A James Mcadams
Biographic Data
| ID | 1155367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A James Mcadams |
| GIVEN NAMES | A James |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcadams |
| SIGNATURE | MCADAMS A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9424-3692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Far-Right Newspeak and the Future of Liberal Democracy
"This book is the first systematic, multi-country exploration of far-right newspeak. The contributors analyze the ways in which contemporary far-right politicians, intellectuals, and pundits use and abuse traditional liberal concepts and ideas to justify positions that threaten democratic institutions and liberal principles. They explore cases of both far-right and right-wing thought in eastern and western Europe, the United States, and Canada. S…
Between Containment and Rollback: The United States and the Cold War in Germany
Given the steady output of scholarly studies on the origins of the Cold War over the past seven decades, one might legitimately wonder whether there is room for substantially new contributions on the topic. Between Containment and Rollback demonstrates that the opportunity still exists. For nearly a quarter of a century, Christian Ostermann has been the guiding force behind the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) under the Woodrow Wils…
Global 1968: Cultural Revolutions in Europe and Latin America
Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy
Contemporary far-right thinkers in the era of liberal democratic crisis / A. James McAdams -- Far-right intellectuals and the illiberal discourses of identity / Sarah Shurts -- Pat Buchanan, far-right thinking, ethnic loyalty, and liberal democracy / Jérôme Jamin -- Guillaume Faye, from new right intellectual to prophet of the racial civil war / Jean-Yves Camus -- Making the case for "difference" : from the nouvelle droite to the identitarians an…
Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification
Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party
This book is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. The book argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. It shows how the leaders of parties in countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Yugoslavia…
Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party
Vanguard of the revolution: The global idea of the Communist Party
The first comprehensive political history of the communist party - Vanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. In this book, A. James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. H…
Transitional Justice: The Issue that Won't Go Away
The author asks whether there is anything we can do to lessen the disappointments and frustrations that often result from our attempts to pursue transitional justice. He argues that the best way to respond to this challenge is to accept the existence of three factors that arise in every attempt to come to terms with past wrongs: the power of precedent; the illusion of resolution; and the possibility of a continuous return. Examining a well-known …
The Last East German and the Memory of the German Democratic Republic
The author ponders over the identity of the last self-identifying East German and wonders what he or she will say before leaving memories of the region behind. He distinguishes among three possible candidates for this honor: the ordinary citizen with little aspiration to political or social notoriety; the enthusiast with an interest in perpetuating the old regime's values; and the dissident activist dedicated to transforming that order. After ide…
Crisis of Modern Times: Perspectives from The Review of Politics, 1939-1962
Spying on Terrorists: Germany in Comparative Perspective
Intelligence and law enforcement agencies in western democracies are turning increasingly to electronic surveillance tools in their efforts to identify and combat new terrorist threats. But this does not mean that they are equally equipped to undertake these measures. As the author shows by comparing surveillance activities in three countries-Great Britain, the United States, and Germany-the Federal Republic's more restrictive legal norms and ins…
Internet Surveillance after September 11: Is the United States Becoming Great Britain
Judging the Past in Unified Germany
Judging the past in Unified Germany
McAdams, A. James. Judging the Past in Unified Germany. Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press, 2001. 288 pp. $53.00 hardcover; $20.00 paperback. All countries that have successfully shed authoritarian regimes face the demand for retroactive for the victims. A. James McAdams's convincingly argued monograph analyzes how Germany has met this challenge with respect to the legacy ofthe SED-regime over the first decade after unification. Conceptuall…
What Remains? The Political Culture of an Unlucky Birth
The future political culture of eastern Germany and, with it, the relationshipbetween unified Germany's once divided populations willdepend heavily upon how all Germans respond to a distinctive factabout the east. The region experienced not one but, counting theGerman Democratic Republic (GDR), two separate eras of dictatorship.This fact can be, and has been, understood in two differentways, with significantly different implications in each case.…
Germany after Unification: Normal at Last
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the concept of “normalcy” has occupied a prominent place in the pronouncements of Germany's most powerful politicians and policy makers. In addition, it has also suffused much of the emerging literature on the domestic and international implications of German unification. Some observers argue that unification embodies the call to normalcy, offering Germany's leaders the opportunity to put their nation's past beh…
The Honecker Trial: The East German Past and the German Future
Fifty years after the Nuremberg tribunals, Germany is once again caught up in a series of controversial trials involving former dictators. This time, officials of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) sit in the docks. Some observers have criticized these proceedings, maintaining that they will result in the imposition of an arbitrary form of “victor's justice.” Others have claimed, in contrast, that the cumbersome GermanRechtsstaat(“state …
