DSS working papers

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DSS working papers
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description Journal for the publication of the scientific work results of the members of the Dresden Study Group Security Policy DSS e. V. and guest contributions.
publishing company Self-published by DSS e. V.
Headquarters Dresden
First edition 3rd December 1990
Frequency of publication irregular; End of publication: April 20, 2016 (print), February 17, 2017 (e-book).
Sold edition a total of 125 issues, with contributions by 150 authors; (from 2005) 5,200 copies
Editor-in-chief Joachim Klopfer, Wolfgang Scheler, Siegfried Schönherr.
editor Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V.
Web link DSS-Ap print SLUB DD.

DSS-Ap eBook SLUB .

IWBS-AP eBook SLUB.

ZeitGedanken.DSS e. V. .

ISSN (print) 1436-6010

The DSS working papers are publications on critical security research that have been published as a journal by the Dresden Study Group on Security Policy (DSS) for over a quarter of a century since 1990 .

The aim of the study group and its series of publications was to use the ideas that had opened the way out of the deadly threat of mutual nuclear deterrence in the East-West conflict to fundamentally justify a new approach to security and defense policy after the Cold War. In short it is:

Only the transition from confrontational to common, cooperative security enables the demilitarization of security policy and thus creates the guarantee for peace.

Since 2017, the monthly magazine, WeltTrends - The Foreign Policy Journal , has addressed the issue pursued by the DSS working papers. Under the title multipolar , WeltTrends discusses military and security issues at regular intervals.

history

prehistory

Since the beginning of the 1980s, the methodological and ideological foundations of security policy and military theory in the GDR have undergone a fundamental revolution. It was based on the insight that a military system conflict leads to the annihilation of humanity and that this war can no longer be a means of politics.

At the "Friedrich Engels" military academy in Dresden, starting in the philosophy department, new security policy thinking about war, peace and armed forces gradually grew. This was based on the assumption that, as a result of the excessive effects of weapons, a “great” war could no longer achieve any political goals; it would mean the end of politics in the nuclear age.

The peace research , cooperative security, disarmament and conversion received in the beginning of the military reform and the ongoing political crisis of the GDR , a military academic opportunity. From late autumn 1989 onwards, several academics were involved in the development of the GDR's military policy guidelines.

In February 1990 they formed the core of the non-structural interdisciplinary scientific area of ​​security (IWBS) of the military academy, which initially started work with 24 officers. The scientific work results were published and distributed in the series of publications of the military academy under the name IWBS working papers.

  • IWBS working papers, Volume 1, Military Academy "Friedrich Engels", Dresden, May 1990.

  • IWBS working papers, volume 2, Military Academy "Friedrich Engels", Dresden, June 1990.

  • IWBS working papers, Volume 3, Military Academy "Friedrich Engels", Dresden, Sept. 1990.

The DSS working papers that followed from the end of 1990 addressed these concerns.

In July / August 1990 the existence of an independent GDR had become illusory. Working contacts between East and West, which had grown in the struggle for non-violent solutions for the future, were increasingly dismantled. With the decision of the People's Chamber of the GDR to join the Federal Republic of Germany on October 3, 1990, at the instigation of the still-GDR government at the end of September 1990, most IWBS scientists had to end their employment. By the end of 1990 the Dresden Military Academy was dissolved and all scientists were dismissed. The material, institutional and personal basis of the IWBS was thus lost.

Under these conditions, independent maintenance of the existing interdisciplinary working ability of the interested scientists at the IWBS in a no longer divided Germany and the publication of a self-published publication were a daring and courageous decision. This could be prepared in September 1990 via a registered association based on the German Civil Code.

Status of the issuer - DSS e. V.

The Dresden Study Group Security Policy (DSS) was established in Dresden on October 16, 1990 as a scientific (non-material) association, registered under VR 877 in the register of associations at the Dresden District Court.

The statutes explain the origin of the study group in paragraph 3: “The DSS e. V. ties in with the scientific work of social scientists, military scientists and technical scientists who carried out these activities within the framework of the IWBS of the military academy 'Friedrich Engels' until its dissolution. " Members addressed.

At the same time as the 25th anniversary of DSS e. V., the activity of the registered association was terminated with the official announcement of the deletion in the Federal Gazette on January 27, 2017.

Series of DSS working papers

Purpose, authors, editing, editing, distribution

Under the guiding principle - transition from confrontational to common, cooperative security enables the demilitarization of security policy as a guarantee of peace - the DSS working papers were published as early as December 1990, in continuity with the IWBS working papers. (See fig. Below left.)

  • First issue of the DSS working papers, issue 4, December 1990. Still in the IWBS layout.

  • Last print edition, 25 years of DSS e. V., closing event, DSS-AP issue 116, 2016.

