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The regulation of the trade of the dual-use goods, though it constrains the commerce, seeks the most adequate balance between security and sound commercial competition. This handbook browses and presents the regimes, instruments and mechanisms in the hands of the different actors of this strategic area of trade.

After a general analysis of public policies concerning the social economy, its key features, objectives and pattern of evolution, this book provides a supranational and international approach from both a European perspective (examining the policies of European bodies) and a South American perspective.

In this striking new book it is argued that the outraged attitudes of neoliberals and many of those who work in financial institutions with regard to the size of public deficits are far from being genuine and merely mask a desire to dismantle social programs and reduce the size of government. The author makes a persuasive case that neoliberals actively seek the deepening of the financial crisis to support their ideological demands for the shrinking of government expenditure. Indeed, he argues that neoliberals have an interest in encouraging a psychosis about public deficits in the general population to justify the cuts to public spending that will deny services to those same citizens.

This book gives an up-to-date analysis of the EU's current enlargement policy with focus on current and potential candidates in the Western Balkans as well as the controversial case of Turkey. The issues are put into the context of the widening versus deepening debate. Despite enlargement fatigue the porocess of widening is expected to continue.

This collection of essays expands the focus of historical studies of international public law in modernity to include the novel insight of the cosmopolitan imagination's past and present force. Featuring a line-up of leading international scholars it argues that Europe has recurrently implemented legal cosmopolitanism at home and exported it abroad.

This book examines key challenges to the cultivation of social cohesion at the regional and national levels. It asks the question whether regional integration as currently practised presents a hospitable site for the cultivation and delivery of social goods in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world.

New towns are special cases in terms of urban development: they are challenging adventures, with poor results often seen where suburban and peri-urban zones meet. However, they are also a reflection of different surroundings and trends. They bring together in one place a whole host of political, structural and

This book seeks to explore the changing profession of PR by illustrating the past and present perspective of PR practice in some European countries, discussing professionalization of PR together with new dilemmas, notions, concepts, and perspectives, and focusing on the usage, effect and institutionalization of new media and new digital PR tools.

Ce livre etudie l'ecriture de soi dans une perspective multiculturelle. Il compare les caracteristiques de l'ecrit personnel (comme les memoires, l'autobiographie ou le journal intime) tel qu'il a eu cours en Europe ou dans les pays occidentaux, avec les formes ecrites du soi telles qu'elles ont pu exister, et existent, dans differentes cultures asiatiques, africaines ou proches-orientales.

This book examines Voltaire's claim that La Mort de Cesar is "in the English taste". It presents the results of an inquiry into the formation of the stereotype "English taste" and an analysis of the play that determines the pertinence of such a label. It also scrutinizes the English adaptation of Voltaire's play: Aaron Hill's The Roman Revenge.

A collection of essays focussing on the cultural construction, perception and representation of public and private spaces in 20th and 21st century Italian culture.It offers a variety of approaches, ranging from literature, to history, art history, film and cultural studies.

This book focuses on the interrelated developments in European integration and national policies on employment and social protection. It explores both the emancipatory potential of the continental tradition of the socialised wage and the negative implications of the EU-led "Beveridgean" reforms.

The book examines the steps that Italy has made to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level.

The volume provides a thorough introduction to Canada while also touching upon contemporary geographical issues, and includes review questions that will help instructors to outline student work plans.

This book focuses on the precursor role of Ludwig Tieck in the Romantic revolution in drama which is seen in his fantastic comedy Puss-in-Boots (1797), a precocious benign forerunner of theatre of the absurd. Tieck's contribution is examined in the light of key dramatists of several strands of modernism.

The book compares Kant's and Hamilton's political thought. It highlights their complementarity in the development of federalism as a political theory. Contributions focus on issues such as sovereignty, the relationship between democracy and peace and viceversa, the democratic peace and the federalist peace, and the federal institutional model.

The book intends to provide an in-depth analysis of civil society organisations manner of defining their roles within the functional sphere of multilateral institutions, both at the global level and more specifically, in the European Union framework.

It discusses for the first time at a scholarly level the historical origins of typical food. Holding on a multi-disciplinary approach and a broad geographical scale, it unveils that typicality is the result of dialectical relations between places and savoir-faire, industrial innovation and traditional skills, quality and reputation.

