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Desperately Seeking Europe

Author : Susan Stern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873132197
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Desperately Seeking Europe written by Susan Stern and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe? What is it? A land mass (plus a few islands) which stretches from Portugal to the Russian Urals? Or at least up to the Turkish Bosporus? Or (still) just to the German border? A continent with a common history? A common language, culture, religion? A common anything? This book is collection of original contributions solicited by the Alfred Herrrhausen Society for International Dialogue. The Herrhausen Society was set up in 1992 by Deutsche Bank and provides a forum for examining socially relevant issues, identifying the problems and discussing their possible solutions. Authors include: Josef Ackermann, Ulrich Beck, Matthias Berninger, Ralf Dahrendorf, Patrik Cox, Ismael Cem, Laszlo Foldenyi; Rabbi David J.Goldberg, Adolf Muschg, Chenjerai Hove, Sergei Karaganow, Tommy Koh, Noelle Lenoir; Ma Canrong; Cees Noteboom; Joseph Nye; Yasar Huri Ozturk; Jiri Pehe; Richard Perle; Andrej Plesu; Michael Portillo; Avi Primor; Gunther Verheugen; Ilija Trojanow; Slavenka Drakulic; Janusz Reiter; Peter Ruzicka; Michael Walzer; Jean-Claude Trichet; Friedrich Kardinal Wetter; Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker; Vaira Vike-Freiberga; William Wallace; Robert Weinberg; Valery Giscard d'Estaing; Romano Prodi; Jacques Le Goff; Throw out the word 'Europe' to most members of the European Union, and they will assume you are talking about their exclusive club of fifteen-about-to-become-twenty-five-plus countries. Most members of the EU, that is, but not all. Someone from the U.K. will likely think you are referring to the countries across the Channel - some of which may belong to the Union, some not, but my goodness, what's the difference? Europe - someone from a wannabe EU country, or even an about-to-be one, especially from a country situated in middle, or central, or eastern - uh - Europe? - will hardly think of Europe as synonymous with the European Union.After all, they too are Europeans, even though they don't belong to the EU. Or are they? The rest of the world - the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia - thinks they are, it's mainly EU members who don't. Indeed, it's the rest of the world which provides a European identity to the people from the bits of Europe beyond the EU (Michael Portillo). Europe - for the Norwegians or the Swiss, the question doesn't even present itself. They know they're Europeans, and so, funnily enough, do the bona-fide members of the European Union. Desperately Seeking Europe is a roadmap which contains 36 contributions from international politicians, sociologists, economists and renowned writers, all of whom have their own opinions on what Europe is, was, will be or should be - as the case may be. The book presents a mosaic of provocative views, in some cases at odds with each other, in others, surprisingly similar, but often for quite different reasons. A fascinating read!

Desperately Seeking Europe

Author : Daniel Halberstam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Desperately Seeking Europe written by Daniel Halberstam and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief essay reviews "European and U.S. Constitutionalism" (Georg Nolte, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2005), a volume that seeks to distil what constitutionalism across Europe has in common and how that differs from constitutionalism in the United States. After presenting the various contributions to the book, the essay takes a step back to examine the nature of comparative constitutionalism itself. The essay proposes that we understand comparative legal inquiry as coming in three different forms: the study of foreign law, first order comparativism, and complex critical comparativism. After describing the method and virtues of each, the essay situates the various contributions within these types. Next, the essay engages the substance of the book, which is the comparative examination of rights. The essay suggests that the book, which contains a wealth of insightful contributions, nevertheless seems to neglect two important differences in rights analysis in the United States and Europe: first, the difference between a motivational and a non-motivational conception of rights; and second, the difference between an abstract versus an institutional conception of rights. The essay concludes by noting that even these differences ultimately do not render European constitutionalism distinct, but suggest, instead, the continued exceptionalism of constitutionalism in the United States.

Desperately Seeking the Audience

Author : Ien Ang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134940424
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Desperately Seeking the Audience written by Ien Ang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien Ang asks why we understand so little about its nature, and argues that our ignorance arises directly out of the biases inherent in prevailing official knowledge about it. She sets out to deconstruct the assumptions of this official knowledge by exploring the territory where it is mainly produced - the television institutions. Ang draws on Foucault's theory of power/knowledge to scrutinize television's desperate search for the audience, and to identify differences and similarities in the approaches of American commercial television and European public service television to their audiences. She looks carefully at recent developments in the field of ratings research, in particular the controversial introduction of the `people meter' as an instrument for measuring the television audience. By defining the limits and limitations of these institutional procedures of knowledge production, Ien Ang opens up new avenues for understanding television audiences. Her ethnographic perspective on the television audience gives new insights into our television culture, with the audience seen not as an object to be controlled, but as an active social subject, engaging with television in a variety of cultural and creative ways.

