Center for German and European Studies

Copia di Altiero Spinelli e la genesi dello IAI: il federalismo, il gruppo de "il Mulino" e la dimensione internazionale del lavoro culturale. In: D. Preda;M.G. Melchionni;C. Rognoni Vercelli;S. Pistone;J.P. Gouzy;W. Loth;D. Preda;C. Previti Allaire;L.V. Majocchi;C. Russo;G. Guderzo;F. Praussello;R. Cagiano De Azevedo;M. Vaccaro;D. Velo;C. Malandrino;P. Tilly;F. Zucca;G. Devani;P. Graglia;A. Becherucci;J.M. Palayret;D. Pasquinucci;P.V. Dastoli;C. Merlini;M. Bonanni. Altiero Spinelli e i movimenti per l'unità europea, PADOVA:CEDAM, 2010, pp. 245-277

With several rising powers emerging as new actors on the humanitarian scene, viewing all 'emerging donors' as a homogenous group inevitably undermines efforts to constructively engage with them. With Turkey's widely recognized engagement in Somalia and Syria, the country merits a nuanced analysis. What norms and interests shape its humanitarian engagement? How is it financed and organized? Thoroughly evaluating how foreign and domestic agendas shape Turkey's humanitarian engagement, the paper details what Ankara means when it talks about humanitarian assistance. The collaborative relationship between the government, faith-based businesses and the religious part of a generally deeply divided civil society in financing and implementing humanitarian assistance appears as a unique feature of Turkey's humanitarian assistance. This setup calls for an informed approach toward working with specific Turkish actors and puts into questions the sustainability and scalability of current aid levels.

This thesis investigates the differences in gendered experiences of the German reunification. I inquire into the medium-specificity of these differences as reflected in literature and cinema. The first chapter investigates the general status of memory in women's autobiographies and the particular use of scrapbooking techniques. Three autobiographical works are compared: Die Mauer ist gefallen (2010) by Susanne Fritsche, Zonenkinder (2002) by Jana Hensel, and Meine freie deutsche Jugend (2003) by Claudia Rusch. The analysis of these three novels focuses not only on how scrapbooking shapes the expression and content of what is remembered but also the gendered elements of these memories. The more autobiographies rely on scrapbooking the less feminist they are. By incorporating mass-produced visual objects, the East German female authors undermine the gendered qualities of their personal and collective memories. The second chapter turns to Wende cinema and considers the status of damaged male protagonists in a selection of the many male melodramas produced after 1989. The three films analyzed include: Wege in die Nacht (1999) directed by Andreas Kleinert, Der Zimmerspringbrunen (2001) directed by Peter Timm, and Berlin is in Germany (2001) directed by Hannes Stöhr. By uncovering the triggers for the protagonists' emasculation as well as their fates, this chapter argues that German cinema conceptualized the fall of the Wall as directly affecting the security of East German masculinity. When juxtaposed with one another, female autobiographical memoirs and male melodramas show that experience is inherently gendered.

Scenes of migrants stranded at the southern borders of the European Union and the United States have become increasingly regular news items, causing debates on immigration policies to intensify. Meanwhile, child migrants face dangerous conditions, detention, and deportation. How are these policies enacted in the EU and US and in comparison to the standards set by international law? By Nicole Johnson, intern at the HBS North America Office.