Europe In The 1990s
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Author | : Timothy Garton Ash |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2001-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0375506454 |
The 1990s. An extraordinary decade in Europe. At its beginning, the old order collapsed along with the Berlin Wall. Everything seemed possible. Everyone hailed a brave new Europe. But no one knew what this new Europe would look like. Now we know. Most of Western Europe has launched into the unprecedented gamble of monetary union, though Britain stands aside. Germany, peacefully united, with its capital in Berlin, is again the most powerful country in Europe. The Central Europeans—Poles, Czechs, Hungarians—have made successful transitions from communism to capitalism and have joined NATO. But farther east and south, in the territories of the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia, the continent has descended into a bloody swamp of poverty, corruption, criminality, war, and bestial atrocities such as we never thought would be seen again in Europe. Timothy Garton Ash chronicles this formative decade through a glittering collection of essays, sketches, and dispatches written as history was being made. He joins the East Germans for their decisive vote for unification and visits their former leader in prison. He accompanies the Poles on their roller-coaster ride from dictatorship to democracy. He uncovers the motives for monetary union in Paris and Bonn. He walks in mass demonstrations in Belgrade and travels through the killing fields of Kosovo. Occasionally, he even becomes an actor in a drama he describes: debating Germany with Margaret Thatcher or the role of the intellectual with Václav Havel in Prague. Ranging from Vienna to Saint Petersburg, from Britain to Ruthenia, Garton Ash reflects on how "the single great conflict" of the cold war has been replaced by many smaller ones. And he asks what part the United States still has to play. Sometimes he takes an eagle's-eye view, considering the present attempt to unite Europe against the background of a thousand years of such efforts. But often he swoops to seize one telling human story: that of a wiry old farmer in Croatia, a newspaper editor in Warsaw, or a bitter, beautiful survivor from Sarajevo. His eye is sharp and ironic but always compassionate. History of the Present continues the work that Garton Ash began with his trilogy of books about Central Europe in the 1980s, combining the crafts of journalism and history. In his Introduction, he argues that we should not wait until the archives are opened before starting to write the history of our own times. Then he shows how it can be done. From the Hardcover edition.
Author | : Hanspeter Neuhold |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2019-07-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000301133 |
This book presents the work of leading experts from Austria, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland on the changing opportunities and challenges faced by the neutral states of Europe. It outlines some of the political changes that have recently taken place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Author | : Paul Graham Taylor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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What is the European Union? The European Union in the 1990s answers this question by presenting an overview of the EU: what it now is, how it evolved into its present form, how the sense of identity with its citizens sustains it, and what is the relationship with the outside world which bestsuits it. Paul Taylor investigates the range of conflicting views on the role of the European Union, and is sharply critical of both the growth of Euroscepticism and calls for a Federalist approach. He shows that, as the conditions of sovereignty are continually changing in the modern world, furtherintegration does not threaten the nation state. On the contrary, he asserts that integration brings advantages for the citizens in Europe. The author sees the European Union as a unique arrangement between states, beneficial to the majority of individuals without threatening national sovereignty. The European Union on the 1990s provides a clear, accessible overview of the EU, ideal for students and those involved in the politics of the European Union.
Author | : Glennon J. Harrison |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1315483955 |
A product of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US House of Representatives, this text studies the emergence of a more unified Europe as an economic and political power, and the implications of European integration for the United States.
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Author | : Gerda Falkner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2003-07-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134727348 |
This book offers an analytical overview of schools of thought on European integration which offer useful insights into EU social politics. Building on this framework, the chapters then examine in detail pre-Maastricht social policy and the 'social partners', the innovations of the Treaty itself, and where EU social policy stands at the end of the 1990s. Case studies of European Works Councils, parental leave, and atypical work, are included to highlight the day-to-day processes at work in social policy formation and the major interest groups and EU institutions involved. This is an up-to-date and accessible study which finds the social policy-making environment in the EU has become increasingly corporatist in the 1990s.
Author | : Donatella M. Viola |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351787675 |
This title was first published in 2000: This book investigates the European Parliament’s stance vis-a-vis the 1990-1991 Gulf and 1991-1992 Yugoslav crises. In unveiling the parliamentary multi-faceted view of these events, reference has been made to the positions taken by constituent political groups and their voting behaviour. In particular, the following questions have been addressed: has the European Parliament sought to define and shape a common foreign policy with respect to the above crises? What specific functions have the European Parliament political groups performed? Have political groups succeeded in achieving an internal cohesion? Has the European Parliament overcome divisions among its members through the formation of party coalitions? despite the considerable flow of published material on external relations of the European Union and the European Parliament, virtually no study has explored in-depth the links between these two areas. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap in the existing literature, breaking new ground by combining a qualitative and qualitative analysis of parliamentary behaviour with foreign policy.
Author | : Dan Smith |
Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Arms control |
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Author | : D. A. Coleman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Nine chapters, by distinguished authors, present an up-to-date picture of Europe's population, both East and West, detailing birth rates, immigration, mortality, family formation and dissolution, illustrated with numerous tables and graphs. The book considers some of the causes of observed trends--economic pressures, the spread of new values, family policy--and their importance in creating an ageing Europe threatened by population decline.
Author | : Joseph C. Rallo |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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