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Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe?

Author : Xavier Cuadras Morató
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317580540
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe? written by Xavier Cuadras Morató and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe examines the main issues of the political process which is taking place in Catalonia today. The political confrontation between the Spanish and Catalan institutions has now reached the international arena, especially the debates concerning international recognition of a new Catalan state and its membership of the European Union (EU) and other international institutions. There are no precedents for the secession of a region from an EU member country that could be applied to the case of Catalonia. Therefore, it is not surprising that the world has many unanswered question about the process. This volume aims to provide answers to many of these questions in a systematic and rigorous way. Why has the political scenario in Catalonia changed so radically and so rapidly? Is this new situation only temporary and support for independence is likely to vanish very soon? What role has the deep economic crisis in Catalonia and in Spain played in the process? Is a potential new Catalan state economically viable? Which are the main legal controversies about self-determination and independence between the Spanish and Catalan institutions? Would an independent Catalonia be a member of the EU? This book will be of great use to academics and students in the field of politics and international relations, particularly those interested in European economic and political studies. It will also interest a wide segment of general readers interested in contemporary political issues.

Catalonia in Spain and Europe

Author : Klaus-Jürgen Nagel
Publisher : Nomos Verlag
ISBN 13 : 384525825X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Catalonia in Spain and Europe written by Klaus-Jürgen Nagel and published by Nomos Verlag. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen haben in der letzten Zeit auch in Westeuropa die Stabilität mancher Staaten in Frage gestellt. In Schottland entschied sich eine knappe Mehrheit schliesslich dafür, im Vereinigten Königreich zu verbleiben. Die katalanische Forderung nach einem ähnlichen Referendum wurde dagegen vom spanischen Staat konsequent zurückgewiesen. Unser Buch beantwortet folgende Fragen: Wann, wie und warum hat sich die lange nichtseparatistische katalanische Nationalbewegung der Unabhängigkeit zugewandt? Geht es um Sprache, Identität, um Geld, oder um Demokratie? Welche Rolle spielen dabei die Immigranten? Welche alternative Lösungen sind denkbar? Wie reagiert Europa, wie Deutschland? Gibt es einen Weg zur Unabhängigkeit? Und schliesslich: Wäre ein unabhängiges Katalonien lebensfähig? Die Herausgeber dieses Bandes Stephan Rixen (Rechtswissenschaft, Universität Bayreuth) und Klaus-Jürgen Nagel (Politikwissenschaft, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) vertreten zwei der Fachrichtungen, die sich solchen Fragen widmen. Doch auch weitere Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften sind in diesem Band vertreten. In englischer Sprache.

What Catalans Want

Author : Toni Strubell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611500097
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Catalans Want written by Toni Strubell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What Catalans Want" is a gorgeous full-color collection of interviews in English by Toni Strubell accompanied by striking photographs by Lluís Brunet, with a poignant prologue by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín. The book takes a close look at Catalonia at a time when the country's political future as a Spanish autonomous region is being seriously questioned for the first time since it came into being in 1980. "What Catalans Want" contains interviews of more than 30 representative Catalan personalities in various key areas of public life. The book's aim is to discover why so many Catalans feel as uncomfortable about continuing to form part of Spain as they feel enthused about being full independent members of the European Union. Could the Catalan question-fanned by ongoing Spanish political, economic, and cultural oppression-be welling up into a political issue on the same order as Scotland's?The book delves into this essential question by concentrating on what matters most: the opinion of those affected, from the presidents of Catalonia and FC Barcelona, professors of economics and communications, business professionals and community leaders, writers, journalists, and historians, and many more. This book appears at a time when the current crisis has destroyed the country's traditional image as an "oasis" of satisfaction, enjoying what was seen as an "ample" margin of autonomy and economic welfare. Instead, independent polls now reveal that more than 40% of Catalans would vote in favor of an independent Catalan state, in large part for economic reasons. The book also explores the recent unofficial independentist polls that were held in over 500 municipalities in which over 90% of the participants voted for independence.Why have things come to a head? And why do most foreign tourists visiting the country have so little idea what is going on? "What Catalans Want" aims to answer the first question while obviating the need for the second.Catalonia Press has produced both full color (978-1-61150-009-7) and black and white (978-1-61150-011-0) editions of "What Catalans Want", as well as EPUB (978-1-61150-012-7) and Kindle (978-1-61150-013-4) electronic editions of the book. For more information or press packages, see http://www.cataloniapress.com or contact Liz Castro at [email protected].

Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty

Author : Óscar García Agustín
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030548678
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty written by Óscar García Agustín and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish state’s opposition to any attempt of secessionism. The volume addresses some of the key political and academic issues of contemporary European societies: nationalism, separatism and sovereignty. The banned referendum in Catalonia in October 2017 unveiled the existence of multiple crises, from territorial to economic and political. Indeed, the Catalan issue is about the crisis of sovereignty: who holds legitimacy to make decisions, and who is in power legally and politically? The book is structured according to three themes: sovereignty and its people, where the realignment to independence, populism and the definition of the demos are discussed; collective identities and actions, to account for the shaping of ‘us’, the importance of collective memory and the cross-alliances forged during the referendum; and internationalization, focusing on Europeanisation, international media and comparative constitutional perspectives.

Should Catalonia Be Independent?

Author : Matthew Parish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781718004894
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Should Catalonia Be Independent? written by Matthew Parish and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catalan independence crisis of late 2017 shook Europe and the world. How did it happen? What were the political consequences? Does Catalonia have a legitimate political claim to be an independent state? These issues are investigated from the perspective of one of the international actors involved in the crisis. The conclusion proffered is one derived from an unusual way of thinking about the problem. The Catalan crisis will continue indefinitely unless and until we understand what the underlying tension between Madrid and Barcelona really is. And it is a very serious problem, which goes to the heart of both the Spanish constitutional system and the position the Catalan body politic occupies within it. The Catalan crisis is not a matter of opposing and irreconcilable historical narratives about Spanish and Catalan cultures. Instead it is a sophisticated mixture of political and economic confrontations, some of which are historical but most of which are very modern. The principal dynamic driving the most recent in the spate of Catalan crises is the adoption by the European Union of a single currency. This disrupted a level of political and economic harmony between Madrid and Barcelona, that it is not clear can easily be restored. This book does offer an unambiguous answer to the question posed by its title. But it is not an answer that is reached with comfort, because the reason the Catalan independence crisis has reached the extremes it has is that Spain as a whole, and Catalonia as a region, are fiscally unsustainable. The principal purpose of this work is to chart the course of recent Spanish and Catalan history to help understand why the economic situation in Spain catalysed so serious a breakdown in the relations between the Catalans and Madrid. This book is not certain in the conclusions that it reaches. One thing we can be sure of, however, is that if the European Union is to adopt a mature attitude towards the problems facing modern Spain then it needs to change the angle of the lens through which to date it has viewed the Catalan crisis. Otherwise everything will get much worse, and the solvency of the Eurozone as a whole will be at stake.

Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe?

Author : Xavier Cuadras Morató
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317580559
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe? by : Xavier Cuadras Morató

Download or read book Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe? written by Xavier Cuadras Morató and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe examines the main issues of the political process which is taking place in Catalonia today. The political confrontation between the Spanish and Catalan institutions has now reached the international arena, especially the debates concerning international recognition of a new Catalan state and its membership of the European Union (EU) and other international institutions. There are no precedents for the secession of a region from an EU member country that could be applied to the case of Catalonia. Therefore, it is not surprising that the world has many unanswered question about the process. This volume aims to provide answers to many of these questions in a systematic and rigorous way. Why has the political scenario in Catalonia changed so radically and so rapidly? Is this new situation only temporary and support for independence is likely to vanish very soon? What role has the deep economic crisis in Catalonia and in Spain played in the process? Is a potential new Catalan state economically viable? Which are the main legal controversies about self-determination and independence between the Spanish and Catalan institutions? Would an independent Catalonia be a member of the EU? This book will be of great use to academics and students in the field of politics and international relations, particularly those interested in European economic and political studies. It will also interest a wide segment of general readers interested in contemporary political issues.

The Struggle for Catalonia

Author : Raphael Minder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1849048037
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Catalonia written by Raphael Minder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses with rare impartiality what sets the Catalans apart from Spain, and how the separatist debate is playing out.

