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Title

Contemporary Europe / edited by Richard Sakwa & Anne Stevens.

Publication

New York : St. Martins' Press ; London : Macmillan, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Sakwa, Richard.
• Stevens, Anne, 1942-

Description

xix, 283 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Subject

• Europe > Politics and government > 1989-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Map of Contemporary Europe -- 1. Introduction: The Many Dimensions of Europe / Richard Sakwa -- 2. Historical Background / Robert Ladrech. Europe between the wars. Post-war Europe: Cold War and bipolar division. Diversity within blocs and economic slowdown. Challenging the Cold War political order. The post-Cold War order -- 3. The Europe of Nations and Regions / Brian Jenkins. Nation-state formation and nationalism. Nationalism in the post-war era. Nationalism, globalisation and the new Europe. Nation and region in the new Europe. A 'Europe of the regions'? The 'hollowing out' of the nation-state -- 4. Social Structure / William Outhwaite. Historical background: Europe in its place. Contemporary Europe. Capitalism. Constitutionalism. Rationalisation. Individualism. European society in the modern world -- 5. Political Participation in Europe / Dieter Rucht. Dimensions and forms of political participation. Power, cleavages and political participation.
• Party politics and voting behaviour. Interest-group politics. Social movements and protest politics. Mass media. Towards a participatory society -- 6. Government and Politics / Thomas Saalfeld. Introduction: government and politics in a changing world. How citizens express their political preferences: direct versus representative democracy. Parliamentary democracy, presidential democracy, hybrids and other forms. Prime ministers and cabinets. Ministers and civil servants. Legislative-executive relations. The costs and risks of democratic decision-making -- 7. Ever-Closer Union: European Co-operation and the European Dimension / Anne Stevens. Integration: how and why. The impact of 'Europe'. The structure of the European Union. The policy impact of the European dimension. Rights, obligations and relationships -- 8. The Challenge of the East / Irene Brennan. The challenge of diversity. Political challenges: the development of democracy.
• The politico-economic challenge: democracy vs. the market? Economic challenges: the road to the market. Meeting the challenge of economic restructuring. Meeting the challenge of agricultural reform. Meeting the challenge in the EU of reform of the structural funds and the community budget. The challenge of environmental hazard in the CEECs. New borders, new opportunities, new problems? Widening, deepening or both? -- 9. Europe and the World: the Impact of Globalisation / Ian Manners. Structure of relations. History - from the age of empires to the new world order. Multilateralism - the structure of global relations. Globalisation - global forces and Europe. The dynamics of change -- 10. European Security / Mike Bowker. European security in the Cold War period. The post-Cold War system. European security issues in the post-Cold War world. The new security architecture in Europe. The future of European security -- 11. The Cultural Dimension / John Coombes.
• Romanticism and positivism. The media. Education. Architecture. Cinema. Postmodernism and deconstruction: towards the end of the century -- 12. Conclusion / Richard Sakwa and Anne Stevens. The three Europes. The reinvention of Europe. The distinctiveness of Europe.

ISBN

• 0312236158 (cloth)
• 0312236166 (pbk.)
• 0333772709

LCCN

00030900

OCLC

• ocm43930107
• SCSB-3971955

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries