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In Different Paths to Modernity, a team of scholars investigates both economic and technological modes as well as mental and social aspects of the modernization process in two European peripheries-Sweden and Spain. The transformation of societies is influenced by inherent tensions between differentiation and integration, and this process gradually creates new, significant changes for the individual. Seven different dimensions of modernization are examined: agriculture, education, industrialization, urbanization, capital provision, demography and the social aspects of gender. The book is a...

The European political landscape is one of constant flux and it is this alternating integration and disintegration which influences the basic conditions in which political power is exercised. This book argues that the interests of the cities and regions of Europe are increasingly influenced by European supranational institutions rather than the nation state and that governance in Europe is shifting to a regional and local level.

This text builds on the original conceptualization of stable peace by Kenneth Boulding and adds contemporary theoretical and empirical understandings of its nature, causes, conditions, dimensions, and prospects for consolidation and expansion.