This book examines the innovative and supportive role that the Council of European Municipalities and Regions has played in the process of European integration, focusing on the idea of a federal state centred on municipalities, the basis of Western democracy. The author's analysis considers the twinning of cities within Europe to be a political action that will lead to a Europe for its citizens. He argues that the global financial crisis could lead to the break-up of the European unification process and that the way to deal with this challenge is to give local authorities greater involvement in decision-making processes. The book is the result of research in little known and rarely consulted archives and brings significant new information into the academic sphere. This focus on the local level is increasingly relevant, offering new perspectives on current issues within European integration and explaining the dynamics of a process still under way.

Un petit homme seul arpente les fictions de Jean Muno (1924-1988) depuis sa piece radiophonique eponyme. Sous son apparence d'anti-heros, plus belge que nature, il detient un etonnant pouvoir de subversion. Elle est le fruit d'une subtile ironie polyphonique qui permet a l'ecrivain bruxellois d'atteindre ses cibles, sans s'epargner lui-meme, ce qui est tout aussi caracteristique d'une certaine Belgique. S'appuyant sur le concept socratique d'ironie autant que sur la reinterpretation romantique et les recherches innovatrices des linguistes a propos de ce concept et ses modalites, Isabelle Moreels elabore une methode d'analyse qui l'amene a cerner trois types d'ironie a l'A uvre dans les textes de Jean Muno. Diegetique, enonciatif ou metanarratif, cet art subtil de la distance, voire de la derision, tisse en effet romans, nouvelles et recits de l'auteur - en amont comme en aval de la proclamation de la belgitude (1976). Ses tenants reconnurent d'ailleurs une certaine parente de son approche avec l'etre-au-monde qu'ils explicitaient et legitimaient. Identitaire, ideologique et esthetique, le questionnement munolien se voit en outre aborde a partir de son ancrage dans la societe petite-bourgeoise des annees d'abondance, dites les Trente Glorieuses . L'etude de nombreux documents inedits ou meconnus, aussi bien sonores qu'ecrits, constitue un apport supplementaire de ce livre qui decrit par ailleurs le Fonds Jean Muno des Archives et Musee de la Litterature dans lequel ils figurent pour la plupart.

Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.

Digital practices in the field of history have become more and more widespread in recent decades, but contemporary historians have often tended to remain on the sidelines of this trend. This book covers a range of digital practices, tools and methods.

This book analyses in detail the electoral manifestos and programmes presented by twenty-two parties during the European Parliamentary elections in 2009. The research indicates that radical right-wing parties usually have Europhobic impulses, however, radical left-wing parties are, in theory, favourable to European integration, but dispute the direction currently imposed by the EU authorities.

Many interested reader will have put aside a work by Edith Stein due to its seeming inaccessibility, with the awareness that there was something important there for a future occasion. This collection of essays attempts to provide an idea of what this important something might be and give a key to the reading of Stein's various works. It is divided into two parts reflecting Stein's development. The first part, Phenomenology deals with those features of Stein's work that set it apart from that of other phenomenologists, notably Husserl. The second part is entitled Metaphysics although Stein the phenomenologist would, like Husserl, initially have shied away from this designation. However, as Stein gradually understood the importance of the Christian faith for completing the phenomenological project of founding the sciences, and accepted it as indispensable for a philosophical view of the whole, her attempt at an ascent to the meaning of being can legitimately be called metaphysics, even as it also constitutes a fundamental criticism of Aristotle and Aquinas.

This engaging collection of essays considers the cultural complexities of the Franco-Irish relationship, in song and story, image and cuisine, novels, paintings and poetry. It casts a fresh eye on public perceptions of the historic bonds between Ireland and France, revealing a rich variety of contact and influence.

Recovering and exploring some of the diverse interrelationships between Ireland on the one hand and Central and Eastern Europe on the other, this volume charts some of the alternative, lesser-known routes that Irish cultural life has taken, and recalibrates the map of Irish literary, artistic and historical experiences.

This book focuses on the nineteenth century as the time when language became an important part of the cultural identity of speakers, communities and nations. It seeks to explore why and how certain linguistic varieties were excluded from written discourse, in other words, why they remain invisible to contemporary readers and modern historians.

The relationship between literature and other forms of art, explored through a broad range of examples, drawn from several continents and analyzed with careful attention to their historical and generic specificity. A variety of discourses and media are considered alongside more traditional categories of art and literature.