the unfinished democratization of europe nov 2009

... credence to the notion of the EU as an organization of legal consociates rather than a market. Second, the decision to establish the Convention on the Future of Europe at the Laeken Summit (European ... for the political theory of the U nion? On the basis of the contention that citizens must be offered justification for the exercise of political power that h...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:10

... which were unknown to the other parts of the world.” 5 In the eyes of many historians, the final realization of the idea of Europe came at the end of the 18th century. In 1796, the Irish political ... north- ern and southern European economies. Figure 10: The Competitiveness Gap: Northern vs Southern Europe Notes : *Northern Europe: Denmark, Finland, Germany...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... illustrates the correctness of the quantity theory of money. Its increase in purchasing power (like that of the gold dollar) during the first half of 1921 is, of course, due to the fact that the supply ... since the invention of printing, governments all over the world are employing the third invention for the purpose of debasing the second; thereby rob...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22

... sense of the imbrication of these phenomena in the geographic logic of the city and an insistence on the intrinsically collective nature of the dynamics of intra-urban space. In order to set the ... 1995). Dear’s account of the “postmodern urban condition” captures much of the spirit of the latter trend (Dear 2000). All of these approaches to urban theory a...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:16

... per- son is practicing the essence of the Zen Way. He regards the full expression of their quiet innate competence—‘‘just this’’—as the true form and measure of 12 I. On the Varieties of Attention Also ... 43 11 First Mondo 47 Part II On the Origins of Self 49 12 You Are the ‘‘Person of the Year’’ 51 13 On the Nature and the Origins of the Self 53 14 Select...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:49

... exclusion on the basis of their identity. They may not even view themselves as having a distinctive identity 17 and therefore are unaware that identity is the basis upon which they enjoy some of the privileges ... practices to which they are otherwise culturally loyal once they are presented w ith evidence which establishes for them the harmful eVects of the practice on their...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:25

... put the point later, a global practice of human rights oVers the hope of constraining one of the two main perils of a global political order composed of independent states. (The other is the ... especially the perspicuous schematic account of the evolution of human rights practice at pp. 129-38. 55 On the development and deWciencies of the European system, inc...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:28

... the sole of the feet of the genius it depicts: it’s blasphemy.’⁸³ The mayor of Berlin, on the other hand, remained entirely unmoved by such allegations. Despite the fact that the city of Berlin ... erected in front of the column of victory in Berlin on 4 September 1915, was perhaps the most famous visual manifestation of the Hindenburg myth. The statue was...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:38

... construed to resemble those of the long line of southern symposia described above. We called the con- ference The End of Southern History? Integrating the Modern South and the Nation.” We even invited ... of the Jim Crow system, a global humiliation in the Cold War struggle, the latest stage in the South’s timeless defi ance of national norms. 1 INTRODUCTION: THE...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 09:43

... could be the sole basis of the defence policies of states. Such claims need to be tested by a rigorous examination of the record. The chapters of this book are intended to add to the body of general ... eVective in replacing some of the functions of the Swedish armed forces for example the defence of sparsely populated parts of the country. However, it migh...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:33