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unresolved problems of power and violence in countries of origin of refugees as well as unresolved integration issues in a new place can lead to the "Palestinization" of refugee misery and consequently new security and power conflicts. Kühnhardt advocated a precise use of terminology and distinguished between voluntary migration and “forced migration”. His work received international attention and was still cited decades later when the global refugee issue finally gained political interest. In an essay published in 2017, Kühnhardt criticized that lack of combatting root causes of refugee movements. He warned against a cultural uprooting of refugees by accepting them in places far away from their homeland, which would only lead to new tensions in the receiving societies. Therefore, Kühnhardt argued, the German borders should have been closed to Arab asylum seekers in 2015 after the initial “welcome weekend”.

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occasion of the 200th anniversary of the University of Bonn in 2018, the concept of globality is examined comprehensively in the spheres of human development, human communication, technical-instrumental appropriation of the world, the aesthetical-practical appropriation of the world as well as moral order and human mortality. All articles follow the same systematic (Terminology - Global Turn - Implications) and length. They are framed by essays discussing the methodology, context and content of the handbook. Reviewers praised the encyclopedia as expression of the intellectual profile of one of the leading research universities and described the conceptual work done in the two volums as "gigantic".

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actually apply to every cultural-religious and political sphere of ideas. Despite severe restrictions on their universality in Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, Indian, African and communist political thought, Kühnhardt attested to the gradual universalizability of human rights based on the standards formulated by the United Nations. At the same time, he warned against over-expanding the catalog of human rights. The book triggered media and academic controversies. The study, which can be described as a standard work (28), was also widely received internationally, in political and legal sciences as well as in several area studies and political circles. As recently as 2004, British historian

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of the European Union and comparative global regional integration. His aim is to place events and processes in contemporary history in a larger context in order to make them better understandable and to deepen their respective historical and philosophical significance.So far (as of 2024) Kühnhardt has published 44 monographs and individual publications as well as 28 books as co-author or co-editor in various languages. He has edited 88 volumes in a series of publications by the Center for European Integration Studies. Kühnhardt has given public lectures in 102 countries. His articles and books were published in 24 languages.

1103:- he called the “Third World War”. Kühnhardt analyzed the consequences of decolonization in the postcolonial age, tensions between spaces and politically constituted spheres, the ambivalence of borders and orders, and the tensions between human rights and collective identity politics (society vs.community). With reference to Popper's thesis that tribalism destroys humanism, Kühnhardt criticizes political Islam and Western anti-globalization movements as main opponents to a modern inclusive global society. The book was reviewed as valuable contribution to the ongoing confusion about global transformations. 872:(1795), Kühnhardt attributed Kant's peace principles -as he wrote with an ironic undertone - to the eternal search for peace in Europe. In his 1996 study, he analysed several “experiments” in European history to create order for a troubled continent: Hegemony and raison d’état (1618-1648); balance of power and legitimacy (1713-1815); hope for collective security (1815-1939). During the Cold War, according to Kühnhardt, world history was frozen. With the end of the East-West conflict, several new organizational structures became visible (including the UN Agenda for Peace and the transformation of the 674:, program commission in 1992/94, which developed the first party program after German reunification. After the German 'Grand Coalition' was established in 2005, he left the CDU, saw himself as “politically homeless” and remained independent of any party affiliation. Kühnhardt supervised over 30 habilitation theses and dissertations at the universities of Freiburg and Bonn. He maintained a regular, lively connection with his former doctoral students for over three decades in the context of "Freiburger Politikdialog/Bonner Europakolloquium". Kühnhardt regularly published in leading daily newspapers ( 1132:

outside Germany - which amount to a fifth of his life span - he wrote a diary, originally in German. The edited texts about encounters with a myriad of ordinary people and public figures, places of interest and impressions on local realities reconstruct the complex developments of today's global world in its dialectical interconnectedness and disunity during the time span between 1960 and 2020. The two volums provide a rich source for research and a colourful panorama through the lens of one of the most globe-trotting contemporary authors.