Qualified Autonomy and Federalism versus Secession in EU Member States

Author : Annegret Eppler
Publisher : StudienVerlag
ISBN 13 : 3706562154
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Qualified Autonomy and Federalism versus Secession in EU Member States written by Annegret Eppler and published by StudienVerlag. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with current secessionist movements in states that are or were members of the European Union (EU). It compares the cases of Scotland, Catalonia, and Flanders, which are anchored in three different political systems. However, all three sub-state regions analysed are or were part of the EU multi-level system, and as such, they are subject to the influence of Europeanization. Their secession efforts are influenced by the European framework – including their own EU membership after a possible secession. The three regions, therefore, have different motivations and probabilities for actual secessions. All case studies in this volume are introduced and outlined with theoretical chapters and examined using consistent guiding questions to ensure comparability between the three cases. The analyses are framed by chapters describing other examples of secession processes past and present, and by texts that ask whether federalism or other solutions (so-called 'third ways') could offer a path beyond secession.

Foundations of National Identity

Author : Josep R. Llobera
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845450427
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of National Identity written by Josep R. Llobera and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it emergence in the 19th century in response to feudalism, nationalism has been a mixed blessing. Originally seen as a positive force, often enough it has resulted in warfare and persecution of minorities, so much so that, over time, it has been considered a social evil whose apparent decline has been greeted as a positive development. The author disputes this or rather, he maintains that the picture that emerges is more complex: nationalism is not disappearing but has taken on a different form. What we are experiencing is an increasing autonomy of ethnonations, i.e. nations without a state, in the wake of a weakening of the multinational states and the transfer of their sovereignty upwards, in the case of Europe to the federation of the European Union, and downwards to the "ethnonations." Catalonia is the major case study in this book but it is embedded in a comprehensive theoretical framework as well as the historical and contemporary reality of Europe, opening up a new perspective. The author, one of the foremost scholars in this field, brilliantly succeeds in developing an original, clear and comprehensive vision of nationalism that is accessible to a wide readership.

Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty

Author : Óscar García Agustín
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030548681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty written by Óscar García Agustín and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish state's opposition to any attempt of secessionism. The volume addresses some of the key political and academic issues of contemporary European societies: nationalism, separatism and sovereignty. The banned referendum in Catalonia in October 2017 unveiled the existence of multiple crises, from territorial to economic and political. Indeed, the Catalan issue is about the crisis of sovereignty: who holds legitimacy to make decisions, and who is in power legally and politically? The book is structured according to three themes: sovereignty and its people, where the realignment to independence, populism and the definition of the demos are discussed; collective identities and actions, to account for the shaping of 'us', the importance of collective memory and the cross-alliances forged during the referendum; and internationalization, focusing on Europeanisation, international media and comparative constitutional perspectives. Óscar García Agustín is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is Head of the DEMOS research group. He is the author of Left-Wing Populism (2020), Solidarity and the 'Refugee Crisis' in Europe (with Martin Bak Jorgensen, 2018), and Podemos and the New Political Cycle (with Marco Briziarelli, 2018).

Scots and Catalans

Author : J. H. Elliott
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300240716
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Scots and Catalans written by J. H. Elliott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the contrasts between the Scottish and Catalan experiences across a five-hundred-year period, beginning with the royal marriages that brought about union with their more powerful neighbors, England and Castile respectively, and following the story through the centuries from the end of the Middle Ages until today’s dramatic events. J. H. Elliott examines the political, economic, social, cultural, and emotional factors that divide Scots and Catalans from the larger nations to which their fortunes were joined. He offers new insights into the highly topical subject of the character and development of European nationalism, the nature of separatism, and the sense of grievance underlying the secessionist aspirations that led to the Scottish referendum of 2014, the illegal Catalan referendum of October 2017, and the resulting proclamation of an independent Catalan republic.

Identity and Nation in 21st Century Catalonia

Author : Steven Byrne
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527573605
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Identity and Nation in 21st Century Catalonia written by Steven Byrne and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an overview of the ongoing debate regarding nationalism, globalisation, secessionism and languages in 21st century Catalonia. At the heart of the book is a set of interlocking questions relating to socio-political issues in sub-state nations seeking independence in the 21st century.

