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In 2004 the European Union and NATO each added ten new member states, most from the post-communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. In order to qualify for membership, these countries had to make a myriad of changes. They often emulated practices common in Western Europe, sometimes resulting in more effective and efficient institutions, sometimes resulting in failures. Wade Jacoby examines the trends in various fields and in several countries.
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Designing Democracy: EU Enlargement and Regime Change in Post-Communist Europe
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What is the role and influence of European integration in affecting and confirming post-Communist democratization in applicant states of Central & Eastern Europe? Drawing on theories of regime change and of European integration, Geoffrey Pridham focuses on the development and application of the EU's strategy of democratic conditionality and the patterns and dynamics of domestic politics in these new democracies and how these affect motivation towards accession. Making intensive use of elite interviews, the study proceeds by examining three levels of these countries: governance, intermediary actors and the socio-economic arena.
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Stabilizing and Integrating the Balkans: Economic Analysis of the Stability Pact, EU Reforms and International Organizations (American and European Economic and Political Studies)
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There is a complex challenge of economic recovery and reconstruction given long-term economic deterioration and war-related destruction in the Balkans. The Balkan Stability Pact stands for a networked approach of international organizations to deal with these problems. The analysis critically looks into strategies, actors, and preliminary results. There are shortcomings and inconsistencies and there is some potential for transatlantic conflicts over the issue of burden sharing. There is also a risk of EU imperial overstretch facing eastern and south-eastern EU enlargement.
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A Network Approach to Deal with Global Conflicts.......2001-10-23
"Stabilizing and Integrating the Balkans" is an extremely insightful and timely analysis of how-in a globalized world-national governments and international organizations can form a network to deal with regional conflicts. As the foundation for his analysis, Paul Welfens describes the conditions in the Balkans at the end of the Kosovo War and analyzes how the international community has tried to create the conditions for sustained economic growth and political stability in the region. In addition to providing relevant and detailed economic, political, and institutional information, Paul Welfens looks critically at the key actors of the Stability Pact. The book shows that the approached used in the Balkans could become a model for future cooperation among national governments and international organizations to deal with similar political and economic challenges in other parts of the world. Paul Welfens, however, also identifies inconsistencies that should be overcome. Areas of particular concern are the future transatlantic relationship between Europe and the U.S. as well as the enlargement of the European Union.
While the book focuses on the Balkans in the aftermath of the Kosovo crisis, the reader cannot avoid asking the question of how the experiences from the Balkans could also be used to overcome political instability and poor economic conditions in other conflict regions of the world. For example, in the aftermath of the events in the U.S. on September 11, the international community is confronted with a volatile situation in Afghanistan and the surrounding countries such as Pakistan and India. In many respect, a network approach similar to that in the Balkans will be required to stabilize the conditions in that part of the world as well.
The book is an extremely valuable source for anybody interested in the Balkans. However, it appeals to an even larger audience and is very useful for economic policymakers as well as political scientists. It is highly recommended.
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EU Enlargement and the Environment: Institutional Change and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe (Environmental Politics)
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This volume focuses attention on key environmental and institutional changes associated with eastern expansion of the European Union, assessing and challenging prevailing views about the outcomes and processes of this historic development. Looking at four central themes - capacity changes and limitations, the EU's mixed messages and conflicting priorities, non-state actor roles and developments, and the exchange of ideas and information - the volume shows that enlargement will change the EU, not just make it bigger, and that EU officials and programs are improving aspects of environmental policy in CEE countries even as they are making others less sustainable.
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EU Enlargement and the Constitutions of Central and Eastern Europe (Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy)
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In the wake of the EU's greatest enlargement, this book explores the adaptation of the constitutions of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) for membership in the European Union. In response to the painful past, these new constitutions were notably closed to transfer of powers to international organizations, and accorded a prominent status to sovereignty and independence. A little more than a decade later, the process of amending these provisions in view of the transfer of sovereign powers to a supranational organization has proved a sensitive and controversial exercise.
