Does the conflict with Russia also have a cultural dimension? Could the crisis of the West be a new opportunity for humanism? What is the logic of the new Cold War? And why is Germany so important for maintaining world peace? In this collection of essays, philosopher Hauke Ritz, PhD, explores the background of the conflict between the Western world and Russia. He looks where attention is rarely paid: at the intersection of cultural and geopolitics. Because wars today are fought more than ever in people's minds, culture has lost its neutral status and moved to the center of geopolitical conflict. By describing this misuse of culture through numerous examples from the last ten years, Ritz reveals a distinct theory of power that explains many of the contradictions of our present. New product