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party sought to improve living standards by trading political liberalization for West German money. Over time, however, this …
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This paper examines how the emergence and spread of animal diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease") or avian influenza have shaped the dynamics of transatlantic trade in live animals and meat products. It then compares the responses of the US and the EU,...
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democracy. He further examines the set-backs in light of post-Barcelona international events, such as the breakdown of the … in North Africa actually help place democracy more firmly on the political agenda. …
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mighty trend ever since 1944. But the Atlantic economic and financial interactions do not necessarily create the political … rising because the political, even mental, position of now US leaders and not because economic or commercial tensions … industrial countries, beyond the necessary bilateral cooperation due to the old friendship, to hope overcoming the political and …
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relationship within the framework of the political and security basket of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. In this context … arguments that underlie the political and security partnership within the EMP. The focus is on the process that led to the EUâ …
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Stephen Calleya focuses on sub-regionalism as a tool of region building within the EMP. This paper’s main concern is the question of whether, in view of the present EMP difficulties, subdividing the southern Mediterranean into various sub-regions (such as the Maghreb and the Mashreq) may...
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Until the break-up of the Soviet Union, dominant intellectual and educational cultures in Europe worked primarily with national concepts. In the twentieth century, nationalist ideologies have, of course, lost some of their glamour due to the impact of two disastrous world wars. But while leading...
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Federica Bicchi compares the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership with previous efforts of the EU to address the southern Mediterranean. The paper focuses on the main practices by which the EC/EU has pursued its aim of region building in the Mediterranean. First, by examining the making of the Global...
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facing it. Above all, instead of seeing structural realities – the economic, political, social, cultural gap between Europe … with its effort to protect itself against the fundamentalist threat under the growing political sway of right wing politics …. The Arab regimes’ continued objective to avoid social-political destabilisation through external legitimacy while …
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This paper examines the use of French as a political tool for colonialism during the 2nd French Colonial Empire (1830 …
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