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This is an FRQ essay relating the impact of the scientific method on the scientific community during the scientific revolution.
Research Interests: History, European History, European Studies, Social Sciences, Renaissance Studies, and 7 moreHistory of Renaissance Science, Scientific Theories, Scientific method & Education, Scientific methodology, The Scientific Revolution, Early modern European history, hisory of science, history of religion, and Scientific Method
British participation in the historical process of European integration has been persistently framed as a policy dilemma of the highest order. This dilemma was itself coloured by the existence of policy traditions that oriented Britain... more
British participation in the historical process of European integration has been persistently framed as a policy dilemma of the highest order. This dilemma was itself coloured by the existence of policy traditions that oriented Britain away from Europe and towards political communities tied to a historical interpretation of British nationality. Euroscepticism is symptomatic of these traditions and dilemmas whilst at the same time sustaining them. But Eurosceptics face a dilemma of their own. What serious alternative do they propose? The notion of the ‘Anglosphere’ was adopted on the Eurosceptic right of British politics as an alternative to European integration. As a politics of disengagement by the Cameron government played out in Europe, a policy of re-engagement began with Britain’s former Dominions. Here was a response to a political dilemma that not only used historical consciousness and political tradition as its point of departure, but as its place of destination too.
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An Introduction to 'Blackness in European Folklore - The Dutch Case: Black Pete', a panel discussion at UC Berkeley. Gives a short overview of the discussions that the black-faced holiday character Black Pete has raised in the Netherlands... more
An Introduction to 'Blackness in European Folklore - The Dutch Case: Black Pete', a panel discussion at UC Berkeley. Gives a short overview of the discussions that the black-faced holiday character Black Pete has raised in the Netherlands over the years.
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(Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2002) Whenever asked to name his most significant accomplishment as West Germany's first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer would invariably reply: "The alliance with the free West." Scholars have echoed... more
(Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2002)
Whenever asked to name his most significant accomplishment as West Germany's first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer would invariably reply: "The alliance with the free West." Scholars have echoed his assessment, citing the Federal Republic of Germany's successful integration into the American-led West (Westbindung) as the key to its postwar economic and political recovery. Behind this simple success story, however,lies a much more complicated history: Adenauer and the CDU/CSU remained ambivalent about the ultimate relationship between Europe, Germany, and the United States within the West, torn between visions of Continental European integration based on Franco-German reconciliation and of an Atlantic community linking Europe and the "Anglo-Saxons." These differences eventually erupted into a damaging public conflict between "Atlanticists" and "Gaullists," which colored Adenauer's last years and, after his retirement in 1963, led directly to the failure of his successor, Ludwig Erhard.
The opening of various personal and party archives over the past few years has now made the entire Adenauer Era accessible for historians. As one of the first efforts to use that material to re-examine existing conventional wisdom about the period, this book traces the roles of Adenauer and the CDU/CSU in shaping Westbindung. Adenauer emerges as a skilled and resourceful (if also mistrustful and devious) politician, and as a distinctly German statesman, maneuvering between allies and adversaries to shape both the Western community and the German role in it, leaving a legacy that still influences contemporary German-American and European-American relations.
Whenever asked to name his most significant accomplishment as West Germany's first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer would invariably reply: "The alliance with the free West." Scholars have echoed his assessment, citing the Federal Republic of Germany's successful integration into the American-led West (Westbindung) as the key to its postwar economic and political recovery. Behind this simple success story, however,lies a much more complicated history: Adenauer and the CDU/CSU remained ambivalent about the ultimate relationship between Europe, Germany, and the United States within the West, torn between visions of Continental European integration based on Franco-German reconciliation and of an Atlantic community linking Europe and the "Anglo-Saxons." These differences eventually erupted into a damaging public conflict between "Atlanticists" and "Gaullists," which colored Adenauer's last years and, after his retirement in 1963, led directly to the failure of his successor, Ludwig Erhard.
The opening of various personal and party archives over the past few years has now made the entire Adenauer Era accessible for historians. As one of the first efforts to use that material to re-examine existing conventional wisdom about the period, this book traces the roles of Adenauer and the CDU/CSU in shaping Westbindung. Adenauer emerges as a skilled and resourceful (if also mistrustful and devious) politician, and as a distinctly German statesman, maneuvering between allies and adversaries to shape both the Western community and the German role in it, leaving a legacy that still influences contemporary German-American and European-American relations.
