Hermann Kurthen
Biographic Data
| ID | 167462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hermann Kurthen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hermann |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurthen |
| SIGNATURE | KURTHEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grand Valley State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7274-0986 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Is Study Abroad Still a Privilege? Exploring the Inequality Gap between Intentions and Study Abroad at a Public Midwestern University in the U.S
Although more students study abroad today than in decades prior, participation still lags behind national goals put forth by the Lincoln Commission. Many students plan to study abroad, yet this often does not correspond with actual participation. This gap suggests there are barriers that prevent study abroad intentions from evolving into program enrollment. This study analyzes full population data and a NSSE (National Survey of Student Engagement…
Still lacking self-reflection after all these years? (De)stabilizing factors of transatlantic relations according to German and US foreign policy experts between 2011 and 2017
This article compares the trends and theoretical positions found in the recent academic literature on the status and trajectory of transatlantic relations with the beliefs of 96 German and US foreign policy experts. The qualitative data are derived from open-ended in-depth interviews about the political, economic, and cultural factors that influence transatlantic cooperation and friction. Conducted in Berlin in 2011 and in Washington, D.C., in 20…
Max Weber's Living Legacy
June 14, 2020 was the hundred-year anniversary of Max Weber's death. He died in Munich at age 56 after most likely contracting the Spanish flu. He is often considered one of the founding fathers of sociology next to Marx and Durkheim, despite Weber resisting this label. Given Weber's worldwide reception, his enduring relevance for sociology and beyond is unbroken, even though he left a huge unfinished work not intended as a conventional sociologi…
Present at the destruction? Grand strategy imperatives of US foreign policy experts during the Trump presidency
This article discusses the grand strategy imperatives of 37 foreign policy experts in Washington, DC in response to President Donald Trump's nationalist challenge to the post-Second World War international order concept. Using an abductive reconstructivist methodology to analyse in-depth interviews, five grand strategy imperatives, or rules for action, shared by all actors were identified: safeguarding US global leadership, maintaining alliances,…
German Foreign Policy Rules for Action during the 2011 Libya Crisis
This article presents the conceptualization of fundamental foreign policy beliefs of 62 German decision-makers and experts from the executive branch, parliament, think tanks, media, and academia concerning the March 2011 un Security Council resolution on Libya. The actors' perceptions were abductively inferred from qualitative interviews using the reconstructivist theoretical framework. Four types of respondents were identified: Realists, Normali…
Immigrant integration
In the comparative literature on immigrant integration, Germany and the United States are frequently placed in distinct and opposing regime categories. Using cross-sectional data from the 1997 German Socio-Economic Panel and the 1997 Panel of Income Dynamics, we compare the process of integration of four generational cohorts of Turks in Germany and Mexicans in the United States, focusing on markets, welfare, and culture. The comparative analysis …
Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification
Since unification, Germany has undergone profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hate crime, anti-Semitic incidents, and racist violence. This book will present the most recent findings on German public opinion, private attitudes, official policies, and right wing political developments. It will examine the dimensions, sources of, and remedies to anti-Semitism and xenophobia
Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification
Antisemitism and xenophobia in Germany after unification
Since unification, Germany has experienced profound changes, including a wave of xenophobic hate crime, antisemitic incidents, and violence in the early 1990's. In Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification, the editors present the most recent research conducted about postunification developments in antisemitism and xenophobia and its remedies. Eleven distinguished American and German experts in the fields of political science, soci…
Introduction
The collapse of the Communist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, were welcomed around the world. But the rapid unification of East and West Germany brought ambivalent reactions, especially from Germany’s European neighbors. On the one hand there were fears of the political and economic dominance of a united Germany in the center of Europe. On the other hand recollections of the d…
Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison
Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison'1 was the topic of a German-American conference at the Freie Universitat Berlin (FUB), Germany, from December 12-14, 1996, sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. and the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW). The organizers, Hermann Kurthen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) in collaboration with Jiirgen Fijalkowski (FUB-Forschungsstelle Arbeitsmigration, Fliichtlingsbewe…
Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison
Hermann Kurthen, Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison: Differences in the Incorporation of Immigrant Minorities in Germany and the United States, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 721-731
The Canadian experience with multiculturalism and employment equity
