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European States (european + states)

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Humanities and Social Sciences72%

Selected Abstracts

Tribal Instinct and Religious Persecution: Why Do Western European States Behave So Badly?

JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 2 2001
J. Christopher Soper
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The European Union and the European States

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW, Issue 2 2010
Antoaneta L. Dimitrova
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Liberalized capital markets, state autonomy, and European monetary union

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, Issue 2 2003
Erik Jones
The conventional wisdom is that capital market integration and now monetary union have limited the options available to macroeconomic policy makers in Europe. The question considered here, therefore, is why many prominent Europeans insist that monetary union is a rational response to capital market integration. Monetary union eliminates exchange rate volatility , but only at a cost in terms of tightening the constraints on macroeconomic policy. Using a combination of macroeconomic theory and (descriptive) statistical analysis of European performance, I find that: capital market integration has increased macroeconomic flexibility through a mitigation of the current account constraint; European states have combined macroeconomic policies in a manner that has taken advantage of greater flexibility on the current account; the cost of such flexibility in terms of the impact of financial volatility on the real economy manifests differently in different countries; and monetary union both enhances flexibility on the current account and mitigates financial volatility. [source]

Westphalian Eurocentrism in International Relations Theory

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 2 2010
Turan Kayaoglu
In the past 10,15 years, an increasing number of revisionist scholars have rejected the most significant elements of the argument about the centrality of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) to the evolution and structure of international society. At the same time, the prominence of this argument has grown in the English School and constructivist international relations scholarship. I deconstruct the function of the Westphalian narrative to explain its pervasiveness and persistence. I argue that it was first developed by nineteenth century imperial international jurists and that the Westphalian narrative perpetuates a Eurocentric bias in international relations theory. This bias maintains that Westphalia created an international society, consolidating a normative divergence between European international relations and the rest of the international system. This dualism is predicated on the assumption that with Westphalia European states had solved the anarchy problem either through cultural or contractual evolution. Non-European states, lacking this European culture and social contract, remained in anarchy until the European states allowed them to join the international society,upon their achievement of the "standards of civilization." This Westphalian narrative distorts the emergence of the modern international system and leads to misdiagnoses of major problems of contemporary international relations. Furthermore, their commitment to the Westphalian narrative prevents international relations scholars from adequately theorizing about international interdependencies and accommodating global pluralism. [source]

Fixing national subjects in the 1920s southern Balkans: Also an international practice

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2008
JANE K. COWAN
ABSTRACT The momentous transition from empire to nation-state in the early 20th century entailed a challenge for European states to produce "national" subjects,citizens. Scholars examining how diverse populations were incorporated into national projects have typically taken the nation-state's territorial boundaries as analytical boundaries and have rarely considered nation-building comparatively or investigated the creation of national subjects as an international practice. Taking the case of the League of Nation's supervision of the Greco,Bulgarian Convention Concerning Reciprocal and Voluntary Emigration in the 1920s, I explore collaboration between international and national agents in disambiguating multistranded affiliations of certain subjects in pursuit of homogeneous nation-states. [international institutions, nation-building, supervision, subjects, migration, borders, minorities] [source]

Moderate Secularism and Multicultural Equality

POLITICS, Issue 3 2008
Sune Lęgaard
Tariq Modood argues that European states are only ,moderately secular' and that this kind of secularism is compatible with public accommodation of religious groups and provides a model of Muslim integration appropriate for European states. Although attention to the fact of moderate secularism provides a response to a prominent argument against multicultural accommodation of religious minorities, what is really at stake in discussions of multiculturalism and secularism are political principles. Modood's case for accommodation of Muslims along the lines of moderate secularism presupposes a normative conception of equality, but his characterisation of multicultural equality is inadequate in several respects. [source]

Crime, Media and Moral Panic in an Expanding European Union

THE HOWARD JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Issue 1 2009
ROB C. MAWBY
Abstract: In the latest phase of European Union enlargement Bulgaria and Romania were admitted to EU membership on 1 January 2007. In the UK, media coverage of the accession process focused on the potential movement of large numbers of people from Eastern to Western European states; a particular focus was the crime risk associated with enlargement. This article examines how newspapers reported the perceived crime threats and assesses the extent to which the concerns can be understood as a moral panic. The article confirms the contemporary utility of moral panic analysis, albeit with some flexibility to reflect the modern media landscape. [source]

The State in World History: Perspectives and Problems

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 3 2002
Gregory Melleuish
This paper investigates the role of the state in world history and analyses some of the major issues confronting such an investigation with a particular focus on the relationship between the modern European state and the other historical forms of the state. Firstly it considers the problems raised by the fact that the terminology of state analysis is derived from a discourse that arose to explain the particularity of European state development. Secondly it considers the problem of the origins of the state. It examines two major issues: van Creveld's argument that only modern European states are real states and the chiefdom/state distinction. It argues that new political forms occurred both with the emergence of civilisation and the "state" in the ancient world and with the development of the modern European state after 1300. Thirdly it considers the issue of a typology of states through an examination of the model developed by Finer in his The History of Government. It argues that this model is only really effective in dealing with pre,modern political forms and that the modern European state needs to be understood as a deviant from the Eurasian norm of the agrarian empire. [source]

,Concentric Circles' at the Periphery of the European Union

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 3 2000
Karis Muller
After World War II when the governments of several European states attempted to form supranational groupings, colonial obligations posed problems that persist to this day. The article traces immediate postwar history, outlining the present relationship between the EC institutions and what remain of member-state Empires, before proceeding to two case studies. The first concerns the ramifications of ,Euroland' in present or past dependencies after European Monetary Union. The second considers the role of European dependencies in military alliances and analyses how one of the founding Treaties was used in the mid-1990s after the discovery that it applied extra-territorially. The conclusion is that the external border of multi-speed Europe is even more variable than it might otherwise be because of the attachments some member states retain to colonial remnants. [source]

Keratoprosthesis surgery: Eastern European and Russian devices

ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA, Issue 2009
ZF ZAGORSKI
Purpose To present the development and current status of keratoprosthesis surgery in Eastern Europe. Methods Collection of data from coauthors and other surgeons involved in k-pro surgery. Results Large numbers of surgeries were performed in Filatov's Institute in Odessa (Ukraine), where over 1000 different types of devices developed by Puchkovskaya, Yakimienko and Golubenko were imlanted since 1966. The last model, s.c. "universal separable device" was implanted in over 750 with the best results (extrusion occured in about 2.5% cases). K-pro devices in Russia were mostly developed by S. Fyodorov Z. Moroz, V. Zuyev, ?. Krasnov, V. Volkov, R. Gundorova, N. Ushakov and V. Bedilo. Over 1500 surgeries sine 1969 resulted in the visual aquity improvement in 94% of cases. Haptics were made of titanium, stainless steel and also biocompatible materials (xenopericardium). In Poland about 100 surgeries were performed using mostly Russian and Ukrainian devices. The results were less favorable than in countries of origin. Small numbers were also implanted in other East European states. Conclusion In former Soviet Union keratoprosthesis surgery was well developed in selected centers (Moscow, Odessa). Surgeons in these places have gained extraordinary experience performing hundredes of surgeries. The results presented by the authors were excellent, however they were less favorable in the hands of surgeons from other countries. [source]