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UNINA9910781256903321 |
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Rosato Sebastian <1972-> |
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Europe united [[electronic resource] ] : power politics and the making of the European Community / / Sebastian Rosato |
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2011 |
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0-8014-6146-4 |
0-8014-6098-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Cornell studies in security affairs |
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European cooperation |
Balance of power |
Europe Foreign relations 1945- |
Europe Economic integration |
Europe Military relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Explaining international cooperation -- Origins : heavy-industry integration, 1945-1950 -- Setback : military integration, 1950-1954 -- Triumph : economic integration, 1955-1957 -- Beyond postwar Europe. |
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The construction of the European Community (EC) has widely been understood as the product of either economic self-interest or dissatisfaction with the nation-state system. In Europe United, Sebastian Rosato challenges these conventional explanations, arguing that the Community came into being because of balance of power concerns. France and the Federal Republic of Germany-the two key protagonists in the story-established the EC at the height of the cold war as a means to balance against the Soviet Union and one another.More generally, Rosato argues that international institutions, whether military or economic, largely reflect the balance of power. In his view, states establish institutions in order to maintain or increase their share of world power, and the shape of those institutions reflects the wishes of their most powerful members. Rosato applies this balance of power theory of cooperation to several other cooperative ventures since 1789, |
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including various alliances and trade pacts, the unifications of Italy and Germany, and the founding of the United States. Rosato concludes by arguing that the demise of the Soviet Union has deprived the EC of its fundamental purpose. As a result, further moves toward political and military integration are improbable, and the economic community is likely to unravel to the point where it becomes a shadow of its former self. |
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UNINA9910779009403321 |
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Wilder Billy <1906-2002.> |
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Sunset Boulevard [[electronic resource] /] / Billy Wilder ; with an introduction by Jeffrey Meyers |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c1999 |
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1-280-59297-4 |
9786613622808 |
0-520-92283-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (148 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Frontmatter -- Introduction -- SUNSET BOULEVARD |
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Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see. After viewing Sunset Boulevard Louis B. Mayer exclaimed: "We should throw this Wilder out of town!" The New York Times, however, gave the movie a rave review, praising "that rare blend of pungent writing, expert acting, masterly direction, and unobtrusively artistic photography." The film was nominated for Best Picture, and Wilder won an Academy Award |
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for Best Story and Best Screenplay.This facsimile edition of Sunset Boulevard makes it possible to get as much pleasure from reading the highly intelligent screenplay as from seeing the film. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction provides an intriguing array of background details about Wilder, the film's casting and production, and the lives of those connected to what has become a classic. |
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