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Univ., Diss.--Freiburg (Breisgau), 2005.

This is a study of political violence in the Nazi rise and seizure of power at local and regional levels. Its subject is the SA in the former eastern regions of Germany - East Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia and the Border Province of Posen and West Prussia. The thesis is organised thematically, but within a rough chronological framework, and falls essentially into four parts. The first offers background, by examining social, economic and political conditions in eastern Germany during the Weimar Republic and then discussing the rise of the Nazi movement there. The second concerns the SA itself its composition, the nature of membership in the organisation, its relationship to other components of the Nazi movement and to the Reichswehr. The third, the core of this study, is a detailed analysis of SA violence and terror, both in the rise of the Nazi movement and the seizure of power. Finally, the fourth deals with the SA after the seizure of power, the failure of the SA to find a new political role, and the purge in 1934. In conclusion it is argued that the violence of the storm troopers, while ideally suited to attacking the Nazis' political opponents, eventually undermined the position of the SA. After the seizure of power, the SA no longer served a useful purpose for the Nazi leadership, and it fell easy victim to the SS during the purge.

It is well known that gases are present in marine sediments. The gas found in the surficial layer of marine sediments is mostly due to biological origin or migration from deposits in deeper layers. A nonlinear acoustic remote sensing technique based on the nonlinear acoustic scattering theory of gas bubbles is introduced in this thesis to identify the gas bubbles in surficial layers of marine sediments and measure their concentrations. Two close transmitting frequencies were used to generate a nonlinear scattering effect from the gas bubbles in the sediments, and the nonlinear responses were generated only by gas bubbles instead of by other scatters in the sediments. An acoustic inversion was implemented on the nonlinear response, together with calibration results and scattering volume, to determine gas bubble concentrations. Results from the data collected at Gulf of Gdansk demonstrate that the nonlinear acoustic method is advantageous over other acoustic remote sensing methods in gas bubble identification and measurement, and provides more valuable information for seabed classification.

O paradigma neoinstitucional assumiu, no fim do século XX e no começo do XXI, um papel de preponderância na Ciência Política, ditando as epistemologias e os métodos de se produzir conhecimento na disciplina. Suas duas principais correntes – institucionalismo da escolha racional e institucionalismo histórico – constituem marcos distintos de explicação dos fenômenos políticos, sendo os principais referenciais teóricos nas análises políticas institucionais. Porém, ambas correntes apresentam diversos problemas epistemológicos, fundados principalmente no caráter estático de suas abordagens sobre a fenomenologia política. Embora tal postura teórica fosse outrora suficiente para explicar a política, no mundo dinâmico atual, uma nova teoria que capte o dinamismo dos fenômenos políticos faz-se necessária. Neste sentido, o objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma proposta heurística para a análise das mudanças institucionais, denominada institucionalismo evolucionário. Esse modelo heurístico dialoga com a teoria evolucionária, o neoinstitucionalismo e a teoria dos jogos. Além da proposição desse modelo, este trabalho exemplifica sua aplicação por meio da análise da evolução das dinâmicas de segurança nas relações entre Polônia e Rússia no pós-Guerra Fria. / At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the neoinstitutionalist paradigm assumed a preponderant role in Political Science, dictating the epistemologies and methods for producing knowledge in the discipline. Its two main theoretical streams – rational choice institutionalism and historical institutionalism – constitute distinct approaches to explaining political phenomena, and are the main theories for analysing politics under the framework of the paradigm. Nevertheless, both theories present many epistemological problems, based mainly in their static approach to political phenomenology. Although these theories have once managed to explain reality, our current dynamic world demands a new theory capable of analysing the dynamics of political phenomena. Therefore, this work aims to present a heuristics capable of understanding institutional change, known as evolutionary institutionalism. This heuristics dialogues with evolutionary theory, neoinstitutionalism and game theory. Other than this theoretical model, this work applies it in the analysis of security dynamics in the context of Polish-Russian relations in the post-Cold War period.