Fortress Europe?

Author : Annette Jünemann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658170115
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Fortress Europe? written by Annette Jünemann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented number of people is currently on the move seeking refuge in Europe. Large parts of European societies respond with anxiety and mistrust to the influx of people. Nationalist, anti-migrant parties from Slovakia over Germany to the UK have gained increasing support among the electorate and challenge the political mainstream. Europe is struggling how to respond. While the search for solutions is ongoing one pattern seems to be emerging: Fortress Europe is in the making. Unfortunately, few of these discussions and measures consider the structural root causes and dynamics of migration, the motives of migrants or societal challenges more thoroughly. This book seeks to address this deficit. Taking migration and asylum policies as a starting point, it analyses the various dimensions underpinning migration. In doing so, it identifies why receiving countries are in many ways part of the problem. To eschew an overtly Euro-centric perspective and stimulate a debate between science and politics, it contains contributions by academics and practitioners alike from both shores of the Mediterranean.

Desperately Seeking Self-improvement

Author : Carl Cederström
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944869397
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Desperately Seeking Self-improvement written by Carl Cederström and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly-entertaining account of two young professors attempt to improve themselves through the techniques of the burgeoning self-optimization movement, including drugs, surgical implants, the administering of electric shocks and stripping naked in public.

A Clash of Transitions

Author : Olga Strietska-Ilina
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820474762
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book A Clash of Transitions written by Olga Strietska-Ilina and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2000, at the European Council meeting in Lisbon, the European Union heads of states set an ambitious goal «to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world.» Such a goal requires major reforms of the societies and economies of the EU member states. This book explores the effects of these reforms on the eight Central and Eastern European countries that entered the EU in May 2004. Since 1989, these countries have been going through a major transformation to the market economy and democratic society. A Clash of Transitions attempts to answer how the societies and people can cope with multiple transitions. This volume is useful for courses on education, Central and Eastern Europe and European studies.

Europe's Other

Author : Peter Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429814550
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Europe's Other written by Peter Fitzpatrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume focuses critically on the European identity of the law of the European Union, of national law and the law of human rights. It is primarily concerned with the ways in which European identity is created through the rejection of a malign Other constituted in opposition to all that a virtuous Europe and its law, are supposed to be. The construction of this Other is explored in claims of the EU legal order to a unity and coherence transcending the nation-state; in the assertion of a European identity through laws effecting cultural, immigration and security policies; and in the claims to a lofty 'European-ness' made by national law and the European Convention on Human Rights. A major contribution to the understanding of European Law in the terms of the debates over modernity and postmodernity, this book will interest those involved with studies of the European Union and its law, with critical legal studies and also with socio-legal studies.

The European Mosaic

Author : David Gowland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317873254
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The European Mosaic written by David Gowland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Mosaic is an up-to-date introduction to all aspects of the politics, economics, culture and recent history of the European Union in particular and Europe in general. The European Mosaic effectively familiarizes students with EU issues that are currently in the news and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. It is a clear and accessible introduction to the European polity. Its strongly interdisciplinary focus provides a multidimensional understanding of contemporary Europe, of the process of European integration, and of the dynamics of the European Union. Suitable for undergrduate courses in European politics.

Cosmopolitan Europe

Author : Ulrich Beck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745694594
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Europe written by Ulrich Beck and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe is Europe’s last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in terms of the traditional concepts of politics and the state, which remain trapped in the straightjacket of methodological nationalism. Thus, if we are to understand cosmopolitan Europe, we must radically rethink the conventional categories of social and political analysis. Just as the Peace of Westphalia brought the religious civil wars of the seventeenth century to an end through the separation of church and state, so too the separation of state and nation represents the appropriate response to the horrors of the twentieth century. And just as the secular state makes the exercise of different religions possible, so too cosmopolitan Europe must guarantee the coexistence of different ethnic, religious and political forms of life across national borders based on the principle of cosmopolitan tolerance. The task the authors have set themselves in this book is nothing less than to rethink Europe as an idea and a reality. It represents an attempt to understand the process of Europeanization in light of the theory of reflexive modernization and thereby to redefine it at both the theoretical and the political level. This book completes Ulrich Beck’s trilogy on ‘cosmopolitan realism’, the volumes of which complement each other and can be read independently. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the key social and political developments of our time.

Rethinking Europe

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415347143
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Europe written by Gerard Delanty and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines major social transformations in Europe from the perspective of social theory. It offers an intriguing alternative to studies of the EU which emphasise the replacement of the nation-state by a supra-national authority.

