1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452050703321

Titolo

Metropolitan governance : capacity, democracy and the dynamics of place / / edited by Hubert Heinelt and Daniel Kubler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-30503-6

0-203-44808-1

1-280-14188-3

0-415-33778-X

Descrizione fisica

xi, 211 p

Altri autori (Persone)

HeineltHubert

KublerDaniel

Disciplina

320.8/5

Soggetti

Metropolitan government - Europe

Metropolitan government - North America

Comparative government

Political planning

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / by Daniel Kubler & Hubert Heinelt -- Metropolitan governance, democracy and the dynamics of place / by Daniel Kubler & Hubert Heinelt -- The new French dice. metropolitan institution building and democratic issues / by Emmanuel Negrier -- Building metropolitan governance in Spain, Madrid and Barcelona / by Mariona Tomas Fornes -- The emergence of metropolitan governance in Athens / by Panayiotis Getimis & Nikolaos Hlepas -- The experience of metropolitan governance / by Michael Goldsmith -- Arrested metropolitanism : limits and contradictions of municipal governance -- Reform in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Toronto / by Roger Keil & Julie-Anne Boudreau -- The coming of age of metropolitan governance in Helsinki / by Patrick Legales & Anne Haila -- Reform and democracy in the Rotterdam region, an evaluation of the attempt to creating a regional government / by Linze Schaap -- Metropolitan governance in Germany / by Dietrich Furst -- Governing without government :



metropolitan governance in Switzerland / by Daniel Kubler, Brigitte Schwab & Fritz Sager -- Conclusion / by Hubert Heinelt & Daniel Kubler.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971015003321

Autore

Wolczuk Roman <1962->

Titolo

Ukraine's foreign and security policy, 1991-2000 / / Roman Wolczuk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

ISBN

0-429-22999-2

1-135-78640-2

1-280-19537-1

0-203-22177-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; ; 1

Classificazione

15.70

Disciplina

327.477/009/049

Soggetti

National security - Ukraine

Ukraine Foreign relations 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-212) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; List of acronyms; Introduction; 1 A theoretical context; 2 Ukraine's relations with Slavic states; 3 The North-eastern azimuth: subregional and regional integration; 4 Ukraine's relations with Central and East European neighbours; 5 The Western azimuth: subregional and regional integration; 6 Relations with Black Sea littoral neighbours; 7 The Southern azimuth: subregional and regional integration; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses Ukraine's relations with each of its neighbours in the 1990s. It examines the degree to which these relations fitted into Ukraine's broad objective of reorienting its key political ties from East to West, and asseses the extent to which Ukraine succeeded in achieving this reorientation. It shows how in the early days of independence Ukraine fought off threats from Russia and Romania to its territorial integrity, and how it made progress in establishing good



relations with its western neighbours as a means of moving closer towards Central European sub-regional and European re