various aspects of extracorporal bone and cartilage tissue engineering. The cooperation between a basic scientist and a clinician made it possible to structure the book's content and style according to the interdisciplinary character of the field. The comprehensive nature of the book, including detailed descriptions of laboratory procedures, preclinical approaches, clinical applications, and regulatory issues, will make it an invaluable basis for everyone working in this field. This book will serve as a fundamental tool for basic researchers to establish or refine tissue engineering techniques as well as for clinicians to understand and use this modern therapeutic option.

This book represents the first discussion from a political science perspective of the concept of Multiple Modernities in three dimensions. First taking stock of the discussions of the concept itself, the book then connects the concept to more recently developed analytical and normative concepts that concretize it, before finally opening up a discussion about its implications and consequences for the political dimension. Written by outstanding scholars in the field, the book addresses four principal concepts - Good Society, Good Governance, Human Security and Varieties of Capitalism. It determines whether and to what degree these concepts enable us to discover the commonalities and differences that distinguish the emerging multiple modernities in our time with respect to their political implications and consequences. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of political theory, political economy, international relations, comparative politics and sociology.

Das Buch bietet allen politisch Interessierten und all denen, die genauer verstehen moechten, wie Politik funktioniert, eine fundierte und leicht verstandliche Einfuhrung. Es hat zwei besondere Schwerpunkte: die neuen politischen Fragen (Identitatspolitik, Zivilgesellschaft, Biopolitik und Globalisierung) und die neuesten Entwicklungen der Mediendemokratie.

Iran has one of the oldest town cultures in the world. It goes back more than 4,000 years. Between the Islamic conquest in the seventh century and the westernisation in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cities and towns in today's Islamic Republic of Iran underwent repeated changes. The Persian building culture influenced architects and artists as far as Central Asia in the north and India in the east. Unlike any other oriental country, Iran shows a unique urban and architectonic development whose defining characteristics merged with other cultures over the course of time, representing an important contribution to world architecture. In his Iran Architectural Guide, the author and architect Thomas Meyer-Wieser embarks on a journey into history, showcasing nearly 300 buildings and projects in Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz. His focus is on the identity of the Iranian- Islamic architecture, which has held its own since the rise of the Safavids in 1501.

"Art and technology: a new unity" - It was with this slogan that the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925. The seven years in Dessau were most productive for the designers and architects at the Bauhaus. This illustrated volume presents the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau in words and pictures and offers new perspectives on these icons of modern architecture. Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Paulick, Georg Muche, Carl Fieger and Karl Friedrich Engemann: the architects at the Bauhaus in Dessau realized their designs in the industrial city between the Elbe and the Mulde rivers during the years between 1925 and 1932 and thereby created a unique ensemble of modern architecture which attracts visitors from all over the world to Dessau to this day. Since 1996 some of the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau have been regarded as key works of European Modernism and are included in the list of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites. They express the revolutionary aim of the historical Bauhaus to bring about fundamental change in society through design and architecture.

This book examines the role of the cultural factor, and patterns of its interaction with social, economic and political developments, in fostering identity-based new populisms and various forms of political authoritarianism across the globe. Comparing authoritarianism in the Asian and Western context, this book attempts to shed light on the different ways in which new political actors make use of cultural traditions or constructs in order to justify their claims to power and challenge the culture of modernity as understood in the Western world. Lastly, the book focuses on the consequence of these new challenges for multilateral cooperation at regional and global levels, asking the question: is the world going towards fragmentation and anarchy or a pluralist and innovative form of multilateral cooperation? This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of populism and authoritarianism studies, democracy, global governance and more broadly to international relations.

Die vorliegende Arbeit ist die leicht abgeanderte Fassung meiner Dissertation, welche im Dezember 1990 abgeschlossen und yom Fachbereich 1 (Sozialwissenschaften -Philosophie -Theologie -Ge schichte -Geographie) der Universitat -Gesamthochschule Siegen angenommen wurde. Fur Anregungen, Kritik und Untersrutzung danke ich Stephan Schrage, Dr. Bernd Plaum, Jurgen Daub, Dagmar Meiswinkel, Dr. Hartmann Tyrell, Prof. Dr. Eugen Bu1S, vor allem aber Prof. Dr. Rainer GeifSler, dessen Betreuung und Vertrauen mir im Fortgang der Arbeit entscheidend geholfen hat. Thomas Meyer Siegen, im November 1991 Inhalt 1. Einleitung 9 Funktionale Differenzierung als zentrale 2. Dimension gesellschaftlicher Modernisierung 19 3. Struktur-und Funktionswandel der Familie 26 3. 1 Theoretische Vorbemerkungen 26 3. 2 Der Funktionszusammenhang des ganzen 31 Hauses 3. 2. 1 Familiengr61Se 32 3. 2. 2 Soziale Beziehungen im ganzen Haus 33 3. 2. 2. 1 Geschlechtsrollen und Arbeitsteilung 34 3. 2. 2. 2 Stellung der Kinder 36 3. 3 Die biirgerliche Familie -VorUiuferin der Moderne 37 3. 3. 1 Funktionale Spezialisierung der Familie 38 3. 3. 2 Romantische Ehe 41 3. 3. 3 Funktionale Geschlechtsrollen- 43 spezialisierung 3. 3. 4 Stellung der Kinder 45 3. 4 Die Arbeiterfamilie 46 3. 4. 1 Rollenstruktur und Binnenmilie 48 4. Universalisierung des biirgerlichen Familienmodells 52 4. 1 Das Monopol der biirgerlichen Familie: ein institutionalisiertes, segmentar differ- ziertes und funktional spezialisiertes Teilsystem der Gesellschaft 62 6 5. Demographische Entwicklungslinien und Veranderungsprozesse im familialen Zusammenleben 67 5. 1 Geburtenentwicklung 68 5. 2 EheschlieBungsquoten und Heiratsbereitschaft 72 5. 3 Nichteheliche Lebensgemeinschaften 74 5. 4 Ehescheidungen 78 Einelternfamilien 5."

