Europese politiek

Small States and the New Security Environment

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This book examines the security, defence and foreign policy choices and challenges of small states in NATO and its small partner states in the new security environment. The main aim of the book is to analyse how these states are dealing with current and emerging security challen…

Brexit, President Trump, and the Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe

by Tudoroiu, Theodor

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This book analyzes the combined consequences of Brexit and of the new US foreign policy under President Trump on the geopolitical situation of Eastern Europe. It perceives the evolution of the East European regional security complex as a struggle between the European Union's Kan…

PEGIDA and New Right-Wing Populism in Germany

by Vorländer, Hans, Herold, Maik, Schäller, Steven

fromNew perspectives in German studies

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This book provides the first systematic and comparative analysis of the German right-wing populist protest movement "PEGIDA". It offers an in-depth reconstruction of the movement's historical development, its organisational structure and its programmatic orientation. It depicts …

Refugees and Migrants in Law and Policy: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Civic Edu…

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Refugees and migration are not a new story in the history of humankind, but in the last few years, against a backdrop of huge numbers of migrants, especially from war-torn countries, they have again been a topic of intensive and contentious discussion in politics, the media and …

Australia and France's Mutual Empowerment: Middle Powers' Strategies for Pacific and Global …

by Soyez, Paul

fromStudies in diplomacy and international relations

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How did France and Australia develop a deep strategic partnership, when only about two decades ago, a group of Australians bombed the French consulate in Perth to protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific? Which interests, which personalities, which elements of the g…

The Political Economy of Hungary: From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberal…

by Fabry, Adam

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This book explores the political economy of Hungary from the mid-1970s to the present. Widely considered a 'poster boy' of neoliberal transformation in post-communist Eastern Europe until the mid-2000s, Hungary has in recent years developed into a model 'illiberal' regime. Const…

Public Sector Accounting, Auditing and Control in South Eastern Europe

fromPublic Sector Financial Management

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This book comprehensively presents the current practice and further development paths of public sector accounting, auditing and control systems in 7 South Eastern European countries based on the contributions of highly-respected researchers. Each chapter is a study of the territ…

The Politics of Referendum Use in European Democracies

by HOLLANDER, Saskia

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This book demonstrates that the generally assumed dichotomy between referendums and representative democracy does not do justice to the great diversity of referendum types and of how referendums are used in European democracies. Although in all referendums citizens vote directly…

The Dark Side of Globalisation

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Firmly rooted in the International Political Economy (IPE) tradition, this book addresses the negative consequences of globalisation, what is termed here the 'dark side of globalisation'. It explores different definitions of globalisation, whether the globalisation we have seen …

Good Neighbourhood Treaties of Poland: Political, Security and Social Relations

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This volume explores the bilateral treaties concluded after 1990 between the Republic of Poland and its neighbouring states (Germany, then-Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus and Lithuania), known as treaties on neighbourly relations or good neighbourhood tr…

Citizenship, Territoriality, and Post-Soviet Nationhood: The Politics of Birthright Citizenship in Azerbai…

by Tabachnik, Maxim

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This book seeks to understand the politics of nationalism in the buffer zone between Russia and the West: Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova, as well as Russia itself. It problematizes the official ways of defining the nation, and thus citizenship, in the light of "frozen" ethno-t…

Health System Decentralization and Recentralization: Ideational and Institutional Dynamics in Italy an…

by Terlizzi, Andrea

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This book explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization, investigating why and how the territorial organization of health systems changes or remains stable over time. Drawing from historical and discursive institutionalism, the explanatory framewor…

Security and Defence in Europe

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This book argues that security and defense have never been true priorities in the European Union, and have constantly been marginalized by the elites since the Soviet Union collapsed and the Warsaw Pact disintegrated. Despite the official rhetoric, only a few tangible results ca…

Russian Exceptionalism between East and West: The Ambiguous Empire

by Oskanian, Kevork

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This monograph provides a novel long-term approach to the role of Russia's imperial legacies in its interactions with the former Soviet space. It develops 'Hybrid Exceptionalism' as a critical conceptual tool aimed at uncovering the great power's self-positioning between 'East' …

Political Party Funding and Private Donations in Italy

by Fiorelli, Chiara

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Despite any evidence against it, political parties still represent the most important collective actor in a democratic political system. Their role in representing pluralism and their electoral centrality is not undermined, even when it is strongly questioned. As long as politic…

The European Union and the Technology Shift

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'This volume has a solid foundation in the highly topical question of technological change. More importantly, the individual chapters are written by qualified scholars whose analytically advanced contributions are likely to interest a wide audience. I can strongly recommend this…

Satire and Protest in Putin's Russia

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This book studies satirical protest in today's Russia, addressing the complex questions of the limits of allowed humor, the oppressive mechanisms deployed by the State and pro-State agents as well as counterstrategies of cultural resistance. What forms of satirical protest are t…

Competing Interest Groups and Lobbying in the Construction of the European Banking Union

by Montalbano, Giuseppe

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This book investigates the role of banking interest groups and lobbying in the making of the European Banking Union. Facing the politicization of financial regulation in the wake of the crisis, core players of the European banking industry managed to adapt and re-orient their lo…

Destructive Storytelling: Disinformation and the Eurosceptic Myth that Shap…

by Henkel, Imke

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This book offers a new approach to understanding disinformation and its destructive impact on the democratic function of the news media. Using the notoriously false reporting of EU policies by the British press as a starting point, it utilises Critical Discourse Analysis to exam…

Realism: A Distinctively 20th Century European Tradition

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This book examines how IR's European realist tradition evolved in Europe and, due to emigration, in the United States in the 20th century. It includes an introduction and eight chapters, focusing on historical classical and contemporary structural branches of realist IR theorizi…