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Europe's old states in the new world order : the politics of transition in Britain, France and Spain

Title
Europe's old states in the new world order : the politics of transition in Britain, France and Spain / edited by Joseph Ruane, Jennifer Todd, Anne Mandeville.
Publication
Dublin : University College Dublin Press ; [Chester Springs, Pa.] : [U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions], 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Ruane, Joseph.
  • Todd, Jennifer, 1952 February 16-
  • Mandeville, Anne.
Description
ix, 322 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
"This book will be a valuable resource for courses in European politics and history, and on comparative nationalism and European regionalism."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Since 1975
  • Regionalism > Europe, Western
  • National security > Great Britain
  • National security > France
  • National security > Spain
  • Régionalisme
  • Décentralisation
  • Déconcentration
  • Autonomie
  • Réformes de l'Etat
  • Nationalisme
  • Sécurité publique
  • National security
  • Politics and government
  • Regionalism
  • Europe, Western > Politics and government > 1989-
  • Great Britain > Politics and government > 1997-
  • France > Politics and government > 1995-2007
  • Spain > Politics and government > 1975-
  • Espagne
  • France
  • Royaume-Uni
  • Western Europe
  • Great Britain
  • Spain
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-309) and index.
Contents
A politics of transition in Britain, France and Spain / Jennifer Todd, Anne Mandeville, Joseph Ruane -- Theorising the transition : longue duree and current conjucture in centre-periphery relations in Britain, France and Spain / Joseph Ruane -- Part 1. Transformations of territorial politics : the state in transition -- Spain : the 1978 constitution and centre-periphery tensions / Jose-Maria Comas -- The British state since devolution : reconfigurations and continuities / Jennifer Todd -- Beyond exceptionalism? Changing regional and local governance in France / Alistair Cole -- Part 2. Regionalism, nationalism, separatism : the changing articulation of peripheral nationalist demands -- Catalonia : autonomous community or nascent state? / Jordi Argelaguet -- A changed Irish nationalism? The significance of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 / Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd -- France's peripheral parties : nuanced demands / Fabien Charlet -- Part 3. The role of institutions : the security forces and the maintenance of order -- The Basque imbroglio : a clash of logics and a multiplicity of actors / Jerome Montes -- The maintenance of order in a changing state : the reform of policing in the United Kingdom / Anne Mandeville -- The maintenance of public order in France : inertia and transformation in the contemporary evolution of French state security / Alain Picard -- Conclusion -- Europe's old states and the new order / Jennifer Todd.
ISBN
  • 1900621428
  • 9781900621427
LCCN
2004426545
OCLC
  • ocm50714439
  • 50714439
  • SCSB-1320227
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library