"Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical--a firebrand street activist--into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights of German politics. In the 1980s he was one of the first elected Greens and went on to become Germany's foreign minister from 1998 to 2005. His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfeld's case for invading Iraq--"Excuse me, I am not convinced"--wo ..."
Free to Hate The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe by PaulHockenos Paperback, 343 Pages, Published 1994 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-91058-3, ISBN: 0-415-91058-7
"Combining first-hand reporting, original documentation, and political analysis, Free to Hate is the first major work in English to investigate the rise of the ultra-nationalist and radical right-wing movements that have been sweeping Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. In this powerful volume, Paul Hockenos provides an account of the emergence and contemporary relevance of far right movements in countries including Germany, Hungary, ..."
Homeland Calling(1st Edition) Exile Patriotism and the Balkan Wars by PaulHockenos Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2003 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4158-5, ISBN: 0-8014-4158-7
"Over the last ten years, many commentators have tried to explain the bloody conflicts that tore Yugoslavia apart. But in all these attempts to make sense of the wars and ethnic violence, one crucial factor has been overlooked--the fundamental roles played by exile groups and emigre communities in fanning the flames of nationalism and territorial ambition. Based in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and South America, some grou ..."
Berlin Calling A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin by PaulHockenos Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-195-6, ISBN: 1-62097-195-X
"A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall. and the Birth of the New BerlinGebundenes Buch"An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fall of the Wall. Berlin Calling is a gripping account of the 1989 'peaceful revolution' in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous years of artistic ferment, political improvisation, and pirate utopia ..."
Free to Hate(1st Edition) The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe by PaulHockenos Hardcover, 343 Pages, Published 1993 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-90824-5, ISBN: 0-415-90824-8
"Combining first-hand reporting, original documentation, and political analysis, Free to Hate is the first major work in English to investigate the rise of the ultra-nationalist and radical right-wing movements that have been sweeping Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. In this powerful volume, Paul Hockenos provides an account of the emergence and contemporary relevance of far right movements in countries including Germany, Hungary, ..."
"From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the world. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's 2006 film "The Lives of Others "( "Das Leben der Anderen") has received international acclaim -- in ..."
Berlin Calling A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin by PaulHockenos 256 Pages, Published 2017 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-196-3, ISBN: 1-62097-196-8
"I also want to say thank you and good-bye to Christian Semler, one of my favorite
Gesprächspartner, who died in 2015. And, not least, I thank my wife Jenni
Winterhagen for her unstinting support and love. One day, our son Johan will
read this book, I hope, and learn a little more about his father and much more
about the city he was born and raised in. Lastly, I'm grateful to my editor, Marc
Favreau of The New Press, for his hard wo ..."
"Those written by Matthias Geis and Bernd Ulrich, Christian Y. Schmidt, and
Michael Schwelien, were also very helpful at different points. ... my sincere thanks
to the following people, who commented on parts of the manuscript and offered
valuable advice: Bill Martin, Jenni Winterhagen, Matthew Hockenos, Anne and
Warren Hockenos, Robert Van Meter, Sascha Mu ̈ller-Kraenner, Detlev
Claussen, Uli Cremer, Jim Ogier, Eric Chauvistre, Tho ..."
"Avi Nardia spoke about the difference between culture and subcultures and the
way subcultures originate in his view: “From the multitude of events, those stand
out who, together with other important narratives, generate the narrative of one ..."
Homeland Calling Exile Patriotism and the Balkan Wars by PaulHockenos 304 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2565-4, ISBN: 1-5017-2565-3
"A new wave of political refugees fled the country. ... As Schultz, later Ms. Bušić,
tells in her recently published memoir, Lovers and Madmen: A True Story of
Passion, Politics, and Air Piracy, she fell head over heels for the tall, dark-
bearded ..."
Free to Hate The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe by PaulHockenos 330 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-65574-6, ISBN: 1-136-65574-3
"“First, itwould have been impossible forPozsgay to attend if the likes ofKishad
been there,” explainssociologist Ferenc Miszlivetz,a former dissident closeto
theDemocratic Opposition. “However, not only were we considered enemies of
the state, a factthat surelywouldhave spelled Pozsgay's expulsion fromtheparty,
but the HDF leadership clearly didn't want usthere either. They let us know
innouncertain termsthat we were unwanted.” The ..."
Free to Hate The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe by PaulHockenos Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-315-02177-5, ISBN: 1-315-02177-3
Free to Hate The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe by PaulHockenos 330 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-65567-8, ISBN: 1-136-65567-0
"Although the political philosophy of Klaus' Civic Democratic Party was much
more in the spirit of Reaganism than the Sladek party, the Republicans gave
Voboril the “in” he coveted into Czech politics. Voboril in turn helped fund the
party and forge connections between it and his conservative chums in the US. In
April 1992, V0boril took Sladek and his party secretary, Jan Vik, on an insider
tour of the Washington establishment, arra ..."
Free to Hate the Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe by PaulHockenos Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-299-87168-7, ISBN: 1-299-87168-2
"Some of the fifties' progeny themselves, like sociologist Detlev Claussen, a
contemporary of Fischer's, disagree adamantly: ''They [revisionist historians] try to
make it look better than it was but it really was that bad! ... participation of workers
in the decisionmaking structures of their firms. See Wolfgang Kraushaar, Die
ProtestChronik 1949–1959: Eine illustrierte Geschichte von Bewegung,
Widerstand und Utopie, Volume 1, (Ham ..."
Berlin Calling A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin by Hockenos, Paul Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2023 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-884-9, ISBN: 1-62097-884-9