This message about a new list of German Studies at the Johns Hopkins Univ.
has reached us via the german studies list. It is more of interest for
"Landeskunde" than litererature studies. I have some more info. If you are
intersted let me know.
a.r.
> Duncan Large writes:
> I'm forwarding a couple of recent announcements from the mailing list
> of the AICGS (American Institute for Contemporary German Studies,
> Washington, DC). They have a Website at Johns Hopkins University:
>
> http://www.jhu.edu/~aicgsdoc/
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> To join their mailing list, fill out the on-line form at:
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> http://www.jhu.edu/~aicgsdoc/mlist.htm
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> DL
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> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:00:38 -0500
> From: AICGS <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: AICGS Electronic Newsletter: Rudolph Scharping
> To: AICGS Mailing List <[log in to unmask]>
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> AICGS' series of profiles on Germany's new cabinet continues with this
> latest update about Rudolph Scharping, Germany's new Minister of
> Defense. The full list of the new cabinet is available on the
> Institute's web site at
> http://www.jhu.edu/~aicgsdoc/wahlen/cabinet/newcabinet.htm
>
> Rudolph Scharping
>
> Rudolf Scharping's appointment as minister of defense is perhaps
> symbolic of the fact that he is one of the most diligent and committed
> soldiers in the SPD. He worked himself up from the bottom ranks of the
> party eventually becoming the SPD candidate to face Kohl in the 1994
> election. As minister president of Rheinland-Pfalz, he had conquered
> the same state for the SPD that has been the training ground for
> Helmut Kohl's rise to power. Yet, after the 1994 loss to Helmut Kohl,
> Scharping also lost his position as party chairman to Oskar Lafontaine
> in 1995. Scharping remained leader of the Fraktion in the Bundestag
> and he expected to remain in that position in a Red-Green coalition.
> But Gerhard Schroeder and Oskar Lafontaine decided otherwise, leaving
> Scharping with his new duties as defense minister.
>
> Scharping has some immediate problems. The coalition
> government decided to set up a commission to review the role of
> the Bundeswehr. This leaves much speculation about the future of the
> draft, the size of the Bundeswehr and the continuing debate over
> participation in NATO out-of-area missions. Scharping, like his
> predecessor Volker Ruehe, believes in the capacity and the need for
> Germany to be engaged in peacekeeping efforts under NATO. Yet, he will
> be facing challenges from both the Greens and the SPD over the extent
> of such efforts and the necessity of a UN mandate. A long dormant
> argument over whether NATO should adopt a "no first use policy" with
> regard to nuclear weapons reemerged last week following statements by
> Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. And if the government is to get its
> fiscal house in order, the defense budget may be affected as well.
>
> Scharping is being accompanied in the ministry by parliamentary
> State Secretaries Walter Kolbow (SPD) and Brigitte Schulte
> (Greens). He has also recruited defense policy expert Walter
> Stuetzle as a state secretary, formerly editor of Tagesspiegel, as
> well as Peter Wichert.
>
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