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Del 50 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
EU Enlargement
Current Challenges and Strategic Choices
AvFinn Laursen
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 036 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Successive enlargements of the EU have constituted major events in the history of European integration. They affect the Union’s institutions, policies and policy-making processes and, because of the impact of these changes, enlargements have often been controversial. The major enlargement in 2004, which took the EU from 15 to 25 member countries, was followed by Romanian and Bulgarian membership in 2007 and Croatian membership in 2013.It is often argued that there is now enlargement fatigue, and progress towards the next step seems slow. However, a number of countries, especially in the Western Balkans, are eager to join, and Turkey has been an official candidate since 1999. Major challenges lie ahead for the candidates as well as the EU. Will the candidates be able to carry out the required reforms to fulfil the membership conditions, and will the EU be able – politically and institutionally – to widen its membership further? These decisions are of strategic importance for the future of Europe.This book analyses the issues involved, exploring the status of the ongoing enlargement process and the political games associated with it.
Del 51 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Space of Crisis
Images and Ideas of Europe in the Age of Crisis: 1914–1945
AvVittorio Dini,Matthew D'Auria
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 034 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Focusing on European cultural and intellectual history in first half of the twentieth century, The Space of Crisis investigates how notions of crisis and changing perceptions of space influenced the way Europeans imagined themselves, their past and their future. The book is an attempt to reassess some of the main assumptions of historians and political theorists about the way intellectuals, artists, legal theorists and historians interpreted Europe’s crisis during the 1920s and 1930s. By so doing, it investigates the intellectual foundations of the ensuing federalist and Europeanist movements, highlighting the importance of the writings of those years in understanding today’s Europe and its current predicaments.
Del 53 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Zero Hours
Conceptual Insecurities and New Beginnings in the Interwar Period
AvHagen Schulz-Forberg
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 036 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
To cut off time and seal away the past, to proclaim a new beginning in the present and project a better future onto tomorrow – and thus to make history – is a key signature of modern social, political and cultural discourses. In this book, this practice is represented through the metaphor of the Zero Hour, which alludes to the wish to rebuild the past in the face of a crisis-ridden present characterised by growing conceptual insecurity, hoping for a more stable future. Indeed, the ever-new construction of our past, sequenced and ordered in explanatory narratives, bears witness to a future that ‘ought to be’. As the case studies in this volume show, this is a global phenomenon. Against the backdrop of a confluence of experiences which unsettled conceptual norms after the First World War, this volume presents a novel approach to global history as it examines ways of breaking with the past and the way in which societies, as well as transnational historical actors, employ key concepts to compose arguments for a better tomorrow.
Del 54 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Estonians for Europe
National Activism for European Integration, 1922–1991
AvPauli Heikkilä,Hagen Schulz-Forbergm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
996 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Estonians for Europe provides a unique insight into nearly eighty years of the history surrounding European unification. Concentrating on Estonian aspirations for an integrative organization in international relations, the book illustrates a number of parallels and differences between commonly held narratives of twentieth-century European history.
Del 55 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Operation Welcome
How Strasbourg Remained a Seat of European Institutions, 1949–1979
AvClaudia Leskien,Hagen Schulz-Forberg
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
1 158 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
An accepted narrative within European integration history is that the issue in which city to locate European Community headquarters was decided on the intergovernmental level between the member states. In the present volume, this view is expanded with the example of Strasbourg by arguing that activity at the local level is an important factor as well.A set of highly active political and associational local agents used different strategies to consolidate the city’s position against competing cities and the European Communities. This study finds that a highly specialised group of municipal politicians and civil servants were an important factor for bringing the European institutions to the city.
Del 56 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Die Stimme Der Vernunft?
Menschenrechtssprache Als Teil Des Politischen Weahrend Des Ost-West-Konflikts, 1961-1973
AvThomas Werneke,Hagen Schulz-Forberg
Häftad, Franska, 2016
1 098 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Wie wurden Menschenrechte zum erfolgreichen Bestandteil politischer und ideologischer Argumentation während der 1960er und 1970er Jahre? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage untersucht das Buch die Verwendungsweisen von Menschenrechtssprache in der professionellen Sphäre der Politik. Die westliche Integrationszone steht hierbei im Zentrum der Untersuchung, welche die Verwendungsweise von Menschenrechtssprache in politischer Argumentation auf drei Ebenen analysiert: Topoi, Argumente, performative Sprechakte. Drei historische Ereignisse liefern die Grundlage für die semantische und rhetorische Untersuchung von Menschenrechtssprache im Kalten Krieg. Der Vietnamkrieg dient als Langzeitereignis. Er wird durch den Berliner Mauerbau im August 1961 und den Prager Frühling 1968 ergänzt. Das Buch liefert somit auch einen Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte der Politik im Kalten Krieg. Es wird argumentiert, dass die Anerkennung der Menschenrechte als Grundnorm in den 1970er Jahren ohne die Etablierung einer Menschenrechtssprache in den 1960ern nicht möglich gewesen wäre.
