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Resch, Andreas - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2005

In the process of globalization, international convergence of competition legislation has steadily gained importance … days. The interwar period was characterized by attempts to overcome the economic disintegration by international cartels …

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The Unraveling of the Atlantic Order: Historical Breakpoints in U.S.-European Relations

Kupchan, Charles A. - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006

The argument of this paper is that the Atlantic order is in the midst of a fundamental transition. The transatlantic discord that has emerged since the late 1990s marks a historical breakpoint; foundational principles of the Atlantic security order that emerged after World War II have been...

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Globalization and the Role of African Languages for Development

Negash, Ghirmai - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2005

Indigenous African languages are largely eliminated, and marginalized from use. Instead of investing in and using their linguistic, cultural, and human potential, African governments and the elite still continue to channel away their resources and energies into learning 'imperial' languages that...

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Post-Colonial Cultures and Globalization in France

Hargreaves, Alec G. - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2005

Most of the papers in this colloquium relate to the territories which the European powers built up overseas during a period of several centuries, part of a process which some theorists of globalization have referred to as a kind of globalization avant la lettre. During the colonial period, the...

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Normative Power: The European Practice of Region Building and the Case of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP)

Adler, Emanuel; Crawford, Beverly - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2004

This paper lays out a normative approach to the study of power in International Relations. This approach emphasizes the … 2002: 240) in international relations. The practice of normative power differs significantly from a traditional … understanding of the use of power in international relations. The paper assess the potential this concept of normative power to …

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Transatlantic Tensions and European Security

Sarotte, Mary Elise - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006

Any nuanced assessment of current transatlantic tensions requires an awareness of their historical context. An understanding of the legacy of the Cold War in particular helps to answer the following questions: (1) What are the sources of current US-European tensions? (2) Has the transatlantic...

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Mad Cows and Ailing Hens: The Transatlantic Relationship and Livestock Diseases

O'Neill, Katherine - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006

This paper examines how the emergence and spread of animal diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease") or avian influenza have shaped the dynamics of transatlantic trade in live animals and meat products. It then compares the responses of the US and the EU,...

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The Governmentalization of â€œLifestyleâ€ and the Biopolitics of Carbon

Lipschutz, Ronnie D. - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2009

The search for a sustainable civilizationâ€”an essential concomitant of dealing with global warmingâ€”will be driven, in part, by the â€œnormalizationâ€ of a low-carbon lifestyle. To date, most research and discussion of this transition have centered on technological fixes and...

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Practices and their Failures: Arab-Israeli Relations and the Barcelona Process

Peters, Joel - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2004

Joel Peters focuses on the failed peace-making practices of the Middle East multilateral track process launched at Madrid in 1991. He thus uses the dynamics within Arab-Israeli relations to inform an assessment of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Peters shows that conflicts of interests and...

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Technology Regimes and Productivity Growth in Europe and the United States: A Comparative and Historical Perspective

van Ark, Bart; Smits, Jan Pieter - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2005

contributions have had a national focus on the United States and for a limited number of European countries (for example, Finland …, Sweden, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom). In this paper we review the evidence from these individual studies from an … international comparative perspective. This should help us to better understand how general purpose technologies (steam, electricity …

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