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 ...

Being human

historical knowledge and the creation of human nature

This book is a philosophical and historical response to modern western discussion of what is human. It moves across the disciplinary boundaries, which divide up intellectual life, in pursuit of a conception of "the human sciences." Roger Smith explains why human self- knowledge must go ...

Historiography

an introduction

This book appeals to a growing market for texts on this increasingly popular subject. It discusses the very nature of Historiography and its relationship to wider social and political developments. It provides a useful companion to the texts on the list that address specific areas ...

From integration to integrity

adminsitrative ethics and reform in the European Commission

"From Integration to Integrity" examines the European Commission' s administrative ethics in the events leading up to the resignation of the College of Commissioners in March 1999 and the subsequent administrative reform led by Commissioner Neil Kinnock from 1999-2004. Insights from the field of administrative ...

History and memory

This title is designed to have an appeal both to specialists already immersed in debates on history and memory and to those (e.g. students) seeking an introduction to the field. It bridges the gap between the idea of memory as a property of individual ...

Mathematics for economists

an introductory textbook

This book is a self-contained treatment of all the mathematics needed by undergraduate and beginning-graduate students of economics. Building up gently from a very low level, the authors provide a clear, systematic coverage of calculus and matrix algebra and easily accessible introductions to optimisation and ...

Art history

a critical introduction to its methods

Unique in its approach, by applying the different theories used in art history to one painting, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon An ideal text for teaching, it provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within the subject Offers a lucid account of ...

EU pharmaceutical regulation

the politics of policy-making

This book provides an analysis of European Union pharmaceutical regulation from a policy-making perspective. It focuses on how the conflicting agendas of the pharmaceutical industry, EU member states, and consumer interests are reconciled within the context of serving public health needs within the single market ...