Christoph Kimmich

Bio: Christoph Kimmich is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: German & League. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 13 publications receiving 118 citations.

The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945

Abstract: Part 1 The background: the year 1933 forms of resistance top-level crisis. Part 2 The sudden crisis and the attempted coup of 1938: operation \"Green\" foreign policy and resistance Beck's plans Halder's plans. Part 3 Plans for a coup 1939-1940: before the outbreak of war plans, probings and memoranda Halder's new plan further efforts soundings abroad. Part 4 Internal political plans: Schmid Noerr Hassell Popitz Goerdeler the Kreisau circle socialists. Part 5 Contacts with the enemy 1940-1944: Albrecht Hashofer 1940-1941 Hasell 1941-1942 Lochner 1941-1942 Trott, Bonhoeffer, Schonfeld 1942 Moltke 1943 Trott 1943-1944 Gisevius miscellaneous contacts \"eastern solution\"? Otto John 1944. Part 6 Assassination attempts 1933-1942: the early days attempts of 1938-1942. Part 7 Tresckow and army group centre: preparations projections of 1943 abortive plans \"Valkyrie\". Part 8 Stauffenberg and the replacement army: Stauffenberg's career assassination attempts - Bussche, Kleist, Breitenbuch procurement of explosive communications planning internal political planning Stauffenberg's first two assassination attempts. Part 9 20 July 1944: \"Wolfschanze\" Berlin: the coup the coup in the provinces Prague, Vienna, Paris collapse in Berlin. Part 10 Wreck of the opposition: summary court martial arrests people's court, executions, concentration camps.

German Rearmament and the West, 1932-1933

Abstract: This probing examination of the period just before and after Hitler came to power corrects many misconceptions about German rearmament. Drawing on previously unexploited sources, Edward Bennett unravels German military plans and shows their implications, undermining the notion that Hitler's accession represented a radical break with Germany's past. He also lays bare the fears and rivalries that hindered the West's response, particularly at the 1932-1933 World Disarmament Conference.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Abstract: PROTRACED COUNTERINSURGENCY: CHINESE COIN STRATEGY IN XINJIANG by MAJ J. Scott LaRonde, USA, 95 pages. In 1949, following the conclusion of its revolutionary war against the Chinese Nationalist forces, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) peacefully occupied China’s western most province of Xinjiang. For nearly sixty years, the PLA has conducted a counterinsurgency against several, mostly Uyghur-led, separatist movements. Despite periods of significant violence, particularly in the early 1950s and again in the 1990s, the separatist forces have not gained momentum and remained at a level one insurgency. Mao ZeDeng is revered as a master insurgent and the father of Fourth Generation Warfare. Strategists in armies worldwide study his writings on revolutionary and guerilla warfare. This monograph concludes that Mao, as well as the communist leaders who followed him, was also successful at waging protracted counterinsurgency. For nearly sixty years, separatist movements in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Taiwan have all failed. This monograph analyzes the conflict in Xinjiang and concludes that the Chinese continue to defeat the separatist movement in Xinjiang through a strategy that counters Mao’s seven fundamentals of revolutionary warfare.

The Gorbachev Revolution: A Waning of Soviet Expansionism?

Abstract: M a n y Americans have long believed that Soviet expansionism stems from pathological Soviet domestic institutions, and that the expansionist impulse will diminish only when those institutions undergo a fundamental change.’ The Gorbachev revolution in Soviet domestic and foreign policy has raised the question of whether that time is close at hand. At home, Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, has attacked many of the old Stalinist institutions as obsolete and self-serving, while promoting greater freedom of expression, contested elections at local levels, and an increased role for market mechanisms in the Soviet economy.2 Abroad, Gorbachev has made some substantial concessions from former Soviet positions, especially in accepting the Reagan Administration’s “zero option” as the basis for an agreement on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF). In a more fundamental departure, he has also proposed to restructure NATO and Warsaw Pact conventional force postures and operational doctrines along strictly defensive lines.3 In assessing these developments, I will address the following questions. First, how fundamental and permanent are Gorbachev’s domestic changes, and why are they occurring? Second, how new and how permanent is the

Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers

Abstract: The rise of China and other great powers raises important questions about the persistence and stability of the 'liberal international order'. This book provides a new perspective on these questions by offering a novel theory of revisionist challenges to international order. It argues that rising powers sometimes seem to face the condition of 'status immobility', which activates social psychological and domestic political forces that push them toward lashing out in protest against status quo rules, norms, and institutions. Ward shows that status immobility theory illuminates important but often-overlooked dynamics that contributed to the most significant revisionist challenges in modern history. The book highlights the importance of status in world politics, and further advances a new understanding of this important concept's role in foreign policy. This book will be of interest to researchers in international politics and security, especially those interested in great power politics, status, power transitions, revisionism, and order.

Psychological Perspectives on Interrogation.

Abstract: Proponents of "enhanced interrogation techniques" in the United States have claimed that such methods are necessary for obtaining information from uncooperative terrorism subjects. In the present article, we offer an informed, academic perspective on such claims. Psychological theory and research shows that harsh interrogation methods are ineffective. First, they are likely to increase resistance by the subject rather than facilitate cooperation. Second, the threatening and adversarial nature of harsh interrogation is often inimical to the goal of facilitating the retrieval of information from memory and therefore reduces the likelihood that a subject will provide reports that are extensive, detailed, and accurate. Third, harsh interrogation methods make lie detection difficult. Analyzing speech content and eliciting verifiable details are the most reliable cues to assessing credibility; however, to elicit such cues subjects must be encouraged to provide extensive narratives, something that does not occur in harsh interrogations. Evidence is accumulating for the effectiveness of rapport-based information-gathering approaches as an alternative to harsh interrogations. Such approaches promote cooperation, enhance recall of relevant and reliable information, and facilitate assessments of credibility. Given the available evidence that torture is ineffective, why might some laypersons, policymakers, and interrogation personnel support the use of torture? We conclude our review by offering a psychological perspective on this important question.