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Social Europe, the Road not Taken
This book examines the European Left's attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration-a 'social Europe'-during the long 1970s. Based on fresh archival material, it shows that the western European Left-in particular social democratic parties, trade unions, and to a lesser extent 'Eurocommunist' parties-formulated a project to turn 'capitalist Europe' into a 'workers' Europe'. This project favoured coordinated measures for wealth redistribution, market regulation, a democratisation of the economy and of European institutions, upward harmonisation of social and fiscal systems, more inclusive welfare regimes, guaranteed employment, economic and social planning wit...
Social Europe, the Road Not Taken
This book examines the European Left's attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration-a 'social Europe'-during the long 1970s. Based on fresh archival material, it shows that the western European Left-in particular social democratic parties, trade unions, and to a lesser extent 'Eurocommunist' parties-formulated a project to turn 'capitalist Europe' into a 'workers' Europe'. This project favoured coordinated measures for wealth redistribution, market regulation, a democratisation of the economy and of European institutions, upward harmonisation of social and fiscal systems, more inclusive welfare regimes, guaranteed employment, economic and social planning wit...
Europe without Borders
The contested creation of free movement—for people and goods—in the Schengen area of Europe Europe is a place of free movement among nations—or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders without restraint. Schengen transformed European life, advancing both a democratic project of transnational citizenship and a neoliberal project of international free trade. But the right of free movement always excluded non-Europeans, especially migrants of color from former colonies of the Schengen states. In Europe without Borders, Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free ...
Pax Economica
"A new economic history which uncovers the forgotten left-wing, anti-imperial, pacifist origins of economic cosmopolitanism and free trade from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The post-1945 international free-trade regime was established to foster a more integrated, prosperous, and peaceful world. As US Secretary of State Cordell Hull (1933-1944), "Father of the United Nations" and one of the regime's principal architects, explained in his memoirs, "unhampered trade dovetailed with peace; high tariffs, trade barriers, and unfair economic competition, with war." Remarkably, this same economic order is now under assault from the country most involved in its creation: the Unite...
Socialism and International Law
The contributions of socialist thinkers and states to the development of international law often go unrecognized. Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies explores how socialist individuals and governments from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia made vital contributions to international law as it is practiced today, and also brought ideas and initiatives that constituted important disruptive moments in its history. The socialist world of the 20th century was an ambiguous and fragile construct: there were clear divisions between the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc, which kept one foot in Western Eurocentric traditions, and the positions of the radical Third World, primarily post-c...
Rethinking European Integration History in Light of Capitalism
This book outlines the possibilities and perspectives of an intertwining of European integration historiography with the history and concept of capitalism. Although debates on capitalism have been making a comeback since the 2008 crisis, to date the concept of capitalism remains almost completely avoided by historians of European integration. This book thus conceptualizes ‘capitalism’ as a useful analytical tool that should be used by historians of European integration and proposes three major approaches for them to do so: first, by bringing the question of social conflict, integral to the concept of capitalism, into European integration history; second, by better conceptualizing the lin...
vor Gericht
Dieses Themenheft befasst sich mit der Frage, wie Geschlecht vor Gericht hergestellt und verhandelt, aber auch strategisch eingesetzt wurde, um Ansprüche durchzusetzen oder sich gegen Vorwürfe zu verteidigen. Im Fokus steht dabei der Gerichtsraum, der als physischer und gleichzeitig als durch Interaktionen geformter sozialer Raum zu verstehen ist. Wie prägten die durch diesen Raum verkörperten gesellschaftlichen Normen und Machtasymmetrien die Darstellungen und Strategien jener Personen, die vor der Richterbank standen? Wie nutzten Angeklagte, Kläger*innen, Jurist*innen, Expert*innen oder Zeug*innen "Geschlecht", um ihre Anliegen vor Gericht durchzusetzen? Die Beiträge behandeln versch...
Research Handbook on the Politics of Constitutional Law
This Research Handbook deals with the politics of constitutional law around the world, using both comparative and political analysis, delivering global treatment of the politics of constitutional law across issues, regions and legal systems. Offering an innovative, critical approach to an array of key concepts and topics, this book will be a key resource for legal scholars and political science scholars. Students with interests in law and politics, constitutions, legal theory and public policy will also find this a beneficial companion.
Historical Dictionary of Socialism
Socialism has been an influential force for social change for almost two centuries. Its philosophy and ideology have inspired millions while simultaneously arousing fear and revulsion in its enemies. Having emerged after the French Revolution in the effort to build upon and develop the egalitarian ideas of the Enlightenment, socialism has taken many forms. It has, furthermore, sometimes been manipulated and reformulated by opportunists who have built authoritarianism and totalitarian dictatorships in its name. Opponents seize on such examples to frighten away people who may otherwise have found socialism attractive. Socialism has survived such criticism and misrepresentation as its core prin...
Das soziale Europa
Heute bestimmen auch die Europäische Kommission und der Europäische Gerichtshof über die Sozialpolitik und damit über unsere sozialen Lebenslagen mit. Hartmut Kaelble stellt in diesem Buch deshalb das Entstehen einer eigenständigen Sozialpolitik der Europäischen Union mit ihren vor 1914 zurückgehenden Vorläufern in den Zusammenhang mit der Geschichte der nationalen Wohlfahrtsstaaten in Europa. Er verfolgt deren Glanzzeiten und Krisen, den grundlegenden Wandel des transnationalen Austausches und die Umbrüche in den Typen des Wohlfahrtsstaats, auch im Vergleich mit anderen Kontinenten. Dabei spannt er den Bogen von den Weichenstellungen in den 1880er Jahren über den ersten Aufschwung in den 1920er Jahren und die Krise der Demokratien während der 1930er Jahre bis hin zum außergewöhnlichen Aufbau des modernen nationalen Wohlfahrtsstaats in den 1950er bis 1970er Jahren und den Entscheidungen zwischen Abbau, Aufbau oder Umbau der europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten seit den 1980er Jahren.
