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Book Alan S  Milward and a Century of European Change

Download or read book Alan S Milward and a Century of European Change written by Fernando Guirao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of the book is to introduce the work of Alan S. Milward and to acknowledge the full magnitude of his scientific contribution to contemporary British and European history. The book is a collection of essays which provide a better understanding of Alan Milward’s extensive intellectual work for future scholars and facilitate the knowledge and transmission of his published work to present and future generations of students, scholars in the various disciplines concerned, and the general public. The series of original contributions which this book contains are related to or reflect critically upon Milward’s own contributions to the fields of political, diplomatic, and socio-economic history, political science, economics, international relations, and European Studies in general. This book honors Alan Milward through a better understanding of his many pioneering contributions in the fields of contemporary European history in general, and the history of European integration in particular. Although the volume does not aim to be a substitute for Milward’s work itself, it illuminates and assesses his creative process along fifty years of continued and intense work, as well as the impact of his main work, and the continuing relevance of his main theses today.

Book The German Economy at War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan S. Milward
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2015-11-19
  • ISBN : 1474241476
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The German Economy at War written by Alan S. Milward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title describes the development of Germany's war economy in the light of the unpublished documentary material which was captured in 1945 including records from the Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions, notes made by Albert Speer of his conferences with Hitler, many papers of the economic and munitions section of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and of its chief, General Thomas, as well as some papers of private armament firms such as Messerschmitt. It presents a detailed study of a contest for power at the highest levels of the National Socialist hierarchy, making this invaluable reading for studies in military and German history, politics and studies in totalitarianism.

Book Politics and Economics in the History of the European Union

Download or read book Politics and Economics in the History of the European Union written by Alan S. Milward and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Graz Scumpeter lectures are given on an annual basis by leading scholars that transcend a single disciplinary discourse. This new book based on the lectures given by Alan Milward is an eagerly awaited volume in this series.

Book The Economic Development of Continental Europe  1780 1870

Download or read book The Economic Development of Continental Europe 1780 1870 written by Alan S. Milward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1979 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rise and Fall of a National Strategy  1945 1963

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of a National Strategy 1945 1963 written by Alan S. Milward and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text analyses British official thinking behind the UK's standing aloof from the moves after 1945 towards European economic collaboration. The volume ends with General de Gaulle's veto of 1963.

Book Informal Governance in the European Union

Download or read book Informal Governance in the European Union written by Mareike Kleine and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union is the world’s most advanced international organization, presiding over a level of legal and economic integration unmatched in global politics. To explain this achievement, many observers point to its formal rules that entail strong obligations and delegate substantial power to supranational actors such as the European Commission. This legalistic view, Mareike Kleine contends, is misleading. More often than not, governments and bureaucrats informally depart from the formal rules and thereby contradict their very purpose. Behind the EU’s front of formal rules lies a thick network of informal governance practices. If not the EU’s rules, what accounts for the high level of economic integration among its members? How does the EU really work? In answering these questions, Kleine proposes a new way of thinking about international organizations. Informal governance affords governments the flexibility to resolve conflicts that adherence to EU rules may generate at the domestic level. By dispersing the costs that integration may impose on individual groups, it allows governments to keep domestic interests aligned in favor of European integration. The combination of formal rules and informal governance therefore sustains a level of cooperation that neither regime alone permits, and it reduces the EU’s democratic deficit by including those interests into deliberations that are most immediately affected by its decisions. In illustrating informal norms and testing how they work, Kleine provides the first systematic analysis, based on new material from national and European archives and other primary data, of the parallel development of the formal rules and informal norms that have governed the EU from the 1958 Treaty of Rome until today.

Book Transnational Socialist Networks in the 1970s

Download or read book Transnational Socialist Networks in the 1970s written by Christian Salm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Socialist Networks in the 1970s argues that western European socialist parties' transnational cooperation across national borders significantly influenced politics and policy-making in what was the European Communities (EC). It focuses on the network-like informal structures that characterised transnational cooperation between the party members and leaders of different socialist parties involved in European affairs. Taking the example of two case studies, namely EC development aid policy and EC southern enlargement policy, the book demonstrates that the socialist parties strengthened their informal transnational network structures for the purposes of debating ideological and programmatic issues and finding policy solutions to common challenges in both policy fields. Moreover, it shows that the networks developed various functions to influence European governance. Against this background, the analysis in this book makes not only a significant contribution to the study of transnational networks of western European socialist parties and the history of European integration, but also adds to the understanding of the role of transnational networks in European politics and policy-making.

Book The Question of Europe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Gowan
  • Publisher : Verso
  • Release : 1997-06-17
  • ISBN : 9781859841426
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book The Question of Europe written by Peter Gowan and published by Verso. This book was released on 1997-06-17 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Question of Europe comprises essays by some of the leading authorities and commentators on Europe, addressing issues such as EU expansion, Maastricht convergence criteria, democratic accountability, and issues of federalism.

