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The semantics of the term "empire" is overloaded with superlatives and loud epithets. The concept of empire is so universal and all-encompassing that it appears to have no particular meaning at all. Indeed, empire embodies the grim totality of unlimited domination and coercion; at the same time, it turns out to be a synonym for the clumsy neologism of "world-system" (or "world civilization") and evokes a unifying principle for a universe surrounded by the destructive elements of chaos and barbarism.
Was ist Sicherheit und wie viel braucht ein Mensch davon, um sich in seiner Welt heimisch zu fühlen? Eckart Conze skizziert das rückwärtsgewandte Sicherheitsstreben in der Ära Adenauer, den optimistischen Glauben an die Sicherheit von Fortschritt und Wachstum in den sechziger und frühen siebziger Jahren, das folgende Jahrzehnt der „Inneren Sicherheit" und schließlich die internationale Sicherheitspolitik. Dabei entwickelt er ein neues Konzept einer „modernen Politikgeschichte" der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die mit „Sicherheit" als analytischem Leitbegriff sozial- und wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Ansätze ebenso zu integrieren vermag wie das Potential der Kulturgeschichte und der Geschichte transnationaler Beziehungen, von der in den letzten Jahren viele fruchtbare Ansätze ausgegangen sind.
Tanz der Vampire: Der mediale Altersdiskurs der Achtziger Jahre in der Wochenschrift DIE ZEIT
(2005)
This article investigates concepts of aging and elder people in media discourse of the 1980s in West Germany. It discusses the question whether post-modern times lead to arbitrariness, in which the knowledge of the elderly becomes fluid and gives them new freedom. Christiane Streubel identifies three main issues of the dominant discourse of old age that contradict the idea of happy postmodern times for people of age. In the debate about reforming social policy and pension insurance, pensioners are the only required elementary constituents, but passive and all-consuming at the same time. The second issue focuses on the treatment of older people, which in the 1980s was regarded as a test for the humanity and legitimacy of the political system as a whole. But even if the media try to get really close to the ordinary elderly by reporting about their everyday life, the language of discourse reveals strangeness, fear and marginalisation.