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Emerging Giant Shaking Up the EU?

Author : Fatoumata Diallo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789188551160
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Giant Shaking Up the EU? written by Fatoumata Diallo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has experienced an exponential surge globally over the past decade, challenging the traditional norms of international investment. The influential role of the party-state in shaping economic policies has remained a perennial element of China’s governance model. Forty years into the economic liberalization drive, China’s FDI policies and strategy have undergone major restructuring. The post-2008 global recession and China’s GDP growth slowdown – a result from its economic rebalancing efforts, created stronger impetus for Chinese firms to invest overseas and particularly in Europe. Concerns have, however, emerged about the long-term consequences of Chinese firms’ foray into European markets, as the accelerated trend of acquisitions in strategic sectors as well as the lack of reciprocity and openness in commercial relations with China, entails far-reaching consequences for the competitiveness and technological leadership of European enterprises on the long term. Despite those challenges, it would be counterproductive to interpret Chinese economic engagement solely as a predatory geopolitical move to weaken the EU and “buy off” its technology. Investments from Chinese enterprises represent important opportunities for EU countries, conditioning the need to adopt a pragmatic approach, balancing the risks and gains of engaging with this emerging economic giant.

The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe

Author : Rita Chin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691192774
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe written by Rita Chin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the influx of immigrants in the 1950s to contemporary worries about refugees and terrorism, The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe examines the historical development of multiculturalism on the Continent. Rita Chin argues that there were few efforts to institute state-sponsored policies of multiculturalism, and those that emerged were pronounced failures virtually from their inception. She shows that today's crisis of support for cultural pluralism isn't new but actually has its roots in the 1980s. Chin looks at the touchstones of European multiculturalism, from the urgent need for laborers after World War II to the public furor over the publication of The Satanic Verses and the question of French girls wearing headscarves to school. While many Muslim immigrants had lived in Europe for decades, in the 1980s they came to be defined by their religion and the public's preoccupation with gender relations. Acceptance of sexual equality became the critical gauge of Muslims' compatibility with Western values. The convergence of left and right around the defense of such personal freedoms against a putatively illiberal Islam has threatened to undermine commitment to pluralism as a core ideal. Chin contends that renouncing the principles of diversity brings social costs, particularly for the left, and she considers how Europe might construct an effective political engagement with its varied population."--Publisher web site

New Europe in Transition

Author : Peter Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144116989X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book New Europe in Transition written by Peter Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays address the key questions currently confronting Europe seeking to provide a broad-based introduction to the post-millennial politics of this complex continent. These questions are addressed on three levels: first, at the level of the major institutions which straddle large parts of Europe - NATO, and the OSCE, and the E.U.; second, from the perspective of a large sample of European countries, including parts of the former Soviet Union; and third, with regard to the economic, cultural, and social dimensions of European society, both East and West.

Riffs and Relations

Author : Adrienne L. Childs
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847866645
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Riffs and Relations written by Adrienne L. Childs and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely consideration of African-American artists' rich engagement with the history of art from the twentieth century, this book is the winner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History. Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries together with works by the early-twentieth-century European artists with whom they engaged. Black artists have investigated, interrogated, invaded, entangled, annihilated, or immersed themselves in the aesthetics, symbolism, and ethos of European art for more than a century. The powerful push and pull of this relationship constitutes a distinct tradition for many African American artists who source the master narratives of art history to critique, embrace, or claim their own space. This groundbreaking catalog--accompanying a major exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.--explores the connections and frictions around modernism in the works of artists such as Romare Bearden, Pablo Picasso, Faith Ringgold, Renee Cox, Robert Colescott, Norman Lewis, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems and Henri Matisse. The volume explores how blackness has often been conceived from the standpoint of these international and intergenerational connections and presents the divergent and complex works born of these important dialogues.

The New Faces of American Poverty [2 volumes]

Author : Lindsey K. Hanson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 891 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The New Faces of American Poverty [2 volumes] written by Lindsey K. Hanson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely examination of the effects of the Great Recession on Americans and the resulting federal reforms to healthcare, employment, and housing policies as a means to alleviate poverty. The Great Recession (2007 to 2009) brought the United States—routinely touted as the richest country in the world—to historical levels of poverty. Rising unemployment, government budget crises, and the collapse of the housing market had devastating effects on the poor and middle class. This is one of the first books to focus on the impact of the Great Recession on poverty in America, examining governmental and cultural responses to the economic downturn; the demographics of poverty by gender, age, occupation, education, geographical area, and ethnic identity; and federal and state efforts toward reform and relief. Essays from more than 20 contributing writers explore the history of poverty in America and provide a vision of what lies ahead for the American economy.

