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In January 2019, 30 leading European intellectuals, including Bernard-Henri Lévy and Orhan Pamuk, pronounced that 'the idea of Europe is in peril'. Their voices added to a general sense from all corners of the European continent that the liberal narratives that have sustained the European Union integration project are under attack. Is it true, as Pamuk suggested, that Europe no longer makes us dream? What would it take to reactivate Europe's ability to inspire? Aligned with Sudeep Dasgupta and Mireille Rosello's approach of queering European culture, I imagine the possibilities that might emerge if we reenergise Queer and Europe with their original radical potential. In my reading of Panos H. Koutras' film Xenia, I ask the following: what happens if we imbue Queer Europe with a grammar of hope instead of a grammar of hopelessness? I posit that Xenia queers the space between the European centre and periphery in its celebration of 'diva citizenship' and in so doing, the film reconfigures a Europe in the present continuous rather than the past and future tenses. Such a reconfiguration widens the scope to imagine new cartographies that map European culture in alternative frameworks. A Europe of Stories, I suggest, emerges in the space that this new cartography opens up.

THE DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPE OVER THAT PAST FIVE YEARS CONFIRMS THE IDEA OF THE CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE OF STRONG AND INTEGRATING INSTITUTIONS AND THE URGENCY OF EXTENDING THEM STEP-BY-STEP TO INCLUDE COUNTRIES IN ALL PARTS OF EUROPE. THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES: THE COMMITMENT IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA; UNPROFOR, NATO, AND THE USE OF FORCE; AND THE EUROPEAN UNION. THE EUROPEAN UNION IS SEEN AS THE MOST IMPORTANT PEACEKEEPING INSTITUTION THAT EXISTS IN EUROPE. ITS GRADUAL ENLARGEMENT IS SEEN AS STEPS TOWARDS PEACE AND STABILITY.

Introduction: understanding the contours of Africa's past --Part I. Polity, society, and economy: ingenuity and violence in the nineteenth century --Western transitions: slave trade and "legitimate" commerce in Atlantic Africa --Eastern intrusions: slaves and ivory in Eastern Africa --Southern frontiers: colony and revolution in Southern Africa --Part II. Africa and Islam: revival and reform in the nineteenth century --Revival and reaction: North African Islam --Jihad: revolutions in Western Africa --The eastern crescent: the Islamic frontier in Eastern Africa --Part III. Africa and Europe: commerce, conflict and co-option, to c.1920 113 --The compass and the cross --"Whatever happens ...": towards the scramble --Africans adapting: conquest and partition --Part IV. Colonialisms --"Pax colonia"? Empires of soil and service --Hard times: protest, identity, and depression --Battles home and away: Africa in global war (again) --Part V. The dissolution of empire --The beached whale: colonial strategies in the postwar world --Conceiving and producing nations --Compromising conflict: routes to independence --Part VI. Legacies, new beginnings, and unfinished business --Unsafe foundations: challenges of independence --Violence and the militarization of political culture --Rectification, redemption, and reality: issues and trends in contemporary Africa.

A couple of years ago Joschka Fischer, the German minister of Foreign Affairs articulated his European dream, calling for a specification of the 'Finalität', that is the ultimate goal of the process of European integration. It came at a moment that Europe is challenged by two conflicting developments - globalization and localization - labeled by Tom Courchene as 'glocalization' [Watts 1994]. The outcome of the process of European integration is still unclear, but will be in line with the striking characterization of Alexis de Tocqueville of the original idea of the American federation.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the English-Language Edition -- Introduction -- 1. The Historiographical Debate from 1945 to Today -- 2. Cultural Politics in the 1920s -- 3. Intellectuals and Artists in the 1920s -- 4. The Ideology of the Totalitarian State -- 5. Cultural Politics in the 1930s -- 6. Intellectuals and Artists in the 1930s -- 7. Cultural Politics and Intellectuals in the 1940s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Ecology and Empire examines the relationship between the expansion of empire and the environmental experience of the extra-European world. For the first time it moves the debate beyond the North American frontier by comparing the experience of settler societies in Australia, South Africa and Latin America. From Australian water management and the crisis of deforestation in Latin America, to beef farming in the Transvaal, this topical book provides a broad comparative historical approach to the impact of humanity on the ecological systems on which settler societies base their livelihood

"Prepared for the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate."--Cover. ; Pub. L. No. 95-555, 92 Stat. 2076 (1978) ; "June 1980"--Cover. ; S. 995, 96th Congress, 1978 ; Mode of access: Internet.