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The history and development of the European Union -- Brexit and the withdrawal agreement -- The central institutions of the EU -- Legislative processes --The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)--direct and indirect access -- Addressing infringements of EU law --who enforces EU law? -- The supremacy of EU law -- Direct effect, indirect effect, and state liability -- Fundamental rights in EU -- European Union citizenship -- Migrant union workers -- Free movement of goods -- Freedom of establishment and free movement of services.

Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences of decolonization through the histories of over half a million Portuguese settlers who 'returned' following the 1974 Carnation Revolution from Angola, Mozambique, and other parts of Portugal's crumbling empire to their country of origin and citizenship, itself undergoing significant upheaval. Looking comprehensively at the returnees' history and memory for the first time, this book contributes to debates about colonial racism and its afterlives. It studies migration, 'refugeeness,' and integration to expose an apparent paradox: The end of empire and the return migrations it triggered belong to a global history of the twentieth century and are shaped by transnational dynamics. However, they have done nothing to dethrone the primacy of the nation-state. If anything, they have reinforced it

'Enacting the Security Community' illuminates the central role of discourse in the making of security communities through a case study of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Despite decades of discussion, scholars of political science and international relations have long struggled to identify what kind of security community ASEAN is striving to become. Talk about security, Stéphanie Martel argues in this innovative study, is more than empty rhetoric. It is precisely through discourse that ASEAN is brought into being as a security community. Martel analyzes the epic narratives that state and non-state actors tell about ASEAN's journey to becoming a security community, featuring a colourful cast of heroes and monsters.

"This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban "spaces of possibilities" and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout the city and of culturally sensitive urban policies. The call for sustainability brings with it challenges for which, in view of the urgency of social transformation, institutional innovations are necessary. Sustainable urban development will only succeed through creative impulses, experiments, trying out innovative ideas, making alternatives visible, in particular through locally rooted urban initiatives, artistic actions and social movements. Discussing many concrete examples from several years of empirical research in the cities of Hanover and Hamburg (Germany), Baltimore and Chicago (USA), Bangalore (India), St. Petersburg (Russia), Singapore, and Vancouver (Canada), the book connects urban spaces and their actors, looks at their guiding principles, strategies and concrete practices, and identifies new levers, networks and alliances. Readers will find in this book not only inspiring examples of culture in everyday life in the city, but also explanations about the qualities that make local cultural initiatives especially full of potentials, and how they may translate into city-wide changes, engaging with the whole City as Space of Possibilities. The book will interest researchers and advanced students in the interdisciplinary fields of urban studies, sustainability science / sustainability research, cultural sciences, urban sociology, sociology of the arts/cultural sociology; and those interested in the transdisciplinary collaborations between the arts, academia and civil society"--

In Unravelling the Social Formation: Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey, Akif Avci examines the role of business associations and the state in Turkey in analysing the dialectical relationship between global free trade and Turkish social formation since 2002.The manuscript constructs three-levels of analysis based on the social relations of production, forms of state and world order. It explores the class characteristics of the business associations, the role of the Turkish state in the process of integration into global capitalism, and at the same time, internalisation of the global class relations inside Turkey. It offers a fresh neo-Gramscian evaluation of theories of imperialism, and of the uneven and combined development (U&CD) framework for understanding social formation

