TY - JOUR A1 - Bösch, Frank T1 - Taming Nuclear Power BT - the Accident near Harrisburg and the Change in West German and International Nuclear Policy in the 1970s and early 1980s JF - German history : the journal of the German History Societ N2 - In 2011 a broad majority in the German Federal Parliament voted to abandon nuclear energy. This article explores the origins of the change in attitude towards nuclear energy and argues that seven years before the Chernobyl disaster, the accident at the U.S. power plant Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1979, had a profound impact which nowadays seems to be largely forgotten in Europe. The article identifies the structural causes underlying the transnational reception of the Three Mile Island accident and explores international reactions, particularly in the Federal Republic of Germany. The accident near Harrisburg led to a loss of public confidence and created unease about nuclear expansion in many industrialized nations. Reactions to the accident can be understood as an attempt to tame nuclear energy both technically, by increasing safety measures and abandoning plans for new nuclear power stations, and politically, with a more critical appraisal of nuclear energy and with semantics that encouraged a long-term withdrawal from nuclear power. Critics were now also accepted as experts. Nuclear policy in all countries became closely dependent on public opinion, indicating a high level of political responsiveness. Various factors, however, including the contemporaneous oil crisis put the brakes on this critical approach to nuclear power, while safety improvements and the limited expansion of nuclear power created new confidence in the early 1980s. KW - Nuclear energy KW - experts KW - social movements KW - media KW - 1970s KW - Germany Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghw143 SN - 0266-3554 SN - 1477-089X VL - 35 IS - 1 SP - 71 EP - 95 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - THES A1 - Kim, Taeyeong T1 - The involvement of the two German states in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War T1 - Das Engagement der beiden deutschen Staaten in Korea in den 1950er Jahren im Rahmen des Kalten Krieges N2 - This master thesis will analyze the background of the involvement of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War. In both Korean states, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as well as the Republic of Korea (ROK), the so-called humanitarian aid that was provided to them in the form of medical and economic assistance to help surmount the hardship of the postwar period is remembered with great appreciation to this day. However, critical views on the German engagement in Korea are still relatively hard to find. In this paper, two exemplary cases will be studied: the GDR’s city reconstruction project in the North Korean cities of Hamheung and Heungnam and the FRG’s medical assistance to the ROK by means of the West German Red Cross Hospital in Busan. By looking at primary sources like governmental documents, this thesis will examine the geopolitical conditions and particular national interests that stood behind the German development and humanitarian aid for the Korean states at that time, thus shedding light on the political goals the two German states pursued, and the benefit they expected to derive from their engagement in Korea. Sources consulted include primary archival materials, secondary sources like monographs, journal articles, contemporary newspaper articles, and interviews with contemporary witnesses. N2 - In dieser Masterarbeit wird der Hintergrund des Engagements der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD) und der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (DDR) in Korea in den 1950er Jahren im Kontext des Kalten Krieges analysiert. Während und nach dem Koreakrieg erhielten die beiden koreanischen Staaten, die Demokratische Volksrepublik Korea (DVRK) sowie die Republik Korea (ROK) sogenannte Humanitäre Hilfe in Form von medizinischer und wirtschaftlicher Hilfe zur Überwindung der Not. Bisher gab es zahlreiche Forschungen zu diesem Thema, die historische Fakten ausgegraben haben, aber kritische Ansichten dazu sind noch relativ schwer zu finden. In dieser Arbeit werden zwei beispielhafte Fälle untersucht: das Wiederaufbauprojekt der DDR in den nordkoreanischen Städten Hamheung und Heungnam und die medizinische Hilfe der BRD in der ROK durch das Westdeutsche Rotkreuzkrankenhaus in Busan. Anhand von Primärquellen wie Regierungsdokumenten werden in dieser Arbeit die geopolitischen Bedingungen und besonderen nationalen Interessen untersucht, die hinter der deutschen Entwicklungs- und humanitären Hilfe für die koreanischen Staaten zu dieser Zeit standen. Außerdem werden die politischen Ziele sowie der Nutzen beleuchtet, den sich die BRD und die DDR von ihrem Engagement in Korea versprachen. Zu den konsultierten Quellen zählen primäres Archivmaterial, sekundäre Quellen wie Monographien, Zeitschriftenartikel, zeitgenössische Zeitungsartikel und Interviews mit