Geopolitics: The New German Science.

Religion and Geopolitics in the New World

The Fetish of Geopolitics

Gopal balakrishnan is one of the foremost experts in the Anglo-American world on the life and work of Carl Schmitt, and I am grateful for his response in nlr 68, ‘The Geopolitics of Separation’, to my essay on the thinker, ‘Decisions and Indecisions’, in nlr 67. Balakrishnan’s intellectual biography of Schmitt, The Enemy, remains, according to one eminent voice in the field, ‘the best English-l...

The future of German science funding.

I n April of this year, Germany's minister of justice Brigitte Zypries proposed that as part of a reform of Germany's federal system, science funding in Germany should be streamlined. Currently, the Länder (states) take principal responsibility for higher education institutions, whereas higher education infrastructure, non-university research institutions, and Germany's major research funding o...

German Medical Science: Editorial 2014

At the end of the year 2013 the open access portal “German Medical Science” (gms) has attained a well-established stage of development documented by the number of published articles and abstracts and by the electronic visits to the portal. Meanwhile 3,208 articles and 46,800 abstracts have been published. The portal will this year integrate a section for electronic books, the first project pend...

The New German ID Card

Besides their use in identity verification at police and border controls, national ID cards are frequently used for commercial applications, too. One objective of the introduction of the new national ID card on 1 November 2010 is to extend the conventional use of ID documents to the digital world. In order to meet this objective, the new ID card offers two electronic functionalities for e-busin...