Die räumliche Entwicklung wird zunehmend als Teil der europäischen Integration verstanden. Um dieser Bedeutungszunahme Rechnung zu tragen, startete im Jahr 2002 das ESPON Programm 2006 (European Spatial Planning Observation Network). Wichtigstes Ziel des ESPON Programms ist es,...

In this paper, we present the basic ideas, the design and some key results of an ongoing research project on the transformation of the national political space in Western Europe. We start from the assumption that the current process of globalization or denationaliza-tion leads to the formation...

Today FDR's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to the economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Cultural historian Schivelbusch investigates their shared elements...