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Shifts the often naïve focus of democratic peace theory towards liberal-democratic militancy and highlights the role of national identities.
This book traces changes in the concept of security in Asia from realist to cooperative, comprehensive, and human security approaches, and assesses a number of policy alternatives to management of both old and new security threats. It surveys not only orthodox security threats such as tensions between regional powers or armed ethnic antagonists but also new sources of anxiety such as resource scarcity, economic instability, irregular migration, community fragmentation, and international terrorism. Security policies of major powers such as China, Japan, and the United States, and the moderating roles of regional organizations such as ASEAN, ARF, SCO, and KEDO are evaluated in historical and contemporary perspectives. Contributors proffer policy-relevant insights where appropriate. The book concludes that traditional security approaches remain valid but need to be adapted to the new challenges, and offers suggestions for incorporating fresh Asian security perceptions into the agendas of policy-makers, analysts, and scholars.
Culture is one of the most complex and contested fields of European integration. This book analyzes EU cultural politics since their emergence in the 1980s with a particular focus on the European Capital of Culture program, the flagship of EU cultural policy. It discusses both the central as well as local levels and contextualizes EU policies with programmes of other European organisations, such as the Council of Europe. By asking what "Europe" actually means for European cultural policy, the book goes beyond the confines of official organizations and the political sphere, to discuss the contribution, impact and appropriation among a more diverse group of actors and participants, such as tra...
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book takes up traditional approaches to political science. It aims to offer a mixture of conventional and specific analyses and insights for different groups of readers. In view of the European Union's multi-level and multi-actor polity, the book highlights the complex procedural and institutional set-up of nation states preparing and implementing decisions made by the institutions of the European Community (EC). In looking at the emerging and evolving realities of the European polity, it shows how European institutions and Member States (re-)act and interact in a new institutional a...
This history of the internationally prominent insurance corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or previously unavailable archival sources. This book joins a growing body of scholarship based on free access to the records of German corporations in the Nazi era.
This book surveys Franco-German relations from the French Revolution to the 1990s, collecting the most current research from area specialists.
Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches stehen das politische System, die Wirtschafts- und die Gesellschaftsstruktur unseres wichtigsten Partnerlandes Frankreich. Die systematische und problemorientierte Einführung hilft dem Leser, die Besonderheiten der französischen Traditionen und Strukturen in ihrer Entstehung und Entwicklung zu verstehen. Zur Sprache kommen auch die Veränderungen seit 1945 und neue Herausforderungen: zum Beispiel die Europäisierung des politischen Systems, die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung auf die Wirtschaft oder die Umgestaltung der sozialen Sicherungssysteme.
France and Germany have played a pivotal role in European politics and integration. Shaping Europe systematically investigates the interrelated reality of Franco-German bilateralism and multilateral European integration from the Elysée Treaty into the Twenty-first Century.