823:(signed on February 7, 1992, in force on November 1, 1993) in the light of the idea of federalism, Kühnhardt categorized and contextualized the upheavals of the years 1989/1991 historically, spanning a perspective from revolutions in ancient Rome to the bloody revolutions in Russia and China in the 20th century. In the midst of a contentious controversy over the conceptual attribution of recent events, he described the current and ongoing upheavals in Europe as a revolution and compared them with the great revolutions of history. Drawing on 315: 726:. The Indian journalist M.N.Hebbar spoke of a “small, but readable book” (Culture Talk. Journal of the Indo-German Societies, 1982). The “Malayalam Literary Survey” judged that the book “provides a vivid picture...Anyone who wants to study the conditions of life prevailing in the villages of India will find this book interesting and instructive” (April/June 1982, p. 68). A year before, in 1981, Kühnhardt had published an essay about the German post-1968 generation, to which he felt he belonged: 491:(legal scholar), Kühnhardt built up and led ZEI over more than 25 years as an internationally renowned research, outreach and further education institution. ZEI conducted several hundred research projects, was involved in political consultancy work and built up a lasting reputation with its successful "Master of European Studies - Governance and Regulation" with alumni from more than hundred countries around the globe. He denied professorial appointments to 979:

intuitively functioning set of instruments is only at an embryonic stage to project the EU's global political interests, according to his thesis. Nevertheless, as a book review underlined, this task is unavoidable, also in order to secure approval for the unification project within the EU. In the context of his study on the historic evolution and changing rationale of the EU, Kühnhardt edited the results of a research project which he conducted at

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distinguishes this from classical intellectual history, theories of international relations and European integration theories. Using a variety of examples - e.g. notions of EU decision-making, European sovereignty, key Euro-speech words such as community of values and EU citizenship - he dissects the principles, ideas and goals of the European Union as they have developed and changed in the course of European integration itself.

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cooperation and integration - thus is: region -building. European unification does not serve as a role model that can be adopted, but rather as a source of inspiration, and sometimes even as deterrence in order to avoid the mistakes done by the EU. Kühnhardt based his study on empirical research in South America and the Caribbean (System of Central American regional integration

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years of university studies - which took place between 1994 and 2023 are documented in this book. A farewell lecture by Ludger Kühnhardt to his doctoral students concludes the dialogue project. In this lecture, Kühnhardt presents his view on the changes in German and European academia and politics during the three decades of his university activity.

963:(1989-1993) wrote in his foreword - which is rare for a scientific publication - that Kühnhardt not only portrayed the Atlantik Brücke itself “with admirable skill and remarkable success,” but also showed how the ideas guiding it shaped five decades of German-American relations beyond the peaceful unification of Germany in a unifying Europe. 483:, which was founded as part of the scientific expansion of Bonn after the decision to move the German capital to Berlin. This appointment was combined with an appointment as professor of political science at the Bonn Seminar for Political Science (today the Institute for Political Science and Sociology). Together with 1166:

Freiburg students in 1993. The volume sheds light on systemic issues, institutional, political and societal aspects of the two dictatorships on German soil. Reviewers judged that the volume had “marked a safe point in a mined area” and considered the book and its underlying project as “overall successful”.

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coherent regional cooperation and integration also in other regions of the world over the course of the 2010s. Kühnhardt discussed his assessments in lectures and in connection with policy consultancy work and scientific cooperation around the globe. In 2017, he addressed the 67.General Assembly of the

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For over three decades, Ludger Kühnhardt brought together current and former doctoral students for seminar meetings (Freiburger Politikdialog/Bonner Europakolloquium) mostly with contributions by the young scholars themselves. The legendary seminars - with the aim to remain in conversation beyond the

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As scholar and journalist, Kühnhardt deals in his research and teaching with the history of political ideas and a normatively based democratic theory, with development problems, especially focussing on cultural and religious aspects, issues of international order as well as with fundamental questions

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In his biography, Kühnhardt reflects on the context of the creation and the impact of his most important scholarly work. He provides a lively account of his motivations and the inner connections of his work in research and teaching, his role models and the impulses he was able to give. The detailed

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Study trips and field research, guest professorships and public lectures took Ludger Kühnhardt to all 193 member states of the United Nations and to 42 partially sovereign territories or defunct states (including the German Democratic Republic, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union). During all his stays

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With the study “Stufen der Souveränität” (“Stages of Sovereignty”), published in 1991, Kühnhardt expanded his research to issues of world order. Contrary to the assumption that history would end after the end of the Cold War, he saw Western industrialized countries as increasingly challenged by the

