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Discusses the experiences of American undergraduates participating in the Junior Year Abroad program in France in the 1920s & 1930s, focusing on the multiple ways in which both male & female students dealt with the world outside diplomacy. The internationalism that the students expressed was informed by circumstances & influences specific to the 1920s & 1930s in the US & France: the objectives of program organizers, material circumstances of living & studying in France, the language & politics of international relations, & modern ideas about individual autonomy. The process is described of constructing an internationalist significance from the Junior Year Abroad program in three separate interactions that students shared between the two World Wars: dealing with national stereotypes, adjusting to a different language & educational system, & understanding the impact of World War I on the French people & political culture. 2 Figures. K. Coddon

Discusses the relation among financial reform, capital flows and democracy, focusing on financial and economic crisis in Latin America and East Asia; policy issues.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Evaluating NATO Enlargement: Scholarly Debates, Policy Implications, and Roads not Taken -- NATO Enlargement: Review and Reprise -- Framing the Debates Over Enlargement's Legacy -- International Debates -- Domestic‑Level Considerations -- Organizational Impact -- The Role of Counterfactual Analysis and Inference -- Previewing the Volume -- Conclusion: Toward a Research Agenda -- References -- Part I Foreign Policy and Strategy Debates -- 2 Patterns of Continuity in NATO's Long History -- A Permanent Alliance? -- The Ismay Assumptions -- The Forever Tsars -- The German Problem -- The USA as a European Power -- Growing Membership, Unchanging Mission -- New Members -- Non‑members -- Who's in, Who's Out? -- Why not Expand NATO's Functions? -- Stabilizing Europe -- Dynamic Versus Static -- Plus ca Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose -- Challenging Inevitability -- A Higher Cost to Expansion, Imposed by Moscow -- An Increased European Defense Effort that Allowed the Americans to Go Home -- A US President Willing to Take Political and Geopolitical Risks -- A Different Germany -- Looking Forward -- References -- 3 NATO as a Political Alliance: Continuities and Legacies in the Enlargement Debates of the 1990s -- Adaptation and Preservation -- Going East -- A Liaison to the East -- The North Atlantic Cooperation Council -- The Partnership for Peace -- To Madrid -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 The NATO Enlargement Consensus and US Foreign Policy: Origins and Consequences -- The United States and NATO Enlargement: A Brief History -- Explaining the Trend -- Enlargement as a Byproduct of Unipolarity -- Expansion as Power Maximization -- Expansion as Leadership via Prestige and Credibility -- Enlargement as Socialization -- Enlargement as Domestic Politics.

International audience ; The research is dedicated to the analysis of law enforcement civil aspects in legal regulation of public relations, determination of its character and value as security instrument of their effectiveness. It is set that law realization is considered in such forms as law fulfillment, law application, law enforcement, law fulfillment and law termination accompanying the motion of civil-law relations. It is proved that the reason for law enforcement in the course of civil-law relations realization is such character of their development, reality and affiliation of which in view of their social value is provided individually-legal instructions given by public authority. Realization of subjective civil rights and legal obligations in private relation is provided by the acceptance of individual legal act issued by governmental authority. Authority's activity in law enforcement mechanism is provided by the system of legal measures (mechanism elements), the total amount of which shall be naturally implemented in law realization mechanism the component of which is law enforcement mechanism in synchronically directed at provision of its effectiveness. To such elements of law enforcement mechanism each of which is specified within the appropriate law realization may be included: legal provision, legal relations and judicial fact. RESUMEN: El estudio está dedicado al análisis de los aspectos civiles de la aplicación de la ley en las relaciones jurídico-públicas, y a la determinación de su naturaleza y significado como herramienta para garantizar su eficacia.

"This book studies the relationship between administrative capacity and a member state's influence in the European Union. More specifically, it studies member states' ability to exert control over the European Commission during trade negotiations. But what determines administrative capacity and how do member states ensure their preferences are defended during trade negotiations? A combination of qualitative fieldwork and survey-analysis provides the answer. Interviews in Belgium, Poland, Estonia and Spain offer a privileged insight into the functioning of national trade administrations and its effects on their behavior in the Council of Ministers. Through survey data, these findings are further corroborated. The book is aimed at a readership interested in EU decision-making, negotiation theory, comparative public administration and the international political economy of trade"--Provided by publisher.

The Finnish integration debate; elements in the consensus between Finnish government and industry favoring market initiatives and application for EEC membership.