Del 38 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Collective Traumas
Memories of War and Conflict in 20th-Century Europe
AvMithander-C,Conny Mithanderm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 119 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Collective Traumas is about the traumatic European history of the 20th century – war, genocide, dictatorship, ethnic cleansing – and how individuals, communities and nations have dealt with their dark past through remembrance, historiography and legal settlements. Memories, and especially collective memories, serve as foundations for national identities and are politically charged. Regardless whether memory is used to support or to challenge established ideologies, it is inevitably subject to political tensions. Consequently, memory, history and amnesia tend to be used and abused for different political and ideological purposes. From the perspectives of historical, literary and visual studies the essays focus on how the experiences of war and profound conflict have been represented and remembered in different national cultures and communities. This volume is a vital contribution to memory studies and trauma theory. Collective Traumas is a result of the multidisciplinary research project on Memory Culture that was initiated in 2002 at Karlstad University, Sweden. A previous publication with Peter Lang is Memory Work: The Theory and Practice of Memory (2005).
Del 26 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
National Heroes and National Identities
Scotland, Norway and Lithuania
AvLinas Eriksonas
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 283 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
This book investigates the concept of the heroic, questions what it is that makes the national hero an indispensable appendage to any possible interpretation of national identity, and asks why scholars stop short before coming to terms with this elusive phenomenon. It finds answers by following heroic traditions in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The book argues that heroic traditions – prevailing trends in situating heroes in national history – owe much to the early modern state. Both national heroes and the nation state had been conceived with a similar moral political mindset that looked for new ways to identify sources for commonality. The confluence of political theory and Realpolitik attested to three classical types of polities, i.e. civitas popularis (democracy), regnum (kingship), and optimatium (aristocracy), as found at that time in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania respectively. The author shows the varied impact these patterns had on heroic traditions. The long record of national heroes in Scotland is explained as a vestige of the legacy of civic humanism, the continuing traditions of the heroic king-lines in Norway are seen as a result of long-standing absolutism, while the belated arrival of national heroes in Lithuania is excused by the country’s aristocratic if at times oligarchic past.
Del 31 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Democratisation in Turkey
The Role of Political Parties
AvHuri Türsan,Bo Strath
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 060 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Party politics has been undergoing a revival in many democracies. However, parties are much less studied in countries with unstable political regimes. Party interactions can help to provide explanations for the emergence and performance of regimes, whether of the democratic or authoritarian type. This book is a comprehensive case study that analyses, in depth, Turkish political parties. Starting with broad historical analysis, Huri Türsan takes the reader down to the most recent electoral activities and party politics in a country whose topicality is on the rise, not least due to its political problems. While the author deals with many issues of politics (including the role of the military), she focuses on an aspect of party competition which renders democracy problematic in Turkey, namely polarisation in party politics along cleavages.
Del 39 - Europe Plurielle/Multiple Europes
Histoire économique et sociale de la construction européenne
AvRené Leboutte
Häftad, Franska, 2008
1 608 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Les débats sur l’avenir de l’Union européenne réactualisent deux questions programmatiques qui traversent l’histoire européenne depuis la Première Guerre mondiale : faut-il unifier l’Europe en une vaste zone de libre-échange sans entamer les souverainetés nationales ? Faut-il plutôt encadrer un marché unique européen par des institutions supranationales dont l’objectif politique et social est plus affirmé ? Ce livre explique pourquoi et comment la construction européenne a progressé de manière tout à fait originale en instaurant un marché institutionnalisé dans lequel la problématique sociale est présente dès le début. Depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la prise de conscience de la nécessité d’assurer la paix a poussé à explorer toutes les voies possibles pour bâtir une Europe unie. Cet ouvrage retrace le cheminement intellectuel qui a mené à l’instauration d’un marché commun destiné à améliorer les conditions de vie des Européens. Il analyse comment la Communauté européenne a permis d’affronter, sans catastrophe sociale, les mutations majeures du monde moderne. L’ouverture des marchés et la globalisation de l’économie, une nouvelle révolution agricole, le passage d’une société industrielle à une société de l’innovation technologique et de la communication, les bouleversements énergétiques, le défi environnemental, les élargissements successifs et l’Europe sociale sont quelques-uns des thèmes qui sont traités. Sur le plan méthodologique, le retour aux sources et la mobilisation des nouvelles potentialités scientifiques et pédagogiques offertes par les bibliothèques numériques renouvellent la démarche historique en vue de rendre plus accessible la complexité et les enjeux profonds de la construction européenne. Enfin, ce livre fournit une synthèse à la fois précise et claire, nourrie de sources qualitatives et quantitatives, qui a fait longtemps défaut.
Del 40 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Europe and the Historical Legacies in the Balkans
AvDetrez-R,Raymond Detrezm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
