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This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Union for the
Mediterranean (UfM), launched in 2008 amid great controversy within
the European Union. Affected from the start by negative fallout
from the failure of Middle East peace initiatives, its inadequacies
have been underlined by the popular movement for regime change in
the Arab world. Leading experts provide here the first integrated
analysis of the significance and shortcomings of the UfM. Beginning
with critical questioning of the motives and institutional logics
informing this venture, the collection proceeds to analyse its key
actors, as well as major policy dossiers such as energy and
development. The book explains how and why an initiative aiming to
depoliticize Euro-Mediterranean relations in fact proved wide open
to political discord, bringing huge disruption to UfM activity.
While some aspects are found to have merit, the volume is critical
of the way in which EU Mediterranean policy became driven by a
narrow range of national interests, lost sight of the political
objectives of the preceding Barcelona Process and became
overwhelmingly bilateral in approach, at the expense of more
ambitious region-building efforts. It concludes by highlighting the
need to reform the EU Mediterranean policy framework in the light
of the Arab uprisings of 2011. This book was published as a special
issue of Mediterranean Politics.
The electoral success of secessionist parties in Catalonia and
Scotland over the last decade, together with Brexit and the support
for Eurosceptic parties in many EU member states, have prompted a
rethink of many taken-for-granted notions about politics in Spain,
the UK and the EU. Secessionist parties in Catalonia and Scotland
often combine calls for independence with support for the EU, but
independence for Catalonia might entail the loss of EU membership.
In the UK, Scotland voted for the UK to remain in the EU, yet it
was forced to leave the Union along with the rest of the country:
what effect has Brexit had on Scottish independence claims? Through
comparing Catalonia and Scotland, this short volume aims to
contribute to debates on, and advance knowledge of, visions of
independence and integration, how they interrelate in Europe's
emergent political order, and what they entail for European
integration and democracy in the EU.
Created by social movement activists and left-wing parties during
years of austerity, Barcelona en Comu, or the Comuns (as they are
known in Catalan), won control of the city council of Barcelona in
May 2015. The ensuing municipal government gave the city its first
ever female mayor in the form of former housing rights campaigner
Ada Colau. The Comuns' administration proceeded to undertake
ambitious initiatives, attempting to regenerate democracy by
changing the relationship between municipal authority and citizen,
addressing social inequality issues and seeking to curb the
hitherto unbridled tourist expansion in the name of improving the
environment for those who live in the Catalan capital. This book
examines the extent to which the political project of the Comuns
has brought radical change in Barcelona, where it has faced
opposition from revolutionary anti-capitalists, traditional Catalan
nationalists and independentistas, as well as conservative
political and economic forces. It also considers the Comuns'
relationship to Podemos and their prospects of growing beyond the
city, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona and across Catalonia.
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Contesting Spain? The Dynamics of Nationalist Movements in
Catalonia and the Basque Country offers an exploration of the
dynamics behind contemporary shifts in the orientation of
nationalist parties and movements with reference to Catalonia and
the Basque country in Spain. The chapters were originally papers
presented at a workshop held at the Barcelona Centre for
International Affairs (CIDOB) in September 2014 as part of a
research project on 'The Dynamics of Nationalist Evolution in
Contemporary Spain', whose purpose was to gain a better
understanding of why regionally-based nationalist movements have
experienced shifting relationships with the Spanish state over
time, in some periods appearing content with accommodation between
central and regional government and at other times pushing to go
beyond autonomist demands to seek sovereignty or even attain full
independence. The volume is one of the first to focus comparatively
on the rise of pro-sovereignty politics in mainstream nationalist
parties, whose evolution has also featured more traditional
impulses towards territorial accommodation within the wider state.
Using the exceptionally rich laboratory provided by Spain, the book
explores the dynamics behind shifts in the orientation of
nationalist parties and movements once they have established
themselves as electorally successful at regional level. Dimensions
to the analysis include: the interaction of nationalist parties
with central government; pressures from their support bases;
competition between parties within the home region; and
international influences. This title is innovative in bringing
together experts with a range of disciplinary approaches: primarily
political scientists but also historians and scholars located at
the cusp between social sciences and humanities.
