The Tragedy Of The European Union

Author : George Soros
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610394222

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The Tragedy of the European Union by George Soros Pdf

The European Union could soon be a thing of the past. Xenophobia is rampant and commonly reflected in elections across the continent. Great Britain may hold a referendum on whether to abandon the union altogether. Spurred by anti-EU sentiments due to the euro crisis, national interests conflict with a shared vision for the future of Europe. Is it too late to preserve the union that generated unprecedented peace for more than half a century? This is no mere academic question with limited importance for America and the rest of the world. In the past decade, the EU has declined from a unified global power to a fractious confederation of states with staggering unemployment resentfully seeking relief from a reluctant Germany. If the EU collapses and the former member states are transformed again from partners into rivals, the US and the world will confront the serious economic and political consequences that follow. In a series of revealing interviews conducted by Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz, George Soros -- a man of vast European experience whose personal past informs his present concerns -- offers trenchant commentary and concise, prescriptive advice: The euro crisis was not an inevitable consequence of integration, but a result of avoidable mistakes in politics, economics, and finance; and excessive faith in the self-regulating financial markets that Soros calls market fundamentalism inspired flawed institutional structures that call out for reform. Despite the considerable perils of this period, George Soros maintains his faith in the European Union as a model of open society. This book is a testament to his vision for a peaceful and productive Europe.

Author : Robert Godby,Stephanie Anderson
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847404316

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Greek Tragedy, European Odyssey: The Politics and Economics of the Eurozone Crisis by Robert Godby,Stephanie Anderson Pdf

Debate among politicians and academics alike vacillates as to whether the euro is the crowning achievement of a half-century of European integration efforts, or now constitutes a force that threatens to drive European Union member states apart. This book introduces both the political and economic forces at play in the eurozone crisis that have shaped this debate and changed the face of European integration.

Author : Philipp Bagus
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Euro
ISBN : 9781610163163

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Tragedy of the Euro, The by Philipp Bagus Pdf

Author : Ashoka Mody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780199351381

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Eurotragedy by Ashoka Mody Pdf

EuroTragedy is an incisive exploration of the tragedy of how the European push for integration was based on illusions and delusions pursued in the face of warnings that the pursuit of unity was based on weak foundations.

Author : Robert Godby,Stephanie Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1013294920

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Greek Tragedy, European Odyssey by Robert Godby,Stephanie Anderson Pdf

Debate among politicians and academics alike vacillates as to whether the euro is the crowning achievement of a half-century of European integration efforts, or now constitutes a force that threatens to drive European Union member states apart. This book introduces both the political and economic forces at play in the eurozone crisis that have shaped this debate and changed the face of European integration. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Ernst B. Haas,Ernst Haas, Dr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0268201684

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Uniting of Europe by Ernst B. Haas,Ernst Haas, Dr Pdf

The University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to bring Ernst Haas's classic work on European integration, The Uniting of Europe, back into print. First published in 1958 and last printed in 1968, this seminal volume is the starting point for anyone interested in the pre-history of the European Union. Haas uses the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) as a case study of the community formation processes that occur across traditional national and state boundaries. Haas points to the ECSC as an example of an organization with the "power to redirect the loyalties and expectations of political actors." In this pathbreaking book Haas contends that, based on his observations of the actual integration process, the idea of a "united Europe" took root in the years immediately following World War II. His careful and rigorous analysis tracks the development of the ECSC, including, in his 1968 preface, a discussion of the eventual loss of the individual identity of the ECSC through its absorption into the new European Community. Featuring a new introduction by Haas analyzing the impact of his book over time, as well as an updated bibliography, The Uniting of Europe is a must-have for political scientists and historians of modern and contemporary Europe. This book is the inaugural volume of Notre Dame's new Contemporary European Politics and Society Series.

Author : Slavoj Žižek,Srećko Horvat
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231538411

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What Does Europe Want? by Slavoj Žižek,Srećko Horvat Pdf

Slavoj i ek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise in right-wing nationalism, which is directly tied to the fallout from the ongoing financial crisis and its prescription of imposed austerity. To general observers, the European Union's economic woes appear to be its greatest problem, but the real peril is an ongoing ideological–political crisis that threatens an era of instability and reactionary brutality. The fall of communism in 1989 seemed to end the leftist program of universal emancipation. However, nearly a quarter of a century later, the European Union has failed to produce any coherent vision that can mobilize people to action. Until recently, the only ideology receptive to European workers has been the nationalist call to "defend" against immigrant integration. Today, Europe is focused on regulating the development of capitalism and promoting a reactionary conception of its cultural heritage. Yet staying these courses, i ek and Horvat show, only strips Europe of its power and stifles its political ingenuity. The best hope is for Europe to revive and defend its legacy of universal egalitarianism, which benefits all parties by preserving the promise of equal representation.

Author : Brent F. Nelsen,Alexander C-G. Stubb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0333732413

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The European Union by Brent F. Nelsen,Alexander C-G. Stubb Pdf

Praise for the first edition: 'The authors..... are to be congratulated for producing a usable summary of the diverse writings on the European... Nelsen and Stubb have broken new ground with this reader.' - Journal of European Integration 'Highly accessible to students; each reading is clearly prefaced, set in context, and carefully and honestly abridged' - Talking Politics Already established as the leading collection of readings on the theory and practice of European integration, the second edition includes many new extracts in response to feedback from readers and adopters. The book brings together the views of key actors in the fifty year history of the European Union with a selection of key theoretical contributions to the understanding of European integration from the 1950s to the present. Each extract is set in context and summarised by a brief editorial introduction.