  • Last e-book edition of the DSS series of publications, Translation Strategy, special issue [117], 2016.

The DSS working papers series ( ISSN  1436-6010 ) provided a medium for numerous authors, peace researchers, security politicians and military scientists, political and legal scholars, philosophers, economists, historians and personalities of the peace movement. Around 150 authors contributed to the publications.

They were able to make their views on a wide range of topics of European, transatlantic and global peace and security policy public and secure a permanent place for them in German-language documents.

The DSS working papers were published at irregular intervals, depending on the development of one's own studies or contributions to scientific events.

The scientific and linguistic editing as well as print preparation, the financing, the postal distribution to the individual and institutional customers was done in-house. In the ten years from 2005 to 2015, around 5,200 copies were shipped. A low printing fee and shipping costs were requested.

Reason for the author's contributions

Most of these author contributions arose in connection with two series of annual symposia:

Venue: Dresdner Volkshaus
  • Together with the Saxon Peace Initiative Dresden e. V . The Dresden Peace Symposium held in February brought together peace friends from all over Germany and from neighboring countries, warning of the destruction of Dresden in World War II.
    • Authors' contributions: 7 speakers from DSS e. V., 10 guest speakers ( Berlin , Bremen , Hamburg , Kassel , Munich , Prague , Vienna ).
    • The entire documentation is published in 15 issues of the DSS working papers: H. 21/1996, 34/1997, 40/1998, 46/1999, 53/2000, 58/2001, 61/2002, 65/2003, 69/2004, 74/2005, 79/2006 85/2007, 90/2008, 94/2009, 98/2010.
Venue: Kulturakademie Dresden, Bamberger Straße.
  • The Dresden symposium "For a global peace order" enabled a philosophical-peace-scientific, joint discourse of the Studiengemeinschaft DSS e. V. with philosophers from Budapest , Munich, Bonn and Dresden in order to defend the humanistic concern of global peace in an increasingly warlike world order.
    • Topics were:
      • Social relationship to nature, question of war - peace;
      • International law and legal awareness for a global peace order;
      • "Pax Americana" or Just Peace;
      • European integration and peace;
      • Militarism and anti-militarism today;
      • The Great Depression and Peace;
      • The rise of China to a world power and the opportunities for a global peace order.
    • Authors' contributions: 9 speakers from DSS e. V., 12 guest speakers (Berlin, Bremen, Budapest, Greifswald , Leibnitz-Sozietät , Leipzig, Munich, Potsdam , Waltersdorf (Schönefeld) ).
    • The complete documentation is published in 19 issues of the DSS working papers: H. 31 u. 32/1997, 41/1998, 45/1999, 52/2000, 57/2001, 60/2002, 4/2003, 68/2004, 72/2005, 78/2006, 83/2007, 89 u. 93/2008, 97/2010, 101/2011, 105/2012, 106/2013, 108/2014.
Venue: Dresden City Hall.

A highlight of scientific events and a special occasion for extensive DSS publications were:

  • the DSS-Colloquium 2005 "Philosophical Thinking about War and Peace" (about 40 participants)
    • Authors' contributions: 9 speakers from DSS e. V.,
    • published in: DSS working papers, H. 76/2005.
  • the DSS Colloquium 2009 on the 50th anniversary of the Military Academy (with over 250 participants) - with the publications:
    • Documentation MAFE, 2008 (Demmer / Haueis; see fig. Below, 2nd from left) and
    • Conference volume DSS working papers, volume 95, with a foreword by Admiral Theodor Hoffmann .

  • Contemporary witness reports on the Military Academy (1987–1990), DSS-AP, issue 114, 2015, cover title.

  • the 10th, 20th and 25th anniversary of the Studiengemeinschaft DSS e. V.
    • Edited volumes - 4 issues, with more than 20 authors, in: DSS-AP, H. 50/2001, 100/2010, 115/2015 and H. [116] / 2016;

  • 10 years of DSS e. V., DSS.AP, issue 50, 2001.

  • 20 years of DSS e. V., DSS.AP, issue 100, 2010.

  • 25 years of DSS e. V., DSS.AP, issue 115, 2015.

  • Closing event, DSS.AP, H. [116], 2016.

  • several commemorative publications and memoranda for particularly deserving scientists of the DSS e. V. to honor their work.

  • Festschrift, Ernst Woit zum 70th, DSS-AP, issue 62, 2002, cover title.

  • Festschrift, Rolf Lehmann zum 70th, DSS-AP, issue 70, 2004, cover title.

  • Festschrift, Siegfried Schönherr, zum 70th, DSS-AP, H. 72, 2004, cover title.

  • Festschrift, Wolfgang Scheler, zum 70th, DSS-AP, H. 76, 2005, cover title.