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The Enlargement of the European Union (Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law)
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This collection of essays reflects on the fifth enlargement of the European Union, projected to take place in 2004. It examines the process of enlargement, its impact on both the candidate States and on the institutions and policies of the European Union. In so doing, it discusses these issues
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Europe Unites: The EU's Eastern Enlargement
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Demystifying the European Union: The Enduring Logic of Regional Integration
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The EU's eastern enlargement has coincided with a decade of rapid progress toward closer European integration. Poole argues that this enlargement, more than any previous one, is closely linked with major EU projects of integration, including justice and home affairs, monetary union, a common foreign and security policy, and the effort to create a constitutional treaty. By requiring the eastern states to adopt extensive reforms in their judicial and police systems, the enlargement process makes it easier for the EU to combat terrorism and organized crime and control the flow of immigration from outside Europe. The monetary union was deliberately put in place before enlargement (which might have made the task more difficult), but now the Stability and Growth Pact requires reform to make it flexible enough to serve a larger, more diverse Union. The addition of ten new states provides one of the main incentives for drafting a constitutional treaty. Finally, the candidate countries are helping to lay the groundwork for the next EU enlargement into southeastern Europe. As the first college text to explore the impact of the eastern enlargement on European integration, this book can be used effectively in comparative government, economics, European history, and international relations courses.
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Labor, Employment, and Social Policies in the Eu Enlargement Process: Changing Perspectives and Policy Options
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Adjusting to Eu Enlargement: Recurring Issues in a New Setting
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Before the latest EU enlargement, substantial changes in the integration process were predicted as a result of the accession of 10 new Member States, with some forecasting cataclysmic consequences. This book, one of the first ex post assessments of EU enlargement, provides evidence to the contrary, while also providing examples in which the new Members have been able to influence EU policy output with their liberal attitudes on economic and social policy.
This book will be of great interest to EU policymakers, including officials of European institutions whose primary concerns are `policy adjustment' and EU external relations. It will also be of interest to academics and students specialising in EU affairs, especially European integration, organization, governance and public policy.
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Beyond Eu Enlargement: The Agenda of Stabilization for Southeastern Europe
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Colin Tudge overturns the traditional view that farming began in the Middle East 10,000 years ago, quickly led to the Neolithic farming revolution, and ended the hunting-gathering lifestyle. Agriculture in some form had been practiced for thousands of years before that, Tudge argues. Neolithic farming was not the beginning of agriculture but the beginning of agriculture on a large scale, in one place, with refined tools.
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A small book with big ideas........2006-07-21
This slim volume is an installation in the Darwinism Today series, a collection of ruminations on evolutionary topics by smart and creative individuals. Tudge is one such person; his book The Time Before History is an excellent overview of the last five million years of human history, and an essential for the bookshelves of anyone interested in humans and their interactions with the natural world. In 'Neanderthals', we are shown Tudge's fascinating theories on the origin of modern agriculture, delivered in an appetizer-style nibble of 52 (small) pages.
The punchline? Tudge challenges the common assumption that the Agricultural Revolution (and thus the origins of civilization) began 10,000 years ago with the end of the last ice age. Drawing on evolutionary theory to fill the the gaps, he offers a fascinating alternative: namely, that humans have been "hobby farmers" of a sort for thousands of years before the archaeological record reveals systematic, intensive farming. What we know of evolution is drawn largely from fossil data, often spotty at best, and in this same way Tudge reminds us that simply because we cannot find (or notice) the remnants of small-scale early agriculture doesn't mean it doesn't exist. He also points to the fact that, as with evolution, change occurs gradually, and so the seeming explosive burst of agricultural know-how couldn't have come without a gradual, historical context. Tudge defines this "hobby farming" as anything from cutting down the growth around a favored fruit tree to the take-it-or-leave-it approach to animal husbandry still practiced by some African tribes.
Not only is the evidence for early agriculture lacking because of its small scale, but also because most of it would have taken place in the fertile valleys and lowlands now inundated after the rising sea levels following deglaciation. Some of the most enjoyable thought experiments come when Tudge points to the Old Testament of the Bible as a source of ecological memory: namely, that if you trace the rivers of Eden, they converge at a point that is now underwater but was exposed during the Pleistocene.
The fact that Homo sapiens may were likely practicing rudimentary forms of agriculture during the last ice age has several important repercussions, and Tudge explores these with great gusto: First, humans would have been afforded a competitive advantage over the Neanderthals, and this might have contributed to the Neanderthals' extinction. Secondly, humans, faced with an increasing food surplus and the increased scarcity of the megafauna (mammoths, mastodons, and the like), would have been more likely to hunt these large beasts to extinction, as hunting took on less of a subsistence importance and became more of a ritualistic, male dominance-related activity (particularly as the megafauna became rarer).