Das Buch versammelt Aufsatze zum Konzept der "Lebenschancen." Behandelt werden die Themen: Lebenschancen und soziale Ungleichheit - Lebenschancen und sozialer Wandel - Lebenschancen und Migration. Abgeschlossen wird mit Beitragen zum Thema demokratischer Offentlichkeit.

"Fundamentalismus" ist eine der grossen Herausforderungen der modernen Welt und zugleich einer der am haufigsten missbrauchten Begriffe. Ein schillerndes Phanomen, aber keine Schimare: Hoechst real im Geist rucksichtsloser Kollektive, die im Namen ihrer selbsterkorenen Gewissheiten unterwerfen und herrschen wollen - nicht selten aber auch ein nach Belieben gehandhabtes Instrument zur vernichtenden Etikettierung missliebiger Ideen. Das vorliegende Buch leistet grundlegende Beitrage zur Klarung der Sache und des Begriffs.

Die Demokratietheorie kennzeichnet ein merkwurdiges Paradox. Wahrend die kapitalistische Marktwirtschaft zumeist als ermoglichende Bedingung liberaler Demokratie verstanden wird, gelten die radikalen Ungleichheiten, die sie erzeugt, zugleich auch als eine ihrer zentralen Gefahrdungen. Die hier vorgelegte Theorie der sozialen Demokratie klart die Bedingungen, die erfullt sein mussen, wenn der Anspruch rechtsstaatlicher Demokratie uneingeschrankt erfullt sein soll. Sie begrundet im Anschluss an die jungste empirische Forschung die Anforderungen an die Einbettung der Markte, den grundrechtsgestutzten Sozialstaat, die gesellschaftliche Demokratisierung und faire Globalisierung, die dafur erfullt sein mussen."

Seit uber zehn Jahren werden Personliche Budgets in Form von Modellprojekten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland erprobt und bis heute sind die Erwartungen an die Potenziale hoch gesteckt. Die Praxis der Budgetverwendung zeichnet hingegen ein ernuchterndes Bild, da einige der in Sozialpolitik und Wissenschaft diskutierten Potenziale in der Realitat nur begrenzt umgesetzt werden konnten. Auch ist wenig uber die Vielfalt der Verwendungsmoglichkeiten und Spielarten" des Personlichen Budgets bekannt. Auf Basis einer empirisch begrundeten Typologie wird die Verwendung systematisch analysiert und ein differenziertes Bild der Budgetnutzung dargestellt."

In vielen Demokratien wurden in den letzten Jahren zahlreiche soziale Errungenschaften in Frage gestellt oder schrittweise abgebaut. Dieser Band fuhrt in die theoretischen, oekonomischen und praktischen Grundlagen der Sozialen Demokratie ein und bietet somit eine wichtige Alternative zu neoliberalen Politikentwurfen.

Die Demokratie ist in der Gegenwart mannigfaltigen Bedrohungen ausgesetzt. Dieses Buch fuhrt in die geschichtlichen Grundlagen und die Bedingungen der Demokratie ein.

Thomas Meyer/Johanna Eisenberg Die Identitat Europas ist noch immer ein hochgradig umstrittenes Thema. Fast alles, was dieses Thema betrifft, steht zur Diskussion. Sowohl die Rolle, die das Konzept fur das politische Gemeinwesen Europa spielen kann als auch seine U- prunge, Bedingungen und Inhalte. Die Diskussion halt an, Klarung tut not. Die einen sehen in einer klaren Vorstellung von Identitat die Seele Europas, ohne die die den Menschen fernen und schwer verstandlichen Institutionen der Union zu einer menschenfernen Maschinerie verkommen mussten, die auf immer den Burgern der Gemeinschaft entfremdet bliebe, und das europaische Einigungswerk zu einem fragwurdigen Kunstgebilde, einer Art burokratischem Monstrum machte, das in den Herzen und Koepfen der Europaer ein Fremdkoerper bleibt. Andere hoffen, dass die Burger der Union in nicht allzu entfernter Zukunft eine Identifi- tion mit diesem Gemeinwesen entwickeln, das in der Art und vielleicht sogar in der Dichte dem gleichkommt, was in Europa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert an nationalen Identitaten ausgebildet wurde.