Author: Stuart Sweeney
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789140935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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In The Europe Illusion, Stuart Sweeney considers Britain’s relationships with France and Prussia-Germany since the map of Europe was redrawn at Westphalia in 1648. A timely and far-sighted study, it argues that integration in Europe has evolved through diplomatic, economic, and cultural links cemented among these three states. Indeed, as wars became more destructive and economic expectations were elevated these states struggled to survive alone. Yet it has been rare for all three to be friends at the same time. Instead, apparent setbacks like Brexit can be seen as reflective of a more pragmatic Europe, where integration proceeds within variable geometry.
Author: Geoffrey Denton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351854984
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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This book, originally published in 1968, contrasts the long history of national planning in France with the equally long history of anti-planning ideology in Germany and by close examination of the actual policies, brings out the realities that lie behind the public attitudes.
Author: Joel S. Fetzer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521535397
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Over ten million Muslims live in Western Europe. Since the early 1990s, and especially after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, vexing policy questions have emerged about the religious rights of native-born and immigrant Muslims. Britain has struggled over whether to give state funding to private Islamic schools. France has been convulsed over Muslim teenagers wearing the hijab in public schools. Germany has debated whether to grant 'public-corporation' status to Muslims. And each state is searching for policies to ensure the successful incorporation of practicing Muslims into liberal democratic society. This 2004 book analyzes state accommodation of Muslims' religious practices in Britain, France, and Germany, first examining three major theories: resource mobilization, political-opportunity structure, and ideology. It then proposes an additional explanation, arguing that each nation's approach to Muslims follows from its historically based church-state institutions.
Author: Wolfram F. Hanrieder
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Author: Monica Prasad
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226679020
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization—“neoliberalism”—took root in the United States under Ronald Reagan and in Britain under Margaret Thatcher. But why did neoliberal policies gain such prominence in these two countries and not in similarly industrialized Western countries such as France and Germany? In The Politics of Free Markets, a comparative-historical analysis of the development of neoliberal policies in these four countries,Monica Prasad argues that neoliberalism was made possible in the United States and Britain not because the Left in these countries was too weak, but because it was in some respects too strong. At the time of the oil crisis in the 1970s, American and British tax policies were more punitive to business and the wealthy than the tax policies of France and West Germany; American and British industrial policies were more adversarial to business in key domains; and while the British welfare state was the most redistributive of the four, the French welfare state was the least redistributive. Prasad shows that these adversarial structures in the United States and Britain created opportunities for politicians to find and mobilize dissatisfaction with the status quo, while the more progrowth policies of France and West Germany prevented politicians of the Right from anchoring neoliberalism in electoral dissatisfaction.
Author: G. Caty
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Author: Gunilla Herolf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789172657977
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Denne bog omhandler samarbejdet mellem Frankrig, Tyskland og Storbritanien vedr. udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitik.
Author: Helga Haftendorn
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN: 0801885639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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The Strategic Triangle is based on a conference held in Potsdam, Germany, and a workshop at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Author: John Buchanan-Brown
Publisher: New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The author examines book illustration of the Romantic period. He focuses on the decorative wood - and steel-engravings, which were used as embellishments with the purpose of appealing to the sophisticated book buyer. He also describes how the values of the time are reflected in the illustrations.
Author: Robin Prior
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030018400X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
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From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler’s Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain’s defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat. In this cogently argued book, Robin Prior delves into the documents of the time—war diaries, combat reports, Home Security’s daily files, and much more—to uncover how Britain endured a year of menacing crises. The book reassesses key events of 1940—crises that were recognized as such at the time and others not fully appreciated. Prior examines Neville Chamberlain’s government, Churchill’s opponents, the collapse of France, the Battle of Britain, and the Blitz. He looks critically at the position of the United States before Pearl Harbor, and at Roosevelt’s response to the crisis. Prior concludes that the nation was saved through a combination of political leadership, British Expeditionary Force determination and skill, Royal Air Force and Navy efforts to return soldiers to the homeland, and the determination of the people to fight on “in spite of all terror.” As eloquent as it is controversial, this book exposes the full import of events in 1940, when Britain fought alone and Western civilization hung in the balance.
