German Domestic and Foreign Policy [electronic resource] : Political Issues Under Debate - Vol. 2 / by Egbert Jahn.

Preface -- 1 Political Issues Under Debate. On the Meaning and Purpose of a Series of Political Science Lectures on Contemporary History -- 2 The Offences and Repudiation of Thilo Sarrazin. Are there Limits to Freedom of Political Opinion in Germany? -- 3 The Dispute Over the Veil. The Conflict Between Laicism (the Separation of State and Religion) and Religious Tolerance -- 4 The Globalisation of the Danish Cartoon Dispute -- 5 "Multiculturalism" or German Leitkultur as Maxims for the "Integration" of Foreigners -- 6 Integration or Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities. On the Future of Danish, Sorbian, Italian, Turkish and Other Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany -- 7 The Advantages and Risks of Multiple Citizenship -- 8 Denglish Instead of German? The Changing Use of Language in Germany -- 9 From the Constitutional Treaty to the Lisbon Treaty: Is the European Union on the Way to Becoming a Federal State? -- 10 Once Again: Was Germany Defeated or liberated on the 8th of May 1945? -- 11 From the West European Commemoration of Auschwitz to a Pan-European Commemoration of Auschwitz and the GULag Archipelago - and Inevitable Consequence of the Eastward Extension of the EU for Commemoritan Policies -- 12 Expellers and Expelled. On an Appropriate Form of Commemoration -- 13 The "Defense of Germany in the Hindu Kush". The German Role in Afghanistan -- 14 Should Germany be a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council? On the Efforts to Reform the United Nations.