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'Italian politics has been rocked by a scandal in the country’s capital. Politicians stand accused of working within a pervasive and wide-reaching criminal network dubbed “Mafia Capitale” to skim money from public services and bribe... more
'Italian politics has been rocked by a scandal in the country’s capital. Politicians stand accused of working within a pervasive and wide-reaching criminal network dubbed “Mafia Capitale” to skim money from public services and bribe officials.', available at: https://theconversation.com/politicians-fiddling-the-books-while-rome-burns-35213
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Arno Tausch, Profesor Visitante, Universidad de Corvinus, Budapest, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Hungría y Universidad de Innsbruck, Departamento de Ciencias Políticas, Innsbruck, Austria Juan Diez-Nicolas, Profesor emeritus de... more
Arno Tausch, Profesor Visitante, Universidad de Corvinus, Budapest, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Hungría y Universidad de Innsbruck, Departamento de Ciencias Políticas, Innsbruck, Austria
Juan Diez-Nicolas, Profesor emeritus de sociología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Christian Ghymers, Profesor de Ciencias Economicas en el ICHEC de Bruselas (Brussels Management School)
Peter Herrmann, Director Académico del Instituto Eurispes (Istituto di Studi Politici, economici e Sociali Osservatorio Europeo sulla Qualità social) en Roma.
Bajo colaboración de Alfonso Galindo Lucas, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Cádiz, España
En la víspera de la renuncia del Papa Benedicto XVI, anunciada el 11 de febrero de 2013, dijimos en una publicación de un nuevo e importante “think tank” en Argentina a finales de noviembre de 2010 en algún lugar que
este libro es [...] una clara invitación a las fuerzas "iluminadas" dentro de la Iglesia Católica, de buscar, en tales situaciones, el ecumenismo de la Ilustración con las mejores fuerzas de las Iglesias cristianas, católicas y protestantes por igual, con el judaísmo y el con el Islam, y con las corrientes humanistas y democráticas dentro de otras religiones del mundo y también entre los no creyentes, para buscar alternativas humanistas y socio-liberales alternativas a la crisis actual y para salvar la democracia contra las nuevas tendencias autoritarias en muchos países.
El terremoto verdadero de la perestroika y glasnost, efectuado por los cambios actuales en la Iglesia católica romana, iniciada por la renuncia del Papa Benedicto XVI y la elección del jesuita argentino Jorge Bergoglio al Papado como Papa Francisco I, es un evento mundial, que es de enorme importancia para la política y la economía mundial al mismo tiempo y no sólo para los católicos romanos y los religiosos en general en nuestro mundo. En vista de estos hechos, Arno Tausch y Christian Ghymers, los autores del estudio bonarense (2011) ‚El Papa ¿Cuántas Divisiones Tiene? Sondeo Global del Catolicismo Mundial Según el ‘World Values Survey’ y el ‘European Social Survey’’ E-Book N° 49, Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales: http://www.caei.com.ar/es/irebooks.htm decidieron, publicar este estudio sobre el catolicismo romano global como un libro, junto con nuevos materiales sobre el tema escritos por el profesor Juan Diez Nicolas, profesor emeritus de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, y fundador de los estudios basados en el World Values Survey en idioma Castellano, y el profesor Peter Herrmann, actualmente Director Académico del Instituto Eurispes (Istituto di Studi Politici, economici e Sociali Osservatorio Europeo sulla Qualità social) en Roma. Los autores agradecen al Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales el permiso de publicar este estudio como un libro.
Juan Diez-Nicolas, Profesor emeritus de sociología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Christian Ghymers, Profesor de Ciencias Economicas en el ICHEC de Bruselas (Brussels Management School)
Peter Herrmann, Director Académico del Instituto Eurispes (Istituto di Studi Politici, economici e Sociali Osservatorio Europeo sulla Qualità social) en Roma.
Bajo colaboración de Alfonso Galindo Lucas, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Cádiz, España
En la víspera de la renuncia del Papa Benedicto XVI, anunciada el 11 de febrero de 2013, dijimos en una publicación de un nuevo e importante “think tank” en Argentina a finales de noviembre de 2010 en algún lugar que
este libro es [...] una clara invitación a las fuerzas "iluminadas" dentro de la Iglesia Católica, de buscar, en tales situaciones, el ecumenismo de la Ilustración con las mejores fuerzas de las Iglesias cristianas, católicas y protestantes por igual, con el judaísmo y el con el Islam, y con las corrientes humanistas y democráticas dentro de otras religiones del mundo y también entre los no creyentes, para buscar alternativas humanistas y socio-liberales alternativas a la crisis actual y para salvar la democracia contra las nuevas tendencias autoritarias en muchos países.
