William Wallace Bücher

Höhepunkte der erotischen Literatur und Kunst aus zwei Jahrtausenden. Neben Texten aus dem Kama Sutra, von Boccaccio, Casanova, Anais Nin, Henry Miller und Erica Jong versammelt dieser Band viele andere berühmte und anonym gebliebene Autoren aus aller Welt. Mehr als 450 erotische Darstellungen von indischen Tempelreliefs oder japanischen Holzschnitten bis hin zu Klimt, Schiele, Picasso, Dali und Man Ray garantieren ein anregendes Lesevergnügen.

Politics and policy in the EU : the challenge of governance / Helen Wallace -- Institutions of the EU : experience and experiments / Helen Wallace -- Budget / Brigid Laffan and Michael Shackleton -- Common agricultural policy / Elmar Rieger -- Single market / Helen Wallace and Alasdair R. Young -- Competition policy / David Allen -- Social policy / Stephan Leibfried and Paul Pierson -- Cohesion and structural adjustment / David Allen -- Environmental policy / Alberta Sbragia -- Energy policy / Janne Haaland Matlary -- Economic and monetary union / Loukas Tsoukalis -- EU policy in the Uruguay Round / Stephen Woolcock and Michael Hodges -- EU policy for the banana market / Christopher Stevens -- Policies towards central and eastern Europe / Ulrich Sedelmeier and Helen Wallace -- Justice and home affairs / Monica den Boer -- Common foreign and security policy / Anthony Forster and William Wallace -- Government without statehood : the unstable equilibrium / William Wallace

Western Europe has undergone dramatic changes in the 40 years since European integration was launched. The institutions set up in the postwar years - OEEC/OECD, the Council of Europe, NATO, WEU, above all the European Communities - have set the framework for relations among the West European governments since the 1950s. Yet the character of the European economy has been transformed by industrial integration and technical change. The revolution in communications has created a European society, moving across national borders and responding to shared information. The security umbrella provided by the Americans against the evident Soviet threat has become less central. This study looks at the interaction of political, security, economic and social developments since the European Communities were founded, notes the magnetic attraction of an integrating Western Europe for a widening circle of countries, and draws conclusions from these past trends for Europe's likely future development.

The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterized as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance have given them much greater visibility and, many would argue, a more central role. "Non-State Actors in World Politics" analyzes a diverse range of economic, social, legal (and illegal), old and new actors, such as the Catholic Church, trade unions, diasporas, religious movements, transnational corporations and organized crime.

Cílen této knihy je poskytnout čtenářům možnost seznámit se s motivacemi některých vůdčích osobností, které utvářely obraz západníEvropy a jejich institucí.