Desperately Seeking Van Gogh

Author : Ian Castello-Cortes
Publisher : Gingko Press
ISBN 13 : 9783943330397
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Desperately Seeking Van Gogh written by Ian Castello-Cortes and published by Gingko Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work adopts a very refreshing new way of looking at the life of this most brilliant of artist, by following in his footsteps around all the locations which meant the most to him and which most influenced his work.

Europe

Author : Stefan Elbe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134201281
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Europe written by Stefan Elbe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a deliberative, but as yet unsuccessful, attempt by scholars and policy makers to articulate a more meaningful idea of Europe, which would enhance the legitimacy of the European Union and provide the basis for a European identity. Using a detailed analysis of the writings of Nietzsche, Elbe seeks to address this problem and argues that Nietzsche's thinking about Europe can significantly illuminate our understanding. He demonstrates how Nietzsche's critique of nationalism and the notion of the 'good European' can assist contemporary scholars in the quest for a vision of Europe and a definition of what it means to be a European citizen.

The European Union, the World Bank and the Policymaking of Aid

Author : Eugenia Baroncelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317032799
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The European Union, the World Bank and the Policymaking of Aid written by Eugenia Baroncelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the experience of the author, an IPE scholar and former trade policy consultant at the World Bank (WB), the book offers an in-depth exploration of the EU–WB relations, conceptualized as hybrid delegation. Coupling cross-time analyses of their interaction in the regions of the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa with an original investigation on the coordination among the EU member states at the Executive Board of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development over the ‘voice and participation reform’ of 2008–2010, the book advances an innovative theoretical framework to assess the EU–WB joint institutional and field policy performances. Augmented PA models of delegation, role theory and performance analyses are engaged, and selectively recombined, to investigate the nature, evolution and impact of the interactions of the two organizations, both in their everyday and constituent politics. Hybrid delegation-in-motion is reconstructed, against the background of post-Washington Consensus and post-Lisbon EU, to unveil the changing division of labour between the two largest development multilaterals of the new global context. The book will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners in European Politics, Development, International Relations, International Political Economy and Global Economic Governance.

The Guns of Europe, The Forest of Swords & The Hosts of the Air: The World War Trilogy

Author : Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Guns of Europe, The Forest of Swords & The Hosts of the Air: The World War Trilogy written by Joseph Alexander Altsheler and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook collection has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This series includes three novels about the First World War written by Joseph A. Altsheler who witnessed the described events himself: The Guns of Europe The Forest of Swords: A Story of Paris and the Marne The Hosts of the Air: The Story of a Quest in the Great War Joseph Alexander Altsheler was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. He was a prolific writer, and produced fifty-one novels and at least fifty-three short stories. Thirty-two of his novels were part of his seven series: The Civil War Series, The French and Indian War Series, The Gold Series, The Great West Series, The Texan Series, The World War Series, The Young Trailers Series.

Europe Observed

Author : Kumkum Chatterjee
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838756942
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Europe Observed written by Kumkum Chatterjee and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary work engages with the issue of how Europe and Europeans were perceived by observers from various parts of the world during the early modern period.

Company Law in the New Europe

Author : Janet Dine
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847204201
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Company Law in the New Europe written by Janet Dine and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study on the potential of law to ensure the social responsibility of a company is an innovative and important study. It is a topical contribution to the sociology of market economies in transition. It is a unique effort to provide detailed practical guidance for the design of the company law in developing economies in general and the new Europe in particular. Christian Joerges, European University Institute Florence, Italy This book provides comprehensive analysis of the recent enlargement of the EU, shedding light on the rationale behind the EU s decisions to enlarge, examining the side effects these choices have on a range of EU policies and particularly on the effect of the Acquis on candidate countries. Emphasis is placed on the area of company law, which occupies a central part in a country s economic planning and therefore its commercial law. Past enlargements are thoroughly explained and the potential impact of the new political landscape in Europe in the wake of the popular rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty on future enlargements is evaluated. A comparative methodology for commercial law drafting in transition and developing economies is put forward and the book concludes with a complete draft of a model company law for transition (and developing) economies. The aim is to provide a template for discussion. This book will be of great interest to those interested in considering the influence that the prospect of EU membership has on transition countries in general, the emphasis being on laws vital to emerging market economies, particularly commercial and company law.

Television Across Europe

Author : Jan Wieten
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1847876803
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Television Across Europe written by Jan Wieten and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-10-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining institutional textual and audience analysis, this book introduces students to the factors which have shaped television′s development in contemporary Europe, and invites them to assess the issues that are at stake in its future. Divided into three parts, the book moves from the European broadcasting environment, through current patterns and trends in programming and programme making, to TV genres and issue-specific broadcasting. Incorporating a range of pedagogical devices: boxes of key facts, activities and notes for further reading, Television across Europe offers an essential introductory guide to television in Western Europe.