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Category : European Union
Languages : de
Pages : 516
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Erste Präsidentschaft Österreichs in der Europäischen Union
Author: Ambition and Reality
Author: Franz CedePublisher: StudienVerlag
ISBN: 3706558637
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The authors' analysis sheds light on Austria's foreign policy after the Second World war and offers insights into recent developments based on many years of experience in the diplomatic service. This book describes the most important issues of the Second Republic's foreign policy in a succinct yet captivating way and provides insight into diplomatic practice. It is aimed at readers who are interested in international issues in general and Austrian foreign policy in particular and offers a highly informative and thoroughly readable overview of the developments of the past decades - from the re-establishment of the Foreign Service and Austria's role in the Cold War to the changes that have taken place since Austria's accession to the EU. The book sheds light on Austria's relations with her direct neighbouring states, the ambivalent relationship with the USA and the effects of the collapse of the USSR. The authors have written this book based on many years of experience in the diplomatic service. With their analysis they aim to contribute to a better understanding of Austria's position in an international context. They do not just direct their gaze into the past but also into the present and future of Austria's foreign policy. Above all they take into account the fundamental changes that took place at the beginning of the 21st century - changes that have brought totally new challenges for Austria.
Studia diplomatica
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Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Austria 1867-1955
Author: John W. BoyerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192561774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918. John W. Boyer presents the case of modern Austria as a fascinating example of democratic nation-building. The construction of an Austrian political nation began in 1867 under Habsburg Imperial auspices, with the German-speaking bourgeois Liberals defining the concept of a political people (Volk) and giving that Volk a constitution and a liberal legal and parliamentary order to protect their rights against the Crown. The decades that followed saw the administrative and judicial institutions of the Liberal state solidified, but in the 1880s and 1890s the membership of the Volk exploded to include new social and economic strata from the lower bourgeoisie and the working classes. Ethnic identity was not the final structuring principle of everyday politics, as it was in the Czech lands. Rather social class, occupational culture, and religion became more prominent variables in the sortition of civic interests, exemplified by the emergence of two great ideological parties, Christian Socialism and Social Democracy in Vienna in the 1890s. The war crisis of 1914/1918 exploded the Empire, with the Crown self-destructing in the face of military defeat, chronic domestic unrest, and bitter national partisanship. But this crisis also accelerated the emergence of new structures of democratic self-governance in the German-speaking Austrian lands, enshrined in the republican Constitution of 1920. Initial attempts to make this new project of democratic nation-building work failed in the 1920s and 1930s, culminating in the catastrophe of the 1938 Nazi occupation. After 1945 the surviving legatees of the Revolution of 1918 reassembled under the four-power Allied occupation, which fashioned a shared political culture which proved sufficiently flexible to accommodate intense partisanship, resulting, by the 1970s, in a successful republican system, organized under the aegis of elite democratic and corporatist negotiating structures, in which the Catholics and Socialists learned to embrace the skills of collective but shared self-governance.
Walter Hallstein: The Forgotten European?
Author: Wilfried LothPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349266930
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Walter Hallstein was among the great European visionaries. This is the first book length study of one of the key shapers of the European Community in its early years. The range of contributors include those who worked with Hallstein and have personal recollections of him, and younger historians drawing upon documents only recently available. The book contains sections on his contribution as State Secretary to post-war German foreign policy, his seminal role as the first President of the Commission of the EEC and the legacy of his work and ideas and later years as President of the European Movement.
From common market to European Union building
Author: Michael GehlerPublisher: Böhlau Verlag Wien
ISBN: 9783205777441
Category : Europe
Languages : de
Pages : 780
Book Description
Die Vereinten Nationen vor globalen Herausforderungen
Author: Helmut VolgerPublisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
ISBN: 3869561394
Category : Law
Languages : de
Pages : 414
Book Description
Der Forschungskreis Vereinte Nationen wurde 1999 als informelles Netzwerk für UN-Forschung gegründet mit dem Ziel, den Informationsaustausch unter den Wissenschaftlern der verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen und den Dialog mit den Praktikern zu fördern. Die regelmäßig stattfindenden Potsdamer UNO-Konferenzen des Forschungskreises Vereinte Nationen widmen sich der kritischen Analyse der UN-Forschung. Darüber hinaus bieten sie ein Forum für die Diskussion mit Politikern, UN-Mitarbeitern, Diplomaten und Journalisten über die Aufgaben der Vereinten Nationen und ihre Strukturen sowie über Konzepte zu ihrer Reform. Im vorliegenden Buch werden wichtige Referate der Potsdamer UNO-Konferenzen 2000 bis 2008 veröffentlicht, die sich unter anderem den Themenbereichen Friedenssicherung, Menschenrechtsschutz und Umweltschutz durch die Vereinten Nationen, der Reform der UN-Hauptorgane sowie der deutschen UN-Politik und der UN-Politik im Rahmen der Europäischen Union widmen, und die ergänzt werden durch Beiträge der beiden Herausgeber zu den Problemen und Perspektiven der UN-Forschung in Deutschland.
Heimat – Vaterland – Europa
Author: Hans-Gert PötteringPublisher: Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar
ISBN: 341250193X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : de
Pages : 518
Book Description
Der Dreiklang von Heimat, Vaterland und Europa stellt die Dimensionen des politischen Wirkens des Europapolitikers Hans-Gert Pöttering dar. Von der ersten Direktwahl 1979 bis zu seinem Ausscheiden im Jahr 2014 gehörte der CDU-Politiker dem Europäischen Parlament an, dessen Präsident er von 2007 bis 2009 war. In dieser Funktion, aber auch als Vorsitzender der EVP/ED-Fraktion zwischen 1999 und 2007, war Pöttering u.a. maßgeblich an der Erweiterung der Europäischen Union um die mittel- und osteuropäischen Staaten sowie am Zustandekommen des Vertrags von Lissabon beteiligt. Politische Weggefährten aus Niedersachsen, Deutschland und Europa, die Pöttering in den vergangenen vier Jahrzehnten begleitet haben, würdigen in dieser Festschrift sein Engagement für die Einigung Europas in Frieden und Freiheit.
Reconstructing the International Institutional Order
Author: Samantha BessonPublisher: Collège de France
ISBN: 2722605821
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
States are no longer alone on the international scene. Other institutions intervene alongside States, and even sometimes in their place, such as international organizations, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, regions or global cities. Still, one would look in vain for clear indications in international law, including for the basic principles of an “international law of institutions” that could address the three fundamental questions of social and political organization that are representation, regulation and responsibility. What institutions may act in whose name internationally? What are the conditions for their actions to bind us legally and have the legitimacy to do so? And what institutions should be held responsible, by whom and how, in case of violation of international law? The time has come to reconstruct the international institutional order.
Urban cultural policies in the context of the European integration
Author: Christina HöffererPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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