El terremoto verdadero de la perestroika y glasnost, efectuado por los cambios actuales en la Iglesia católica romana, iniciada por la renuncia del Papa Benedicto XVI y la elección del jesuita argentino Jorge Bergoglio al Papado como Papa Francisco I, es un evento mundial, que es de enorme importancia para la política y la economía mundial al mismo tiempo y no sólo para los católicos romanos y los religiosos en general en nuestro mundo. En vista de estos hechos, Arno Tausch y Christian Ghymers, los autores del estudio bonarense (2011) ‚El Papa ¿Cuántas Divisiones Tiene? Sondeo Global del Catolicismo Mundial Según el ‘World Values Survey’ y el ‘European Social Survey’’ E-Book N° 49, Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales: http://www.caei.com.ar/es/irebooks.htm decidieron, publicar este estudio sobre el catolicismo romano global como un libro, junto con nuevos materiales sobre el tema escritos por el profesor Juan Diez Nicolas, profesor emeritus de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, y fundador de los estudios basados en el World Values Survey en idioma Castellano, y el profesor Peter Herrmann, actualmente Director Académico del Instituto Eurispes (Istituto di Studi Politici, economici e Sociali Osservatorio Europeo sulla Qualità social) en Roma. Los autores agradecen al Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales el permiso de publicar este estudio como un libro.
Research Interests: Religion, Christianity, Sociology, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, and 40 moreEastern European Studies, European Studies, Latin American Studies, International Relations, Theology, Catholic Studies, Liberalism, Liberation Theology, Enlightenment, International Political Economy, Catholic Social Teaching, Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, European Union, Catholic Theology, Secularization, Moral Theology, Muslim Minorities, Islam, Democracy, Moral Philosophy, Second Vatican Council, Enlightenment Political Thought, Roman Catholicism, Spain, India, Mexico, Italy, Jesuits, pope benedict XVI, Liberalismo, Iglesia Católica, Jesuítas, World Values Survey, Pope Benedict XVI/Josef Ratzinger, Pope Francis, Inter-faith Contact and Theology, Pope Francis I, and Pope Francis and Church
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This study examines the integration and involvement of trade unions from New Member States in three European trade union federations. It investigates what the participation and cooperation of trade unions from NMS looks like, in what... more
This study examines the integration and involvement of trade unions from New Member States in three European trade union federations. It investigates what the participation and cooperation of trade unions from NMS looks like, in what specific forms they communicate with the European federations, which priorities and positions they bring into account and to what degree they influence the policy of the federations. The focus is on confederations and branch unions in the fields of mining, metal, commerce and finance in Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.
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Relying on quantitative figures from cross-national statistics and representative opinion polls, this chapter will give a short overview of the general characteristics of trade union organisation in the new member states (NMS) and will... more
Relying on quantitative figures from cross-national statistics and representative opinion polls, this chapter will give a short overview of the general characteristics of trade union organisation in the new member states (NMS) and will outline the basic characteristics of the industrial relations systems. In addition, it will look at challenges and changes since the financial and economic crisis of 2008.
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This article analyzes the Eastern Partnership by the viewpoint of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), which is launched by the European Commission in March 2003 and started to be implemented following the approval of the ENP Strategy... more
This article analyzes the Eastern Partnership by the viewpoint of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), which is launched by the European Commission in March 2003 and started to be implemented following the approval of the ENP Strategy Paper proposed in May 2004. The ENP, for the first time ever, presents the entire vision of the Union's policy as concerns its eastern and southern neighbours, for which the European Union (EU) fails today to see any real perspectives of membership. It builds on the existing contractual relations, but offers the prospect to gradually move from traditional trade and
cooperation towards closer political, social and economic integration between the EU
and its neighbours by enhancing partnership and bringing together the principal
instruments at the disposal of the Union and its Member States. The emerging question is whether the ENP is sufficiently attractive so as to induce the neighbouring countries to adopt or accelerate the adoption of the types of economic and political reforms that were implemented in the new member states during their accession processes or whether the planned structures will work in the absence of membership as a target. Although the specifics of the ENP are still being developed, the lack of incentives as regards to unclear accession to the EU is identified as the main weakness of the ENP.
cooperation towards closer political, social and economic integration between the EU
and its neighbours by enhancing partnership and bringing together the principal
instruments at the disposal of the Union and its Member States. The emerging question is whether the ENP is sufficiently attractive so as to induce the neighbouring countries to adopt or accelerate the adoption of the types of economic and political reforms that were implemented in the new member states during their accession processes or whether the planned structures will work in the absence of membership as a target. Although the specifics of the ENP are still being developed, the lack of incentives as regards to unclear accession to the EU is identified as the main weakness of the ENP.
Research Interests: European History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, International Economics, International Relations, and 25 morePolitical Economy, Political Philosophy, International Relations Theory, European integration, European Law, Armenian Studies, International Business, International Law, International Development, International Trade, Belarusian Studies, International Security, International Human Rights Law, Ukrainian Studies, International Political Economy, Public International Law, European Neighbourhood Policy, European Politics, European Union, International Marketing, Turkey, Eastern Partnership, Azerbaijan, Moldova, and Central and Eastern Europe
An article on German politics and Germany's role in Europe, from the January 2012 issue of Chronicles.