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This book explores one important aspect of international irregular migration, notably the smuggling of migrants from Asia and Africa into southern European countries. During the last two decades, international migration has intensified both across the East to West and South to North axis, with Europe receiving increasing numbers of migrants from developing countries in Africa and Asia (and also Latin America), and this work examinesthis international movement of people that oftentakes place illegally and involves either unlawful border crossings or overstaying (with or without a visa). The book also discusses how migration control policies in southern European countries may inadvertently shape the migrant smuggling phenomenon and the smuggling 'business'.

The purpose of the essays collected in this volume is to advance the discussion about 'life knowledge' (Lebenswissen) and to point the way toward new horizons for current and future thinking and action in literary and cultural studies. This broad research field encompasses a wide range of elements: European, non-European, philological, and philosophical approaches; perspectives native to media history, narrative theory, and the aesthetics of literature; as well as transcultural and transdisciplinary methods. Clearly, 'life knowledge' is a field of research whose forms and norms of knowledge remain to be more precisely elucidated. This volume is dedicated to meeting this intellectual challenge. Ottmar Ette, Universität Potsdam.

The volume examines the impact of applying transnational rules on the repertory, methods and practice of legal interpretation. It scrutinizes how globalization processes in law - those reaching top-down (such as European law), as well as those developing bottom-up (such as the new lex mercatoria and international commercial arbitration) - influence the often highly innovative use of various methods of legal rendition. It also examines to what extent they affect supranational and domestic decision-making.Capturing the current development of universalizing tendencies in legal interpretation, the book offers both an extensive theoretical background and thorough studies on adjudicatory practice in such fields as European and constitutional law, international business law and arbitration or criminal law.

'I am no longer human. I am a titan. A god!' : the fascist quest to regenerate time -- Modernity under the new order : the fascist project for managing the future -- Exploding the continuum of history : a non-Marxist's Marxist model of fascism's revolutionary dynamics -- Fatal attraction : why Nazism appealed to voters -- Hooked crosses and forking paths : the fascist dynamics of the Third Reich -- 'No racism thanks, we're British' : how right-wing populism manifests itself in contemporary Britain -- 'Europe for the Europeans' : fascist myths of the European new order 1922-1992 -- Fascism's new faces (and new facelessness) in the 'post-fascist' era -- The fascination of fascism : a concluding interview with Roger Griffin

Introduction / Stefan Svallfors -- Class conflicts and institutional feedback effects in liberal and social democratic welfare regimes : attitudes toward state redistribution and welfare policy in six Western countries / Jonas Edlund -- Overloaded or undermined? : European welfare states in the face of performance dissatisfaction / Staffan Kumlin -- Social risk, policy dissatisfaction, and political alienation : a comparison of six European countries / Maria Oskarson -- The relationship between public service dissatisfaction and political action : does institutional design matter? / Maria Pettersson -- Class and attitudes to market inequality : a comparison between Sweden, Britain, Germany, and the United States / Stefan Svallfors -- Are we the people? : national sentiments in a changing political landscape / Mikael Hjerm -- Conclusion : the past and future of political sociology / Stefan Svallfors

The ordeal of the refugee ship St. Louis has become a symbol of the world s indifference to the plight of European Jewry on the eve of the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939, more than nine hundred Jewish refugees boarded theSt. Louis in Hamburg, Germany, hoping to escape escalating oppression by the Nazi government. The ship was denied entry, and nearly all of its passengers denied asylum, by Cuba and the United States. Returning on an uncertain voyage to Europe, the refugees eventually were accepted by four western European countries, but only the 288 sent to England evaded the Nazi grip that closed upon continental Europe a year later.

Housing finance markets in Central and Eastern European countries are typically small in scale and under-developed, though it is generally recognized that fostering housing finance markets contributes to economic development and brings social benefits to the public. This book presents a comparative study on housing finance markets in the Central and Eastern European countries. It is based on an OECD market survey conducted in 2004 and on selected country data prepared for the OECD workshop on housing finance in transition economies held in December 2004. It reports on the progress and challenges in housing finance markets in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine.--Publisher's description

We estimate educational production functions for seven Eastern European transition countries, using student-level TIMSS data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student background on educational performance and a much lower impact of resources and the institutional setting. Two different groups of countries emerge. For the first group that features high mean test scores and has progressed far in transition, large effects of family background on student performance and a higher spread of test scores illustrate the similarity to Western European schooling systems, the performance of which it surpasses. Schools of the second group produce instead a denser distribution of educational achievement, characteristic of communist societies.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Introduction: The Idea of a United Europe -- 2 The Question of European Identity and the Impact of the Changes of 1989/90 -- 3 Order and Constitutional Disorder: Lessons from the UK -- 4 The Corridor Model: Towards the Further Development of an EU Social Policy -- 5 Gender and Employment in East Germany: Continuity, Change and Comparison -- 6 The Epicentre of Reunification: Berlin in Germany and Europe since the End of the Cold War -- 7 'Policy Push' for European Integration: Implications of the Information Society -- 8 'New' Europe and International Society: Conflicting Forces in an Informationalized World -- Index.