This book is a fun opportunity to listen to the ruminations of a very well-read and well-educated individual. You could curl up with this little volume and finish it in an hour, but it will keep you thinking long afterwards. I will definitely be investigating the rest of the Darwinism Today series.
~ Jacquelyn Gill
A Very Enlightening Book About the Origins of Modern Civilization - And It's Drawbacks........2006-07-15
Colin Tudge, who documented the first 5 million years of hominds in "Time Before History", has delivered a powerful lecture (presented here in book form as part of the Darwinism Today series) on the origins of agriculture - and thus the origins of modern civilation. His take on early farming were not completely new to me as I have read a few pieces along this line, but it may be new to many who missed the history class in high school or college on this subject (the class that probably didn't exist).
Essentially, Mr. Tudge argues quite convincingly that agriculture didn't just spring up 10,000 years ago in an instant or as a result of a culture who discovered its virtues (of which it had very few at the time), but was practiced as part of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle where plants were harvested as a beneficial and helpful food source and thus become favored by these people.
Mr. Tudge posites that the rise of large scale agriculture was a reaction to the loss of a plentiful lifestyle at the end of the last ice age...a loss that was the result of a changing climate and biozones (the "fertile crescent" was a virtual garden of eden during the last ice age with plenty of food for a society that naturally controlled its population), but was also affected by the continually improving hunting skills of humankind (something also seen as contributing the decline of the large fauna in North America around the same time).
Another fascinating area of this topic is the story of Cain and Abel as an allegory for the expansion of the new agriculturalists and the loss of hunter-gatherers that this caused. Basically, an agricultural lifestyle requires a larger population to support itself, which leads to the need to expand a societies territory, which led to conflict with the outnumbered hunter-gatherers and their destruction. (simplified here, as I suggest everyone read the book)
Another negative side-effect of this new lifestyle was the rise of diseases and plagues in the human civilization due to over-crowded living conditions and a poor diet (yes, the agricultural lifestyle was a poor diet compared to hunting and gathering). A great example of this would be North America, where Europeans came and found hunting and gathering cultures (who also practiced natural agriculture will call it) where bigger, stronger, and free of many of the diseases that plagued Europe (i.e. smallpox, which - along other diseases - may have caused the death of 90% of Native Americans before they even knew of the new immigrants.
I highly recommend that this book for everyone - it should be required reading in high school history. You may not agree with all of the conclusions, but you need to read it to make up your own mind.
A Brilliant Essay on the Origins of Agriculture.......2004-05-18
This brilliant little book contains more interesting ideas in 53 pages than most books on human origins contain in 500. Of course it's not all true, and it's not all original. Tudge's explanation for the origin of serious agriculture - the "pleistocene overkill" in which human hunters rapidly killed off the game and produced a food crisis - probably derives from a very thorough, if much less exciting book, Mark Nathan Cohen's The Food Crisis in Prehistory, published as long ago as 1977. And Tudge's other thesis - that late palaeolithic people engaged in a kind of "hobby agriculture" is perhaps more questionable.
It's certainly true that initial agricultural activity would not have left much trace, so it undoubtedly goes back further than we think. But any thesis about proto-agriculture before the widespread game extinctions has to contend with the fact that the game themselves - and particularly the elephant family - would have made man's first attempts at environmental manipulation quite difficult, simply by trampling over things and eating the "crops". So the great slaughter of the big game had three effects. Firstly it provided a splendid source of food, permitting a great growth in the human population. Secondly, it then used up most of the game, producing an urgent need for new sources of food for the expanded population. Thirdly, by killing off most of the game and scaring away what remained, it made agriculture possible.
But nobody expects Colin Tudge to come up with all the answers. What is wonderful about this book is that it puts forward exciting ideas in an exciting way and provokes thought and discussion. It's just the kind of book we need.
Small, but powerful.......2004-04-19
Tudge challenges the traditional view that agriculture arose suddenly about ten thousand years ago. "Civilisation" is also credited with emerging simultaneously in a mutually reinforcing feedback cycle with surplus crop farming. The evidence supporting this stance comes from archaeological finds in places like the Tigris-Euphrates Valley [Iraq], Jericho [Palestine] and Catul Hayak in Turkey. In these places grain storage facilities bespeak intense cereals agriculture. Surplus grain production and distribution techniques suggest social hierarchy, fluent communication and new approaches to the environment. The standard view stumbles a bit in how knowledge of farming spread to remote places like Central America. It's also silent on why isolated peoples like Aborigines in Australia failed to adopt "domestic" farming methods.