873 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The enlargement of the EU with the Balkan countries has aroused the skepticism of many. Although EU admission is primarily a matter of economic and political concerns, questions of cultural import are readily brought into play: Does the country in question conform sufficiently to «our» standards of a «European identity»? The problematic status of the Balkans in this respect largely consists in their common Byzantine and Ottoman legacies. By focusing on Bulgaria and its neighbours Romania, Greece and Turkey, the authors of this collection attempt to elucidate how mutually incompatible the «cultural identity» of the Ottoman «successor states» and that of Europe are. Ample attention is devoted not only to the perception of the Balkans in the West, but also to the self-image of people in the Balkans and perceptions they hold of the West. If anything like a Balkan identity can be said to exist, what is its relation to the various ethnic, national, religious and linguistic communities? Notably, what was and is the role played by religion in nation state formation? The relationship with Europe forms the thread that runs through the discussion of these issues.
Del 42 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Imagining Europe
Europe and European Civilisation as Seen from its Margins and by the Rest of the World, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
AvMichael Wintle
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
1 064 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
What do people think ‘Europe’ means? What are its values, what are its borders, and what does it stand for? An important topic, without doubt. But the authors of this research collection are not so much interested in what Europe thinks of itself, but rather in what others think of it. They take a number of scenarios from recent history, and examine how Europe has appeared to people in other parts of the globe: America, China, the Arab world, for example. But they go further, and pose the question for some parts of the world which are ‘inside’ Europe, but which for one reason or another hover on the margins, like the Balkans, and Turkey. Furthermore they include the views about Europe held in parts of the continent which have without any doubt whatsoever belonged to Europe’s core, but which much of the rest of Europe, later, would like to forget about, or marginalise: Stalin’s Russia, and Hitler’s Germany. Most of the elements investigated here are central to the imagining of Europe, and despite many Europeans’ wish to distance themselves, such views should be recognised and taken up as an important and indispensable contribution to the debate about ‘What is Europe?’
Del 44 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Building a European Public Sphere / Un espace public européen en construction
From the 1950s to the Present / Des années 1950 à nos jours
AvFrank-R,Robert Frankm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 023 kr
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The book edited by four known specialists of European history presents for the first time a discussion among European historians on the European public sphere since the 1950s. It treats the general perspective and deals also in special articles with the role played by the European Union, by the Council of Europe, and by national media such as television and film. The volume shows that the role of the European public sphere is often underestimated and that it is gradually becoming more influential and forceful not only in politics, but also in culture. Sous la direction de quatre spécialistes renommés de l’histoire européenne, cet ouvrage présente de façon inédite un débat entre historiens de l’Europe sur l’espace public européen et son évolution depuis les années 1950. La question est abordée dans son ensemble, mais certaines contributions traitent aussi plus spécifiquement du rôle joué par l’Union européenne, par le Conseil de l’Europe, et par les médias nationaux, comme la télévision et le cinéma. Ce volume montre que l’on a souvent sous-estimé l’espace public européen, alors que son influence est de plus en plus importante, tant au niveau politique que culturel.
Del 10 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other
AvStrath-B,Bo Strath
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 337 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
This book contributes to the debate on what Europe means by demonstrating the complexities and contradictions inherent in the concept. They are seen most clearly when Europe is viewed from a long historical perspective. During the closing decades of the twentieth century Europe emerged as one of the main points of reference in both the cultural and the political constructs of the global community. An obsession with the concept of European identity is readily discernible. This process of identity construction provokes critical questions which the book aims to address. At the same time the book explores the opportunities offered by the concept of Europe to see how it may be used in the construction of the future. The approach is one of both deconstruction and reconstruction. The issue of Europe is closely related in the book to more general issues concerning the cultural construction of community. The book should therefore be seen as the companion of Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community, which is also published by PIE-Peter Lang in the series Multiple Europes. The book appears within the framework of a research project on the cultural construction of community in modernisation processes in comparison. This project is a joint enterprise of the European University Institute in Florence and the Humboldt University in Berlin sponsored by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Fund.
Del 46 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Imagining Europe as a Global Player
The Ideological Construction of a New European Identity within the EU
AvChristoffer Kolvraa,Hagen Schulz-Forbergm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
928 kr
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This book argues that since 2001 the primary discursive context for articulating a European identity within the EU has increasingly become the idea of a common foreign policy for Europe. A new grand project of making Europe a true global player is being put forth and it is this as yet unrealised ideal that European citizens are now being asked to identify with. The author examines European identity as an ideological construction that seeks to elicit emotional and affective attachment to the political project of realising a utopian ideal. He unravels the discourses involved in the construction of European identity by drawing on theories and methods from discourse analysis, the study of political myths, narratology and psychoanalysis. The European Neighbourhood Policy is studied in detail, with a focus on the dynamic challenges that ensue when grand ideological statements have to be implemented in a concrete and specific context.

Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes – serie

Visar alla böcker i serien Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

15 produkter

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15 produkter

Del 50 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
EU Enlargement
Current Challenges and Strategic Choices
AvFinn Laursen
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 036 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Successive enlargements of the EU have constituted major events in the history of European integration. They affect the Union’s institutions, policies and policy-making processes and, because of the impact of these changes, enlargements have often been controversial. The major enlargement in 2004, which took the EU from 15 to 25 member countries, was followed by Romanian and Bulgarian membership in 2007 and Croatian membership in 2013.It is often argued that there is now enlargement fatigue, and progress towards the next step seems slow. However, a number of countries, especially in the Western Balkans, are eager to join, and Turkey has been an official candidate since 1999. Major challenges lie ahead for the candidates as well as the EU. Will the candidates be able to carry out the required reforms to fulfil the membership conditions, and will the EU be able – politically and institutionally – to widen its membership further? These decisions are of strategic importance for the future of Europe.This book analyses the issues involved, exploring the status of the ongoing enlargement process and the political games associated with it.
Del 51 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Space of Crisis
Images and Ideas of Europe in the Age of Crisis: 1914–1945
AvVittorio Dini,Matthew D'Auria
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 034 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Focusing on European cultural and intellectual history in first half of the twentieth century, The Space of Crisis investigates how notions of crisis and changing perceptions of space influenced the way Europeans imagined themselves, their past and their future. The book is an attempt to reassess some of the main assumptions of historians and political theorists about the way intellectuals, artists, legal theorists and historians interpreted Europe’s crisis during the 1920s and 1930s. By so doing, it investigates the intellectual foundations of the ensuing federalist and Europeanist movements, highlighting the importance of the writings of those years in understanding today’s Europe and its current predicaments.
Del 53 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Zero Hours
Conceptual Insecurities and New Beginnings in the Interwar Period
AvHagen Schulz-Forberg
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 036 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
To cut off time and seal away the past, to proclaim a new beginning in the present and project a better future onto tomorrow – and thus to make history – is a key signature of modern social, political and cultural discourses. In this book, this practice is represented through the metaphor of the Zero Hour, which alludes to the wish to rebuild the past in the face of a crisis-ridden present characterised by growing conceptual insecurity, hoping for a more stable future. Indeed, the ever-new construction of our past, sequenced and ordered in explanatory narratives, bears witness to a future that ‘ought to be’. As the case studies in this volume show, this is a global phenomenon. Against the backdrop of a confluence of experiences which unsettled conceptual norms after the First World War, this volume presents a novel approach to global history as it examines ways of breaking with the past and the way in which societies, as well as transnational historical actors, employ key concepts to compose arguments for a better tomorrow.
Del 54 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Estonians for Europe
National Activism for European Integration, 1922–1991
AvPauli Heikkilä,Hagen Schulz-Forbergm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
996 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Estonians for Europe provides a unique insight into nearly eighty years of the history surrounding European unification. Concentrating on Estonian aspirations for an integrative organization in international relations, the book illustrates a number of parallels and differences between commonly held narratives of twentieth-century European history.
Del 55 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Operation Welcome
How Strasbourg Remained a Seat of European Institutions, 1949–1979
AvClaudia Leskien,Hagen Schulz-Forberg
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
1 158 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
