书目名称 | The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2009 |
编辑 | Constantine Arvanitopoulos,Konstantina E. Botsiou |
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概述 | International politics of 2008/2009 from a European standpoint.Special feature: Southeast European and Greek politics.Essays of prominent scholars and policy makers across Europe |
丛书名称 | The Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook Series |
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描述 | Constantine Arvanitopoulos and Konstantina E. Botsiou Europe at a Crossroads European uni?cation has rested on a dual premise. One part was the effort of the European nations to consolidate peace by overcoming the nationalism which had 1 twice drenched the continent in blood in the 20th century. War among West European states became unthinkable in the post-war era. The second part was the creation of a single European economy following the tremendous task of post-war 2 reconstruction and recovery. Over the years the achievement of economic stability was matched by initiatives that aimed to render Western Europe competitive on a global scale. The creation of the European Union (EU) in the 1990s through the Treaties of Maastricht (1992) and Amsterdam (1997), and later Nice (2001), which successively revised the founding Treaties of Rome (1957), was largely a response 3 to the challenge of globalisation. Integration ‘rejuvenated’ the nation state, thus creating the hybrid of the Euro- 4 pean welfare state, a mix of state-imposed stability and private initiative. Like its 1 Sforza, C. (1936). Europe and the Europeans: Community: Report A study in historical psych- ogy and international |
出版日期 | Book 2009 |
关键词 | Environment; European Union; History; International Politics; Policy; Regional and Cultural Studies; inter |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00621-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-44044-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-00621-0Series ISSN 1868-2111 Series E-ISSN 1868-212X |
issn_series | 1868-2111 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 |