Europe I Struggle I Overcome

Author : Wilfried Martens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783540892892

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Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome by Wilfried Martens Pdf

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Wilfried Martens is one of the most distinguished politicians to come from Belgium in the last ffty years. In his long poli- cal career, he has always fought for the implementation of his goals with passion and deep conviction. What has to be mentioned frst in this context is his s- cessful advocacy of federalism in his home country, Belgium. Already in his time as chair of the CVP youth league from 1967 to 1972, groundbreaking manifestos on Belgium’s federali- tion were written under his auspices. Later on, as President of the CVP, he succeeded in negotiating the Egmont Pact, whose essential elements form part of today’s federal Belgian C- stitution. He served as Prime Minister for more than a decade, and in this role he convinced the regions and linguistic groups of his country, which were often at odds with each other, of the necessity for cooperation and solidarity.

Author : Andy Mathers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317049036

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Struggling for a Social Europe by Andy Mathers Pdf

Protests at summit meetings have inspired intense debate over the nature and significance of the 'anti-globalization' or 'anti-capitalist’ movement. However, the European dimension of this movement is still largely unknown. In this insightful book Andy Mathers addresses this deficit by focusing on events that have marked the birth of a European social movement. He relates the development of the movement to key matters such as economic, employment and welfare state restructuring along neoliberal lines. He also challenges ideas about the nature of contemporary collective action and the character of present day social movements. Mathers discusses the significance of the movement and its future development through a critical engagement with the work of major writers in European sociology and of academics influential in the wider global movement such as Pierre Bourdieu. A postscript brings readers fully up-to-date with developments in the type of 'social Europe' propagated by the institutions of the EU as well as in the maturation of a social movement to oppose it.

Author : Brent F. Nelsen,James L. Guth
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626160705

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Religion and the Struggle for European Union by Brent F. Nelsen,James L. Guth Pdf

Nelsen and Guth contend that religion, or "confessional culture," plays a powerful role in shaping European ideas about politics, attitudes toward European integration, and national and continental identities in its leaders and citizens. Catholicism has for centuries promoted the unity of Christendom, while Protestantism has valued particularity and feared Catholic dominance. These confessional cultures, the authors argue, have resulted in two very different visions of Europe that have deeply influenced the process of postwar integration. Catholics have seen Europe as a single cultural entity that is best governed by a single polity; Protestants have never felt part of continental culture and have valued national borders as protectors of liberties historically threatened by Catholic powers. Catholics have pressed for a politically united Europe; Protestants have resisted sacrificing sovereignty to federal institutions, favoring pragmatic cooperation. Despite growing secularization of the continent, not to mention the impact of Islam, confessional culture still exerts enormous influence. And, the authors conclude, European elites must recognize the enduring significance of this Catholic-Protestant cultural divide as the EU attempts to solve its social andeconomic and political crises.

Author : Tom Buchanan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470655788

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Europe's Troubled Peace by Tom Buchanan Pdf

This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the “War on Terror” on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement. Thoroughly revised and expanded, this integrated history of Europe now covers the end of the Second World War up to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century Includes new sections on immigration and ethnicity in Europe after the Cold War, and the role of historical memory in contemporary Europe A final new chapter assesses the role of Europe within the wider world of the twenty-first century, the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the “War on Terror” on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement Covers the history of central and eastern Europe in depth, as well as that of Western Europe Discusses in detail the impact of the Cold War across the continent

Author : Simon F. Oliai
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780761865162

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Challenging the Absolute by Simon F. Oliai Pdf

Our contemporary world presents a seemingly inexplicable paradox. It is a world where interaction among societies of different cultural traditions has never been easier. A world in which modern technology has visibly overcome the physical barriers that had long condemned the majority of men to relative isolation from one another. Yet, our world is also one in which the illusion of a lost “original” cultural or religious identity, grounded by a metaphysical absolute, pits men against one another. A physically more accessible world has thus become an increasingly fundamentalist one. In this book, written in the wake of such influential European thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Vattimo, Simon Oliai analyzes the conceptual underpinnings of this paradox and argues that, unless the “European” affirmation of man’s finite existence becomes universal, we shall never rid ourselves, to echo Nietzsche, of the repressive shadow of a long dead metaphysical idol.

Author : Wolfgang Blaas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429876240

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A New Perspective for European Spatial Development Policies by Wolfgang Blaas Pdf

First Published in 1998. A number of future paths of European spatial evolution are developed and discussed in this book. It applies unconventional economic approaches to spatial policy, and in particular to EU-spatial policies. It is concluded that a) the answer to spatial development challenges should not be geo-design but rather strategic guidelines for sectorial policy measures; b) regional policy on the EU's external border has to involve the cities as regional centres in a cross-border network; c) the new perspective on European spatial policy requires a network approach to regional cooperation, which in turn needs an institution monitoring and evaluation continuously the fuctioning of the net.

