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Transnational Economic Regions: Capturing an Illusive Phenomenon; Resurrecting the Rhine as an Economic Region; Energy Transition in the Rhine Region; Part I Regional Transformation: Energy Transition in the Rhine Region; 1 The Post-War Reconstruction and the Rise of Oil ; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Question of Energy in Post-War Western Europe; 1.3 The Impact of the Allied Occupation on the Ruhr Coal Industry; 1.4 The Allied Refining Program: Restarting the Hydrogenation Plants.

Finance in the Middle Ages and the Scholastic tradition -- Credit and faith in medieval Iberia : the road not taken -- Early European finance 1050-1650 -- Transcending feudal finance in Western Europe -- Mercantile credit and the Atlantic slave trade -- Chayanov, Marx, and hidden interests in rural Morocco -- Ethnicity and social capital in 1970s sefrou -- Problematizing modern consumer credit -- An anthropology of the 2008 Credit Crisis -- Conclusion: hidden interests and the development of finance

In 1948, Karl Marx declared that a communist specter was haunting Europe. In 1994, Jacques Derrida considered how the specter of Marx would haunt the post-Cold War world. In Specters of Revolt Gilman-Opalsky argues that the world is haunted by revolt, by the possibility of events that interrupt and disrupt the world, that throw its reality and justice into question. But recent revolt is neither decisively communist nor decisively Marxist

part I The Old World -- chapter 1 Totalitarianism and Civilization -- chapter 2 Ideology -- chapter 3 The Metamorphoses of Totalitarianism -- chapter 4 The State and Fate of Europe -- part II II e New World -- chapter 5 America Comes of Age -- chapter 6 The Destruction of American Civilization -- part III III e ird World -- chapter 7 East and West -- chapter 8 China -- chapter 9 Islam -- chapter 10 India.

Introduction -- The end of the commodity super-cycle -- Binding carbon constraints -- An electric future -- The US: the lucky country -- The Middle East: more trouble to come -- Russia: blighted by the resource curse -- China: the end of the transition -- Europe: not as bad as it seems -- The gradual end of big oil -- Energy utilities: a broken model -- The new energy markets and the economics of the Internet -- Conclusion

Need for a paradise dream -- Manifestations of Eurofederalists' paradise dream -- The tale of seductive Europa -- Welcome to the center of the European mandala! -- Europa's sacred gaze -- The European Central Bank's story of abundance: in between sacred rituals and political marketing -- The promise of European rituals -- "Rise like a phoenix": a new anthem for (federal) Europe -- The 2014 elections of the European Parliament: preparing for a European carnival

Water, policy and procedure -- Water resource availability in Britain -- Institutions and legislation for resource management -- The catchment approach : ways and means -- Sustaining bulk supply : consumption and interference -- Sustaining bulk supply : possible solutions -- Water quality background issues -- Environmental issues of water quality and quantity -- Towards solutions : land use and technical fixes -- Framing water policies : emerging governance arrangements -- The USA, Australasia and Europe : lessons to be learned?

chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter I THE STATES OF EUROPE, THEIR DIPLOMACY AND WARS -- chapter II KINGS AND MINISTERS: THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION OF DIPLOMACY AND CREATION OF FOREIGN POLICIES -- chapter III AMBASSADORS -- chapter IV SECOND CLASS DIPLOMATS: LOW IN PRESTIGE, HIGH IN IMPORTANCE -- chapter V A TYPICAL EARLY MOderN EMBASSY -- chapter VI INFORMATION: IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE OF DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY -- chapter VII THE VARIETY OF DIPLOMATIC DUTIES -- chapter VIII CONCLUSION.

"Title first published in 2003. Conflict and Security in the Former Soviet Union examines the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)'s approach to post-Cold War tensions and conflicts in the former Soviet area, the extent to which the new procedures, mechanisms and instruments developed by the organization are useful, and how the OSCE's activities may reveal innovative contributions to conflict studies."--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps -- The Authors -- Preface -- The Problem: Inner Asia and Modernization -- Environment -- Nomadism -- Trade and Urban Life -- Empires -- Ethnicity and Culture -- Great Games -- Inner Asia and Europe -- Modernization -- Part I The Premodern Heritage (to the 1920s) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 International Context -- Introduction -- Identity Patterns -- Foreign Influences -- The Challenge of Modernity -- Conclusions and Comparisons -- 3 Political Institutions -- Introduction -- Distribution of Political Power

Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: THE BEGINNINGS -- CHAPTER 2: THE OTHER EUROPE ARRIVES -- CHAPTER 3: THE OTHER SHORE -- CHAPTER 4: SOUTH OF OUR BORDER -- CHAPTER 5: SEEKING SAFETY AND LIBERTY -- CHAPTER 6: THIS LAND IS WHOSE LAND? -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: COMING TO-AND STAYING IN-THE UNITED STATES -- SELECTED TIME LINE OF IMMIGRATION HISTORY -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX OF SEARCHABLE TERMS

Chinese outbound direct investment and the European Union -- Strategies and policies to attract Chinese investors in Europe -- The impact of new reforms, and further EU-China policies -- A changing China : perspectives and opportunities -- Chinese ODI in the EU market : upgrading the existing relationships -- Chinese investment in the United States : a new prospective -- EU competition policy and mergers and acquisitions control regime -- China Investment Corporation's investment in the EU market

Introduction on tourism in Europe and in the cross-border Italy-France -- Objectives and methodology of the ART Project for the Tourism Competitiveness -- Map of the scientific competences on tourism and in the priority sectors in the Italy-France cross-border area -- European funds and opportunities for the tourism competitiveness through synergies with the priority sectors -- Conclusions about the network of priority sectors for the competitiveness of cross-border tourism

Intro -- À propos de Collection XIX -- Titre -- CHAPITRE I - Des dangers qu'engendre le progrès social -- CHAPITRE II - Le mouvement de la population en Europe -- CHAPITRE III - Influence de la nourriture sur le développement des facultés intellectuelles -- CHAPITRE IV - La mère de famille et le progrès social -- CHAPITRE V - Les influences de la famille -- CHAPITRE VI - Des influences extérieures -- Note au lecteur -- Page de titre de l'édition imprimée -- Copyright

Maps -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One -- 1 Anarchism, Anti-Colonialism and the New Left -- 2 The Religious Wave -- Part Two -- 3 The Islamic State -- 4 Foreign Fighters -- 5 Supporters -- 6 The American Exception? -- 7 Al-Qaeda -- 8 Counterterrorism -- Appendix A Fighters from Western Europe (January 2015) -- Appendix B Relationship with the Islamic State (as of 1 May 2016) -- Names and Organizations -- Notes -- Further Reading