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Struggling Over Civil Liberties: The Troubled Foundations of the West
Newman, Abraham - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006
Shared fundamental liberties and democratic principles have long provided the core of what observers of international …, local variations in fundamental rights have produced significant international implications. Examining recent transatlantic … disputes over privacy and free speech, the paper argues that a new set of international issues have emerged dealing with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817495
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Another Turn of the Tide? World War II and the Writing of Military History in West Germany 1945-2005
Echternkamp, Joerg Jörg - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006
The 60th anniversary of May, 8, 1945 made it quite clear: There has been an inreasing public interest in the history of the Second World War in Germany. This is to a large extent due to structural developments in historiography and the social, political, and cultural conditions of the writing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130527
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Problems of Democratic Control in European Security and Defense Politics – a View from Peace and Conflict Research
Wagner, Wolfgang - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2007
Since EU members have agreed to establish integrated military forces and to decide jointly on their deployment in European institutions, the EU’s “democratic deficit†is no longer confined to issues of common market governance but also includes foreign, security and defense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130503
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The Idea of the West:: Changing Perspectives on Europe and America
Gamble, Andrew - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006
America owes its origins to Europe and is unthinkable without Europe, but there has always been a strand of American thinking which has downplayed the connection and wished to assert the exceptionalism of the American experience and the need for America to keep Europe at a distance to involve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130537
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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
aspirations ­ a society free of the social alienation represented by money and merchandise ­ with the practical exigencies of … governing an industrial society by force. Using representative examples of market failure in production and consumption, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130517
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Workshop Report: Climate Change Mitigation: Considering Lifestyle Options in Europe and the US
Schuetzenmeister, Falk - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2009
This report summarizes the presentations and outcomes of a European-American Workshop about lifestyle changes as a mitigation strategies for global warming. The conference was held on May 1, 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley and sponsored by the European Commission. The participants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130526
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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
process entailed at least in its formative moments, discovering an alien aspect residing within colonial society and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130533
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Europe’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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130521
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Repeat Migration between Europe and the United States, 1870-1914
Keeling, Drew - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2009
Repeat crossings of the North Atlantic by European migrants during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were more frequent, faster-growing and had more intricate and significant impacts on the overall long-distance relocation process than previous scholarship has appreciated. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676405
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Europe and United States, 1944-2006: Two Destinies in an Uncertain World
Bossuat, Gerard Gérard - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006
An Atlantic partnership is acceptable if the European cultural, linguistic, social and economic diversities are preserved. And yet, Europe feels a threat through the now Globalisation which is so often seen as a form or aspect of Americanisation. The European Union is weak but not drifting away....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130509