Rebirth: A History of Europe Since World War II
Part 1 Historical background: Europe triumphant - 1300-1900 Europe in crisis - 1900-1945. Part 2 The international scene: Europe divided - 1945-1955 East-West equilibrium - 1955-1975 a new Europe emerges. Part 3 The nation-states: Germany - East and West the Soviet Union Eastern Europe the United Kingdom France Italy and the Vatican the small states of Western and Northern Europe the Iberian and Aegean states
Inter‐German relations in historical perspective: The risks of biased hindsight
It is a mixed blessing to know that the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist in late 1989 and the German nation was reunified less than a year later. While scholars can now comment definitively on what made these events possible, they must fight the temptation to think deterministically about the past and to read German history as though it were destined to culminate in the outcomes of 1989 and 1990. In this essay on the risks of biased hin…
Explaining Inter-German Cooperation in the 1980s
Germany, America, and Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy, by Wolfram Hanrieder ; At the Creation of a New Germany: From Adenauer to Brandt, An Ambassador's Account, by George McGhee
Journal Article Germany, America, and Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy, by Wolfram Hanrieder ; At the Creation of a New Germany: From Adenauer to Brandt, An Ambassador's Account, by George McGhee Get access Germany, America, and Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy by Wolfram Hanrieder. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1989. 509 pp. $29.95.At the Creation of a New Germany: From Adenauer to Brandt, An Ambassador's Account by G…
Towards a New Germany?—Problems of Unification
IT HAS NOW BECOME COMMON FOR OBSERVERS TO NOTE that German reunification, an unthinkable prospect only a year ago, will be realised before anyone, either the East and West Germans themselves or any of their neighbours and allies, is fully prepared for this eventuality. As the conservative Alliance for Germany's stunning successes in the GDR's first free Volkskammer (parliamentary) elections on 18 March demonstrated, a near majority of the country…
East Germany and Detente: Building Authority after the Wall
The emergence of East Germany as one of Europe's most vocal advocates of East-West detente in the 1980s represented a remarkable political transformation. Prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, East Germany had been amongst the most intransigent proponents of the Cold War, largely because of the perceived threat to the domestic authority of its own leadership. Renewed exposure, however, prompted that leadership to regard good relations with…
Crisis in the Soviet Empire: Three Ambiguities in Search of a Prediction
Germany after Unification: Normal at Last
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the concept of “normalcy” has occupied a prominent place in the pronouncements of Germany's most powerful politicians and policy makers. In addition, it has also suffused much of the emerging literature on the domestic and international implications of German unification. Some observers argue that unification embodies the call to normalcy, offering Germany's leaders the opportunity to put their nation's past beh…
The Honecker Trial: The East German Past and the German Future
Fifty years after the Nuremberg tribunals, Germany is once again caught up in a series of controversial trials involving former dictators. This time, officials of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) sit in the docks. Some observers have criticized these proceedings, maintaining that they will result in the imposition of an arbitrary form of “victor's justice.” Others have claimed, in contrast, that the cumbersome GermanRechtsstaat(“state …
Transitional Justice: The Issue that Won't Go Away
The author asks whether there is anything we can do to lessen the disappointments and frustrations that often result from our attempts to pursue transitional justice. He argues that the best way to respond to this challenge is to accept the existence of three factors that arise in every attempt to come to terms with past wrongs: the power of precedent; the illusion of resolution; and the possibility of a continuous return. Examining a well-known …
Inter-German Détente: A New Balance
East Germany and Detente: Building Authority after the Wall
The emergence of East Germany as one of Europe's most vocal advocates of East-West détente in the 1980s represented a remarkable political transformation. Prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, East Germany had been amongst the most intransigent proponents of the Cold War, largely because of the perceived threat to the domestic authority of its own leadership. Renewed exposure, however, prompted that leadership to regard good relations with…
East Germany and Detente: Building Authority after the Wall
Inter-German Détente: A New Balance
East Germany and Detente: Building Authority after the Wall
The emergence of East Germany as one of Europe's most vocal advocates of East-West detente in the 1980s represented a remarkable political transformation. Prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, East Germany had been amongst the most intransigent proponents of the Cold War, largely because of the perceived threat to the domestic authority of its own leadership. Renewed exposure, however, prompted that leadership to regard good relations with…
Crisis in the Soviet Empire: Three Ambiguities in Search of a Prediction
Explaining Inter-German Cooperation in the 1980s
Germany, America, and Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy, by Wolfram Hanrieder ; At the Creation of a New Germany: From Adenauer to Brandt, An Ambassador's Account, by George McGhee
Journal Article Germany, America, and Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy, by Wolfram Hanrieder ; At the Creation of a New Germany: From Adenauer to Brandt, An Ambassador's Account, by George McGhee Get access Germany, America, and Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy by Wolfram Hanrieder. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1989. 509 pp. $29.95.At the Creation of a New Germany: From Adenauer to Brandt, An Ambassador's Account by G…
