Englisch ist die mit Abstand am meisten unterrichtete Fremdsprache in Europa. Betrachtet man die Entwicklung der erlernten Fremdsprachen seit 1998, ist ein Anstieg an Englischschülern in nahezu allen untersuchten Ländern zu beobachten, insbesondere in den osteuropäischen Ländern. Auch...

Englisch ist die mit Abstand am meisten unterrichtete Fremdsprache in Europa. Betrachtet man die Entwicklung der erlernten Fremdsprachen seit 1998, ist ein Anstieg an Englischschülern in nahezu allen untersuchten Ländern zu beobachten, insbesondere in den osteuropäischen Ländern. Auch...

Understanding today’s EU requires a prism which is attentive to the interactions between the polity-building and world-inhabiting facets of the emerging polity. We cannot separate developing a theory of the EU as a polity from determining its placement in the world. Norms of cooperation become...

Analysts of regional growth differences in the US tend to assume full spatial equilibrium (Glaeser et al, 1995). Flows of people thus indicate changes in the distribution of spatial welfare more effectively than differences in incomes. Research in Europe, however, shows that people tend to be...

This paper analyzes the trends and root causes of extreme working hours in sixteen Western European countries, Canada, and the United States between 1970 and 2010. Earlier literature has revealed increasing trends in extreme working hours in the United States and recognized the negative...

In a recent decision, the European Court of Justice has ruled that insurers cannot discriminate on grounds of sex in setting premiums or determining benefits. This paper discusses the background to this decision. It asks whether we are seeing a US-style ‘rights revolution', fuelled by judicial...

This paper explores the politics of the Fouchet Plan, the unsuccessful initiative by French President Charles de Gaulle in 1961-62 to create a new 'union of states' for foreign-policy and defence cooperation among the six founding members of the European Community. The paper traces the origins...

Are 'modern societies' necessarily democratic societies and capitalist (or: market) societies? This is what most of the social sciences of the post-Second World War period have assumed, while only some strands of critical, often Marx-inspired approaches contested this connection. This essay...