World Politics articles from April 1995

World Politics archives from April 1995

Politics beyond the state: environmental activism and world civic politics.
April 1, 1995... Interest in transnational activist groups such as Greenpeace, European Nuclear Disarmament (END), and Amnesty International has been surging. Much of this new attention on the part of students of international relations is directed at...

Institutions, elites, and technological change in France and Germany.
April 1, 1995... With the end of the cold war, a new set of fault lines has emerged in the international political economy. The political consequences of economic competition, previously driven by the tensions between command economies and market economies,...

Assessing competing defense postures: the strategic implications of "flexible response."
April 1, 1995... The concept of flexible response, originally formulated by NATO, can be traced to the dissatisfaction of some strategic thinkers with the Eisenhower administration's New Look defense policy and its implementation in the doctrine of massive...

The enigma of nationalism.
April 1, 1995... Anthony D. Smith. Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1991, 226 pp. Liah Greenfeld. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992, 571 pp. Benedict Anderson. 2d ed. London: Verso, 1991, 224 pp. The biblical story of the tower of Babel...

Imagined Communities, 2nd ed.
April 1, 1995... Benedict Anderson. 2d ed. London: Verso, 1991, 224 pp. The biblical story of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11) could be interpreted as a mythical description of the origin of nations. According to the story, at this early stage in human...

Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity.
April 1, 1995... Liah Greenfeld. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992, 571 pp. The biblical story of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11) could be interpreted as a mythical description of the origin of nations. According to the story, at this early stage...

National Identity.
April 1, 1995... Anthony D. Smith. Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1991, 226 pp. The biblical story of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11) could be interpreted as a mythical description of the origin of nations. According to the story, at this early...

The state of the (European) Union: from the single market to Maastricht, from singular events to general theories.
April 1, 1995... William James Adams, ed. Singular Europe: Economy and Polity of the European Community after 1992. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992, 388 pp. Robert Keohane and Stanley Hoffmann, eds. The New European Community: Decisionmaking...

Singular Europe: Economy and Polity of the European Community after 1992.
April 1, 1995... William James Adams, ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992, 388 pp. European integration has taken two major strides since the mid-1980s: the Single European Act (SEA), implemented in 1987, and the Treaty on European Union...

The New European Community: Decisionmaking and Institutional Change.
April 1, 1995... Robert Keohane and Stanley Hoffmann, eds. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Institutions, 1992, 303 pp. European integration has taken two major strides since the mid-1980s: the Single European Act (SEA), implemented in 1987, and the Treaty on...

Euro-Politics: Institutions and Policymaking in the "New" European Community.
April 1, 1995... Alberta Sbragia, ed. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1992, 303 pp. European integration has taken two major strides since the mid-1980s: the Single European Act (SEA), implemented in 1987, and the Treaty on European Union (TEU),...

The Single European Market and Beyond: A Study of the Wider Implications of the Single European Act.
April 1, 1995... European integration has taken two major strides since the mid-1980s: the Single European Act (SEA), implemented in 1987, and the Treaty on European Union (TEU), which took effect in 1993. The former established the now-famous deadline of...