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UNINA9910783821903321 |
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Titolo |
The European Union and democratization / / edited by Paul J. Kubicek |
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London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
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1-134-38622-2 |
1-134-38623-0 |
1-280-04843-3 |
0-203-45846-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Collana |
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Europe and the nation state ; ; 3 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Democratization - European Union countries |
Human rights - European Union countries |
Post-communism - Europe, Eastern |
European Union countries Ethnic relations |
European Union countries Foreign relations Europe, Eastern |
Europe, Eastern Foreign relations European Union countries |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The European Union and Democratization; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 International norms, the European Union, and democratization: tentative theory and evidence; 2 The European Union, democratization, and minorities in Latvia; 3 The ambivalent influence of the European Union on democratization in Slovakia; 4 The European Union and Romania: the politics of constrained transition; 5 The politics of conditionality: the European Union and human rights reform in Turkey |
6 The European Union and Croatia: negotiating "Europeanization" amid national, regional, and international interests7 The European Union and Ukraine: real partners or relationship of convenience?; 8 The European Union and democratization in Morocco; 9 Conclusion: the European Union and democracy promotion; Index |
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The European Union has been a key actor in promoting democratization |
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and providing assistance to encourage political change. This book assesses the EU's contribution to democratization by looking at the failures and states that offered resistance to EU pressure to reform, aiming to understand how the EU overcame or failed to overcome the numerous barriers blocking democratic progress. The book features studies on Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, Turkey, Ukraine, Morocco and Latvia. |
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UNINA9910967805803321 |
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Autore |
Rescher Nicholas |
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Titolo |
On explaining existence / / Nicholas Rescher |
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Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2013 |
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3-86838-177-5 |
3-11-032044-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (144 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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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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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One. EXISTENCE EXPLANATION AND THE HUME-EDWARDS PRINCIPLE -- Chapter Two. THE METAPHYSICS OF POSSIBILITY ACTUALIZATION -- Chapter Three. OPTIMALISM AND THE AXIOLOGICAL TURN -- Chapter Four. THE PIVOTAL ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE -- Chapter Five. DEFENDING OPTIMALISM -- Chapter Six. ON THE IMPROVABILITY OF THE WORLD -- Chapter Seven. OPTIMALISM AND THEISM -- Chapter Eight. ULTIMATE EXPLANATION -- NAME INDEX |
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No short book on the explanation of existence can afford the hubris of claiming to accomplish this task. And certainly no such claim can be or is being made here. What is at issue is not-and cannot be-an actual explanation. Rather, what is attempted here is at the very most a rough sketch of the conceptual architecture that an adequate explanation can |
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be expected to exhibit. No more is achieved than a rough and general indication of the direction in which a satisfactory explanation can unfold. A vast amount of detail will have to be filled in to provide a tenable explanation. Only the rough shape that the explanation will have to take is something that one can map out in the basis of considerations of general principles, giving reasons why alternative directions are less promising and how objection to the indicated direction can be removed or mitigated. But the move from a general direction to a specific and detailed pathway calls for more than is-or can be-attempted here. |
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