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he meticulously recapitulated how the EU (and previously the EEC and the EC) reacted to crises and thereby advanced the European integration processes. While instruments have been developed to mitigate and bargain internal frictions and conflicts of interests among EU member states, such an almost

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One of the first efforts to conduct a structural-historical comparative analysis between the National Socialist dictatorship in the German Reich between 1993 and 1945 and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) between 1949 and 1990 was the anthology that Ludger Kühnhardt prepared and published with

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With 'Region Building' Kühnhardt coined a new academic term in 2010. Based on the concept of 'nation building', which is widespread in the social sciences and politics, he argues that the limits of the concept of the nation state in large parts of the world have led to genuine efforts of regional

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The study - Kühnhardt's habilitation thesis from 1987 - provided an overview of the history of ideas as well as comparative cultural studies and empirical analysis of the question of whether and to what extent human rights - formulated as universally valid in the UN Declaration of Human Rights -

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Kühnhardt sees himself as a transatlanticist. In his work biography, he explained that he had conceived his most important studies at American universities and think tanks: “Nowhere is the research infrastructure better, the atmosphere more inspiring, the world of horizons more beguiling for the

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In his 1984 dissertation,Kühnhardt was among the first scholars linking the humanitarian drama of refugee movements worldwide during the 19th and 20th centuries (by then there were already 250 million refugees) to their political and ideological causes and their inadequate combat. He warned that

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have brought together contributions from 110 professors of Bonn University to answer the question of whether and to what extent the global turn is changing the European perspective on conceptualization, symbolization and interpretation of meaning in the humanities and cultural sciences. On the

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neo-imperial interests. According to Kühnhardt, the lack of sustainable concepts of regional integration in Northeast Asia and in the Middle East demonstrates the persistence of unresolved geopolitical constellations. The return of geopolitical rivalries has increasingly become a challenge for

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The textbook, published in 2022 with rich didactical material available online, was conceptualized in the context of teaching political science classes with input from students. Kühnhardt argues that in the meantime the European Union has given rise to a genuine genre of political thought. He

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during its term as G20 presidency. Kühnhardt, who has done field research in all 54 African countries, is an Africa-realist, trying to understand the African condition from within. He uses a historical perspective to assess the marginalization of Africa in global affairs and the ongoing

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Kühnhardt's study, published in 2014, about the interplay between genuinely African approaches to development and integration ("ownership") and the manifold interests of Africa's external partners served as an inspiration for the German federal government in 2017 in developing the

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demands of the states in the southern hemisphere. The study stated that in what is called today the global South, a genuine concept of state, nation and sovereignty had emerged. Reviews lauded the combination of an empirical and ideational (history of ideas) approach of the book.

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According to Kühnhardt, since the end of the Cold War, the European Union has been in a double process of re-founding: as a European social and governance system and as a global power among powers. In his study

722:), a critical analysis of German development policies. After spending longer periods in two very different villages in India, in 1982 Kühnhardt published a collection of journalistic reports entitled 888:, Kühnhardt argued, were politically solid enough and rooted in law to guarantee stability for their respective member states. Critics discussed the study for its actualization of Kant's theory;. 666:. He continues pro bono work beyond his retirement on the board of trustees of the "Forum Mitteleuropa" ("Forum Central Europe") at the Saxon state parliament. At the request of German Chancellor 627: 1544:. Vienna: Braumüller Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung 1984; see also: Ludger Kühnhardt. Flüchtlingslager sind schwelende Zündsätze der Weltpolitik. In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 28.2.1984. 1467: 151: 827:'s concept of revolution, he emphasized the contemporary historical changes as a peaceful revolution in the spirit of freedom and European unification. The book was translated into Turkish by 337:

and from 1997 until his retirement in July 2024 Director at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) and Professor at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the

937:. He linked his text-based interpretations to the contemporary challenges to democracy theory. Book reviews praised the hermeneutical value, sometimes not without cultural pessimism. 366: 990:. Simon Serfaty judged in the “Journal of Cold War Studies” that the texts by German scholars collected in the volume were “a compelling reason for hope in the future” of the EU. 630:. He supported the governments of Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Croatia on their way to EU membership. For many years he worked pro bono on the governing board of the 1463: 1065: 2289: 1713: 639: 358: 1623: 1041:). The development of the Eurasian Union after the end of the Soviet Union shows a completely different model, which is oriented towards a hegemonic redefinition of 1074: 425: 2270: 1655:

in 1991. In front of authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran and hundreds of scholars and Islamist activists he pleaded against the death penalty for author

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transformation becoming a more self-asserted global player. “'Africa Consensus' is the rare book that treats Africa as the complex region that it is”

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At this occasion a workshop was held at Bonn University with renowned participants from all over the globe, discussing the ambivalence of progress:

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re-confirmed the conclusion from Kühnhardt's study that there was “very little evidence in other cultures” for the idea of human rights.