An accepted narrative within European integration history is that the issue in which city to locate European Community headquarters was decided on the intergovernmental level between the member states. In the present volume, this view is expanded with the example of Strasbourg by arguing that activity at the local level is an important factor as well.A set of highly active political and associational local agents used different strategies to consolidate the city’s position against competing cities and the European Communities. This study finds that a highly specialised group of municipal politicians and civil servants were an important factor for bringing the European institutions to the city.
Del 56 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Die Stimme Der Vernunft?
Menschenrechtssprache Als Teil Des Politischen Weahrend Des Ost-West-Konflikts, 1961-1973
AvThomas Werneke,Hagen Schulz-Forberg
Häftad, Franska, 2016
1 098 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Wie wurden Menschenrechte zum erfolgreichen Bestandteil politischer und ideologischer Argumentation während der 1960er und 1970er Jahre? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage untersucht das Buch die Verwendungsweisen von Menschenrechtssprache in der professionellen Sphäre der Politik. Die westliche Integrationszone steht hierbei im Zentrum der Untersuchung, welche die Verwendungsweise von Menschenrechtssprache in politischer Argumentation auf drei Ebenen analysiert: Topoi, Argumente, performative Sprechakte. Drei historische Ereignisse liefern die Grundlage für die semantische und rhetorische Untersuchung von Menschenrechtssprache im Kalten Krieg. Der Vietnamkrieg dient als Langzeitereignis. Er wird durch den Berliner Mauerbau im August 1961 und den Prager Frühling 1968 ergänzt. Das Buch liefert somit auch einen Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte der Politik im Kalten Krieg. Es wird argumentiert, dass die Anerkennung der Menschenrechte als Grundnorm in den 1970er Jahren ohne die Etablierung einer Menschenrechtssprache in den 1960ern nicht möglich gewesen wäre.
Del 38 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Collective Traumas
Memories of War and Conflict in 20th-Century Europe
AvMithander-C,Conny Mithanderm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 119 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Collective Traumas is about the traumatic European history of the 20th century – war, genocide, dictatorship, ethnic cleansing – and how individuals, communities and nations have dealt with their dark past through remembrance, historiography and legal settlements. Memories, and especially collective memories, serve as foundations for national identities and are politically charged. Regardless whether memory is used to support or to challenge established ideologies, it is inevitably subject to political tensions. Consequently, memory, history and amnesia tend to be used and abused for different political and ideological purposes. From the perspectives of historical, literary and visual studies the essays focus on how the experiences of war and profound conflict have been represented and remembered in different national cultures and communities. This volume is a vital contribution to memory studies and trauma theory. Collective Traumas is a result of the multidisciplinary research project on Memory Culture that was initiated in 2002 at Karlstad University, Sweden. A previous publication with Peter Lang is Memory Work: The Theory and Practice of Memory (2005).
Del 26 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
National Heroes and National Identities
Scotland, Norway and Lithuania
AvLinas Eriksonas
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 283 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
This book investigates the concept of the heroic, questions what it is that makes the national hero an indispensable appendage to any possible interpretation of national identity, and asks why scholars stop short before coming to terms with this elusive phenomenon. It finds answers by following heroic traditions in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The book argues that heroic traditions – prevailing trends in situating heroes in national history – owe much to the early modern state. Both national heroes and the nation state had been conceived with a similar moral political mindset that looked for new ways to identify sources for commonality. The confluence of political theory and Realpolitik attested to three classical types of polities, i.e. civitas popularis (democracy), regnum (kingship), and optimatium (aristocracy), as found at that time in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania respectively. The author shows the varied impact these patterns had on heroic traditions. The long record of national heroes in Scotland is explained as a vestige of the legacy of civic humanism, the continuing traditions of the heroic king-lines in Norway are seen as a result of long-standing absolutism, while the belated arrival of national heroes in Lithuania is excused by the country’s aristocratic if at times oligarchic past.
Del 31 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Democratisation in Turkey
The Role of Political Parties
AvHuri Türsan,Bo Strath
