1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960558603321

Autore

Gallagher Tom <1954->

Titolo

Romania and the European Union : how the weak vanquished the strong / / Tom Gallagher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2009

ISBN

9781847797131

184779713X

9781781702260

1781702268

9781847792976

1847792979

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (x, 278 pages)

Disciplina

327.498009/05

Soggetti

Political corruption - Romania

Romania Foreign relations 1989-

Romania Foreign relations European Union countries

European Union countries Foreign relations Romania

Romania Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The EU discovers Romania -- Crafty natives lead the Eurocrats astray -- The futility of EU funding -- Labour of Sisyphus: administrative reform in Romania -- Justice clings to its chains: 1989-2004 -- NATO, the EU and Romania's strategy of duplicity -- The EU at its most incoherent: April-December 2004 -- The EU regains and loses the initiative: 2005-07 -- Corruption and anti-corruption -- The expiry of reform after 2007.

Sommario/riassunto

According to Tom Gallagher, Romania's predatory rulers, the heirs of the sinister communist dictator Ceausescu, have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the European Union. He argues convincingly that Brussels was tricked into offering full membership to this Balkan country in return for substantial reforms which its rulers now refuse to carry out.



This book unmasks the failure of the EU to match its visionary promises of transforming Romania with the shabby reality.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910590058403321

Autore

Jones David S.

Titolo

Exploring Place in the Australian Landscape : In the Country of the White Cockatoo / / by David S. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9789811932137

9789811932120

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (509 pages)

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Human geography

Geography

Cultural geography

Landscape architecture

Ethnology

Culture

Human Geography

Social and Cultural Geography

Landscape Architecture

Regional Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Entering the Journey into Genius Loci -- Place, Country and Genius Loci -- Sense of Place: The Western District of Australia -- 1800-1840: Country Dreaming -- 1830-1870: Colonial Noontide -- 1860-1900: ‘Sunlit Afternoon’ -- Salient Threads and Contemporary Narratives -- Sense of Place Mappings.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers an original framework on how to investigate, understand and translate sense of place at a regional scale. The book



explores contemporary sense of place theory and practice, drawing upon the Western District of Victoria, in Australia, being the "Country of the White Cockatoo". It offers a unique multi-temporal and thematical analytical approach towards comprehending and mapping the values that underpin and determine strengths of human relationships and nuances to this landscape. Included is a deep ethno-ecological and cross-cultural translation, that takes the reader through both the Western understanding of sense of place as well as the Australian Aboriginal understanding of Country. Both are different intellectual constructions of thoughts, values and ideologies, but which share numerous commonalities due to their archetypal meanings, feelings and values transmitted to humans. .