Europe At The Crossroads
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| Author | : Pieter Bevelander |
| Publisher | : Nordic Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2019-05-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9188909190 |
The extreme right wing is on the rise. And there are signs that part of the political mainstream in Europe, the US, and beyond is considering going along with far-right populist parties and their divisive, ethno-nationalist programmes. Europe at the Crossroads is an urgent scholarly response to the sociopolitical challenges that far-right programmes pose to the idea of a more egalitarian world. It offers an interdisciplinary explanation and critique of the dynamics of the far right in Europe – from Poland to the UK, from Sweden to Greece. The authors present immediate alternatives when tackling the exclusionary rhetoric and the politics of resentment. In formulating alternatives for a ‘social Europe’, each contributor critically assesses the current advance of far- right populism and the threat to liberal democracy since the global financial crisis of 2008 and the European refugee movement of 2015. Each chapter addresses the historical roots and normalization of the extreme right, whether Orbanism in Central and Eastern Europe since 2014, the Brexit campaign and referendum in the UK in 2016. As the slogan ‘Fortress Europe’ – once a pejorative term – now appeals to large numbers of voters, the authors also analyse the flash points in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May 2019.
| Author | : Pieter van Duin |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781845453954 |
During the four decades of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia a vast literature on working-class movements has been produced but it has hardly any value for today's scholarship. This remarkable study reopens the field. Based on Czech, Slovak, German and other sources, it focuses on the history of the multi-ethnic social democratic labor movement in Slovakia's capital Bratislava during the period 1867-1921, and on the process of national revolution during the years 1918-19 in particular. The study places the historic change of the former Pressburg into the modern Bratislava in the broader context of the development of multinational pre-1918 Hungary, the evolution of social, ethnic, and political relations in multi-ethnic Pressburg (a 'tri-national' city of Germans, Magyars, and Slovaks), and the development of the multinational labor movement in Hungary and the Habsburg Empire as a whole.
| Author | : Elizabeth Dillenburg |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 566 |
| Release | : 2021-08-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004462341 |
This book investigates the importance of printing in early-modern Central Europe, revealing a complicated web of connections linking printers and scholars, Jews and Christians, from the Baltic to the Adriatic.
| Author | : Ryder, Andrew |
| Publisher | : Bristol University Press |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2020-07-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1529200512 |
This book dissects the complex social, cultural and political factors which led the UK to take its decision to leave the EU and examines the far-reaching consequences of that decision. Developing the conceptual framework of securitization, Ryder innovatively uses primary sources and a focus on rhetoric to examine the ways that political elites engineered a politics of fear, insecurity and Brexit nationalism before and after the Brexit vote. He situates Brexit within a wider shift in international political ideas, traces the resurgence in popularity of far-right politics and explores how Britain and Europe now face a choice between further neoliberal reform or radical democratic and social renewal.
| Author | : Ruth Wodak |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2020-10-12 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1529738539 |
Far-right populist politics have arrived in the mainstream. We are now witnessing the shameless normalization of a political discourse built around nationalism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, antisemitism and Islamophobia. But what does this change mean? What caused it? And how does far-right populist discourse work? The Politics of Fear traces the trajectory of far-right politics from the margins of the political landscape to its very centre. It explores the social and historical mechanisms at play, and expertly ties these to the "micro-politics" of far-right language and discourse. From speeches to cartoons to social media posts, Ruth Wodak systematically analyzes the texts and images used by these groups, laying bare the strategies, rhetoric and half-truths the far-right employ. The revised second edition of this best-selling book includes: A range of vignettes analyzing specific instances of far-right discourse in detail. Expanded discussion of the "normalization" of far-right discourse. A new chapter exploring the challenges to liberal democracy. An updated glossary of far-right parties and movements. More discussion of the impact of social media on the rise of the far-right. Critical, analytical and impassioned, The Politics of Fear is essential reading for anyone looking to understand how far-right and populist politics have moved into the mainstream, and what we can do about it.
| Author | : Nicola Acocella |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 489 |
| Release | : 2020-08-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1108840876 |
Analyzes the roots of Europe's economic decline, examining institutions of the European Union and exploring possibilities for reform.
| Author | : Stefan Auer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Europe |
| ISBN | : 9780857420404 |
The European Union is not a state, but a collection of states. From the outset, this European project has struggled to turn its many histories into one unifying narrative. The author exposes the limits of the current European project by interrogating some of its many incongruities, particularly when it comes to its commitment to freedom.
| Author | : Koen Ottenheym |
| Publisher | : Brepols Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
This book focuses on the diffusion of architectural inventions from the Low Countries to other parts of Europe from the late fifteenth until the end of the seventeenth century. Multiple pathways connected the architecture of the Low Countries with the world, but a coherent analysis of the phenomenon is still missing. Written by an international team of specialists, the book offers case-studies illustrating various mechanisms of transmission, such as the migration of building masters and sculptors who worked as architects abroad, networks of foreign patrons inviting Netherlandish artists, printed models and the role of foreign architects who visited the Low Countries for professional reasons. Its geographical scope is as broad as the period under review and includes all European regions where Netherlandish elements were found: from Spain to Scandinavia and from Scotland to Transylvania.
| Author | : Tomasz Jastrun |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
Poetry. Prose. Translated from the Polish and with an introduction by Daniel Bourne (not in bilingual edition). "Here at last we have a generous selection of Tomasz Jastrun's poems and prose chronicling the disintegration of Poland, and celebrating the unlikely survival of the human spirit" (John Witte). Born in 1950, Jastrun writes a poetry that is both politically and sensually aware, urgent both in its content and in its form: short lines that push the reader forward towards the next line, the next event, the next idea. Naomi Shihab Nye characterizes these texts as "crucial, empowering work; " these are poems that respond to unthinkable human atrocities in thinking, human ways. "This minefield was laid/Before I was born/On the edge of some prehistoric ocean/In a war of words against other words/Struggling in vain to touch God" (from "Uncertain Ground").
| Author | : Pieter C. van Duin |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 473 |
| Release | : 2009-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1845459180 |
During the four decades of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia a vast literature on working-class movements has been produced but it has hardly any value for today’s scholarship. This remarkable study reopens the field. Based on Czech, Slovak, German and other sources, it focuses on the history of the multi-ethnic social democratic labor movement in Slovakia’s capital Bratislava during the period 1867-1921, and on the process of national revolution during the years 1918–19 in particular. The study places the historic change of the former Pressburg into the modern Bratislava in the broader context of the development of multinational pre-1918 Hungary, the evolution of social, ethnic, and political relations in multi-ethnic Pressburg (a ‘tri-national’ city of Germans, Magyars, and Slovaks), and the development of the multinational labor movement in Hungary and the Habsburg Empire as a whole.
