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The Atlantic Alliance and Geopolitics: New Realities and New Challenges

Lie, Kai Olaf - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2009

This paper is based on the hypothesis that the new geopolitical environment for the Atlantic Alliance is mainly influenced by the following five elements: The renaissance of Germany as the central player on the European theater after the collapse of the Soviet Union; the shift of American...

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Making and Unmaking Money: Economic Planning and the Collapse of East Germany

Zatlin, Jonathan R - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2007

This paper locates the collapse of East German communism in Marxist-Leninist monetary theory. By exploring the economic and cultural functions of money in East Germany, it argues that the communist party failed to reconcile its ideological aspirations Â a society free of the social alienation...

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Europeâ€™s Identity and Islams

Holub, Renate - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2003

Until the break-up of the Soviet Union, dominant intellectual and educational cultures in Europe worked primarily with national concepts. In the twentieth century, nationalist ideologies have, of course, lost some of their glamour due to the impact of two disastrous world wars. But while leading...

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Castilian, or the Colonial Uncanny: Translation and Vernacular Theater in the Spanish Philippines

Rafael, Vicente L - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2005

This paper examines the origins of nationalism in nineteenth century Philippines through cultural translation practices. Its central thesis is that Filippino nationalism did not originate with the discovery of an indigenous identity by the colonized and his/her subsequent assertion of an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130533

American and European Ways of Law: Six Entrenched Differences

Kagan, Robert A. - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006

In the wake of intensified global economic competition, economic liberalization, waves of immigration, and the rise of European Union governance, many observers suggest that there has been a sharp diminution of the long-standing differences between hierarchically-organized European legal...

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Europe between Brussels and Byzantium: Some Thoughts on European Integration

Ferguson, Niall - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2003

There is, in theory, a plausible role for the European Union as the partner of a militarily assertive United States: the peacekeeper that follows in the wake of the peacemaker. The war in Iraq, however, has raised the possibility of a diametrically different role for Europe: as a potential...

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Welfare State Integration of Immigrants: the Case of Germany

Heckmann, Friedrich - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2012

Why doesGermanyâ€“ in contrast to theUSâ€“ have a system of integration policies? I begin with the hypothesis that … societies have certain basic ways of securing general macro â€“ social, societal integration and of tackling social problems and … disadvantaged groups and in general to prevent social exclusion. When a new social problem arose â€“ immigrant integration â€“ the …

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Inevitable Decline versus Predestined Stability: The Structure of Disciplinary Explanations of the Evolving Transatlantic Order

Hellmann, Gunther - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006

The future of NATO has been a hotly debated topic at the center of IR debates ever since the end of the Cold War. It has also been a very complicated one given the disciplineÂ´s conceptual and theoretical difficulties in studying change. Most analysts now agree that NATO (and the transatlantic...

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The Enlargement Challenge: Can Monetary Union be Made to Work in an EU of 25 Members?

Eichengreen, Barry - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2002

This lecture considers how Europeâ€™s monetary union will evolve in the next five to ten years. It concentrates on what is likely to be the most important change in that period, namely, the increasing number and heterogeneity of participating states. By 2006, less than four years from now,...

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Risk Sharing, Financial integration, and "Mundell II" in the Enlarged European Union

Boewer Böwer, Uwe - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006

paper assesses the degrees of risk sharing and financial integration in the enlarged EU in the context of Mundell II. We … in a lack of risk sharing but rather in the even stronger effect that financial integration experts on output comovement …

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