Created by social movement activists and left-wing parties during
years of austerity, Barcelona en Comu, or the Comuns (as they are
known in Catalan), won control of the city council of Barcelona in
May 2015. The ensuing municipal government gave the city its first
ever female mayor in the form of former housing rights campaigner
Ada Colau. The Comuns' administration proceeded to undertake
ambitious initiatives, attempting to regenerate democracy by
changing the relationship between municipal authority and citizen,
addressing social inequality issues and seeking to curb the
hitherto unbridled tourist expansion in the name of improving the
environment for those who live in the Catalan capital. This book
examines the extent to which the political project of the Comuns
has brought radical change in Barcelona, where it has faced
opposition from revolutionary anti-capitalists, traditional Catalan
nationalists and independentistas, as well as conservative
political and economic forces. It also considers the Comuns'
relationship to Podemos and their prospects of growing beyond the
city, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona and across Catalonia.
Contesting Spain? The Dynamics of Nationalist Movements in
Catalonia and the Basque Country offers an exploration of the
dynamics behind contemporary shifts in the orientation of
nationalist parties and movements with reference to Catalonia and
the Basque country in Spain. The chapters were originally papers
presented at a workshop held at the Barcelona Centre for
International Affairs (CIDOB) in September 2014 as part of a
research project on 'The Dynamics of Nationalist Evolution in
Contemporary Spain', whose purpose was to gain a better
understanding of why regionally-based nationalist movements have
experienced shifting relationships with the Spanish state over
time, in some periods appearing content with accommodation between
central and regional government and at other times pushing to go
beyond autonomist demands to seek sovereignty or even attain full
independence. The volume is one of the first to focus comparatively
on the rise of pro-sovereignty politics in mainstream nationalist
parties, whose evolution has also featured more traditional
impulses towards territorial accommodation within the wider state.
Using the exceptionally rich laboratory provided by Spain, the book
explores the dynamics behind shifts in the orientation of
nationalist parties and movements once they have established
themselves as electorally successful at regional level. Dimensions
to the analysis include: the interaction of nationalist parties
with central government; pressures from their support bases;
competition between parties within the home region; and
international influences. This title is innovative in bringing
together experts with a range of disciplinary approaches: primarily
political scientists but also historians and scholars located at
the cusp between social sciences and humanities.
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Union for the
Mediterranean (UfM), launched in 2008 amid great controversy within
the European Union. Affected from the start by negative fallout
from the failure of Middle East peace initiatives, its inadequacies
have been underlined by the popular movement for regime change in
the Arab world. Leading experts provide here the first integrated
analysis of the significance and shortcomings of the UfM. Beginning
with critical questioning of the motives and institutional logics
informing this venture, the collection proceeds to analyse its key
actors, as well as major policy dossiers such as energy and
development. The book explains how and why an initiative aiming to
depoliticize Euro-Mediterranean relations in fact proved wide open
to political discord, bringing huge disruption to UfM activity.
While some aspects are found to have merit, the volume is critical
of the way in which EU Mediterranean policy became driven by a
narrow range of national interests, lost sight of the political
objectives of the preceding Barcelona Process and became
overwhelmingly bilateral in approach, at the expense of more
ambitious region-building efforts. It concludes by highlighting the
need to reform the EU Mediterranean policy framework in the light
of the Arab uprisings of 2011. This book was published as a special
issue of Mediterranean Politics.
This volume assesses the evolution of Spain's external relations
during the 1990s, within and beyond Europe, and assesses the
principal challenges facing the country at the beginning of the
twenty-first century. The coincidence of several crucial global and
European developments has had a profound effect on Spain.
Adjustment of the economy and changes in foreign policy
perspectives have become unavoidable. In turn, Spain, as an
increasingly self-confident member of the EU, has itself become a
significant actor in European-level developments. Spain's
relationship with Europe and the wider world is increasingly
balanced between new constraints and new opportunities for
international influence.
At the Barcelona Conference in November 1995, the European Union
and 12 southern and eastern Mediterranean states established the
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP). The initiative is one of the
most ambitious external projects ever undertaken by the European
Union.
"Democratic Spain" is the first thorough study of democratic
Spain's re-emergence on the international scene.Since the death of
General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation
to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of the
European Union and Nato have been keys to Spain's new prominence,
although the country has also tried to build on its traditional
"special relationships" with Latin America and the Arab world.
By focusing on the relationship between external relations and
domestic policy "Democratic Spain" makes an important contribution
to the Literature on democratisation, as well as showing how
Spanish foreign policy evolved between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s.
