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Ethical decision-making challenges us every day – be it in our private or professional lives, be it on an organizational or institutional level, be it in a political or economic context. The textbook encourages ethical decision-making with ease and argumentative elegance – in the following 4 steps (SAMBA):

1. See and understand the reality
2. Analyze the reality from a
Moral Standpoint
3. Be the ethical judge!
4. Act accordingly!

Peter G. Kirchschlaeger is Full Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE of the University of Lucerne as well as Visiting Professor at the Chair of Neuroinformatics and Neural Systems at ETH Zurich and at the ETH AI Center. Previously, he was a Visiting Fellow at Yale University.

This textbook provides a systematic, comprehensive and historically embedded introduction to the formation, functioning and development conditions of today’s non-democratic regimes. It disseminates the results of international autocracy research, familiarises readers with its concepts and methods, provides information about the most important types of autocracy and illuminates the conditions for their stability. System transformations are also examined from the perspective of autocratic regimes. The book integrates approaches, findings and perspectives from different research traditions and aims to encourage an interdisciplinary view.
The author works at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the University of Dresden.

The reference work contains definitions of concepts of international security and peace. It is oriented towards the current state of research, which distinguishes it from the usual keyword collections in traditional and electronic dictionaries. With some 800 terms and over 1000 definitions and associated explanations, readers are provided with a tool to make scientific working definitions easily accessible. On the other hand, the dictionary is intended to give practitioners the possibility to quickly access scientific terms. Helpful for scientific research and practitioners alike are the approximately 5000 cross-references to other terms as well as the comprehensive literature references. This book is aimed primarily at teachers and students of political science as well as researchers and practitioners in politics, administration and journalism.