Global market competition and the political responses to globalization transform urban societies and states, and thus the cultures of capital cities in contemporary Europe. Vienna s cultural district Museumsquartier and the planned Humboldt Forum on Berlin s Schlossplatz illustrate two of the most controversial sites of urban reconstruction in Central Eastern Europe since the 1990s.
Tracing the processes of their political emergence through more than a decade of heated public debates, this book narrates the metaphor-rich and engaging stories about these old European...

L interet grandissant pour le concept d europeanisation ces dernieres annees fait echo a la transformation des societes europeennes depuis la fin de la guerre froide. Des lors, il apparait de moins en moins legitime d enfermer l histoire contemporaine des pays europeens dans un cadre exclusivement national. En effet, le concept d europeanisation permet a la fois de depasser le cadre national et d ecrire une histoire de l Europe a partir d un angle plus large que celui de l integration europeenne. Les contributions presentees dans ce volume demontrent a l evidence que le phenomene de l...

The European Union (EU) has gone through a number of treaty reforms since the establishment of the European Communities in the 1950s and the creation of the European Union by the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. The latest such reform is the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force in 2009.
In this book, a number of scholars explore the process of producing the Lisbon Treaty. The focus is on the role of member states, arguably the masters of the treaty. Intergovernmental conferences have become the main setting for treaty reforms since the Single European Act (SEA) in the mid-1980s. This makes...

Yang Mu, the recipient of the 2007 International Prize for Literature Written in Chinese, is a well-known bicultural poet. Born in Taiwan during the last phase of the Japanese occupation, his life and writing have been influenced by competing forces in the historical, political, intellectual, linguistic, and aesthetic realms. Yang Mu s humanist sensibility has offered critical insights into the dangers of binary opposition and ideological thinking. His poetry has appealed to readers worldwide and is accessible in English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, and Korean translations.
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In the past, ideologies and religions had a real impact on the media. In the current era of mass media and communication strategies, perception takes priority over identity and new questions arise: how to introduce faith and religion in a pluralising and detraditionalising world? What possibilities are offered by the new media? How can technical innovations be incorporated in church communication?
Following the conference Belief in the Media (April 2007), this publication focuses on the gap between the language of faith and the language of the general media. The different...

This book offers a systematic analysis of the role of political parties in the European Union in the process of Community integration. The author looks at the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the transnational structures of the parties and their stake in the institutions of the EU. Examining the manifestos and programmes that the principal political parties of the six most populated states of the EU presented during the campaign for the European parliamentary elections of 2004, he provides an analysis of their political strategies, placing the parties on both the classic left/right...

In a world of sweeping economic, political and social changes, what happens to our values, norms and identities? In particular, what happens to the identities of those actors who are exposed to the forces of globalisation? How do they make sense of their personal and professional lives when they must think globally and act locally?
This book investigates these questions through an empirical analysis of the identities and lives of young business leaders in a France that has undergone considerable institutional changes over the last 70 years. The analysis offers an original perspective by...

Avec ses quelque trois millions de morts civils et militaires, et ses innombrables destructions materielles, la guerre dite du Vietnam reste a ce jour une des plus grandes tragedies humaines depuis 1945.
Une reflexion sur les conditions politiques, diplomatiques et militaires dans lesquelles s est effectuee la sortie de la guerre, entre 1968, annee de l ouverture des negociations americano-vietnamiennes a Paris, et 1976, date de la reunification administrative du Vietnam, semble d autant plus opportune que grandit actuellement l inquietude sur les perspectives de l apres-guerre en...

Written in memory of Alfred Cahen, Honorary Professor at the Universite libre de Bruxelles and Ambassador of Belgium, this book is inspired by the main stages of his career: European integration, the transatlantic partnership and relations between Belgium and her ex-colonies. The focus is on transatlantic relations and the place of Europe in international relations between 1945 and 1973. The role played by the United States in the post-war reconstruction of Europe and the evolution of the transatlantic partnership from Truman to Nixon are first examined. The authors then portray attempts to...

Bringing together eminent Australian, European and Russian experts and practitioners, this volume makes an important contribution to the crucial debates on climate change and energy that will have a profound impact on all our futures.
The problems faced by business, scientists, NGOs, policymakers and researchers are multifaceted and complex in nature, so a comprehensive treatment of the subject is best undertaken by a diverse and multi-skilled group. The authors explore different approaches and experiences in securing sustainable energy supplies in Europe and Australia, while heeding the...