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Ludger Kühnhardt. Kinder des Wohlstands. Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Sinn. München: Günter Olzog Verlag, 1981, ISBN 3-7892-7187-X.

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Im Gespräch bleiben. Politische Wissenschaft und berufliche Praxis. Freiburger Politikdialog/Bonner Europakolloquium (1994-2023)

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Im Gespräch bleiben. Politische Wissenschaft und berufliche Praxis. Freiburger Politikdialog/Bonner Europakolloquium (1994-2023)

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Im Gespräch bleiben. Politische Wissenschaft und berufliche Praxis. Freiburger Politikdialog/Bonner Europakolloquium (1994-2023)

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Kühnhardt completed his studies in history, philosophy and political science in 1983 with a doctorate under the supervision of

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Kühnhardt has repeatedly worked as an advisor to political and church actors, for example for the Secretary General of the

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Transdisciplinary Research and Education in Regional Integration. 1995-2020 Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung

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On his family background, upbringing and important sources of inspiration, see his work biography: Ludger Kühnhardt.

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about the open society and its enemies, Kühnhardt examined in 2017 the causes and circumstances of what - along with

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Die Universalität der Menschenrechte. Studie zur ideengeschichtlichen Bestimmung eines politischen Schlüsselbegriffs

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Die Universalität der Menschenrechte. Studie zur ideengeschichtlichen Bestimmung eines politischen Schlüsselbegriffs

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Die Universalität der Menschenrechte. Studie zur ideengeschichtlichen Bestimmung eines politischen Schlüsselbegriffs

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Die doppelte deutsche Diktaturerfahrung. Drittes Reich und DDR – ein historisch-politikwissenschaftlicher Vergleich

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op.cit..pp. 145-162. Kühnhardt recalls a highly controversial and at times dangerous international conference in

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and the kindergarten teacher Irmgard Kühnhardt, née Hoffmann. After graduating from the Goethe-Gymnasium in

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work biography contains a bibliography of all his publications up to the time of his retirement in 2024.

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Die neue Völkerwanderung nach Europa. Über den Verlust politischer Kontrolle und moralischer Gewissheit

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as well as to refugee camps around the world. Kühnhardt undertook postgraduate studies in 1983/84 at

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Ludger Kühnhardt.Politikwissenschaft als Beruf. Zwischen den Zeiten. In: Ludger Kühnhardt (ed.).

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Die Flüchtlingsfrage als Weltordnungsproblem. Massenzwangswanderungen in Geschichte und Politik

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Die Flüchtlingsfrage als Weltordnungsproblem. Massenzwangswanderungen in Geschichte und Politik

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Connected Worlds. Notes from 235 Countries and Territories (vol.1: 1960-1999; vol.2.2000-2020)

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Richard von Weizsäcker (1920-2015). Momentaufnahmen und Denkwege eines deutschen Staatsmannes

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Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2023. ISBN 978-3-658-40174-0 (Print); ISBN 978-3-658-40175-7 (ebook).

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Already his first published articles and books received attention and criticism. His book

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From March 1987 to June 1989, Kühnhardt worked as a speechwriter for Federal President

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Ludger Kühnhardt. Region building in the United Nations System. In: Ludger Kühnhardt.

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Stufen der Souveränität. Staatsverständnis und Selbstbestimmung in der ‚Dritten Welt‘

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European Union – The Second Founding. The Changing Rationale of European Integration

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Connected Worlds. Notes from 235 Countries and Territorieds - Volume 1 (1960-1999).

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Connected Worlds. Notes from 235 Countries and Territorieds - Volume 2 (2000-2020)

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in the German Federal President's Office. He then carried out research studies at

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Von der ewigen Suche nach Frieden. Immanuel Kants Vision und Europas Wirklichkeit

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Von der ewigen Suche nach Frieden. Immanuel Kants Vision und Europas Wirklichkeit

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