Browsing by Subject "Europe"

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    • Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery 

      Bohle, Dorothee; Greskovits, Béla (Cornell University Press, 2012)
      With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single ...

    • The Continuing Evolution of Europe 

      Buettner, Thiess; Ochel, Wolfgang (MIT Press, 2011)
      The European Union began with efforts in the Cold War era to foster economic integration among a few Western European countries. Today's EU constitutes an upper tier of government that affects almost every level of ...

    • The Council of Europe : its laws and policies 

      Breuer, Marten; Schmahl, Stefanie (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      The Council of Europe, of which all European States are members, plays a pivotal role in the promotion and protection of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in Europe. Bringing together specialist scholars and ...

    • Developments in Environmental Regulation : Risk based regulation in the UK and Europe 

      Foreman, Jon (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book provides a critical examination of contemporary approaches to environmental regulation in the UK and the European Union. It also explores how regulation has evolved in response to a number of factors, including ...

    • Dialogues Between Faith and Reason: Rebuilding Europe After the First and Second World Wars and the Role of Heritage Preservation 

      Smith, John H. (Cornell University Press, 2011)
      The goal of this book, however, is not to take sides in this debate, as there are enough polemics promoting proofs for the existence or nonexistence of God. 1It is not my interest either to support radical skepticism or ...

    • Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe 

      Kaplan, Benjamin J. (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010)
      As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: Can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Benjamin Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern ...

    • Economies of favour after socialism 

      Henig, David; Makovicky, Nicolette (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      A volume on the economics of favours and how they function as socially efficacious actions in post-socialist regions including central, eastern, and south eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, and post-Maoist China.

    • Energy Security in Europe: Divergent Perceptions and Policy Challenges 

      Szulecki, Kacper (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This edited collection highlights the different meanings that have been attached to the notion of energy security and how it is taken to refer to different objects. Official policy definitions of energy security are broadly ...

    • The enforcement of EU law and values : ensuring member states' compliance 

      Jakab, András; Kochenov, Dimitry (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      It is clear that the current crisis of the EU is not confined to the Eurozone and the EMU, evidenced in its inability to ensure the compliance of Member States to follow the principles and values underlying the integration ...

    • Europe's growth challenge 

      Åslund, Anders; Djankov, Simeon (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      A cogent and systematic look at the ways in which enacting fiscal and governmental policy changes might reinvigorate Europe's stagnant economy.

    • Family and business during the Industrial Revolution 

      Barker, Hannah (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west England, shops and workshops dominated the streetscape, ...

    • Germany and the Second World War. Volume VIII, The Eastern Front 1943-1944 : the war in the East and on the neighbouring fronts 

      Frieser, Karl-Heinz (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      The latest volume in the magisterial Germany and the Second World War series, volume VIII deals with one of the most eventful phases of the Second World War: the battles on the eastern front in 1943 and 1944. In no other ...

    • In Defence of Europe: Can the European Project Be Saved? 

      Tsoukalis, Loukas (Oxford University Press, 2016)
      Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time. Buffeted by a succession of crises, its collective capacity to deliver has been truly disappointing. In times when the tectonic plates are shifting and tension between ...

    • In Defence of Europe: Can the European Project Be Saved? 

      Tsoukalis, Loukas (Oxford University Press, 2016)
      Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time. Buffeted by a succession of crises, its collective capacity to deliver has been truly disappointing. In times when the tectonic plates are shifting and tension between ...

    • In Defence of Europe: Can the European Project Be Saved? 

      Tsoukalis, Loukas (Oxford University Press, 2016)
      Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time. Buffeted by a succession of crises, its collective capacity to deliver has been truly disappointing. In times when the tectonic plates are shifting and tension between ...

    • The Influence of Business Cultures in Europe: An Exploration of Central, Eastern, and Northern Economies 

      Crane, Robert A. (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This book explores the way that culture and societal values impact the economies of eight European countries, focussing on businesses and their organisation and management processes. With contributions from skilled authors ...

    • Inter-Regional Relations and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) 

      Gaens, Bart; Khandekar, Gauri (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This edited volume examines contemporary relations between Europe and Asia through the prism of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). ASEM is an informal forum for dialogue and cooperation between 53 partners from both regions. ...

    • The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe 

      Diaz-Guardamino, Marta; Sanjuan, Leonardo Garcia; Wheatley, David (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      This volume explores the pervasive influence exerted by some prehistoric monuments on European social life over thousands of years, and reveals how they can act as a node linking people through time, possessing huge ...

    • The Middle Ages 

      Fried, Johannes; Lewis, Peter (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015)
      Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a “middle” period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated. Across the millennium from ...

    • The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century 

      Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice (University of California Press, 2011)
      Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the ...