zeitgenössischen Zeugen. KW - Cold War KW - GDR KW - West Germany KW - FRG KW - North Korea KW - DPRK KW - South Korea KW - ROK KW - Korean War KW - Red Cross KW - Humanitarian aid KW - Kalter Krieg KW - Deutschland KW - Korea KW - Ostdetuschland KW - DDR KW - Westdeutschland KW - BRD KW - Nordkorea KW - KVDR KW - Südkorea KW - Republik Korea KW - Koreakrieg KW - Humanitäre Hilfe KW - East Germany KW - Korea KW - Germany Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-526039 ER - TY - THES A1 - Kim, Taeyeong T1 - The involvement of the two German states in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War N2 - This master thesis will analyze the background of the involvement of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War. In both Korean states, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as well as the Republic of Korea (ROK), the so-called humanitarian aid that was provided to them in the form of medical and economic assistance to help surmount the hardship of the postwar period is remembered with great appreciation to this day. However, critical views on the German engagement in Korea are still relatively hard to find. In this paper, two exemplary cases will be studied: the GDR’s city reconstruction project in the North Korean cities of Hamheung and Heungnam and the FRG’s medical assistance to the ROK by means of the West German Red Cross Hospital in Busan. By looking at primary sources like governmental documents, this thesis will examine the geopolitical conditions and particular national interests that stood behind the German development and humanitarian aid for the Korean states at that time, thus shedding light on the political goals the two German states pursued, and the benefit they expected to derive from their engagement in Korea. Sources consulted include primary archival materials, secondary sources like monographs, journal articles, contemporary newspaper articles, and interviews with contemporary witnesses. N2 - In dieser Masterarbeit wird der Hintergrund des Engagements der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD) und der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (DDR) in Korea in den 1950er Jahren im Kontext des Kalten Krieges analysiert. Während und nach dem Koreakrieg erhielten die beiden koreanischen Staaten, die Demokratische Volksrepublik Korea (DVRK) sowie die Republik Korea (ROK) sogenannte Humanitäre Hilfe in Form von medizinischer und wirtschaftlicher Hilfe zur Überwindung der Not. Bisher gab es zahlreiche Forschungen zu diesem Thema, die historische Fakten ausgegraben haben, aber kritische Ansichten dazu sind noch relativ schwer zu finden. In dieser Arbeit werden zwei beispielhafte Fälle untersucht: das Wiederaufbauprojekt der DDR in den nordkoreanischen Städten Hamheung und Heungnam und die medizinische Hilfe der BRD in der ROK durch das Westdeutsche Rotkreuzkrankenhaus in Busan. Anhand von Primärquellen wie Regierungsdokumenten werden in dieser Arbeit die geopolitischen Bedingungen und besonderen nationalen Interessen untersucht, die hinter der deutschen Entwicklungs- und humanitären Hilfe für die koreanischen Staaten zu dieser Zeit standen. Außerdem werden die politischen Ziele sowie der Nutzen beleuchtet, den sich die BRD und die DDR von ihrem Engagement in Korea versprachen. Zu den konsultierten Quellen zählen primäres Archivmaterial, sekundäre Quellen wie Monographien, Zeitschriftenartikel, zeitgenössische Zeitungsartikel und Interviews mit zeitgenössischen Zeugen. T2 - Das Engagement der beiden deutschen Staaten in Korea in den 1950er Jahren im Rahmen des Kalten Krieges KW - Cold War KW - GDR KW - West Germany KW - FRG KW - North Korea KW - DPRK KW - South Korea KW - ROK KW - Korean War KW - Red Cross KW - Humanitarian aid KW - Kalter Krieg KW - Deutschland KW - Korea KW - Ostdetuschland KW - DDR KW - Westdeutschland KW - BRD KW - Nordkorea KW - KVDR KW - Südkorea KW - Republik Korea KW - Koreakrieg KW - Humanitäre Hilfe KW - East Germany KW - Korea KW - Germany Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-487315 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Köppen, Paul T1 - A Possible Peace? The Interwar Franco-German Relationship in Historiographical Perspective JF - Ricerche di Storia Politica N2 - This essay aims at discussing the new literature on Franco-German relations during the period 1918-1930. It highlights how many works now question the idea that the Treaty of Versailles and the European order that ensued inevitably wore within themselves the seeds of a new war. On the contrary, by examining in particular the detente efforts of the Twenties, the most recent historiography often emphasizes how the inevitability of the authoritarian turn of Twenties and Thirties, which led to the Second World War, has often been exaggerated by historians and that different paths could have been undertaken. KW - France KW - Germany KW - Treaty of Versailles KW - First World War Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1412/82730 SN - 1120-9526 VL - 19 SP - 47 EP - 58 PB - Società editrice il Mulino CY - Bologna ER -