Shortly after the state-led end of the USSR in 1991, the debate surrounding Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis showed that something was changing in the perception of political history. By the time the Russian war of aggression and annihilation against Ukraine began, this process had progressed so far throughout the West that leading English-language introductions to historical scholarship no longer considered political history at all. The balance of political history presented here aims to make visible again its relevance as an orienting science of political action in peace and war, democracy and dictatorship, internal and external politics. It asks about the relationship of political history to other universal ways of looking at things and about the special way of knowing political history.

The monograph has been completed and is to be published by Kohlhammer in 2023.

Fig.: The seal of the U.S. Congress, the center of the world's most powerful democracy, the scene of a coup against American democracy on January 6, 2021.

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