The Enlightenment is often seen as the great age of religious and intellectual toleration, and this 1999 volume is a systematic European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to toleration in eighteenth-century Europe. A distinguished international team of contributors demonstrate how the publicists of the European Enlightenment developed earlier ideas about toleration, gradually widening the desire for religious toleration into a philosophy of freedom seen as a fundamental attribute and a precondition for a civilized society. Nonetheless Europe never uniformly or comprehensively embraced toleration during the eighteenth century: although religious toleration was central to the Enlightenment project, advances in toleration were often fragile and short-lived

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Diversity and Change in Models of Social Democracy -- 2 Theories to Explain the 'Decline' of Social Democracy -- 3 The Southern European Model of Social Democracy -- 4 The Northern European Model of Social Democracy -- 5 The British Case: the Development of New Labour -- 6 The Failures of 'New' Social Democracy -- 7 Conclusion -- Appendices 1 Profiles of Interviewees -- 2 Jospin's 'Propositions pour la France' - 1995 Presidential Manifesto -- 3 The New Clause IV -- 4 A Comparison of Old and New Labour -- 5 Changes in Labour Party Policy Positions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Eastern European countries, the Baltic States in particular, are facing difficult problems in the course of their economic and political transition: industrial decline, unemployment, institutional change, conversion of industries, etc. But most Eastern European states have available a well-developed human capital, so that scientific and technical cooperation with western states can facilitate the resolution of parts of these problems. The contributors to Transformation, Cooperation, and Conversion address their analytical findings and proposals to political decision makers in the East and West. The book provides new insights into the processes of transition and transformation and is therefore useful to all those who are scientifically or politically engaged in East-West relations

Few historical figures have been more important than Erasmus of Rotterdam in modeling the ideal of critical scholarship. Beholden to no party, he is one of the shapers of that European heritage whose significance in our lives has become an issue in contemporary cultural debates. Yet for Erasmus critical scholarship was not dispassionate. He cared passionately about the moral and religious renewal that in his mind was advanced by his editions of the Greek New Testament, the Church Fathers, and the Greco-Roman classics. His program for a reform of European Christian society through a reform of teaching (doctrina), both from the pulpit and in the classroom, will be the theme of this book.

Title Page -- FOREWORD -- GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- BOOKLETS -- THE POTENTIAL FOR HEALTHCARE CARDS IN EUROPE -- A STRATEGY FOR THE CONVERGENCE OF HEALTHCARE CARD SYSTEMS -- ARCHITECTURE OF HEALTHCARE CARD SYSTEMS -- INTEROPERABILITY OF HEALTHCARE CARD SYSTEMS -- ADMINISTRATIVE USES OF PATIENT DATA CARDS -- TIE SECURITY REPORT -- SUMMARIES -- EMERGENCY CARD -- TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEALTH CARE CARDS ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- EUROPEAN POTENTIAL AND SECURITY ASPECTS OF THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL CARD -- USERS' PERSPECTIVE AND ACCEPTANCE OF PATIENT DATA CARDS -- EVALUATION METHODOLOGY (Definition of the approach) -- LEGAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH DATA CARDS (PATIENT AND PROFESSIONAL) -- EUROCARDS EDITORIAL ACTIVITY -- List of European Participants to the EUROCARDS Concerted Action -- Eurocards Concerted ActionMain results and deliverables -- GLOSSARY (VERSION 1)

Golebiowski, J.: Systemic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe: five years later. - S.2-12. Dobroczynski, M.: Poland between the new Russia and the new Germany. - S.13-28. Erhart, H. G.: Some remarks on Germany's European policy. - S.29-32. Machowski, H. ; Schrettl, W.: The economic impact of unified Germany on Central and Eastern Europe. - S.33-59. Misala, J.: Polish-German trade relations as a factor of stabilization in Central and Eastern Europe. - S.60-68. Madej, Z.: Systemic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe and reforms in Russia. - S.69-79. Seidelmann, R.: On the way towards a new understanding of European security. - S.80-98