Author : Çigdem Nas,Yonca Özer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317006046

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Turkey and EU Integration by Çigdem Nas,Yonca Özer Pdf

What has been achieved regarding Turkey’s efforts at integration to the EU and what obstacles remain to it achieving full membership? Like other developing countries, Turkey displays visible signs of advancement with rapid increases in living standards, greater mobility and the rapid spread of technology. Much of its legislation and political, economic and administrative systems are also now aligned to the EU and this process has undoubtedly contributed to democratization and modernization. At the same time problems in politics and society persist; the Gezi protests, limitations of freedom of expression, frequent occupational accidents in the mining and construction sectors, honour killings and political upheaval which has manifested itself most starkly with the recent coup attempt all call attention to the challenges facing a country in the process of change. Charting the political, legal and economic relations between Turkey and the European Union since 1959 this book explores the relationship through phases such as association, customs union and candidacy. Each chapter covers a particular period in the relations and/or a theme which has both current and overall relevance to the conduct of the relations. In this way, the authors examine the impact of the EU in affecting change, what has been achieved and the obstacles that remain.

Author : Walter Lipgens,Wilfried Loth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110876420

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The Struggle for European Union by Political Parties and Pressure Groups in Western European Countries 1945–1950 by Walter Lipgens,Wilfried Loth Pdf

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Author : Chester Wilmot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1343705160

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The Struggle for Europe by Chester Wilmot Pdf

Author : Andrea Prontera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317022688

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The New Politics of Energy Security in the European Union and Beyond by Andrea Prontera Pdf

Combining theoretical reflections and empirical insights from paradigmatic case studies in the area of external energy governance, pipeline politics, Liquefied Natural Gas development and offshore petroleum policy and politics, this ground-breaking study demonstrates that a distinctive and new politics of energy security is definitively emerging in the European Union. Innovative not only in regard to the case studies presented (which include the Caspian region, the Baltic, Mediterrean countries, Central Asia and EU-Russia relations), but also in regard to the analytical framework adopted – an International Political Economy approach informed by an historical institutional perspective – the book challenges the common view of the ‘de-politicisation’ of energy security supported by the mainstream market approach and the power politics and ‘zero-sum game’ view supported by the geopolitical perspective. This book places the study of EU energy politics in the broader, evolving context of global energy markets and explores the complex interactions between EU and national political dynamics and between energy security and environmental concerns at the local level.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Europe
ISBN : UIUC:30112022414400

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Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christian Nuenlist,Anna Locher,Garret Martin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739142509

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Globalizing de Gaulle by Christian Nuenlist,Anna Locher,Garret Martin Pdf

French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision_conceived out of national interest_of uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle's towering personality and his challenge to US hegemony in the Cold War have inspired a vast number of political biographies and analyses of the foreign policies of the Fifth Republic mostly from French or US angle. In contrast, this book serves to rediscover de Gaulle's global policies how they changed the Cold War. Offering truly global perspectives on France's approach to the world during de Gaulle's presidency, the 13 well-matched essays by leading experts in the field tap into newly available sources drawn from US, European, Asian, African and Latin American archives. Together, the contributions integrate previously neglected regions, actors and topics with more familiar and newly approached phenomena into a global picture of the General's international policy-making. The volume at hand is an example of how cutting-edge research benefits from multipolar and multi-archival approaches and from attention to big, middle and smaller powers as well as institutions.

Author : Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134521616

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Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration by Bastiaan van Apeldoorn Pdf

This book presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the political economy of European integration must be put within the context of a changing global capitalism, Van Apeldoorn examines how European change is linked to global change and how transnational actors mediate these changes.

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Solna, Sweden : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ; Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015047767523

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Overcoming Threats to Europe by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

Europe is politically stable but is growing unstable in the military sphere. This is because of the imposition of superpower rivalry and the militarization of political thinking.

Author : Michael O'Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134183364

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The Struggle for the European Constitution by Michael O'Neill Pdf

The European Union (EU) Constitution was one of the most important developments in the history of the EU, aiming to make the EU more transparent, relevant and accountable to the citizens of its member states. Current anxieties over the pace and direction of EU integration place this comprehensive study at the forefront of the EU governance debate. O’Neill goes far beyond a simple account of the EU Constitution, focussing also on the response to the current crisis of confidence between the Union and its citizens and how those in power have responded to the challenge. Making a substantial contribution to literature on the EU, key discussion points include: The political crisis behind the Constitution The power politics at work in the negotiations How the Constitution affects EU policymaking The impact on the citizens of the EU This is essential reading for all those wishing to understand the background to one of the key areas within European Politics. Michael O’Neill is Jean Monnet Professor in EU Politics at Nottingham Trent University.