Towards a New Germany?—Problems of Unification
IT HAS NOW BECOME COMMON FOR OBSERVERS TO NOTE that German reunification, an unthinkable prospect only a year ago, will be realised before anyone, either the East and West Germans themselves or any of their neighbours and allies, is fully prepared for this eventuality. As the conservative Alliance for Germany's stunning successes in the GDR's first free Volkskammer (parliamentary) elections on 18 March demonstrated, a near majority of the country…
Rebirth: A History of Europe Since World War II
Part 1 Historical background: Europe triumphant - 1300-1900 Europe in crisis - 1900-1945. Part 2 The international scene: Europe divided - 1945-1955 East-West equilibrium - 1955-1975 a new Europe emerges. Part 3 The nation-states: Germany - East and West the Soviet Union Eastern Europe the United Kingdom France Italy and the Vatican the small states of Western and Northern Europe the Iberian and Aegean states
Inter‐German relations in historical perspective: The risks of biased hindsight
It is a mixed blessing to know that the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist in late 1989 and the German nation was reunified less than a year later. While scholars can now comment definitively on what made these events possible, they must fight the temptation to think deterministically about the past and to read German history as though it were destined to culminate in the outcomes of 1989 and 1990. In this essay on the risks of biased hin…
The Honecker Trial: The East German Past and the German Future
Fifty years after the Nuremberg tribunals, Germany is once again caught up in a series of controversial trials involving former dictators. This time, officials of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) sit in the docks. Some observers have criticized these proceedings, maintaining that they will result in the imposition of an arbitrary form of “victor's justice.” Others have claimed, in contrast, that the cumbersome GermanRechtsstaat(“state …
Germany after Unification: Normal at Last
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the concept of “normalcy” has occupied a prominent place in the pronouncements of Germany's most powerful politicians and policy makers. In addition, it has also suffused much of the emerging literature on the domestic and international implications of German unification. Some observers argue that unification embodies the call to normalcy, offering Germany's leaders the opportunity to put their nation's past beh…
Judging the Past in Unified Germany
Judging the past in Unified Germany
McAdams, A. James. Judging the Past in Unified Germany. Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press, 2001. 288 pp. $53.00 hardcover; $20.00 paperback. All countries that have successfully shed authoritarian regimes face the demand for retroactive for the victims. A. James McAdams's convincingly argued monograph analyzes how Germany has met this challenge with respect to the legacy ofthe SED-regime over the first decade after unification. Conceptuall…
What Remains? The Political Culture of an Unlucky Birth
The future political culture of eastern Germany and, with it, the relationshipbetween unified Germany's once divided populations willdepend heavily upon how all Germans respond to a distinctive factabout the east. The region experienced not one but, counting theGerman Democratic Republic (GDR), two separate eras of dictatorship.This fact can be, and has been, understood in two differentways, with significantly different implications in each case.…
Internet Surveillance after September 11: Is the United States Becoming Great Britain
Crisis of Modern Times: Perspectives from The Review of Politics, 1939-1962
Spying on Terrorists: Germany in Comparative Perspective
Intelligence and law enforcement agencies in western democracies are turning increasingly to electronic surveillance tools in their efforts to identify and combat new terrorist threats. But this does not mean that they are equally equipped to undertake these measures. As the author shows by comparing surveillance activities in three countries-Great Britain, the United States, and Germany-the Federal Republic's more restrictive legal norms and ins…
The Last East German and the Memory of the German Democratic Republic
The author ponders over the identity of the last self-identifying East German and wonders what he or she will say before leaving memories of the region behind. He distinguishes among three possible candidates for this honor: the ordinary citizen with little aspiration to political or social notoriety; the enthusiast with an interest in perpetuating the old regime's values; and the dissident activist dedicated to transforming that order. After ide…
Transitional Justice: The Issue that Won't Go Away
The author asks whether there is anything we can do to lessen the disappointments and frustrations that often result from our attempts to pursue transitional justice. He argues that the best way to respond to this challenge is to accept the existence of three factors that arise in every attempt to come to terms with past wrongs: the power of precedent; the illusion of resolution; and the possibility of a continuous return. Examining a well-known …
Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party
Vanguard of the revolution: The global idea of the Communist Party
The first comprehensive political history of the communist party - Vanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. In this book, A. James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. H…
Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party
This book is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. The book argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. It shows how the leaders of parties in countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Yugoslavia…
Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification
Global 1968: Cultural Revolutions in Europe and Latin America
Political science (22 works) · History (16 works) · Law (13 works) · European history and politics (12 works) · History (11 works) · German (10 works) · German History and Society (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works)