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What is the institutional legacy of Katzenstein's 1985 work on international relations theorizing? This article places Small States in World Markets in the history of the study of power. Katzenstein's contribution endures by identifying the relationship between changes in the world economy and the capacity of states to adapt. His 1985 book opened up new paths of theorizing – from the role of norms to the ways in which smaller political economies in Europe can inform the large. Even though the issue-areas, actors, and measures of power and authority evolve, Katzenstein's analysis remains a critical benchmark for institutional/IR analysis.

International fairs—the "folk-festivals of capitalism"—have long been a favorite topic of historians studying quintessential phenomena of modernity such as the celebration of industrial productivity, the construction of national identities, and the valorization of bourgeois leisure and consumption in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. To date, however, such spectacles occurring in the modern Middle East remain largely unexamined. This article, an analysis of the discourse surrounding the first Damascus International Exposition in 1954, is conceived in part as a preliminary effort to redress this historiographic imbalance.

This article reviews the ways in which historians and economists have applied the term 'globalization' to the early modern era. It distinguishes a soft and a hard definition, and goes on to test the claims made about the driving forces shaping the growth and character of long‐distance trade between Europe and Asia in the age of the European trading companies. On the basis of new estimates of the volume and value of European trade with Asia, the article concludes by identifying the factors limiting the growth of trade in this period.

Résumé Une nouvelle presse sentimentale destinée au public féminin et populaire s'impose après 1945 en Europe du Sud, grâce à la création de genres nouveaux, le « roman dessiné » et le « roman-photo », qui hybrident le romanesque et l'iconique. Ces genres nouveaux se donnent aussi comme cinéma à domicile, et devront se confronter au développement de la télévision, qui elle aussi mêle le récit, l'image et l'intime. Hybridant les codes esthétiques, roman dessiné et roman-photo hybrident aussi le réalisme mimétique, l'appel à l'imaginaire, et l'esthétisme diégétique. Mais l'hybridation qui fonde leur succès populaire entraîne leur discrédit.

AbstractCharles de Gaulle has cast a long shadow over French political history and history writing. In exploring the French response to the United States' 1973 'Year of Europe' initiative, this article challenges the dominant scholarly paradigm, which emphasises continuity between the 1960s and the 1970s. Drawing on a wide range of French and US archives, it demonstrates that renewed concerns about US power spurred the French elites both to reappraise the value of collective European action in foreign policy and to foster a pioneering concept: a politically anchored – as opposed to a geographically circumscribed – 'European identity'.

To the shock of the world, the mild‐mannered Swiss have acted the most radically of any European country out of fear of Muslim immigrants by banning minarets. Was this a blow against tolerance, or for it? Is Islam a European religion, or is Europe a Christian club? Meanwhile, as Turkey becomes more confident in its regional power and Muslim identity it is shaking up some old friends.In this section, two of Europe's most prominent Muslim voices, the foreign minister of Sweden and a top Turkish official try to sort it out.

To the shock of the world, the mild‐mannered Swiss have acted the most radically of any European country out of fear of Muslim immigrants by banning minarets. Was this a blow against tolerance, or for it? Is Islam a European religion, or is Europe a Christian club? Meanwhile, as Turkey becomes more confident in its regional power and Muslim identity it is shaking up some old friends.In this section, two of Europe's most prominent Muslim voices, the foreign minister of Sweden and a top Turkish official try to sort it out.

This article follows recent calls to take the study of gender construction beyond the affluent cultural contexts of Northern America and Western Europe. The article examines the negotiation and representation of gender in the Mexican telenovela Rebelde. The study analyses the identity positions and tensions in the cultural product as well as analyzing consumer interpretive strategies to negotiate countervailing gender ideals. The article analyses how processes of market place transition and the negotiation of gender are handled by navigating between countervailing cultural meanings of tradition and modernity, conformity and rebellion, in glocalized forms.

Cet article s'intéresse aux potentiels de la médiation en matière de promotion de la santé. La médiation santé en Europe est encore circonscrite à la gestion des conflits. Pourtant, en se basant sur le cas de la prise en charge des personnes dépendantes (care), l'auteure soutient que la médiation peut permettre une participation des individus à la définition de leurs besoins et un ajustement des attentes mutuelles, ce que la focalisation actuelle sur la cure contribue à occulter. Toutefois, les situations de perte d'autonomie – comme l'illustre le cas extrême de la maladie d'Alzheimer – posent au médiateur des défis cruciaux.

This article presents a very brief historical overview, and contemporary description, of the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. In the light of the changing political situation in that island it invites scholarship in a range of disciplines to the church and to other historic landmarks within the old city walls. Scholars interested might include: art historians, architectural historians, civil engineers, archivists, historians, structural analysts, masonry conservators, surveyors, ecclesiastical historians, and a wider range of experts involved in the full study of other Gothic churches elsewhere in mainland Europe.

In this paper, original written for the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) of the European Parliament on 30 November as part of the series entitled 'The threat of currency wars: global imbalances and their effects on currencies', Bruegel Fellows Jean Pisani-Ferry and Zsolt Darvas argue that the currency war has three manifestations: 1) the inflexible pegs of undervalued currencies; 2) attempts by floating exchange-rate countries to resist currency appreciation; 3) quantitative easing. Europe should primarily be concerned about the first issue, which relates to the renewed debate about the international monetary system.

Before exploring more specifically the role of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and that of its High Commissioner particularly within the context of a well-documented case study, that of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, this chapter will first take a closer look at the concept of conflict prevention and the historical background of its emergence as a political concept in international relations. The chapter will also briefly delineate the role of the High Commissioner in general, and then more specifically in the case of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. ; peer-reviewed

During the Cold War, war by proxy was a key strategy of indirect conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The purpose of these proxy wars was to either maintain or change the balance of power between the superpowers/great powers in conflict areas outside the central front in Europe. Within the condition of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), both the United States and the Soviet Union sought to avoid direct confrontation between their conventional military forces in regional conflicts out of a fear that it would escalate to an all out nuclear war. ; October 2010

This article presents a very brief historical overview, and contemporary description, of the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. In the light of the changing political situation in that island it invites scholarship in a range of disciplines to the church and to other historic landmarks within the old city walls. Scholars interested might include: art historians, architectural historians, civil engineers, archivists, historians, structural analysts, masonry conservators, surveyors, ecclesiastical historians, and a wider range of experts involved in the full study of other Gothic churches elsewhere in mainland Europe.

Since the ideologically coloured meaning of the 'welfare state', implying a massive level of redistribution and high government spending in the field of social policy, does not match the reality of a number of today's welfare state systems, especially outside Europe, this article examines the existence of at least eight different forms of welfare capitalism, i.e. welfare state systems, all represented by model countries. There are very distinct approaches to ensure high levels of social security, either by governmental welfare provision or welfare regulation, with or without redistribution of personal income.