"Inflation, in which all prices and wages in an economy rise, is mysterious. If a war breaks out in the Middle East, and the price of oil goes up, the mechanism is no great mystery-supply and demand often work pretty visibly. But if you ask the grocer why the price of bread is higher, he or she will blame the wholesaler, who will blame the baker, who will blame the wheat supplier, and so on. Perhaps the ultimate cause is a government printing more money, but there is really no way to know this for certain but to sit down in an office with statistics, armed with some decent economic theory. But current economic theory doesn't really explain why we haven't seen inflation for so long, and more and more economists think that current theory doesn't hold together, or provide much guidance for how central banks should behave if inflation does break out. Many also worry that central banks have much less power over the economy than they think they do, and much less understanding of the mechanism behind what power they do have. The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level is a comprehensive new approach to monetary policy. Economist John Cochrane argues that money has value because the government accepts it for tax payments. This insight, he argues, leads to a deep re-reading of monetary policy and institutions. Inflation comes when a government is unable to repay its debts, rather than from mismanagement of the split of debt between money and bonds. In the book, he will analyze institutional design, historical episodes, and compare fiscal theory to the Keynesian and new-Keynesian theory based on interest rate targets, and to monetarism. The book offers an overview and introduction to the range of contemporary monetary economics and history of thought as well as the fiscal theory"--

Weshalb staunt die deutsche Öffentlichkeit noch immer über Schwarze Frauen, die Theaterintendantin oder Tatort-Kommissarin werden? Woher kommt diese Irritation? Um unsere Vielfalt zu leben, brauchen wir Vorbilder und keine Vorurteile. Vor allem brauchen wir Vorbilder, die bewusst mit Stereotypen brechen. Denn Vorurteile führen zur Spaltung der Gesellschaft, allein 70 Prozent der Deutschen spüren sie schon heute. Um dieser Spaltung entgegen zu wirken, müssen wir unsere Gemeinsamkeiten suchen, unsere eigenen Vorurteile überwinden. Schwarz. Rot. Wir. stellt neue Vorbilder als Diversity Champions vor und Pierrot Raschdorff zeigt, wie mächtig diese Diversity Champions sein können. Er nähert sich Begriffen wie Cancel Culture, Identitätspolitik und kultureller Aneignung an, zeigt auf, wie wir als Gemeinschaft damit umgehen können, und dass der wichtigste Aspekt innerhalb der Debatte immer der respektvolle Dialog ist. Ein Plädoyer für eine gelebte Vielfalt in Deutschland. (Verlagsinformation)

Die Frage nach dem Einfluss Einzelner auf den Lauf der Geschichte ist ebenso alt wie heikel. Für Ian Kershaw steht bei seinem Blick auf Europa im 20. Jahrhundert nicht das moralische Urteil der Nachgeborenen im Vordergrund. Ihn interessiert das komplexe Zusammenwirken historischer Gegebenheiten mit den Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen von Menschen, die Raum und Epoche maßgeblich beeinflussten. Kershaw betreibt keinen Geschichtsdeterminismus: Vielmehr fragt er jeweils nach Denkmustern und Idealen, Defiziten und Prägungen, also individuellen Eigenschaften, denen Entscheidungen folgten. Im Zusammenwirken mit den Potenzialen des Amtes, sei es übertragen oder usurpiert, lasse sich, so Kershaw, eher begreifen, warum die Verbindung von Person und Macht bei Lenin oder Mussolini, Hitler oder Stalin Europa in den Abgrund führte. Kershaw sucht das in der jeweiligen Persönlichkeit und in der historischen Situation Wurzelnde, um über Werturteile hinaus zu verstehen.

Museums and Atlantic Slavery explores how slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and enslaved people are represented through words, visual images, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in museums in Europe and the Americas. Divided into four chapters, the book addresses four recurrent themes: wealth and luxury; victimhood and victimization; resistance and rebellion; and resilience and achievement. Considering the roles of various social actors who have contributed to the introduction of slavery in the museum in the last thirty years, the analysis draws on selected exhibitions, and institutions entirely dedicated to slavery, as well as national, community, plantation, and house museums in the United States, England, France, and Brazil. Engaging with literature from a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, sociology, art history, tourism and museum studies, Araujo provides an overview of a topic that has not yet been adequately discussed and analysed within the museum studies field.Museums and Atlantic Slavery encourages scholars, students, and museum professionals to critically engage with representations of slavery in museums. The book will help readers to recognize how depictions of human bondage in museums and exhibitions often fail to challenge racism and white supremacy inherited from the period of slavery