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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: Diversity and Country Performance -- 1.1 Productivity, Structural Change, and Locational Choices -- 1.2 Innovation and Cities: From Old to New -- 1.3 Production Systems in Southern Europe -- 1.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2: Regional Opportunities in Southern Europe -- 2.1 A New Scenario for the Rural World -- 2.2 Governance Systems -- References -- Chapter 3: Landscape and Heritage in Southern Europe -- 3.1 Landscape, Land Use, and Regional Change -- 3.2 The Importance of Heritage Landscapes -- 3.3 Southern Europe: The Heritage Dimension -- 3.4 Archaeology as Part of the Regional Landscape -- 3.5 Spatial Solutions for Sustainable Development: A Systemic Vision -- 3.5.1 The Coherent Landscape -- 3.5.2 The Dominant Landscape -- 3.5.3 The Vertical Landscape -- 3.6 Geovisualization: The Role of Mentoring Regional Science in the Future -- 3.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: Analytical Tools from a Socioeconomic Point of View -- 4.1 Framework for Dynamic Analyses -- 4.1.1 The Concept of Local -- 4.1.2 The Concept of Local/Regional/Territorial Production Systems -- 4.1.3 The Concept of Industrial Models and Production Systems -- 4.2 The Need for Applied Methods to Build Strategic Decisions of Development -- References -- Chapter 5: Behavioral Patterns of Innovation in Lagging Regions of Southern Europe -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 New Shapes of Business Organization -- 5.3 Implications at the Organizational Level of Industrial Space -- 5.3.1 Cluster 1: The Lagging Periphery -- 5.3.2 Cluster 2: The Growing Regions -- 5.3.3 Cluster 3: The Spearheading Regions -- 5.4 Modeling Patterns of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Innovation Dynamics -- 5.5 Useful Conclusions for Southern Europe -- References -- Chapter 6: Modelling Regional Innovation Patterns: The Case Study of Portugal.

"The absence of war between democracies is regarded as one of the few law-like correlations in international relations. The causation of this empirical phenomenon, however, remains contested; and the democratic peace in search of its cause. The project tries to fill this theoretical gap by arguing that inter-democratic institutions are causally responsible for the remarkable stability between democracies. Furthermore, the project contributes to the ongoing debate on the effects of international institutions. While most scholars have recently agreed that some institutions, due to their specific form, are more effective than others, it remains contested which form characteristics contribute to the peace-building effects of institutions. By combining liberal theories on the democratic peace and research on the effects of international institutions, the project is able to identify trans-national and trans-governmental networks as crucial features of inter-democratic institutions. The main hypothesis of the project asserts that a) these characteristics distinguish inter-democratic from traditional institutions between non-democratic states or with a mixed membership, and b) explain their distinct peace-building effect. The project is designed as a controlled case comparison. We analyse the level of stability of five pairs of states. With regard to comparability, we restrict our cases to the group of strategic rivals, i.e. pairs of states which look back to a history of conflict and violence and hence, are more prone to military confrontation than average dyads. From the sample of strategic rivals, we select dyads of endangered states which a) are located in highly institutionalized regional settings, and b) differ with regard to their political regime. We explore the peace-building effect of relevant regional security institutions on the level of stability of the following five dyads: France - Germany; Greece - Turkey; Indonesia - Malaysia and Argentina - Brazil as well as Argentina - Chile. Concerning the South American cases, we also compare the level of stability before and after the wave of democratisation in this region. In addition, we incorporate the relationship between Japan and South Korea into our research. This odd case of a democratic dyad of rivals, whose security relationship is only minimally institutionalized, allows us to assess alternative explanations of the democratic peace. The results of our research confirm our main hypothesis. Firstly, our work demonstrates that inter-democratic institutions differ with regard to their embedment in trans-national and trans-governmental networks. Secondly, we show that these institutional differences are responsible for the observed differences in the level of stability of our dyads. Moreover, our case selection allows us to undermine alternative explanations. The surprisingly low level of stability of the Japanese - South Korean dyad reinforces theoretical doubts concerning the liberal assumption that the democratic peace is caused by state properties. The high level of tensions between Greece and Turkey, both NATO member states, invalidates realist as well as neo-institutional explanations which attribute the effectiveness of institutions to the presence of a hegemonic leader or to their level of institutionalisation." (author's abstract)

Introduction : into the margins : migration and exclusion in Southern Europe / Floya Anthias and Gabriella Lazaridis -- The production and reproduction of knowledge on international migration in Europe : the social embeddedness of social knowledge / Ann Singleton and Paolo Barbesino -- Economic migration and social exclusion : the case of Tunisians in Italy in the 1980s and 1990s / Faïçal Daly and Rohit Barot -- Recent immigration to Spain : the case of Moroccans in Catalonia / Russell King and Isabel Rodríguez-Melguizo -- British expatriates' experience of health and social services on the Costa del Sol / Charles Betty and Michael Cahill -- The helots of the new millennium : ethnic-Greek Albanians and 'other' Albanians in Greece / Gabriella Lazaridis -- The presence of the Polish undocumented in Greece in the perspective of European unification / Krystyna Romaniszyn -- Racism and new migration to Cyprus : the racialisation of migrant workers / Nicos Trimikliniotis -- European Union citizenship : exclusion, inclusion and the social dimension / Dora Kostakopoulou

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