Contesting Cosmopolitan Europe Euroscepticism, Crisis and Borders

The project of European integration has undergone a succession of shocks, beginning with the Eurozone crisis, followed by reactions to the sudden growth of irregular migration, and, most recently, the Coronavirus pandemic. These shocks have politicised questions related to the governance of borders and markets that for decades had been beyond the realm of contestation. For some time, these ques…

Chapter The impact of public research expenditure on agricultural productivit…

The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of public research expenditure on agricultural productivity in developed European countries. Our research provides original evidence, making possible a comparison with existing studies focused on United States of America (USA). We apply a fixed effects Gamma distributed-lag model to yearly data in 1970-2016 sourced from the United States Depar…

Chapter 5 From inner core to outer periphery : Supply and demand for Europe…

In this chapter the authors take up a journey through the map of European differentiated integration. Following the metaphor of the hemispheres, the cases selected comprise of the inner-core representative that is Germany, the outer-core represented by Poland, the inner periphery – Switzerland, and the outer-periphery that is UK, after the Brexit. Each and every state is analyzed through the …

Chapter 4 The Administration of Bicameral Parliaments

Parliaments are complex and pluralistic organizations. They are called upon to represent political and territorial diversities and to cover at least potentially any subject matter. In the case of bicameral parliaments, the level of complexity is at least doubled, as the internal structure is duplicated in two parallel Houses: these may either be of similar or of dissimilar composition, they usu…

European Imperialism, War, Strategic Commodities and Ecological Limits

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Chapter 4 Forms of managing leisure time of European seniors of the 21st century

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Dimensions of European heritage and memory 1

Chapter 1 outlines the European project of identifying and constructively mobilising a singular ‘European heritage’ for social, political and collective benefit, involving the making of a ‘European heritage demos’. This is a means of collectivising a heterogeneous citizenry by creating a common historical backstory that informs an identity position amenable to cohesion and feelings of u…

Chapter 1 A bank, not a fund

Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics and Economics examines the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union’s financial institution and the largest lender and borrower among the International Financial Institutions. Since its establishment in 1958, the EIB has developed without becoming front-page news and has remained highly invisible. By putting together 14 cha…

Black Students in Imperial Britain

This book caters for the demand in new black histories by rediscovering several little-known Black people's experiences in late-Victorian Britain. It centres on The African Institute of Colwyn Bay, or 'Congo House', at which almost 90 children and young adults from Africa and its diaspora were enrolled to train as missionaries between 1889 and 1911. Burroughs finds that, though their encounters…

Chapter 4 ‘A great bliss to keep the sensation of conquest alive!’ The e…

One aim of this chapter is to foreground the interplay of official heritage and political discourse.