While the book focuses on democractic Spain, its revisionist view
of democractic trans tions is of more general relevaice.
Democratization is seen as an integral process involving related,
though not simultaneous changes in domestic policy and external
relations. Only with the transformation of her external relations
did Spain's new democracy finally become consolidated.
"Democratic Spain" is the first thorough study of democratic
Spain's re-emergence on the international scene.Since the death of
General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation
to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of the
European Union and Nato have been keys to Spain's new prominence,
although the country has also tried to build on its traditional
"special relationships" with Latin America and the Arab world.
By focusing on the relationship between external relations and
domestic policy "Democratic Spain" makes an important contribution
to the Literature on democratisation, as well as showing how
Spanish foreign policy evolved between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s.
While the book focuses on democractic Spain, its revisionist view
of democractic trans tions is of more general relevaice.
Democratization is seen as an integral process involving related,
though not simultaneous changes in domestic policy and external
relations. Only with the transformation of her external relations
did Spain's new democracy finally become consolidated.
This book addresses the nature of factionalism in parties that are
created or rebuilt after a period of dictatorship. It maintains
that, while party leaders often view factions in negative terms as
divisive, factional behaviour can also be constructive. The volume
brings together detailed case studies from post-authoritarian
Spain, Greece and Portugal, from Turkey (where factionalism has
hampered democratization) and from the post-communist states in
Eastern Europe.
Factional Politics and Democratization addresses the nature of
factionalism in parties that are created or rebuilt after a period
of dictatorship. It maintains that, while party leaders often view
factions in negative terms as divisive, factional behaviour can be
constructive and can contribute to the building of political
parties as viable electoral organizations. Factionalism as a
process involves fusion as well as fission. The volume brings
together detailed case studies from post-authoritarian Spain,
Greece and Portugal, from Turkey (where factionalism has hampered
democratization) and from the post-communist states of Poland,
Hungary, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. Several chapters provide
comparative analysis which goes beyond a particular party or
national experience. Together with introductory and concluding
chapters, this combination of case studies and comparative analysis
provides pointers to what is generalizable and what is specific to
particular cases. Equally, the book offers a framework within which
further studies of party factionalism in the context of
democratization may be undertaken.
First published in 1993. This title is the product of a conference
designed to throw light on some central questions about the phase
of programmatic renewal from the 1950s to the then-present-day. The
evidence presented in this volume pursues to demonstrate the
existence of a European 'wave' of social democratic programmatic
renewal effort during the 1980s, the sweep of which, the author
argues, being broader than the previous renewal wave in the 1950s.
First published in 1993. This title is the product of a conference
designed to throw light on some central questions about the phase
of programmatic renewal from the 1950s to the then-present-day. The
evidence presented in this volume pursues to demonstrate the
existence of a European 'wave' of social democratic programmatic
renewal effort during the 1980s, the sweep of which, the author
argues, being broader than the previous renewal wave in the 1950s.
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The Mediterranean space, defined by a major sea, a large number of
littoral countries and to some extent their hinterlands, is at the
same time an interface between Europe, Africa and Asia. This brings
complex challenges in terms of achieving peace and stability.
Recently it has received intense international attention through
the internal destructiveness and spill-over from conflicts,
primarily those waged in Libya, Syria and, more remotely, Iraq.
This Handbook provides an overview of the political processes that
shape the Mediterranean region in the contemporary context. It
explores the issues of crucial importance to Mediterranean dynamics
through a series of analytical sections that guide the reader
towards a comprehensive understanding of the main regional
interactions and trends. The Handbook explores: the complex
historical formation of the contemporary Mediterranean geopolitical
perspectives issues around peace and conflict the political economy
of the region the role of non-state actors and social movements
societal and cultural trends. The wide range of contributions from
many of the leading academic experts on the region offers not only
insights into the debates and processes that structure each theme,
but also key pointers for a more general understanding of how
distinct political, economic, social and cultural dynamics interact
across the region. It will therefore be a key resource for
policy-makers and students and scholars of Mediterranean politics
and international relations.
The boat on which Edna Ferber based her famous novel brought
excitement and entertainment to isolated small towns up and down
the East Coast in early twentieth-century America. The builder of
the boat, James E. Adams, was a farmer from Michigan who taught
himself to be a circus aerialist, started and prospered with his
own carnival company, and later, when retirement proved boring,
decided to build himself a showboat. The book traces the history of
the James Adams from its inception until its demise twenty-seven
years later, a tale that includes fires, sinkings, a shooting,
arrests, and even several deaths.