Several articles emerged from the panel on the World Day of Peace , which is held annually in September in Dresden by the Studiengemeinschaft DSS e. V. was organized together with cooperation partners.

Main subject of the DSS working papers

The following subjects were at the center of the critical discussion:

  • the militarization of the foreign and security policy of Germany and the European Union (EU);
  • the reorientation of the Bundeswehr to combat missions;
  • the new world wars of the USA and NATO ;
  • the events of war in major crisis regions.

An important area of ​​study was:

  • the analysis and evaluation of the security and defense policy of Russia as well
  • the translation activity for security and military policy original documents from Russian in order to provide scientifically adequate, German-language reading and study material.

It has been the subject of studies again and again

  • the theory about peace war and armed forces. It was made fruitful as a means of knowledge for understanding the security problems in the world situation.

A number of studies have been published

  • for the historical-critical analysis and evaluation of security policy thinking in the GDR and its upheaval, primarily at the Military Academy of the National People's Army .

Subject areas in the individual issues

In the series of DSS working papers (1990 to 2016), ISSN  1436-6010 , the following topics were dealt with:

  • Global strategy, NATO , Bundeswehr - in 12 issues, with 18 authors.
  • Current international conflict areas - in 9 issues, with 18 authors, including:
  • Revolution in thinking about peace, war and armed forces - in around 30 issues of the DSS working papers.

  • DSS Working Papers, Revolution in Thinking About Peace - War - Armed Forces, H. 26, 1996.

  • DSS Working Papers, Deterrence and Demilitarized Security, H. 86, 2007.

  • Security Policy in Eastern Europe - in 39 issues, with 14 authors, including:
    • on the Russian Federation - in 27 issues, with 10 authors; especially translations - strategy of national security, conception of foreign policy, military doctrine, naval doctrine.
    • on Belarus , Georgia , Ukraine - in 3 issues with 3 authors;
    • on Hungary - in 9 issues, with one author.

  • DSS working papers, RF Military Doctrine, Issue 113, 2015.

  • DSS working papers, Navy Doctrine of the RF, Issue 51.7, 2002.

  • DSS working papers, Armed Forces Rep. Belarus, Issue 87, 2007.

  • DSS working papers, Ukraine crisis, issue 112, 2014.

  • DSS working papers, Hungary's way i. Nato, issue 36, 1997.

  • Review of the NVA - in 9 issues, with 11 authors; including:
    • to the SED in the NVA;
    • to political work;
    • for special propaganda;
    • to traditions .

  • DSS working papers, SED in the NVA, issue 33, 1997, cover.

  • DSS working papers, Spezialpropaganda, Issue 38, 1997, cover.

  • DSS working papers, traditions Bw u. NVA, issue 84, 2007, cover.

  • Review of the Military Academy - in 8 issues, with 43 authors; including:
    • in the documentation for the military academy - with 2 authors.
    • in the 2009 Colloquium Conference Volume on the Military Academy - with 28 authors.
  • on military science at the military academy - with 13 authors.
  • on military economics, armaments, conversion - in 12 issues, with one author.
  • on border protection in the GDR - in 3 booklets with 4 authors.

  • DSS Working Papers, Military Science, H. 5, 1992, cover.

  • DSS working papers, Military Economics, issue 72, 2004, cover.

  • DSS working papers, Institute for Conversion, issue 38, 1997, cover.

  • DSS working papers, border protection etc. -regime, vol. 103, 2011, cover.

  • Review of the Studiengemeinschaft DSS e. V.
    • Edited volumes for the 10th, 20th and 25th anniversary of the DSS - in 4 issues, with more than 20 authors;
  • Festschriften for particularly deserved scientists of the DSS e. V. in recognition of their work, including:
    • Ernst Woit , Analyzing and Thinking for Peace and Human Rights, DSS-AP, Issue 62;
    • Rolf Lehmann , Common Security - A Difficult Learning Process, DSS-AP, Issue 70;
    • Siegfried Schönherr, On the Development of the Teaching Discipline Military Economics, DSS-AP, Issue 72;
    • Wolfgang Scheler, Philosophical Thinking on War and Peace, Contributions to the 2005 Colloquium, DSS-AP, Issue 76.
  • Memoranda
    • In memoriam Rolf Lehmann, Geopolitical and military-strategic thinking in the Russian Federation , DSS-AP, issue 77.
    • in memoriam Hans Süß , in: Die Weltwirtschaftskrise und der Frieden, DSS-AP, issue 97, p. 78 ff.