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 060 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Party politics has been undergoing a revival in many democracies. However, parties are much less studied in countries with unstable political regimes. Party interactions can help to provide explanations for the emergence and performance of regimes, whether of the democratic or authoritarian type. This book is a comprehensive case study that analyses, in depth, Turkish political parties. Starting with broad historical analysis, Huri Türsan takes the reader down to the most recent electoral activities and party politics in a country whose topicality is on the rise, not least due to its political problems. While the author deals with many issues of politics (including the role of the military), she focuses on an aspect of party competition which renders democracy problematic in Turkey, namely polarisation in party politics along cleavages.
Del 39 - Europe Plurielle/Multiple Europes
Histoire économique et sociale de la construction européenne
AvRené Leboutte
Häftad, Franska, 2008
1 608 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Les débats sur l’avenir de l’Union européenne réactualisent deux questions programmatiques qui traversent l’histoire européenne depuis la Première Guerre mondiale : faut-il unifier l’Europe en une vaste zone de libre-échange sans entamer les souverainetés nationales ? Faut-il plutôt encadrer un marché unique européen par des institutions supranationales dont l’objectif politique et social est plus affirmé ? Ce livre explique pourquoi et comment la construction européenne a progressé de manière tout à fait originale en instaurant un marché institutionnalisé dans lequel la problématique sociale est présente dès le début. Depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la prise de conscience de la nécessité d’assurer la paix a poussé à explorer toutes les voies possibles pour bâtir une Europe unie. Cet ouvrage retrace le cheminement intellectuel qui a mené à l’instauration d’un marché commun destiné à améliorer les conditions de vie des Européens. Il analyse comment la Communauté européenne a permis d’affronter, sans catastrophe sociale, les mutations majeures du monde moderne. L’ouverture des marchés et la globalisation de l’économie, une nouvelle révolution agricole, le passage d’une société industrielle à une société de l’innovation technologique et de la communication, les bouleversements énergétiques, le défi environnemental, les élargissements successifs et l’Europe sociale sont quelques-uns des thèmes qui sont traités. Sur le plan méthodologique, le retour aux sources et la mobilisation des nouvelles potentialités scientifiques et pédagogiques offertes par les bibliothèques numériques renouvellent la démarche historique en vue de rendre plus accessible la complexité et les enjeux profonds de la construction européenne. Enfin, ce livre fournit une synthèse à la fois précise et claire, nourrie de sources qualitatives et quantitatives, qui a fait longtemps défaut.
Del 40 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Europe and the Historical Legacies in the Balkans
AvDetrez-R,Raymond Detrezm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
873 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The enlargement of the EU with the Balkan countries has aroused the skepticism of many. Although EU admission is primarily a matter of economic and political concerns, questions of cultural import are readily brought into play: Does the country in question conform sufficiently to «our» standards of a «European identity»? The problematic status of the Balkans in this respect largely consists in their common Byzantine and Ottoman legacies. By focusing on Bulgaria and its neighbours Romania, Greece and Turkey, the authors of this collection attempt to elucidate how mutually incompatible the «cultural identity» of the Ottoman «successor states» and that of Europe are. Ample attention is devoted not only to the perception of the Balkans in the West, but also to the self-image of people in the Balkans and perceptions they hold of the West. If anything like a Balkan identity can be said to exist, what is its relation to the various ethnic, national, religious and linguistic communities? Notably, what was and is the role played by religion in nation state formation? The relationship with Europe forms the thread that runs through the discussion of these issues.
Del 42 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Imagining Europe
Europe and European Civilisation as Seen from its Margins and by the Rest of the World, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
AvMichael Wintle
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
1 064 kr