Rebuilding European Democracy

Author : Richard Youngs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 075563974X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding European Democracy written by Richard Youngs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years serious concerns emerged over the state of European democracy. Many democracy indices are reporting a year-on-year drift towards less liberal politics in the countries of the European Union. Polls regularly suggest that the voters are coming to question democratic norms more seriously than for many decades. Here, Richard Youngs assesses these risks as many analysts, journalists and politicians stressed the danger of Europe descending into an era of conflict, driven by xenophobic nationalism and nativist authoritarians slowly dismantling liberal democratic rights. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified these fears. There is another side of the democratic equation, however. Youngs argues that governments, EU institutions, political parties, citizens and civil society organisations have gradually begun to push back in defence of democracy. With each chapter, Youngs shows how many governmental, political and social actors have developed responses to Europe's democratic malaise at multiple levels. Europe's democracy problems have been grave and far-reaching. Yet, a spirit of democratic resistance has slowly taken shape. This book argues that the pro-democratic fightback may be belated, but it is real and has assumed significant traction with various types of democratic reform underway, including citizen initiatives, political-party changes, digital activism and EU-level responses.

Russia and the European Union

Author : Oksana Antonenko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134242514
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Russia and the European Union written by Oksana Antonenko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is the implications of EU enlargement in May 2004 for EU-Russian relations. How should the EU and Russia develop their priorities as neighbours? What role could Russia's border regions play in shaping this policy? The book looks at the array of political, security, economic, and social concerns raised by the enlargement process. It incorporates different perspectives from existing and new EU member states, Russian scholars and politicians from Moscow and the northwestern regions of Russia.

The New Asia

Author : David L. James
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440829101
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The New Asia written by David L. James and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's economic center is increasingly shifting from North America and Europe to Asia. This timely guide will provide businesspeople with the knowledge and understanding necessary to remain competitive—and proactive—in that brave new world. To help readers better grasp the causes and effects of the ongoing tectonic shift in economic power, this book examines the 16 nations driving the explosive economic growth of Asia. It shows readers how to apply a "Five Factors" analysis to predict which Asian countries and industries will experience the most vibrant economic growth in coming years—and which will present the greatest risks for international businesses. It then goes a step further, offering insights and strategies that will help businesses assess opportunities in Asia and achieve success there in the years ahead. To help readers make those judgments, this comprehensive, practical resource includes insightful descriptions of the value systems, business practices, customs, and social characteristics of Asia and of individual Asian nations. It also exposes the intra-regional relationships of Asian countries that contribute to, or undermine, their individual economic potential and that of the region as a whole.

The Political Commissioner

Author : édéric Mérand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192893971
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Political Commissioner written by édéric Mérand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on four years of embedded observation in the cabinet of a European Commissioner, this book develops a sociology of international political work. Empirically, it offers an insider's chronicle of the European Union between 2015 and 2019. The analysis traces the successes and failures of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici and his team on five issues that defined European politics between 2015 and 2019: the Greek crisis, budgetary disputes with Spain and Portugal, the rise of populism in Italy, the reform of the eurozone, and the fight against tax evasion. The aim is not to ascertain whether the Commission's policy was good or bad, but to understand how political work is done in a European Union where the 'spectacle of power' is blurred by 24 official languages, 28 national histories, a powerful technocracy, and sometimes opaque institutions. As a life-long socialist politician and former French finance minister, Pierre Moscovici was perhaps the most intensely political character in Jean-Claude Juncker's self-styled 'Political Commission'. Brandishing his leftist identity, rejecting technocratic talk, he surrounded himself with staffers sharing his ambition - but also critical of his actions. Shadowing them from the corridors of the Berlaymont, the seat of the European Commission, to Washington and Athens, The Political Commissioner throws light on the partisan struggles that shaped the Juncker Commission, tensions with the Eurogroup and the Parliament, and recurring conflicts with the Member States. It also shows how political staffers operate informally and in their interaction with the media and civil servants, as they craft and sell public policies to the public. In this ethnographic narrative, French politics is never far away. Decoding the European policy of a French, Socialist Commissioner, first under François Hollande and then Emmanuel Macron, the book investigates the dynamics that sometimes bring Brussels and Paris together, sometimes set them apart. Transformations in Governance is a major academic book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, federalism, and environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central states to supranational institutions, subnational governments, and public-private networks. It brings together work that advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars. The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.

Governance and Risk in Emerging and Global Markets

Author : S. Motamen-Samadian
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599354
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Governance and Risk in Emerging and Global Markets written by S. Motamen-Samadian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-19 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book features eight studies related to governance and risk. It provides a critical evaluation of Basel II, and questions the significance of corruption in country risk analysis and investors' decision making. It offers a reliable model of early warning credit signals that helps managers to detect default risks, and provides a risk-based analysis of alternative production systems in Pakistan. It analyzes the effects of market liberalization on volatility spill-over across the globe, and examines past and future prospects for the Iraqi stock exchange. Finally, it proposes securitization as a means to finance costs of reconstruction in Iraq.

