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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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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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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 search for a sustainable civilization—an essential concomitant of dealing with global warming—will be driven, in part, by the “normalization†of a low-carbon lifestyle. To date, most research and discussion of this transition have centered on technological fixes and...
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This research project of the Research Institute for Social and Economic History at the University of Cologne is to clarify the process and causes of the theft of precious metals by the Nazis as well as explaining the economic utilization of the stolen property between 1938 and 1945, giving...
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The law on Foreign Exchange Control, which had been passed as early as 1931 in oder to fight the scarcity of foreign currency, was used to impede the transfer of Jewish property abroad immediately after the Nazis came to power. However, only from 1935 on, legislation on foreign currency aimed at...
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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...
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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 …
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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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Following the economic and political reforms international private capital started flowing into the emerging market … markets. In this paper, after reviewing the composition and direction of international private capital flows, we focus on the … effects that the international private capital flows had on the Croatian banking industry as well as how they helped shape its …
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