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What do people think ‘Europe’ means? What are its values, what are its borders, and what does it stand for? An important topic, without doubt. But the authors of this research collection are not so much interested in what Europe thinks of itself, but rather in what others think of it. They take a number of scenarios from recent history, and examine how Europe has appeared to people in other parts of the globe: America, China, the Arab world, for example. But they go further, and pose the question for some parts of the world which are ‘inside’ Europe, but which for one reason or another hover on the margins, like the Balkans, and Turkey. Furthermore they include the views about Europe held in parts of the continent which have without any doubt whatsoever belonged to Europe’s core, but which much of the rest of Europe, later, would like to forget about, or marginalise: Stalin’s Russia, and Hitler’s Germany. Most of the elements investigated here are central to the imagining of Europe, and despite many Europeans’ wish to distance themselves, such views should be recognised and taken up as an important and indispensable contribution to the debate about ‘What is Europe?’
Del 44 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Building a European Public Sphere / Un espace public européen en construction
From the 1950s to the Present / Des années 1950 à nos jours
AvFrank-R,Robert Frankm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 023 kr
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The book edited by four known specialists of European history presents for the first time a discussion among European historians on the European public sphere since the 1950s. It treats the general perspective and deals also in special articles with the role played by the European Union, by the Council of Europe, and by national media such as television and film. The volume shows that the role of the European public sphere is often underestimated and that it is gradually becoming more influential and forceful not only in politics, but also in culture. Sous la direction de quatre spécialistes renommés de l’histoire européenne, cet ouvrage présente de façon inédite un débat entre historiens de l’Europe sur l’espace public européen et son évolution depuis les années 1950. La question est abordée dans son ensemble, mais certaines contributions traitent aussi plus spécifiquement du rôle joué par l’Union européenne, par le Conseil de l’Europe, et par les médias nationaux, comme la télévision et le cinéma. Ce volume montre que l’on a souvent sous-estimé l’espace public européen, alors que son influence est de plus en plus importante, tant au niveau politique que culturel.
Del 10 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other
AvStrath-B,Bo Strath
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 337 kr
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This book contributes to the debate on what Europe means by demonstrating the complexities and contradictions inherent in the concept. They are seen most clearly when Europe is viewed from a long historical perspective. During the closing decades of the twentieth century Europe emerged as one of the main points of reference in both the cultural and the political constructs of the global community. An obsession with the concept of European identity is readily discernible. This process of identity construction provokes critical questions which the book aims to address. At the same time the book explores the opportunities offered by the concept of Europe to see how it may be used in the construction of the future. The approach is one of both deconstruction and reconstruction. The issue of Europe is closely related in the book to more general issues concerning the cultural construction of community. The book should therefore be seen as the companion of Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community, which is also published by PIE-Peter Lang in the series Multiple Europes. The book appears within the framework of a research project on the cultural construction of community in modernisation processes in comparison. This project is a joint enterprise of the European University Institute in Florence and the Humboldt University in Berlin sponsored by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Fund.
Del 46 - Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes
Imagining Europe as a Global Player
The Ideological Construction of a New European Identity within the EU
AvChristoffer Kolvraa,Hagen Schulz-Forbergm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
928 kr
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This book argues that since 2001 the primary discursive context for articulating a European identity within the EU has increasingly become the idea of a common foreign policy for Europe. A new grand project of making Europe a true global player is being put forth and it is this as yet unrealised ideal that European citizens are now being asked to identify with. The author examines European identity as an ideological construction that seeks to elicit emotional and affective attachment to the political project of realising a utopian ideal. He unravels the discourses involved in the construction of European identity by drawing on theories and methods from discourse analysis, the study of political myths, narratology and psychoanalysis. The European Neighbourhood Policy is studied in detail, with a focus on the dynamic challenges that ensue when grand ideological statements have to be implemented in a concrete and specific context.

Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes – serie

EU Enlargement

Space of Crisis

Zero Hours

Estonians for Europe

Operation Welcome

Die Stimme Der Vernunft?

Collective Traumas

National Heroes and National Identities

Democratisation in Turkey

Histoire économique et sociale de la construction européenne

Europe and the Historical Legacies in the Balkans

Imagining Europe

Building a European Public Sphere / Un espace public européen en construction

Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other

Imagining Europe as a Global Player

Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes – serie

EU Enlargement

Space of Crisis

Zero Hours

Estonians for Europe

Operation Welcome

Die Stimme Der Vernunft?

Collective Traumas

National Heroes and National Identities

Democratisation in Turkey

Histoire économique et sociale de la construction européenne

Europe and the Historical Legacies in the Balkans

Imagining Europe

Building a European Public Sphere / Un espace public européen en construction

Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other

Imagining Europe as a Global Player

Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes – serie

EU Enlargement

Space of Crisis

Zero Hours

Estonians for Europe

Operation Welcome

Die Stimme Der Vernunft?

Collective Traumas

National Heroes and National Identities

Democratisation in Turkey

Histoire économique et sociale de la construction européenne

Europe and the Historical Legacies in the Balkans

Imagining Europe

Building a European Public Sphere / Un espace public européen en construction

Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other

Imagining Europe as a Global Player

Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes – serie

EU Enlargement

Space of Crisis

Zero Hours

Estonians for Europe

Operation Welcome

Die Stimme Der Vernunft?

Collective Traumas

National Heroes and National Identities

Democratisation in Turkey

Histoire économique et sociale de la construction européenne

Europe and the Historical Legacies in the Balkans

Imagining Europe

Building a European Public Sphere / Un espace public européen en construction

Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other

Imagining Europe as a Global Player