Euromarketing

Author : Erdener Kaynak
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560244271
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Euromarketing written by Erdener Kaynak and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euromarketing: Effective Strategies for International Trade and Export increases understanding of the strategic aspects of international marketing in Europe and highlights the past, present, and future of European marketing. Although a substantial body of literature is available on the marketing behavior and practices of business in the international context, strategic planning aspects of international marketing have not been studied adequately. Euromarketing: Effective Strategies for International Trade and Export focuses on marketing studies of specific regions to provide international managers with insights into their international marketing performance. This book presents the results of comparative studies conducted among countries of Europe and contrasts the results and managerial implications with those obtained by international marketing scholars and practitioners elsewhere. The European community is going to play an extremely important role in the coming global business arena. Multinational corporations, government agencies, professors, researchers, and students can seek out opportunities in the new European market once they have updated their knowledge of how this market may function. The topics covered in Euromarketing provide for this knowledge with new data and insight on: Consumer Issues: Single Market and its Implications Export Behavior of European Firms Internationalization of European Firms Retailing Practices in European Countries Country Examples of European Distribution Channels Comparative Advertising Practices Internationalization of Scandinavian Firms Export Marketing Managerial Implications The restructuring of European industries has begun and will accelerate at a faster pace in the coming years. We have witnessed occurrences of several mergers and acquisitions. We are seeing the powerful presence of public sector enterprises and their procurement practices favoring local and European supplies. Euromarketing: Effective Strategies for International Trade and Export increases our understanding of international marketing in Europe by soliciting significant, analytical contributions from subject and country specialists.

Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2023–2024

Author : Wayne C. Thompson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538176130
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2023–2024 written by Wayne C. Thompson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on these countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Author : Shoshana Zuboff
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395700
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism written by Shoshana Zuboff and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.

Napoleon's Integration of Europe

Author : Stuart Woolf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134944195
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Napoleon's Integration of Europe written by Stuart Woolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of the Napoleonic period are almost exclusively biographies of the man, or political-military accounts of his wars. But such wars were only the first stage in a far more ambitious programme; the establishment of a rational state which would force the pace of modernising society. Through an examination of the experiences of French domination, Napoleon's Integration of Europe explores the implications of such a project for France and its relationship with the rest of Europe. It examines the problems of ruling a progressively expanding empire, as seen through the eyes of a trained corps of bureaucrates who were convinced that their scientific methods would enable them to understand and govern the mechanisms of society. However it also looks at the populations subjected to French rule, at the nature of their resistance and adaptation to the principles of the Napoleonic project. This book is the first overall comparative study of Europe in the Napoleonic years. It is a study not only of an early exercise in imperialism, but of the conflict that is aroused between the rationalising tendencies of the modern state and the spatial and cultural heterogeneity of individual societies. As well as a history of France, it is also a history of Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Poland and Spain at a crucial moment in the history of each nation state.

Rethinking Warfare in the 21st Century

Author : Iulian Chifu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009355260
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Warfare in the 21st Century written by Iulian Chifu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to critically review and evaluate the changes and consistencies in how warfare is interpreted and represented by academics, mass media outlets and political actors in the 21st century. The authors suggest that it is essential to understand the evolution and transformation of contemporary warfare's conceptualisation and practice in order to make sense of the current global geopolitical transformations that are in process, from a unipolar to multipolar global order. They therefore examine the various key actors in international relations from conceptual, theoretical and empirical perspectives through thematic chapters that demonstrate the increasingly central role played by intangible factors in the representation and management of contemporary armed conflict. The book stresses the need to reflect and rethink the potentially highly problematic trajectory of the global community within the framework of 21st century warfare's political and informational influence and effects.

The New World Disorder

Author : J. L. Black
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498576370
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The New World Disorder written by J. L. Black and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new world order as it stood after the apparent end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR was greeted with enthusiasm and optimism almost everywhere, but especially in the West. Less than a quarter century later that optimism has faded dramatically, with the rise of populism, nationalism, religious extremism and civil discord disrupting political and social norms around the world. This book reveals the extent to which events that began as internal political crises in Europe, the Middle East and the USA have sent ripple effects reaching into all points of the globe. The projection of liberal democratic predominance in the 1990s, has faded as illiberal governance gains support worldwide. Long-standing international trade patterns are disrupted, perhaps permanently, by the weaponization of economic sanctions, real and perceived threats of terrorism raise levels of anxiety everywhere, and severe new weather patterns inflict floods, fires, drought and hurricanes on populations unused to such extremes. This book describes and analyses many of these phenomena in the hope that better understanding of them may help ameliorate their consequences.

Uniting of Europe

Author : Ernst B. Haas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268201685
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Uniting of Europe written by Ernst B. Haas and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.