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Intro -- Contents / Table des matières -- Preface -- Préface -- Tocqueville Revisited -- Catholic Republicanism Revisited -- « Démocratie catholique » et « démocratie chrétienne » -- The Influence of Catholic Socio-Political Theory on the Foundations of the Belgian Welfare State -- Rethinking the Origins of the Catholic Party in Liberal Italy -- Le catholicisme social dans le cône sud-américain -- Le MRP et le père Lebret à la Libération -- Perceptions and Realities -- Pillarization and Occupation in Dutch History -- Modern Ethno-National Visions and Missionaries from the Low Countries at China's Edge -- World Missions as a Field of Inspiration for New Vatican Strategies -- A Pope's Dilemma -- La réconciliation franco-italienne pour une Europe nouvelle -- Peace in the Magisterium of Twentieth-Century Popes -- L'internationalisme catholique des années 1920 -- Common and Different Interests since World War II -- The Cultural Political Perspective on the Benelux in Post-War -- 'We the peoples' -- Bibliography -- Contributors / Contributeurs -- Colophon.

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