Tudge wants a fresh assessment - starting with a proper definition of "farming". By his definition, "farming" is simply any modification of an environment supporting edible resources. "Modification" ranges from protecting a known resource from predation to diverting water to stimulate growth. There are no "fields" dedicated to crop production - the sites were opportunistic finds. Tudge here raises the point overlooked by most scholars -"farming" began at the end of the last Ice Age. The best crop sites were low-lying stream valleys containing rich soils and available water. As the glaciers melted and sea levels rose, these locations were inundated and lost to research. The Middle Eastern "burst" of agrarian development was due to a dislocated population that had already practiced farming elsewhere. The Tigris-Euphrates was an exile.
Neither, Tudge argues, will we find paddocks for domestic animals in the early locations. In Tudge's view animal domestication began by selecting those animals amenable to human contact. Continuous association evoked genetic changes in these creatures until domestication became the norm. Nor were the keepers of goats, sheep and other small animals necessarily constant in the practice. Tudge notes a South African people who keep goats for some years, then abandon them for a spate of hunting.
He also insists on a Darwinian perspective on farming and pastoralism's origins. The "sudden" outburst of Middle Eastern agriculture violates the Darwinian process by obscuring earlier evidence. Like any evolutionary process, each step is slow, hesitant and scattered in time and place. Success builds on success until a new pattern is firmly established. Farming and pastoralism emerged in steps, but once established, it became an irreversible process. Agriculture produces not only excess crops, but excess population to consume them. Extra land is needed to supply the new population - and the cycle repeats. This surge in population of modern humans due to agriculture , Tudge contends, was the death knell of the Neanderthals. With Tudge's form of farming originating forty thousand years ago, modern humans outproduced the Neanderthals in both population and resource dominance.
This slim volume proposes many innovative and challenging ideas. Tudge is on solid ground in negating the "abrupt flowering" of modern humans and agriculture in the Middle East. He rightly argues for simpler beginnings of such a complex process. This is an important book in an important series. Tudge's excellent prose skills make this small book a delight to read. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]
A gift for the intellect.......2001-05-17
The book barely caught my eye as it is so small, something like 5 X 8 in size and small as in 52 pages. I even wondered how much ionformation could someone share in 52 small pages. First off, this is a small book that is a series of short books by leading experts in evolutionary theory from the Darwin@LSE programme at the London School of Economics.
Having said that, the book has 3 basic Chapters I The Several Faces of Agriculture II The End of the Neanderthals and Pleistocene Overkill and III The Neolithic Revolution.
The authors explain that before about 10,000 years ago there are virtually no signs of plant cultivation or the domestication of animals anywhere in the world. Then archaeologists began to find evidence that there were several sites in the Middle East such as Jericho the West Bank and in Catal Huyuk in Turkey and further east in the Indus Valley of China and some locations in the Americas where plant cultivation or the domestication of animals became the norm.
The subject of horticulture, arable and pastoral farming. And the opinion that the late Paleolithic proto-farmers were not full time farmers. But more of a hobby. And there is a wonderful discussion of how farmers were often seen as put upon and preyed upon types. This is used to suggest that the Cro Magnon and Neanderthals may have had a similar view of each other i.e. bandits.
I learned that the grain found by archaeologists suggests that the grain was grown is a very organized community or sustainable fashion since the seeds/grain was much larger than that grown in the wild. And that palaeontologists emphasize that fossilization is very rare and when a fossil is found of any creature that the chance are that the creature had already been around for a very long time.
The authors also share that hunters and gatherers take from their environment only what their environment happens to produce and if they take to much that the desirable prey species collapse. (page 32) That sustainable farming works because it produces expected crop. That with organized farming techniques populations grew and the chance of mankin ever going back to a simple hunter gatherer mode was gone, since there simply wasn't, isn't enough wild food for the human animal to live on.
There is so much more information in this book that I just do not have the time to share. PLEASE buy it and consider it a gift to you intellect/brain.
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This volume provides a full account of the many exciting recent advances in both observational and theoretical research on sunspots and is intended to serve as a monograph on the subject. It contains eighteen authoritative review articles on various aspects of the physics of sunspots, each of which is an expanded version of an invited review paper presented at the NATO ARW on the Theory of Sunspots in 1991. Chapters on starspots and on the relation between sunspots and the global-solar-magnetic field and the solar cycle place the subject in a broader astrophysical context.
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