Author : Manuel Castells,Olivier Bouin,Joao Caraça,Gustavo Cardoso,John Thompson,Michel Wieviorka
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509524907

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Europe's Crises by Manuel Castells,Olivier Bouin,Joao Caraça,Gustavo Cardoso,John Thompson,Michel Wieviorka Pdf

Today, the European Union is facing a crisis as serious as anything it has experienced since its origins more than half a century ago. What makes this so serious is that it is not a single crisis but rather multiple crises – the euro crisis, the migration/refugee crisis, Brexit, etc. – that overlap and reinforce one another, creating a cumulative array of challenges that threatens the very survival of the EU. For the first time in its history, there is a real risk that the EU could break up. This volume brings together sociologists, economists and political scientists from around Europe to shed light on how the EU got into this predicament. It argues that the multiple crises that have plagued the European Union in the last decade stem to a large extent from flaws in its construction and that these flaws are consequences of the political processes that led to the formation of the EU – in other words, the decisions that made possible the development of the EU created the conditions for the multiple crises it experiences today. This timely and wide-ranging book on one of the most important issues of our time will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences, to politicians and policy-makers and to anyone concerned with Europe and its future.

Author : Paul Gragl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782251644

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The Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights by Paul Gragl Pdf

After more than 30 years of discussion, negotiations between the Council of Europe and the European Union on the EU's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights have resulted in a Draft Accession Agreement. This will allow the EU to accede to the Convention within the next couple of years. As a consequence, the Union will become subject to the external judicial supervision of an international treaty regime. Individuals will also be entitled to submit applications against the Union, alleging that their fundamental rights have been violated by legal acts rooted in EU law, directly to the Strasbourg Court. As the first comprehensive monograph on this topic, this book examines the concerns for the EU's legal system in relation to accession and the question of whether and how accession and the system of human rights protection under the Convention can be effectively reconciled with the autonomy of EU law. It also takes into account how this objective can be attained without jeopardising the current system of individual human rights protection under the Convention. The main chapters deal with the legal status and rank of the Convention and the Accession Agreement within Union law after accession; the external review of EU law by Strasbourg and the potential subordination of the Luxembourg Court; the future of individual applications and the so-called co-respondent mechanism; the legal arrangement of inter-party cases after accession and the presumable clash of jurisdictions between Strasbourg and Luxembourg; and the interplay between the Convention's subsidiarity principle (the exhaustion of local remedies) and the prior involvement of the Luxembourg Court in EU-related cases. The analysis presented in this book comes at a crucial point in the history of European human rights law, offering a holistic and detailed enquiry into the EU's accession to the ECHR and how this move can be reconciled with the autonomy of EU law.

Author : Yoeri Albrecht,Mathieu Segers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9462983151

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Re: Thinking Europe by Yoeri Albrecht,Mathieu Segers Pdf

A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been invited to write essays. Their thoughts are assembled in the anthology Re: Thinking Europe.

Author : Beate Kohler-Koch,Berthold Rittberger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742576407

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Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union by Beate Kohler-Koch,Berthold Rittberger Pdf

The discussion about a constitution for the European Union and its rejection by referendum in two of the EU founding member states has once again spurred public and scholarly interest in the democratic quality and potential of the European Union. Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union brings together distinguished thinkers from law, political science, sociology, and political philosophy to explore the potential for democratically legitimate governance in the European Union. Drawing on different theoretical perspectives and strands from democratic theory, this volume is the first of its kind to overcome the present state of fragmentation in the debate about the conditions and possible remedies for what is often called the "democratic deficit" of the European Union. Among the pressing questions addressed by the contributors are: What future is there for parliamentary democracy in the European Union? Can we observe the evolution of a European public sphere and civil society? Can participatory democracy or deliberative democracy pave the road for a democratically legitimate European Union? Conversations about democracy have engaged the public in a new way since the beginning of the Iraq war, and this volume is the best resource for students and readers who are interested in democracy in the European Union. Contributions by: Rudy B. Andeweg, Katrin Auel, Arthur Benz, Lars-Erik Cederman, Damian Chalmers, Deirdre Curtin, Donatella Della Porta, Klaus Eder, Erik O. Eriksen, Ulrich Haltern, Hubert Heinelt, Doug Imig, Christian Joerges, Beate Kohler-Koch, Christopher Lord, Paul Magnette, Andreas Maurer, Jeremy Richardson, Berthold Rittberger, Rainer Schmalz-Bruns, Michael Th. Greven, Hans-Jörg Trenz, and Armin von Bogdandy

Author : Angelo Santagostino
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527555334

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The Idea and Values of Europe by Angelo Santagostino Pdf

This book discusses the 2450 year-long journey of the evolution of human rights, beginning from their earliest manifestation through Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone (442 BCE). It then moves on to look at the relationship between human rights and the likes of Cicero and Jesus, Erasmus and the intellectuals of the Enlightenment, before considering the very roots of the idea of Europe, which goes back to the liberal and federalist thought of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book concludes with the Charter of the EU Fundamental Rights becoming legally binding for Member States in Lisbon in 2009. While inquiring into the origins of European shared values, it assesses their compatibility with a non-European culture and religion such as Islam.

Author : Peter Reddaway,Dmitri Glinski
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1929223064

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The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms by Peter Reddaway,Dmitri Glinski Pdf

Examines the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the birth of the Russian state, focusing on Yeltsin's disastrous policies, which brought on an economic collapse almost twice as severe as America's Great Depression.

Author : Giles Merritt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198757863

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Slippery Slope by Giles Merritt Pdf

A hard-hitting warning that Europe's prospects are gloomy unless Europeans awake from their torpor and embrace the often difficult changes necessary to flourish in the 21st century world. From one of our most influential thinkers on European matters.