Canada has been at the forefront of states that have embraced official policies which not only respect but encourage pluralism and equality policies within public institutions and the surrounding society. This article examines some of the pros and cons of Canada's legislated and state‐supported multiculturalism and equal employment opportunity policy. Whereas the latter intends to address prejudice, discrimination, and inequality in the workplace…
Germany at the Crossroads
In both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, German history was characterized by shifting political borders and territorial expansions and contractions. These changes correlate with extreme phases in the definition of nationhood: very broad, inclusive ones and very narrow, exclusive ones. Current problems with immigration and nationhood date back to the origins of the nation-building. They reflect unresolved contradictions between exclusive id…
Germany at the Crossroads
Germany in Transition
German society is on its way to changing from a relatively homogenous population as a result of the Second World War and prior events to a more culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse society, based on its huge post‐war immigration. The emergence of racism, political extremism and violence in post‐unification German society points to deficits of political legitimacy, political culture and social cohesion. The strains of unification and wav…
Immigrant integration
In the comparative literature on immigrant integration, Germany and the United States are frequently placed in distinct and opposing regime categories. Using cross-sectional data from the 1997 German Socio-Economic Panel and the 1997 Panel of Income Dynamics, we compare the process of integration of four generational cohorts of Turks in Germany and Mexicans in the United States, focusing on markets, welfare, and culture. The comparative analysis …
Germany in Transition
German society is on its way to changing from a relatively homogenous population as a result of the Second World War and prior events to a more culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse society, based on its huge post‐war immigration. The emergence of racism, political extremism and violence in post‐unification German society points to deficits of political legitimacy, political culture and social cohesion. The strains of unification and wav…
Germany at the Crossroads
Germany at the Crossroads
In both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, German history was characterized by shifting political borders and territorial expansions and contractions. These changes correlate with extreme phases in the definition of nationhood: very broad, inclusive ones and very narrow, exclusive ones. Current problems with immigration and nationhood date back to the origins of the nation-building. They reflect unresolved contradictions between exclusive id…
Max Weber's Living Legacy
June 14, 2020 was the hundred-year anniversary of Max Weber's death. He died in Munich at age 56 after most likely contracting the Spanish flu. He is often considered one of the founding fathers of sociology next to Marx and Durkheim, despite Weber resisting this label. Given Weber's worldwide reception, his enduring relevance for sociology and beyond is unbroken, even though he left a huge unfinished work not intended as a conventional sociologi…
Present at the destruction? Grand strategy imperatives of US foreign policy experts during the Trump presidency
This article discusses the grand strategy imperatives of 37 foreign policy experts in Washington, DC in response to President Donald Trump's nationalist challenge to the post-Second World War international order concept. Using an abductive reconstructivist methodology to analyse in-depth interviews, five grand strategy imperatives, or rules for action, shared by all actors were identified: safeguarding US global leadership, maintaining alliances,…
German Foreign Policy Rules for Action during the 2011 Libya Crisis
This article presents the conceptualization of fundamental foreign policy beliefs of 62 German decision-makers and experts from the executive branch, parliament, think tanks, media, and academia concerning the March 2011 un Security Council resolution on Libya. The actors' perceptions were abductively inferred from qualitative interviews using the reconstructivist theoretical framework. Four types of respondents were identified: Realists, Normali…
Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison
Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison'1 was the topic of a German-American conference at the Freie Universitat Berlin (FUB), Germany, from December 12-14, 1996, sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. and the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW). The organizers, Hermann Kurthen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) in collaboration with Jiirgen Fijalkowski (FUB-Forschungsstelle Arbeitsmigration, Fliichtlingsbewe…
Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison
Hermann Kurthen, Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison: Differences in the Incorporation of Immigrant Minorities in Germany and the United States, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 721-731
Germany at the Crossroads
In both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, German history was characterized by shifting political borders and territorial expansions and contractions. These changes correlate with extreme phases in the definition of nationhood: very broad, inclusive ones and very narrow, exclusive ones. Current problems with immigration and nationhood date back to the origins of the nation-building. They reflect unresolved contradictions between exclusive id…
Germany at the Crossroads
Germany in Transition
German society is on its way to changing from a relatively homogenous population as a result of the Second World War and prior events to a more culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse society, based on its huge post‐war immigration. The emergence of racism, political extremism and violence in post‐unification German society points to deficits of political legitimacy, political culture and social cohesion. The strains of unification and wav…