Homage to Catalonia

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN 13 : 6257120861
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Homage to Catalonia written by George Orwell and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it." The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation by Yvonne Davet-with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes-in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death. Book Summary: Orwell served as a private, a corporal (cabo) and-when the informal command structure of the militia gave way to a conventional hierarchy in May 1937-as a lieutenant, on a provisional basis, in Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937. In June 1937, the leftist political party with whose militia he served (the POUM, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist party) was declared an illegal organisation, and Orwell was consequently forced to flee. Having arrived in Barcelona on 26 December 1936, Orwell told John McNair, the Independent Labour Party's (ILP) representative there, that he had "come to Spain to join the militia to fight against Fascism." He also told McNair that "he would like to write about the situation and endeavour to stir working class opinion in Britain and France." McNair took him to the POUM barracks, where Orwell immediately enlisted. "Orwell did not know that two months before he arrived in Spain, the [Soviet law enforcement agency] NKVD's resident in Spain, Aleksandr Orlov, had assured NKVD Headquarters, 'the Trotskyist organisation POUM can easily be liquidated'-by those, the Communists, whom Orwell took to be allies in the fight against Franco."

Transforming Europe Through Crises

Author : Didem Buhari
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000799859
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Europe Through Crises written by Didem Buhari and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘How many Europes?’ is a critical question that led to several attempts to analyse European crises and transformations globally. This book builds upon the argument that Europe cannot be reduced to a singular dynamic, identity or vision, but rather provides a four-fold taxonomy: Thin, Thick, Parochial and Global Europe. The book contributors aim to respond to the emerging necessity to incorporate both the parochial dynamics unmaking Europe and the globalist dynamics decentering Europe into the analysis of European crises and transformations in diverse sectors ranging from security and foreign policy to the rule of law and democracy. Accordingly, this book is unpacking Europe in a time of severe crises facing the EU—such as Brexit, the Syrian refugee crisis, Catalan secessionism, the rise of far right, and terrorism—, which have accelerated the resurgence of formerly marginalized and repressed dynamics as influential trends in national, regional and global politics. It reveals an ongoing hegemonic struggle over the representation of Europe among ‘many Europes’ involving two separate integrationist models of regionalization —or ‘Europe-making’— and two distinct dynamics that have sought to fragment and de-centre the European Union through nationalism and globalism respectively. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.

The Rise of Catalan Independence

Author : Andrew Dowling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317169441
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Catalan Independence written by Andrew Dowling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As recently as the mid-2000s, Catalonia was described and analysed by scholars as exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was seen within Europe and beyond as a role model for successful devolution which had much to teach other parts of the world. The Spanish state seemed to be on a journey towards an authentic federal order and was generally admired. However, the new century has been marked by an ever-growing independence movement, with 47.8 per cent of Catalonia voting in favour of independence in September 2015. Pro-independence mobilization has produced a rupture in political relations with the rest of Spain leading to a sovereignty struggle with Madrid. This book explores how an accumulation of long-, medium- and short-term factors have produced the current situation and why the Spanish territorial model has been unable or possibly, unwilling, to respond. The Catalan question is not purely a Spanish problem: it has direct implications for the traditional nation-state model, in Europe and beyond.

Catalonia, Scotland and the EU:

Author : Niklas Bremberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000549879
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Catalonia, Scotland and the EU: written by Niklas Bremberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electoral success of secessionist parties in Catalonia and Scotland over the last decade, together with Brexit and the support for Eurosceptic parties in many EU member states, have prompted a rethink of many taken-for-granted notions about politics in Spain, the UK and the EU. Secessionist parties in Catalonia and Scotland often combine calls for independence with support for the EU, but independence for Catalonia might entail the loss of EU membership. In the UK, Scotland voted for the UK to remain in the EU, yet it was forced to leave the Union along with the rest of the country: what effect has Brexit had on Scottish independence claims? Through comparing Catalonia and Scotland, this short volume aims to contribute to debates on, and advance knowledge of, visions of independence and integration, how they interrelate in Europe’s emergent political order, and what they entail for European integration and democracy in the EU.

Voices of the Old Sea

Author : Norman Lewis
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781906011611
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Old Sea written by Norman Lewis and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the author's three successive summers in Farol, Catalonia. With affection and sorrow he records the villagers' struggle to sustain their precarious existence and to defend it against the enticements of a tourist development.