German politics today

This revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the institutions of the German political system. The historical development of German politics is surveyed, and special attention is given to the causes, course and consequences of German reunification. Detailed explanations of special ...

History and politics in late carolingian and ottonian Europe

the 'chronicle' of Regino of Prüm and Adalbert of Magdeburg

Translated and annotated by Simon MacLean. Abbot Regino of Prüm (d.915) was the last great historian of the Carolingian Empire, which spanned around a million square kilometres of continental western Europe during the eighth and ninth centuries. His Chronicle is the essential account of ...

Catholics and the 'protestant nation'

religious politics and identity in early modern England

Edited by Ethan H. Shagan. This book brings together leading historians of Catholicism and other notable historians of early modern English society in order to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography, and to ask readers to suspend their assumptions and prejudices about ...

Community and identity

the making of modern Gibraltar since 1704

Foreword by Martin Blinkhorn. This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a ...

Devolution in the UK

Referendums in Scotland and Wales in September 1997 signalled fundamental changes in the government and politics of the United Kingdom. At the start of the third millennium a Parliament in Scotland, an Assembly in Wales and a new London authority with a directly elected mayor ...

The Blair identity

leadership and foreign policy

Why did Tony Blair take Britain to war with Iraq? Because, this book argues, he was following the core political beliefs and style - the Blair identity - manifest and consistent throughout his decade in power. Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and finally Iraq were wars to which ...

Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution

populism and democracy in a globalised age

The emergence of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has revived analysis of one of Latin America#s most enduring political traditions # populism. Yet Latin America has changed since the heyday of Perón and Evita. Globalisation, implemented through harsh IMF inspired Structural Adjustment Programmes, has taken hold ...

The European Union and the accommodation of basque difference in Spain

This book: examines important issues in contemporary Basque politics, which involves one of the most protracted nationalist conflicts in Europe today; provides up-to-date information about contemporary issues in Basque, Spanish and EU politics, including evaluation of new institutions for autonomous community participation in EU decisions ...

The contemporary Law of armed conflict

Completely revised throughout, this book includes the most up-to-date work in the field. It is the standard text on the law of armed conflict, written in a non-technical and accessible style. The first and second editions have been extremely well received by both military and ...

Inmigration and european integration

beyond fortress Europe?

Migration is at the heart of the contemporary European Union. This new edition addresses three key questions that underpin EU responses to migration policy. First, what role does the EU play in the regulation of migration? Second, how and why have EU measures developed to ...

Terrorism and democratic stability revisited

Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic breakdown? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences examined. In this detailed comparative study of Uruguay, Spain, and Peru, Holmes claims that to understand the consequences of violence on democratic stability, terrorism ...

Scandinavian politics today

This fully revised and updated second edition of "Scandinavian politics today" describes, analyzes and compares the contemporary politics and international relations of the five nation-states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and the three Home Rule territories of Greenland, Faeroes and Aland that together ...

Calvinist churches in Early Modern Europe

For ordinary people, the impact of the Reformation would have centred around local parish churches, rather than the theological debates of the Reformers. Focusing on the Calvinists, this volume explores how the architecture, appearance and arrangement of places of worship were transformed by new theology ...

The invention of Spain

anglo-spanish cultural relations, 1770-1870

Table of Contents: List of illustrations Preface and acknowledgements Table of main events 1. The Decline of Spain 2. Politics 3. Religion 4. Historians 5. The Spanish School 6. Collectors 7. Picturing Spain.

Visual culture in Spain and Mexico

Table of Contents: List of illustrations.- Introduction and acknowledgement.- Part 1. 1. After-image of the global city. 2. Urban imaginaries. 3. A scandalous family album.- Part 2. 4. Words from other worlds. The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. 5. Countdown. Figuring risk and the Real. 6. Symbolizing ...

Regulatory quality in Europe

concepts, measures and policy processes

The European Union and its member states are investing in ambitious programmes for # better regulation# and targets of regulatory quality. This book lifts the veil of excessively optimistic propositions covering the whole better regulation agenda. It provides an innovative conceptual framework to handle the political ...

The Euroepan Union and culture

between economic regulation and european cultural policy

"The European Union and Culture" explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector - understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is the first comprehensive and theoretically informed ...

The security dimensions of EU enlargement

wider Europe, weaker Euope?

This timely volume analyses the impact of enlargement on both pre-existing EU security arrangements and key relationships with the EU's new partners and 'neighbours'. The changing nature of security, the enlargement of European institutions and the evolving functions of the EU have been key ...

Governance and civil society in the European Union. Vol. 2

Exploring policy issues

This volume focuses on the role of organised civil society in European public policies. The contributions discuss the role of public-pressure groups and their relations with organised business and institutional actors. They consider the role of interest groups towards providing the EU policy process with ...

Governance and civil society in the European Union. Vol. 1

Normative perspectives

There is no contesting the ubiquity of the term governance in contemporary social science and public discourse. From a rather innocuous start as a term to describe ways in which corporate firms should be managed, it has come to challenge some of the dominant forms ...