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The development of atomic bombs was the biggest industrial scientific project in history up so far. This paper compares the involved tasks of the respective state agencies in the USA and in the Soviet Union: political control,... more
The development of atomic bombs was the biggest industrial scientific project in history up so far. This paper compares the involved tasks of the respective state agencies in the USA and in the Soviet Union: political control, organization, mobilization of resources, protection and secrecy, espionage and public relations. The text is in German.
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The PATRIOT Act
A quarant’anni dal suo completamento, la Ostpolitik del cancelliere Willy Brandt continua a rappresentare un esempio di accettazione del tragico passato collettivo tedesco e di riconciliazione con il presente di un Paese diviso. Tuttavia,... more
A quarant’anni dal suo completamento, la Ostpolitik del cancelliere Willy Brandt continua a rappresentare un esempio di accettazione del tragico passato collettivo tedesco e di riconciliazione con il presente di un Paese diviso. Tuttavia, essa fu anche un laboratorio progettuale orientato alla ridefinizione della futura sicurezza europea e alla promozione di un nuovo ordine di pace per il continente. Dato il suo carattere di accentuata autonomia, la Ostpolitik comportΓ² fasi di dissidio e competizione con la distensione promossa dal presidente statunitense Richard Nixon, incentrata sul dialogo esclusivo con l’Unione Sovietica. Tali processi furono fortemente condizionati dal riaffiorare a Washington di timori e sospetti in merito alla rinnovata intraprendenza della politica estera condotta dalle autoritΓ  federali tedesche, a un quarto di secolo dalla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale. Grazie alle fonti d’archivio oggi disponibili, il volume ricostruisce le dinamiche attraverso cui i due processi si influenzarono reciprocamente e posero le basi per la riformulazione della Guerra fredda in Europa, conferendole alcuni caratteri che essa avrebbe conservato fino al definitivo smantellamento della Β«cortina di ferroΒ» e alla riunificazione della Germania.
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Interview with Professor Volker Berghahn for the website of the Journal "Ricerche di Storia Politica"

http://www.arsp.it/interviste.html
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Vietnam War, Captain America, Culture, USA history, Cold War
This work aims to analyze and discuss how the attacks of September 11, 2001 were represented in the Captain America comics – published between June and December 2002 – written and drawn, respectively, by John Ney Rieber and John Cassaday.... more
This work aims to analyze and discuss how the attacks of September 11, 2001 were represented in the Captain America comics – published between June and December 2002 – written and drawn, respectively, by John Ney Rieber and John Cassaday. These authors redesigned and featured the Captain America as a superhero tasked with a mission that goes beyond defending the American people, because in this new setting he became a sort of β€œincarnation” of the values of the American Dream. The research focused on the analysis of speech and visual elements present in comics, using as support works of historians who analyze images, and authors of semiotic and analysis of discourse. Also seek to verify how the fictionality in the comic books contributed to establish a reflection about the contemporaneity at same time which makes a bridge with fictional elements of the American past.
The statistical analysis is based on binary time series (1 = presence of a major bank crash in that year, 0 = absence). Mean waiting times between years with events were calculated on the basis of an expectation test for a poisson... more
The statistical analysis is based on binary time series (1 = presence of a major bank crash in that year, 0 = absence).
Mean waiting times between years with events were calculated on the basis of an expectation test for a poisson process for simple columns of event times for the five phenomena.
Probabilities of transition between years with events and years without were calculated with the help of Markov chain analysis on the basis of the above-mentioned time series.
As already mentioned, the entire project is work in progress and includes also similar analyses for other medieval polities during this period (until now Byzantium, China, Egypt, England and Hungary; cf. also J. Preiser-Kapeller, (Not so) Distant Mirrors: a complex macro-comparison of polities and political, economic and religious systems in the crisis of the 14th century. Working paper for the International Conference β€œThe Angevin Dynasty (14th Century)” in Targoviste (Romania), October 21st-23rd 2011; online:  http://www.academia.edu/512025/_Not_so_Distant_Mirrors_a_complex_macro-comparison_of_polities_and_political_economic_and_religious_systems_in_the_crisis_of_the_14th_century – also with indication of data sources for these calculations). Comments are always welcome.
All calculations and graphs were done by the author with the help of the software programmes Microsoft-Excel* and PAST* (Version 2.17); any usage of material or data only with approval of the author!
Comment les gens ordinaires rΓ©sument-ils leur histoire nationale en quelques phrases ? Ce texte propose des pistes de rΓ©ponse Γ  cette question. Nous avons effectuΓ© une premiΓ¨re analyse des rΓ©sultats d’une enquΓͺte menΓ©e auprΓ¨s de 5 425... more
Comment les gens ordinaires rΓ©sument-ils leur histoire nationale en quelques phrases ? Ce texte propose des pistes de rΓ©ponse Γ  cette question. Nous avons effectuΓ© une premiΓ¨re analyse des rΓ©sultats d’une enquΓͺte menΓ©e auprΓ¨s de 5 425 adultes dans six pays d’Europe et d’AmΓ©rique – la France, l’Écosse, le Pays de Galles, l’Angleterre, les Γ‰tats-Unis et le Canada. Γ€ travers ces six pays, deux trames historiales se dΓ©gagent et recueillent un nombre similaire d’adhΓ©rents. La majoritΓ© des gens sondΓ©s par l’enquΓͺte rΓ©sument leur histoire nationale par la trame de l’adversitΓ© et du dΓ©clin ou par celle de la rΓ©ussite et du progrΓ¨s.
Celem artykuΕ‚u jest prezentacja idei niestosowania przemocy w myΕ›li teologicznej Martina Luthera Kinga.
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