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Author: Michael Gehler Publisher: Leuven University Press ISBN: 9462702160 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 361
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Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy’s role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking “third-way” options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book’s twelve chapters present the most recent insights on this topic and connect scholarship on the Iron Curtain’s collapse with scholarship on political Catholicism. Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism offers the reader a two-fold perspective. The first approach examines the efforts undertaken by Western European actors who wanted to foster or support Christian Democratic initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. The second approach is devoted to the (re-)emergence of homegrown Christian Democratic formations in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the volume’s seminal contributions lies in its documentation of the decisive role that Christian Democracy played in supporting the political and anti-political forces that engineered the collapse of Communism from within between 1989 and 1991.
Author: Michael Gehler Publisher: Leuven University Press ISBN: 9462702160 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 361
Book Description
Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy’s role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking “third-way” options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book’s twelve chapters present the most recent insights on this topic and connect scholarship on the Iron Curtain’s collapse with scholarship on political Catholicism. Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism offers the reader a two-fold perspective. The first approach examines the efforts undertaken by Western European actors who wanted to foster or support Christian Democratic initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. The second approach is devoted to the (re-)emergence of homegrown Christian Democratic formations in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the volume’s seminal contributions lies in its documentation of the decisive role that Christian Democracy played in supporting the political and anti-political forces that engineered the collapse of Communism from within between 1989 and 1991.
Author: Stefan Berger Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1845458273 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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During the Cold War, Britain had an astonishing number of contacts and connections with one of the Soviet Bloc’s most hard-line regimes: the German Democratic Republic. The left wing of the British Labour Party and the Trade Unions often had closer ties with communist East Germany than the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). There were strong connections between the East German and British churches, women’s movements, and peace movements; influential conservative politicians and the Communist leadership in the GDR had working relationships; and lucrative contracts existed between business leaders in Britain and their counterparts in East Germany. Based on their extensive knowledge of the documentary sources, the authors provide the first comprehensive study of Anglo-East German relations in this surprisingly under-researched field. They examine the complex motivations underlying different political groups’ engagement with the GDR, and offer new and interesting insights into British political culture during the Cold War.
Author: Thomas Hörber Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3531904353 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 357
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Thomas Hörber analyses the building process of European integration. He shows the parliamentary discourses of France, Germany and Britain to be representative of the national position of these states towards the developing concept of 'Europe'. He covers all key events and developments of the time which had an impact on the European integration process and provides an explanation for the convergence of national discourses towards a common Europe. This development was by no means a given and the analysis of parliamentary debates shows for the first time how vigorous the debates were on European integration in the 1950s, and how, despite setbacks (notably the failure of the European Defence Community), the discussion went in favour of integration.
Author: Tamás Vonyó Publisher: Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series ISBN: 1107128439 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 295
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This exploration of the statistical evidence on Germany's post-war reconstruction sheds new light on the foundations of German economic power.
Author: Thomas Cottier Publisher: vdf Hochschulverlag AG ISBN: 3728131857 Category : European Union countries Languages : de Pages : 349
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Die europäische Integration und die Entwicklung der EU in den letzten 50 Jahren stellen die Schweiz vor grosse staatspolitische Herausforderungen in allen Bereichen des Staatsrechts. Wesentliche Elemente schweizerischer Identität wie die Unabhängigkeit und Souveränität, der Föderalismus, die Neutralität, die Demokratie sowie der Schutz der Individualrechte sind direkt betroffen. Diese Herausforderungen dürfen nicht länger verdrängt werden. Die Schweiz muss sich ihnen stellen und ihre staatspolitischen Chancen und Risiken in Bezug zum europäischen Umfeld kritisch, aber offen reflektieren Das Forum für Universität und Gesellschaft bietet dazu Gelegenheit und Plattform. Was macht die schweizerische Neutralität heute aus? Ist sie ein Instrument zur Wahrung grundlegender Werte, wie Unabhängigkeit und Souveränität, ein Mittel zum Schutz vor Konflikten mit anderen Staaten? Hat sie dieselbe Bedeutung wie vor 50 Jahren? Stellt sie ein Hindernis für die sicherheitspolitische Kooperation dar? Inwieweit ist sie mit einem EU-Beitritt vereinbar? --
Author: Günter Bischof Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 326
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The interdisciplinary volume offers methodologically innovative approaches to Austria's coping with issues of migration past and present. These essays show Austria's long history as a migration country. Austrians themselves have been on the move for the past 150 years to find new homes and build better lives. After the World War II the economy improved and prosperity set in, so Austrians tended to stay at home. Austria's growing prosperity made the country attractive to immigrants. After the war, tens of thousands of "ethnic Germans" expelled from Eastern Europe settled in Austria. Starting in the 1950s "victims of the Cold War" (Hungary, Czechs and Slovaks) began looking for political asylum in Austria. Since the 1960s Austria has been recruiting a growing number of "guest workers" from Turkey and Yugoslavia to make up the labor missing in the industrial and service economies. Recently, refugees from the arc of crisis from Afghanistan to Syria to Somalia have braved perilous journeys to build new lives in a more peaceful and prosperous Europe.
Author: Robert G. Moeller Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520311191 Category : Languages : en Pages : 662
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Robert G. Moeller is the first historian of modern German women to use social policy as a lens to focus on society's conceptions of gender difference and "woman's place." He investigates the social, economic, and political status of women in West Germany after World War II to reveal how the West Germans, emerging from the rubble of the Third Reich, viewed a reconsideration of gender relations as an essential part of social reconstruction. The debate over "woman's place" in the fifties was part of West Germany's confrontation with the ideological legacy of National Socialism. At the same time, the presence of the Cold War influenced all debates about women and the family. In response to the "woman question," West Germans defined the boundaries not only between women and men, but also between East and West. Moeller's study shows that public policy is a crucial arena where women's needs, capacities, and possibilities are discussed, identified, defined, and reinforced. Nowhere more explicitly than in the first decade of West Germany's history did, in Joan Scott's words, "politics construct gender and gender construct politics." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
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Author: Stefan Berger
Author: Thomas Hörber
Author: Tamás Vonyó
Author: Thomas Cottier
Author: Günter Bischof
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Author: Robert G. Moeller
Author: Université catholique de Louvain (1970- ). Centre d'études européennes