Subscriber to the DSS working papers

Scientific legacy

In the course of and after the liquidation of DSS e. V., the following options have been secured for the continued use of the academic legacy. The DSS working papers series ( ISSN 1436-6010), issues 4 to 115 and 10 issues, partial / special editions (i.e. approx. 120 issues) are:

a) provided as a (mandatory) printed copy:

b) listed as a title overview, with table of contents, available online free of charge in a blog;

c) Provided as an e-book for selected issues, available online free of charge in the Saxon document server Qucosa (EFRE project at SLUB Dresden );

d) offered as an e-book on demand, in the WeltTrends shop, Wissenschaftsverlag Potsdam.

The maintenance of the scientific legacy of DSS e. V. is the subject of the monthly discussion forums for which interested scientists in the GbR Dresden Security Policy Discussion Group (DGKSP) have been meeting monthly since January 2016. The DGKSP Discussion Papers (dgksp-dp) series of publications enables its participants, who are still active as a journalist, to publish them as e-books. These publications (from 2017) can be accessed online free of charge in the Saxon document server Qucosa (EFRE project at SLUB Dresden ).

See also

Military Academy "Friedrich Engels"

Web links

literature

  • DSS - Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Security Policy, list of working papers from 1990–2015, with overviews of contents, in blog: Time - Thoughts.
  • For the demilitarization of security, 10, 20, 25 years Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V., edited volumes, in: DSS working papers, H. 50/2001, 100/2010, [7] 115/2015. [8] Available at:
  • Wolfgang Scheler: The work of the study group for a peace in common security, in: Demmilitarisierung der Sicherheit, 25 years Dresdener study group Security Policy e. V., DSS working papers, no. 115, Dresden 2015, pp. 6–91.
  • Peace thinking and peace movement in symbiosis, closing event, Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik, October 2015, DSS working papers, H. [116], Dresden 2016, 46 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Scheler: Foreword to the first edition of multipolar . In: WeltTrends e. V. / Friends of the magazine multipolar (ed.): Multipolar - magazine for critical security research . No. 1 . WeltTrends - Potsdamer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945878-46-0 , ISSN  2511-6363 , p. 1 f .
  2. ↑ See WeltTrends - The Foreign Policy Journal. (Ed.) WeltTrends e. V. / Institut Zchodni Poznań, No. 139, Potsdam 2018, May, p. 18. Retrieved from URL: http://welttrends.de/multipolar/ .
  3. ^ Guiding principles of military policy in the GDR (February 28, 1990) . In: Demilitarization of Security. 10 years of DSS e. V. DSS working papers, No. 50 , 2001, ISSN  1436-6010 , p. 174 ff., Annex 9 . [1]
  4. ↑ See working papers , (Ed.) Military Academy "Friedrich Engels", Interdisciplinary Scientific Area Security (IWBS). Issue 1 to 3, Dresden 1990. In: Catalog, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - State and University Library Dresden. katalogbeta.slub-dresden.de
  5. ↑ Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik e. V. (Ed.): Articles of Association of October 16, 1990, amended on December 11, 2007. DSS Working Papers, No. 100 , 2010, ISSN  1436-6010 , p. 267, Annex 6 . [2]
  6. ^ Authors of the DSS working papers. In: Demilitarization of Security, 25 Years of the Dresden Study Group Security Policy. V. DSS working papers, No. 115 , 2015, ISSN  1436-6010 , p. 241 ff., Annex 4 . [3]
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Scheler: Foreword to the first edition of multipolar . In: WeltTrends e. V. / Friends of the magazine multipolar (ed.): Multipolar - magazine for critical security research . No. 1 . WeltTrends - Potsdamer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945878-46-0 , ISSN  2511-6363 , p. 2 .
  8. ↑ Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik e. V. (Ed.): Permanent subscriber to the DSS working papers . DSS working papers, No. 115 , 2015, ISSN  1436-6010 , p. 245, Annex 5 . [4]
  9. ↑ DSS - Dresden Study Group Security Policy . List of publications from 1990 to the present. In: time - thoughts blog . ( zeitgedanken.blog ).
  10. ↑ DSS working papers series . In: Catalog of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), in: EFRE project Saxon Document Server, Quality Content of Saxony (Qucosa). ISSN  1436-6010 , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-209278 .
  11. ↑ World Trends Shop. In: DSS working papers. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Series DGKSP discussion papers (dgksp-dp) . In: Catalog of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), in: EFRE project Saxon Document Server, Quality Content of Saxony (Qucosa). ISSN  2627-3470 , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-325519 .
  13. ^ Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Security Policy - List of Working Papers 1990–2015. In: time - thoughts. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
  14. ↑ DSS working papers. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
  15. ↑ For the demilitarization of security, 25 years of the DSSe. V. In: DSS working papers, no. 115, 2015. Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V., accessed on January 17, 2019 . [5]
  16. ↑ Thinking about peace and peace movement in symbiosis Closing event Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven, October 2015. In: DSS-Arbeitspapiere, [116], 2016. Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V., accessed on January 17, 2019 . [6]