Foundations of european politics

Foundations of Comparative Politics

Now in its fourth edition, this textbook gives a clear and concise account of the government and politics of democratic states, comprehensively update

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Politics of Becoming European

This book examines the relations between security, identity and collective memory, focusing on the dynamics of identity formation among the elites of

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Comparative European Politics

This essential guide to comparative European politics provides the broadest range of coverage on Europe, illustrated via the widest range of examples,

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Contemporary European Politics

Introduces students to the development of the EU's role in world politics. This book examines the gradual rise of the EU as an international actor and

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State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender and Race

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Foundations of Comparative Politics - International Student Edition

Adapted from the groundbreaking Principles of Comparative Politics, now in its third edition, Foundations of Comparative Politics presents a scientifi

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Politics in the European Union

Accessible and engaging, this is a complete guide to the past, present, and future of the European Union. An expert author team examine in detail the

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Routledge Handbook of East European Politics

The handbook is unrivalled in breadth and depth affording a comprehensive overview of Eastern European politics provided by leading experts in the fie

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Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context

This book provides novel and critical insights into the complex relationship between politics of memory and oblivion in European countries in the 20th

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European Handbook of Central Asian Studies – History, Politics, and Societies

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Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age - Bruce R. Berglund

<p>Prague in the early twentieth century was the city of cubists, surrealists, and the Good Soldier vejk. This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by identifying religion as an integral part of the city s cultural history. As Prague emerged as a modern city and the Czech nation gained independence, Catholics, Protestants, and those who imagined a non-sectar...

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Rhetoric and Bricolage in European Politics and Beyond

This book seeks to develop Rhetoric as a field of knowledge in an important new direction, European Union politics. By fusing rhetorical and sociologi

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Developments in Central and East European Politics 5

The new edition of this market-leading text brings together specially commissioned chapters by a team of top international scholars on the changing po

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Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union

An original textbook providing a much-needed new perspective on how the European Union's policies and institutions have changed in light of the multip

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European Union Governance and Policy Making

European Union Governance and Policy Making introduces Canadian students to the politics of the EU. Divided into three parts, the collection examines

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Ideational Legacies and the Politics of Migration in European Minority Regions

This book outlines a theory of ideational policy stabilization to explain stable policy choices despite changing incentives. Christina Zuber draws on

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European Employment Law

This volume covers the complete scope of European employment law: its foundations in EU primary law and its various sources in EU secondary legislatio

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European Union Law

SchĂĽtze's European Union Law uses a distinctive three-part structure to examine the constitutional foundations, legal powers and substantive law of t

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Art and Politics

Australian governments at all levels have been engaged with arts and culture in many different forms since the beginning of European settlement. The w

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Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe explores contemporary models of national and European Union (EU) citizenship in the context of intra-EU m

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The Politics Book - kolektiv autorů

Anotace: Learning about the vast concept of politics can be daunting, this book makes it easier than ever by giving you all the big ideas, simply explained. It includes more than 100 ideas in the history of politics that are helpfully broken down so that abstract topics, such as theoretical foundations and practical applications become real.

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The Politics Book - autorů kolektiv

<p>Learning about the vast concept of politics can be daunting, this book makes it easier than ever by giving you all the big ideas, simply explained. It includes more than 100 ideas in the history of politics that are helpfully broken down so that abstract topics, such as theoretical foundations and practical applications become real.</p>

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National Politics of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans

The National Politics of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans examines the way in which a number of European Union members states, including Germany

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Courts and Politics in Southeast Asia

This Element analyses the historical foundations, patterns, and drivers of judicialization of politics by mapping critical junctures that have shaped

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Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries

Examines the impact of the economic crisis on peripheral European states such as Ireland and Greece. This book focuses on governance, sustainable poli

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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (000842294X)

Kniha - autor Alex Ross, 784 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics?an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty...

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Eu Enlargement, the Clash of Capitalisms and the European Social Dimension

Analyses the impact of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements upon the politics of European integration within EU employment and social policy -- .

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EU Political System After the 2019 European Elections

This book assesses the impact of the May 2019 European elections as well as the Covid-19 pandemic on the EUÂ’s politics, institutions, and policies.

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My European Family : The First 54,000 Years - Karin Bojsová

<p>Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we're all related. And in a sense, we are all family. My European Family tells the story of Europe and its people through its gen...

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Judicial Law-Making and Judicial Interpretation in Central European Countries - Pavel Ondřejek

Anotace: This book reflects on the changing role of the judiciary in Central Europe. From among the many problems associated with the position of courts in contemporary states, the authors focus on various questions of how the courts´ decision-making can reinforce the overall coherence of the law, rather than contribute to its fragmentation. These questions are as follow...

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Judicial Law-Making and Judicial Interpretation in Central European Countries

This book reflects on the changing role of the judiciary in Central Europe. From among the many problems associated with the position of courts in contemporary states, the authors focus on various questions of how the courts’ decision-making can reinforce the overall coherence of the law, rather than contribute to its fragmentation. These questions are as follows, for exa...

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Judicial Law-Making and Judicial Interpretation in Central European Countries - Pavel Ondřejek

<p>This book reflects on the changing role of the judiciary in Central Europe. From among the many problems associated with the position of courts in contemporary states, the authors focus on various questions of how the courts’ decision-making can reinforce the overall coherence of the law, rather than contribute to its fragmentation. These questions are as follows...

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Backstop Land

A witty and impassioned book on Ulster, which has been thrust into the centre of British and European politics and which is likely to become Britain's

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Judicial Law-Making and Judicial Interpretation in Central European Countries: How Can Courts Streng (978-80-7676-183-4)

Elektronická kniha - autor Pavel Ondřejek, 228 stran, anglicky This book reflects on the changing role of the judiciary in Central Europe. From among the many problems associated with the position of courts in contemporary states, the authors focus on various questions of how the courts’ decision-making can reinforce the overall coherence of the law, rather than contri...

