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Front -- CONTENTS -- 1 A WAREHOUSE OF PRECIOUS GOODS -- 2 SCHOLARSHIP, LOCAL LIFE, AND THE NECESSITY OF WORLDLINESS -- 3 POLITICS AND THE UNIVERSITY -- 4 THE WORLD OF ARTS AND THE UNIVERSITY -- 5 THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM -- 6 LOUV AIN-LA-NEUVE: A NEW CITY FOR AN OLD UNIVERSITY -- 7 ROME: THREE UNIVERSITIES IN SEARCH OF ACTORS -- 8 AMSTERDAM, UTRECHT, GRONINGEN -- 9 A SHARED SPACE IN A DIVIDED SOCIETY -- 10 CORRUPT CAPITAL, REFORMED ACADEMY -- 11 DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING AN URBAN MISSION -- 12 THE UNIVERSITY AND THE CITY COUNCIL -- 13 URBAN CHANGE AND INSTITUTIONAL ADAPTATION

Examines the function of political order -- the framework in which values are authoritatively allocated within a given state or society -- as an "intermediate modulator" in the relationship between development & violence. A distinction is made between direct, cultural, & structural violence & peace, & the contributions of development to each are explored. The dynamics of a development-violence loop are explicated within the context of liberal & realist political orders; examples of each in history & in the current world system are provided. References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Examines the political aspects of administering metropolitan regions so that overall planning and management can be achieved; Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Italy. Topics include infrastructure policy in the Randstad Holland, local government structure in Greater Manchester, England, intergovernmental relations in Lombardy, Italy, and the French-speaking cantons around Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

Le Parti pour la liberté (PVV) de Geert Wilders est depuis les législatives de 2010 le troisième des Pays-Bas, qui plus est un partenaire indispensable du gouvernement minoritaire de la coalition des conservateurs du VVD et des chrétiens-démocrates du CDA. Cette contribution retrace le parcours politique de Geert Wilders depuis ses débuts comme assistant du groupe parlementaire de Frits Bolkestein en 1990. Elle retrace le succès de son parti (qui en vérité n'en est pas un puisqu'il n'a pas de membres), dans le contexte du débat sur l'immigration, l'intégration et l'islam, des assassinats politiques de Pim Fortuijn en 2002 et Theo van Gogh en 2004 et de la montée de mouvements populistes anti-islamistes aux Pays-Bas. Elle présente enfin les grands traits de la géographie électorale du PVV.

Geopolitical discourses for Germany, GB, & France are outlined for several periods since 1870. They are also categorized as to their orientations to different scales (regional, European, global). These discourses remain different over time. Differences are interpreted in terms of situation, state age, & state organization. At the same time these discourses change on the basis of state system characteristics & mutual interactions. 2 Tables. Adapted from the source document.

Security policies of states have a military and a diplomatic aspect. For the European countries outside the Soviet sphere a basic characteristic of their security policies is the extent to which these are aligned to the American- European security relationship. A typology of security policies is set up based on military and political alignment. There are five types: Faithfuls, Marginals, Neutrals, Partners, Fortresses. For the last two types, scores differ con siderably. For various reasons these types also have higher defense burdens than the others, which in their turn do not differ systematically on this count. Military alignment does not necessarily coincide with political alignment. To the extent that alignment is one dimension of security policy at all, it is apparently a different one from defense burden. Although the types are quite stable over time, some evolution occurs: variation in military alignment in creases, political alignment with the US generally decreases, defense burdens diminish. Cross-unit and over-time differences are related to power position and geography, but there also seems to be an element of routinization to explain the evolution of the system. It is finally argued that the trends towards qualitative changes in the system unfortunately are not necessarily for the better.