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Tag: Globalisation

Projects

2 August 2021

The Cold War as a driver of civil aviation

The relationship between technology, globalisation and the Cold War was at the focus of a three-year research project. The historian Peter Svik was the first to address explicitly the question of how the competition between the two blocs became a driver of technology – and ultimately was also a contributing factor to globalisation. Continue reading “The Cold War as a driver of civil aviation”

Projects

3 February 2020

Visualizing the environmental impact of consumerism

A new model is designed to visualize material flows of the world economy and global production chains. Using large amounts of data that trace the path from the origin of a product to its consumer will make it easier to develop efficient strategies for conserving resources and protecting the climate. Continue reading “Visualizing the environmental impact of consumerism”

Portrait

12 November 2018

“We should be vigilant”

Von Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

The historian Dirk Rupnow on the political instrumentalisation of Holocaust remembrance, migration as a major theme in contemporary history and the difficulty of establishing a position vis-à-vis politics. Continue reading ““We should be vigilant””

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