The Shape of the New Europe
Author: Gregory F. Treverton
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780876091074
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The Shape of the New
Author: Scott L. Montgomery
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-05-26
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 0691150648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow four revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment shaped today's world This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today. A testament to the enduring power of ideas, The Shape of the New offers unforgettable portraits of Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx—heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress—and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the very nature of our beliefs, institutions, economies, and politics. Yet these ideas also hold contradictions. They have been used in the service of brutal systems such as slavery and colonialism, been appropriated and twisted by monsters like Stalin and Hitler, and provoked reactions against the Enlightenment's legacy by Islamic Salafists and the Christian Religious Right. The Shape of the New argues that it is impossible to understand the ideological and political conflicts of our own time without familiarizing ourselves with the history and internal tensions of these world-changing ideas. With passion and conviction, it exhorts us to recognize the central importance of these ideas as historical forces and pillars of the Western humanistic tradition. It makes the case that to read the works of the great thinkers is to gain invaluable insights into the ideas that have shaped how we think and what we believe.
Human Rights in the New Europe
Author: David P. Forsythe
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780803219908
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Governing the New Europe
Author: Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780822317241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoverning the New Europe provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the changing political map of Europe as it emerges from the Cold War. Exploring the variations of liberal democracy and market economy among the European states, as well as current trends in these directions, the contributors to this volume, all leading authorities in European politics, consider whether a common political model has begun to emerge out of historic European diversity. Beginning with a discussion of the political, economic, and cultural development of Europe from a historical perspective, the focus of the book shifts to an examination of the changing forms of European democracy and the move from public ownership and planning to privatization and deregulated competition. Further essays analyze the challenge to national party systems and electoral performance from emerging social movements and organized interest groups. Political and bureaucratic structures are also examined as is the new European constitutionalism reflected in the increasingly significant role of the judiciary. Lastly, attention is turned to several major themes in European politics: the changing foundations of foreign and security policy, the function of industrial champion firms, and the retreat from the welfare state. Primarily comparative in its scope, Governing the New Europe does devote particular attention to specific major states as well as to the importance of the European Union to the political life of member and non-member countries. Neither exaggerating the common features of the patterns that have emerged in contemporary Europe nor capitulating to the complexity of enduring differences and instabilities between states, Governing the New Europe will become one of the standard texts in its field. Contributors. Jack Hayward, Jolyon Howorth, Herbert Kitschelt, Marie Lavigne, Tom Mackie, Michael Mezey, Edward C. Page, Richard Parry, Richard Rose, Anthony Smith, Alec Stone
Making the New Europe
Author: M. L. Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-10-06
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1474290302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume evaluates the notion of European Unity in a period when European identity was subjected to the destructive consequences of Nazi and Fascist domination of much of the Continent. By presenting the competing visions of transformation and reconstruction played out during the war years the book aims to provide broader-based and more complex insights into forces that shaped the post-war period than those in conventional accounts that locate the thinking about European unity only in the years after 1945.
The Shape of European History
Author: William Hardy McNeill
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBasing his analysis on a cultural anthropological approach, Professor McNeill surveys events from ancient Greece to the industrialized states of modern Europe. He examines the interacting social and economic forces and the influence and diffusion of succeeding centres of power and culture.
Austria in the New Europe
Author: Gunter Bischof
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1000675831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1993, Contemporary Austrian Studies (CAS) is an academic publication appealing to a broad intellectual audience and fostering a multiplicity of views and perspectives. CAS's typical format features a number of essays on a special topic such as the impact of post-Cold War geopolitical developments and European integration on Austria in this issue (volume II will feature “A First Assessment of the Kreisky Era;” volume III will deal with “Austria in the 1950s”). Usually one or two “non-topical” essays will complete the main part.
The New European Security Disorder
Author: S. Duke
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1994-10-07
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 0230390153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New European Security Disorder presents a clear and comprehensive overview of the main actors, institutions and changes in European security since the end of the Cold War. Special emphasis is put on the assessment of threats to Europe's security, the lack of coherent leadershop in Bosnia and elsewhere, and the need for pan-European security institutions.
NATO in the “New Europe”
Author: Alexandra Gheciu
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005-08-17
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780804767668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, the question of the post-Cold War NATO, particularly in relation to the former communist countries of Europe, has been at the heart of a series of international reform debates. NATO in the "New Europe" contributes to these debates by arguing that, contrary to conventional assumptions about the role of international security organizations, NATO has been systematically involved in the process of building liberal democracy in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The book also seeks to contribute to the development of an international political sociology of socialization. It draws on arguments developed by political theorists, sociologists, and social psychologists to examine the dynamics and implications of socialization practices conducted by an international institution.
The Politics of the New Europe
Author: Ian Budge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1317892399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pioneering textbook which explains the dynamics of politics across Europe in the post-Cold war era. Comparing democratisation, transition to a market economy and increasing economic and political integration in the countries of central and eastern Europe with experiences in Scandinavia, and southern and western Europe, the book provides a wealth of information and analysis on the state of Europe at the end of a momentous century of European and World history.
