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The European regional policy tries to improve the level of the economic and social cohesion within Europe. However, the structural funds assigned to this policy modify economic as well as spatial structure of the regions. In addition, the reflexions engaged, in particular through the SDEC, aim at promoting a voluntarist policy of polycentric adjustment of European space. Thus we are led to consider both structuration and regional integration dynamics of this space. The spatial analysis is mobilized to account for the impact of the economic integration process as well as the effect of regional policy on the european spatial structuration. An inventive use of the most recent tools of spatial econometrics makes possible to appreciate and to quantify the concerned processes. More particulary, we seek to improve the modelization of the interactions between areas by building up gravitational spatial weights matrix which integrate relevant elements put forward by spatial theory. ; La politique régionale européenne est un instrument au service du renforcement de la cohésion économique et sociale. Cependant, les fonds structurels affectés à cette politique modifient la structure des économies régionales et, par là, celle de leur territoire. Par ailleurs, des réflexions engagées, notamment à travers le SDEC, visent à promouvoir une politique volontariste d'aménagement polycentrique de l'espace européen. Il convient donc de s'interroger sur les dynamiques de structuration et d'intégration régionale de cet espace. L'analyse spatiale est mobilisée pour rendre compte de l'impact du processus d'intégration économique ainsi que de la politique régionale sur sa structuration. Une utilisation originale des outils récents de l'économétrie spatiale permet d'apprécier et de quantifier les processus en jeu. Une attention particulière est portée à l'amélioration de la modélisation des interactions entre régions, obtenue par la construction de matrices de poids gravitaires intégrant des éléments jugés à la source des interactions ...

Belgium foreign policy in the period 2004-2006 has been influenced by the tensions that appeared regarding the Iraq war. Signs of hope were registered in the Congo. Starting in spring 2005 however, a crisis appeared within the EU related to the constitutional agreement that was rejected by two of the EU's member states, France and Holland. Belgium foreign politics are closely intertwined with European trade that predetermines its context, while Belgium diplomacy is marked by a post-modern mode of reasoning; its importance is being reduced, but that causes no chaos. Pluralist, complex, little centralized, with interests in foreign policy that are defined as much by interior policies as by media, popular emotion, and moral direction. A consequence of post-modernity remarked upon in the article, is its lack of non-interventionist interest in pre-modern world, of which Rwanda, Congo, Somalia and Darfur have been a victim, and which still threat Afghanistan and Iraq. The final chapter is devoted to Belgium's international efforts concerning the African continent, Rwanda and Congo in particular. References. O. van Zijl

Schwierigkeiten der Barrierefreiheit im Alltag für Menschen mit Behinderungen. Wahrnehmung des verbesserten Zugangs zu Waren und Dienstleistungen. Einstellung zu Barrierefreiheit.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 From global justice to structural injustice -- Chapter 2 What is structural injustice? -- Chapter 3 Power and structural injustice -- Chapter 4 Structural injustice in practice -- Chapter 5 Moral responsibility -- Chapter 6 Political responsibility -- Chapter 7 Corporate responsibility and historical injustice -- Chapter 8 Acting on political responsibility -- Bibliography -- Index.

Why are some figures hidden from history? Eliza Orme, despite becoming the first woman in Britain to earn a university degree in Law in 1888, leading both a political organization and a labour investigation in 1892, and participating actively in the women's suffrage movement into the early twentieth century, is one such figure.

Framed as a 'research memoir', Eliza Orme's Ambitions fills out earlier scant accounts of this intriguing life, while speculating about why it has been overlooked. Established historian Leslie Howsam shapes the story around her own persistent curiosity in the context of a transformed research landscape, where important letters and explosive newspaper accounts have only recently come to light. These materials show how Orme's career ambitions brought her into conflict with the male-dominated legal community of her time, while her political ambitions were cut short by disputes with other women activists whose notions of political strategy she repudiated. In public, Orme was a formidable debater for the causes she supported and against opponents whose strategies—even for women's suffrage—she repudiated. In private, she was generous, warm, and witty, close to friends, family, and her female partner. Howsam's account of uncovering Orme's professional and personal trajectory will appeal to academic and non-academic readers interested in the progress and setbacks women experienced in the late-Victorian and Edwardian decades.

"Liberal democracies are under constant threat in the twenty first century, and there is growing scepticism about whether liberalism and democracy can continue to survive together. In Democracy Tamed, Gianna Englert argues that some of the crises of confidence facing liberal democracy are not unique to our present moment. Instead, they have existed ever since liberal political thought emerged in the nineteenth century. Combining political theory and intellectual history, Englert not only uncovers the source of liberals' original animus toward political democracy. She shows how self-proclaimed liberals devised two strategies to counter the rise of mass democracy. They created the concept of political capacity as their alternative to universal suffrage and mobilized that concept in the contentious debates over the franchise from the French Revolution to the Third Republic. Liberals also redefined democracy itself, transforming it from its ancient meaning as political rule by the people to designate a modern form of society-a new democracy that, counterintuitively, demanded the guidance of a capable few rather than the rule of all. Democracy Tamed tells the story of how the earliest liberals deployed their notion of the "new democracy" to resist universal suffrage. But it also reveals how later liberals would utilize their predecessors' antidemocratic concepts to merge liberal principles with political equality, first to imagine and then to safeguard liberal democracies as we have come to know them"--