Antisemitism and xenophobia in Germany after unification
Since unification, Germany has experienced profound changes, including a wave of xenophobic hate crime, antisemitic incidents, and violence in the early 1990's. In Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification, the editors present the most recent research conducted about postunification developments in antisemitism and xenophobia and its remedies. Eleven distinguished American and German experts in the fields of political science, soci…
Introduction
The collapse of the Communist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, were welcomed around the world. But the rapid unification of East and West Germany brought ambivalent reactions, especially from Germany’s European neighbors. On the one hand there were fears of the political and economic dominance of a united Germany in the center of Europe. On the other hand recollections of the d…
Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison
Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison'1 was the topic of a German-American conference at the Freie Universitat Berlin (FUB), Germany, from December 12-14, 1996, sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. and the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW). The organizers, Hermann Kurthen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) in collaboration with Jiirgen Fijalkowski (FUB-Forschungsstelle Arbeitsmigration, Fliichtlingsbewe…
Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison
Hermann Kurthen, Immigration and the Welfare State in Comparison: Differences in the Incorporation of Immigrant Minorities in Germany and the United States, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 721-731
The Canadian experience with multiculturalism and employment equity
Canada has been at the forefront of states that have embraced official policies which not only respect but encourage pluralism and equality policies within public institutions and the surrounding society. This article examines some of the pros and cons of Canada's legislated and state‐supported multiculturalism and equal employment opportunity policy. Whereas the latter intends to address prejudice, discrimination, and inequality in the workplace…
Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification
Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification
Since unification, Germany has undergone profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hate crime, anti-Semitic incidents, and racist violence. This book will present the most recent findings on German public opinion, private attitudes, official policies, and right wing political developments. It will examine the dimensions, sources of, and remedies to anti-Semitism and xenophobia
Immigrant integration
In the comparative literature on immigrant integration, Germany and the United States are frequently placed in distinct and opposing regime categories. Using cross-sectional data from the 1997 German Socio-Economic Panel and the 1997 Panel of Income Dynamics, we compare the process of integration of four generational cohorts of Turks in Germany and Mexicans in the United States, focusing on markets, welfare, and culture. The comparative analysis …
Present at the destruction? Grand strategy imperatives of US foreign policy experts during the Trump presidency
This article discusses the grand strategy imperatives of 37 foreign policy experts in Washington, DC in response to President Donald Trump's nationalist challenge to the post-Second World War international order concept. Using an abductive reconstructivist methodology to analyse in-depth interviews, five grand strategy imperatives, or rules for action, shared by all actors were identified: safeguarding US global leadership, maintaining alliances,…
German Foreign Policy Rules for Action during the 2011 Libya Crisis
This article presents the conceptualization of fundamental foreign policy beliefs of 62 German decision-makers and experts from the executive branch, parliament, think tanks, media, and academia concerning the March 2011 un Security Council resolution on Libya. The actors' perceptions were abductively inferred from qualitative interviews using the reconstructivist theoretical framework. Four types of respondents were identified: Realists, Normali…
Max Weber's Living Legacy
June 14, 2020 was the hundred-year anniversary of Max Weber's death. He died in Munich at age 56 after most likely contracting the Spanish flu. He is often considered one of the founding fathers of sociology next to Marx and Durkheim, despite Weber resisting this label. Given Weber's worldwide reception, his enduring relevance for sociology and beyond is unbroken, even though he left a huge unfinished work not intended as a conventional sociologi…
Still lacking self-reflection after all these years? (De)stabilizing factors of transatlantic relations according to German and US foreign policy experts between 2011 and 2017
This article compares the trends and theoretical positions found in the recent academic literature on the status and trajectory of transatlantic relations with the beliefs of 96 German and US foreign policy experts. The qualitative data are derived from open-ended in-depth interviews about the political, economic, and cultural factors that influence transatlantic cooperation and friction. Conducted in Berlin in 2011 and in Washington, D.C., in 20…
Is Study Abroad Still a Privilege? Exploring the Inequality Gap between Intentions and Study Abroad at a Public Midwestern University in the U.S
Although more students study abroad today than in decades prior, participation still lags behind national goals put forth by the Lincoln Commission. Many students plan to study abroad, yet this often does not correspond with actual participation. This gap suggests there are barriers that prevent study abroad intentions from evolving into program enrollment. This study analyzes full population data and a NSSE (National Survey of Student Engagement…
Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · German (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Economics (5 works)