Book How it all Began  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book How it all Began Routledge Revivals written by W. W. Rostow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, this book traces the origins of our modern economy, showing the routes by which nations have either achieved wealth or have been impoverished. W. W. Rostow brings together issues of public policy, international trade and the world of science and technology, arguing that conventional economic thought has failed to relate scientific innovation to the economic process. Chapters consider the politics of modernization, the Commercial Revolution and the development of the world economy between 1783 and 1820.

Book The Economics of the Second World War

Download or read book The Economics of the Second World War written by György Ránki and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fascist Economy in Norway

Download or read book The Fascist Economy in Norway written by Alan S. Milward and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En analyse af Hitler's økonomiske plan for Norge under landets besættelse i 2. Verdenskrig, den nye økonomiske orden. "National Samling", et nazistisk parti, blev overvåget af tyske nazister.

Book The New Order and the French Economy

Download or read book The New Order and the French Economy written by Alan S. Milward and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of this text, originally published in 1970, was to widen the debate on the nature of fascism. The author argues that fascism was an integral stage in the historical and economical development of Europe and that its political and economic expression cannot be meaningfully separated. Its impact for Europe had obvious far-reaching consequences and the very survival of the National Socialist revolution lay in the re-organization of Europe - the New Order.

Book Equal Security

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph L. Dietl
  • Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9783515104531
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Equal Security written by Ralph L. Dietl and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh. This book was released on 2013 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superpower detente during the Nixon-Ford Administration led to the formation of an East-West regime aimed at conflict control and systemic stability. 'Equal Security' was the proclaimed goal. By institutionalizing bipolarity, however, the bilateral US-SU Strategic Arms Limitation Talks actually threatened Western European security, for global security and Alliance security were ultimately incompatible. NATO Europe feared the emergence of a global directorate of the superpowers and became apprehensive that the US would be ready to abandon the cause of Europe and sacrifice European and German unity for the sake of a stable world order. In reaction, NATO Europe sought to shape the SALT process to ensure that equal security applied to all – the Soviet Union, the United States and the European Allies. The volume analyses the linkages between SALT, MBFR, NATO and the special Anglo-American nuclear relationship. It also explores how NATO Europe penetrated US decision-making and co-shaped the US SALT agenda and how Scoop Jackson Democrats and NATO Europe aligned to preserve Western block superiority, freezing the SALT II process. Based on recently declassified European archival material, the volume offers a fresh interpretation of and a 'new look' at SALT.

Book The Struggle for EU Legitimacy

Download or read book The Struggle for EU Legitimacy written by Claudia Sternberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning book answers some of the big questions on the legitimacy of the European Union. Specifically, it looks at what it would mean for the EU to be considered a legitimate body and where our ideas on this question come from. The Struggle for EU Legitimacy traces the history of constructions and contestations of the EU's legitimacy, in discourses of the European institutions and in public debate. Through an interpretive, non-quantitative textual analysis of an eclectic range of sources, it examines both long-term patterns in EU-official discourses and their reception in member-state public spheres, specifically in the German and French debates on the Maastricht and Constitutional Draft Treaties. The story told portrays the history of legitimating the EU as a continuous contest over the ends and goals of integration, as well as a balancing act—which was inescapable given the nature of the integration project—between 'bringing the people in' and 'keeping them out'. In addition, it was a balancing act between actively politicizing and deliberately de-politicizing the stakes of EU politics.

Book Constitutionalising Europe

Download or read book Constitutionalising Europe written by Jieskje Hollander and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Constitutionalising Europe. Dutch Reactions to an Incoming Tide (1948-2005) aims to solve the question of how the relation between the Netherlands and Europe came under pressure. Widely renowned as one of the Founding Fathers of the European Coal and Steel Community and as one of the most loyal participants of European integration in general, the Netherlands surprised friend and foe when on 1 June 2005, its people rejected by a substantial majority the European Constitution. Until now, no satisfactory explanation has been given for this. This study offers a new, long-term perspective. Based on a wealth of new primary sources - i.e. parliamentary accounts, Council of State advice and interviews with key figures in the process - and a rhetorical approach, it is argued that the germ for the gap between the Dutch political elite and society at large, which became manifest on 1 June 2005, was already latently present within the identity of the Dutch polity for a long time. It is shown that the more the Netherlands stressed its identity as an open nation, the more it got estranged from its own political and constitutional character. The very zeal to constitutionalise Europe blinded the Dutch political elite for the downsides of the process for national democratic relations. In June 2005, the governmental elite paid the price for that."--Page 4 of cover.

Book French Banks and the Greek  niche Market

Download or read book French Banks and the Greek niche Market written by Hubert Bonin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Refuge and the Fortress

Download or read book The Refuge and the Fortress written by Jeremy Seabrook and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title uses the individual experiences and achievements of refugee academics and their rescuers to recount Britain's relationship with overseas victims of persecution, from Nazi Europe to present-day Iraq.