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Perils of International Capital

Financial capital affects domestic politics, and can finance policies that entrench authoritarian rule. This book presents theoretical foundations, cr

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From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Maastricht

This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastrich

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Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity

A detailed study of 60 contentious episodes in European politics where governments' austerity policies and institutional reforms were opposed during a

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Pictures of Czech Postmodernism

The essays in this book deal with those who currently figure among the most important Czech artists and whose work is internationally recognized. Most of them entered the art scene in the late 1980s on the crest of a powerful generational wave known as Czech postmodernism. Although this artistic drive ran parallel to revolutionary changes in Central and Eastern Europe, it...

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Monstrosity of Christ

"What matters is not so much that Zizek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief."--John Milbank"To put it even more bluntly, my claim is that it is Milbank who is effectively guilty of heterodoxy, ultimately of a regression t...

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History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks

An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century European Union.

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Tyranny of the Minority - Steven Levitsky

<p>How has democracy become so threatened – and what can we do to save it?</p> <p>With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent new framework for understanding the dangerous times we live in. They draw on a wealth of exam...

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Pictures of Czech Postmodernism - Jiří Přibáň

Anotace: The essays in this book deal with those who currently figure among the most important Czech artists and whose work is internationally recognized. Most of them entered the art scene in the late 1980s on the crest of a powerful generational wave known as Czech postmodernism. Although this artistic drive ran parallel to revolutionary changes in Central and Eastern ...

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Pictures of Czech Postmodernism - Jiří Přibáň

<p>The essays in this book deal with those who currently figure among the most important Czech artists and whose work is internationally recognized. Most of them entered the art scene in the late 1980s on the crest of a powerful generational wave known as Czech postmodernism. Although this artistic drive ran parallel to revolutionary changes in Central and Eastern E...

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Karel Teige. Captain of the Avant-Garde - Rea Michalová

Anotace: Karel Teige ovlivnil českou kulturu v mnoha oblastech a jednoznačně patří k mimořádným osobnostem českého moderního umění. Jeho tvorba je však paradoxně známa a uznávána více v zahraničí než u nás. <br> Kniha Karel Teige - Kapitán avantgardy je dalším příspěvkem k odčinění tohoto dluhu. Její autorka, historička umění Rea Michalová, se navrací ad fontes a ...

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Karel Teige - Captain of the Avant-Garde - Rea Michalová

<p>Karel Teige ovlivnil českou kulturu v mnoha oblastech a jednoznačně patří k mimořádným osobnostem českého moderního umění. Jeho tvorba je však paradoxně známa a uznávána více v zahraničí než u nás. <br /> Kniha Karel Teige - Kapitán avantgardy je dalším příspěvkem k odčinění tohoto dluhu. Její autorka, historička umění Rea Michalová, se navrací ad fontes a...

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Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO - Peter Apps

<p>The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's democracies banded permanently together could they avoid a catastrophic global atomic conflict. Over the 75 years since, the...

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The Strange Death of Europe : Immigration, Identity, Islam - Douglas Murray

<p>The Sunday Times number one bestseller Chosen as a Waterstones Politics Paperback of the Year, 2018The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves...

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A Room of One´s Own, 1. vydání - Virginia Woolf

<p>Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the foundations of a history of women's literature, the text is also a triu...

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Václav Havel The Power of the Powerless in the 20th Century - Martin Vopěnka; Eva Bartošová

Anotace: This biography is not just about Václav Havel and his legacy, but about the history of Central Europe in the 20th Century. It offers a foundation that anyone interested in this history should know. Václav Havel grew up during the great historical upheavals of the Second World War and the division of Europe by the Iron Curtain. Later he would make ...

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Václav Havel The Power of the Powerless in the 20th Century

This biography is not just about Václav Havel and his legacy, but about the history of Central Europe in the 20th Century. It offers a foundation that anyone interested in this history should know. ***** Václav Havel grew up during the great historical upheavals of the Second World War and the division of Europe by the Iron Curtain. Later he would make his own mark on his...

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The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe - Kohn Marek

Anotace: A fascinating journey through Europe`s old towns, exploring why we treasure them-but also what they hide about a continent`s fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War-some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace an...

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The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe - Marek Kohn

A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility...

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The Dream of Europe : Travels in a Troubled Continent - Mak Geert

Anotace: How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.The great European project was built out of a common desire for peace, prosperity and freedom; a wish for a united E...

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The Dream of Europe : Travels in a Troubled Continent - Geert Mak

<p>How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here? From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium. The great European project was built out of a common desire for peace, prosperity and freedom; a wish for a unite...

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Václav Havel The Power of the Powerless in the 20th Century - Martin Vopěnka

<p>Václav Havel grew up during the great historical upheavals of the Second World War and the division of Europe by the Iron Curtain. Later he would make his own mark on history. Was he more powerful as a president struggling to bring a more human dimension to politics, or as a prisoner of the communist regime, acting in accordance with his conscience?</p><...

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Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran

The Iranian revolution of 1979 overhauled not only the foundations of Iranian society, religion and politics, but also our understanding of the role o

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Scotland

An academic analysis of the foundations and structures of modern-day Scotland that provides insight into Scottish politics, society and culture. -- .

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Sicily and the Enlightenment

The colourful world of 18th century European politics as revealed by through the writings of a leading Italian statesman.

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Enterprise Foundation Law in a Comparative Perspective

Many large companies are owned by enterprise foundations. This book provides an overview of enterprise foundation law in six European countries and th

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Anglican Enlightenment

An original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the politics of religion in later Stuart England and its global empire. William J.

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