Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-197). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-197). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (doctoral)--Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt am Main, 2006.

Meister Eckhart exhibits an unprecedented confidence in the transcendental way of thought in medieval philosophy. Eckhart, unlike his predecessors, identifies being as such (ens commune) and God, allowing the most primary determinations metaphysics – ‘being,’ ‘one,’ ‘true,’ ‘good,’ – to function as both metaphysical and theological first principles. Eckhart placed them at the head of his projected Tripartite Opus, a vast work of quaestiones and commentaries whose intelligibility, he insists, requires the prior foundation of a supposed series of a thousand axioms. The table of contents remains, the opus propositionum does not. This thesis argues that what enables Eckhart to pursue the direct application of the transcendentals to the divine also makes it unrealizable. His determination of unity is twofold: as (i) indivisibility, and the standard transcendental conception of unity as a negation of the given positive content of being (ens); as (ii) indistinction, comprehending both the negation of otherness which produces the indivisible and the otherness that is negated. There is an inherent tension between Peripatetic metaphysics and Procline henology. Consequently, the Good is devalued when the Procline One appears within the transcendental perspective. Metaphysics, theology and, a fortiori for Eckhart, ethics, take no consideration of Goodness. I show how this tension gives rise to Eckhart’s association of the divine essence with the Neoplatonic One, while the Peripatetic One and the transcendental “true” function as the explanans of the Trinitarian intellectual self-return. This, in turn, gives rise to the constitutive function of the imago dei, and every imago as such, within that self-relation. Ultimately, this produces a standpoint wherein every essence, only as idea, contains the divine uniform infinity.

Habilitationsschrift--Bochum, 1973. / Vol. 1 includes index.

Habilitationsschrift--Bochum, 1973. / Vol. 1 includes index.

Inaug.-Diss.--Munich. / Vita. Bibliography: l. vi-xx.

Cette thèse s’inscrit dans la continuité d’un champ historiographique très riche traitant de la politique étrangère de la France dans les années trente. Elle entend explorer le rôle particulier des états-majors généraux dans l’élaboration de cette politique étrangère, notamment sur la base de sources récemment mises au jour. Conduite sur une période de cinq années et croisant analyse structurelle et études de cas, elle vise à mettre en évidence l’action des états-majors généraux au sein du processus décisionnel, tant sur le moyen terme que lors des différentes crises diplomatiques, de la proclamation du réarmement allemand à l’offensive de la Wehrmacht en Pologne. L’organisation, la composition et le fonctionnement des états-majors généraux, ainsi que leurs relations avec le ministère des Affaires étrangères et leur place dans le processus décisionnel, constituent le premier axe de cette étude. En outre, l’analyse de leurs perceptions de la situation diplomatique et stratégique et de l’évolution politique nationale et internationale permet d’éclairer les motivations multiples, complexes et, parfois, contradictoires à l’origine de leurs interventions dans le processus décisionnel. Enfin, l’étude des modalités et l’observation des résultats de ces interventions permettent de saisir la nature et l’ampleur du rôle, parfois déterminant, joué par les états-majors-généraux dans le parcours qui conduisit la diplomatie française, de Rome en janvier 1935 à Moscou en août 1939, en passant par Stresa, Londres et Munich. / This dissertation is a contribution to the rich historiography of France’s foreign policy in the 1930s. Its aim is to explore the specific role played by France’s general staffs in shaping foreign policy, drawing largely on sources that have recently come to light. Employing a combination of structural analysis and case studies, it focuses on a five-year period for the purpose of examining the role played by France’s general staffs in the decision-making process, both in routine affairs and in each succeeding diplomatic crisis, from the proclamation of Germany’s rearmament to the Wehrmacht’s offensive in Poland. The study begins by exploring the general staffs’organization, composition, and functioning, as well as their relations with the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the place they occupied in the decision-making process. An analysis of their perceptions of the diplomatic and strategic situation, and of domestic and international political developments, sheds light on the multiple, complex, and occasionally contradictory motives behind their interventions in foreign policy. Lastly, a study of the forms of intervention and a review of their results reveal the significance and, in some cases, the decisiveness of the general staffs’ role in shaping French diplomacy from Rome in January 1935 to Moscow in August 1939, by way of Stresa, London, and Munich.

Thesis (doctoral)--Kirchliche Hochschule, Wuppertal/Bethel, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304).

This diploma thesis deals with paradiplomacy between Czech regions and German federal states. The term paradiplomacy refers to the diplomacy of the lower territorial administrative units. Specifically, this work deals with macro-regional paradiplomacy, ie cooperation of regions that do not share a common border. The research thus focuses on the Central Bohemian Region, which has partnerships with the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Moravian-Silesian Region, which cooperates with the federal state of North Rhine- Westphalia (research does not include Prague's cooperation with Berlin and Hamburg, as these are urban-type regions). This diploma thesis examines in what motives the paradiplomatic cooperation differs, what are the motivations for its establishment and what is the difference in the fulfillment of mutually set goals. The motives of paradiplomacy can be economic, cultural or political. The first part of the thesis presents the theory and definitions of terms that the thesis then works with. Following on is a methodology and research questions. Subsequently, the respective Czech and German lower territorial administrative units are introduced. In the second part of the thesis, the research itself is carried out and its evaluation set forth. The materials for the research were...