"Organizing" the labor market in the dynamic Kaiserreich -- Promoting a skilled workforce -- Toward Totalerfassung : creating the national labor administration -- Toward the German skills machine : establishing vocational counseling and training -- The Nazi consolidation of the human economies...

"Based on original empirical research that includes 90 interviews with key leaders, this book compares and contrasts negotiations during the processes of German unification and Eastern enlargement of the EU, with particular attention to the Czech Republic. It develops two models of political...

"This study combines an account of Blair, Chirac, Schröder and their attitudes towards European integration. It analyzes political discourses on 'national interests' and the EU, the frequently debated role of political discourse, the concept of national interest, and offers an alternative point...