O paradigma neoinstitucional assumiu, no fim do século XX e no começo do XXI, um papel de preponderância na Ciência Política, ditando as epistemologias e os métodos de se produzir conhecimento na disciplina. Suas duas principais correntes – institucionalismo da escolha racional e institucionalismo histórico – constituem marcos distintos de explicação dos fenômenos políticos, sendo os principais referenciais teóricos nas análises políticas institucionais. Porém, ambas correntes apresentam diversos problemas epistemológicos, fundados principalmente no caráter estático de suas abordagens sobre a fenomenologia política. Embora tal postura teórica fosse outrora suficiente para explicar a política, no mundo dinâmico atual, uma nova teoria que capte o dinamismo dos fenômenos políticos faz-se necessária. Neste sentido, o objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma proposta heurística para a análise das mudanças institucionais, denominada institucionalismo evolucionário. Esse modelo heurístico dialoga com a teoria evolucionária, o neoinstitucionalismo e a teoria dos jogos. Além da proposição desse modelo, este trabalho exemplifica sua aplicação por meio da análise da evolução das dinâmicas de segurança nas relações entre Polônia e Rússia no pós-Guerra Fria. / At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the neoinstitutionalist paradigm assumed a preponderant role in Political Science, dictating the epistemologies and methods for producing knowledge in the discipline. Its two main theoretical streams – rational choice institutionalism and historical institutionalism – constitute distinct approaches to explaining political phenomena, and are the main theories for analysing politics under the framework of the paradigm. Nevertheless, both theories present many epistemological problems, based mainly in their static approach to political phenomenology. Although these theories have once managed to explain reality, our current dynamic world demands a new theory capable of analysing the dynamics of political phenomena. Therefore, this work aims to present a heuristics capable of understanding institutional change, known as evolutionary institutionalism. This heuristics dialogues with evolutionary theory, neoinstitutionalism and game theory. Other than this theoretical model, this work applies it in the analysis of security dynamics in the context of Polish-Russian relations in the post-Cold War period.

O paradigma neoinstitucional assumiu, no fim do século XX e no começo do XXI, um papel de preponderância na Ciência Política, ditando as epistemologias e os métodos de se produzir conhecimento na disciplina. Suas duas principais correntes – institucionalismo da escolha racional e institucionalismo histórico – constituem marcos distintos de explicação dos fenômenos políticos, sendo os principais referenciais teóricos nas análises políticas institucionais. Porém, ambas correntes apresentam diversos problemas epistemológicos, fundados principalmente no caráter estático de suas abordagens sobre a fenomenologia política. Embora tal postura teórica fosse outrora suficiente para explicar a política, no mundo dinâmico atual, uma nova teoria que capte o dinamismo dos fenômenos políticos faz-se necessária. Neste sentido, o objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma proposta heurística para a análise das mudanças institucionais, denominada institucionalismo evolucionário. Esse modelo heurístico dialoga com a teoria evolucionária, o neoinstitucionalismo e a teoria dos jogos. Além da proposição desse modelo, este trabalho exemplifica sua aplicação por meio da análise da evolução das dinâmicas de segurança nas relações entre Polônia e Rússia no pós-Guerra Fria. / At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the neoinstitutionalist paradigm assumed a preponderant role in Political Science, dictating the epistemologies and methods for producing knowledge in the discipline. Its two main theoretical streams – rational choice institutionalism and historical institutionalism – constitute distinct approaches to explaining political phenomena, and are the main theories for analysing politics under the framework of the paradigm. Nevertheless, both theories present many epistemological problems, based mainly in their static approach to political phenomenology. Although these theories have once managed to explain reality, our current dynamic world demands a new theory capable of analysing the dynamics of political phenomena. Therefore, this work aims to present a heuristics capable of understanding institutional change, known as evolutionary institutionalism. This heuristics dialogues with evolutionary theory, neoinstitutionalism and game theory. Other than this theoretical model, this work applies it in the analysis of security dynamics in the context of Polish-Russian relations in the post-Cold War period.