This course will explore the different attitudes, perceptions and
discourses of western countries on war since 1990. The course will
briefly review the history of the conflicts in Iraq, the Balkans,
Afghanistan and Libya and turn on to the analysis of the relationship
between politics, society and the armed forces. It will analyze
different national military and political traditions, examine
remembrance and public discourses in the media. Primary sources will
include newspapers, books, TV-documentaries, historical monuments and
comics. These sources will unearth if and how the discourse about war
and the military has changed since 1990 on a transnational level.
Furthermore we will explore the extent to which value shifts in
contemporary society have changed the approach to modern wars.
- Kursleiter*in: Johannes Fischbach
- Kursleiter*in: Prof. Dr. Sönke Neitzel