The Mediterranean space, defined by a major sea, a large number of
littoral countries and to some extent their hinterlands, is at the
same time an interface between Europe, Africa and Asia. This brings
complex challenges in terms of achieving peace and stability.
Recently it has received intense international attention through
the internal destructiveness and spill-over from conflicts,
primarily those waged in Libya, Syria and, more remotely, Iraq.
This Handbook provides an overview of the political processes that
shape the Mediterranean region in the contemporary context. It
explores the issues of crucial importance to Mediterranean dynamics
through a series of analytical sections that guide the reader
towards a comprehensive understanding of the main regional
interactions and trends. The Handbook explores: the complex
historical formation of the contemporary Mediterranean geopolitical
perspectives issues around peace and conflict the political economy
of the region the role of non-state actors and social movements
societal and cultural trends. The wide range of contributions from
many of the leading academic experts on the region offers not only
insights into the debates and processes that structure each theme,
but also key pointers for a more general understanding of how
distinct political, economic, social and cultural dynamics interact
across the region. It will therefore be a key resource for
policy-makers and students and scholars of Mediterranean politics
and international relations.
"I lettori di ossa" racconta lo scontro tra scienza e politica
nel dibattito sulla preistoria australiana e di altri Paesi dove la
presenza dei popoli indigeni rende profondamente politica l
interpretazione del passato. Gli scienziati stanno ricostruendo la
preistoria con l uso di tecnologie sempre piu avanzate mentre i
popoli indigeni ne rivendicano la proprieta esclusiva. Questo rende
sempre piu difficile lo studio delle ossa e dei reperti che gli
aborigeni attribuiscono ai loro antenati ancestrali.
Simultaneamente, altri studiosi, in genere di estrazione
umanistica, sfidano la supremazia del metodo scientifica per
ricostruire il passato. La situazione e complicata dalla rivalita
tra gruppi di ricerca, universita e musei coinvolti in programmi
sull evoluzione umana, finanziati in modo precario. "I lettori di
ossa" presenta la scienza alla base delle nuove ricerche sull
evoluzione umana, ma anche i protagonisti e la politica.
"Papa Toussaint," a novel based on history, chronicles the efforts
of the former slave, Toussant Louverture, to create in Haiti a
nation based on the equality of all races. The colonial countries
work to inflame racial tensions on the island, and finally Napoleon
sends an army to reestablish slavery.
Australians have always loved a good show, as this new collection
of essays demonstrates. The significance of exhibitions goes beyond
mere entertainment. From the 1850s to the present, exhibitions have
been a marketing tool for Australias advancements in global trade,
migration and tourism. They have also been powerful vehicles for
conspicuous consumption, civic progress, social status, and
identity be it local, national or international. This
multi-disciplinary collection presents new research on a
fascinating variety of exhibitions from nineteenth-century World
Fairs to late twentieth-century Expos. Contributors are leading
museum professionals and academics from a range of disciplines
including art history, the history of design, literary studies,
indigenous history, cultural and social history and the history of
science. Seize the Day examines the complex role of exhibitions
within Australias cultural, commercial and artistic histories.
Exhibitions are dynamic sites for the construction of national
identities and international collaborations, the showcasing of
collecting and exhibiting practices, and the expression and
contestation of race and gender. Detailed case studies explore the
many facets of exhibitions from ethnographic display to artistic
competition to intercolonial rivalry to reveal their politics,
personalities and astonishingly rich material culture. As the first
book to address the exhibition movement in Australia in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Seize the Day will become the
standard collection on this topic for years to come. Numerous black
and white images, plus an eight-page colour insert in the print
version.
What motivates workers to work harder? What can management do to
create a contented and productive workforce? Discussion of these
questions would be incomplete without reference to the Hawthorne
experiments, one of the most famous pieces of research ever
conducted in the social and behavioural sciences. Drawing on the
original records of the experiments and the personal papers of the
researchers, Richard Gillespie has reconstructed the intellectual
and political dynamics of the experiments as they evolved from the
tentative experimentation to seemingly authoritative publications.
Manufacturing Knowledge raises fundamental questions about the
nature of scientific knowledge, and about the assumptions and
evidence that underlay debates on worker productivity.
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