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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2005

      Constructing the path to eastern enlargement

      The uneven policy impact of EU identity

      by Ulrich Sedelmeier, Emil Kirchner, Thomas Christiansen

      This book examines the two main dimensions of the European Union's enlargement to eight central and eastern European countries (CEECs) in 2004. Why did the EU agree to enlargement, despite the costs for some incumbents who have veto-power? How can we explain the (uneven) pattern of accommodation of the CEECs' preferences in concrete policies? Combining in-depth empirical analysis with an original theoretical framework, which draws on insights from constructivism and historical institutionalism, this book focuses on the EU's discursively constructed role-identity vis-à-vis the CEECs. This role-identity forged a group of policy advocates inside the European Commission, who promoted the CEECs' preferences inside the EU, and induced a path-dependence into the enlargement process. The impact of EU identity on concrete policies was less direct. Case studies on trade liberalisation, regulatory alignment, and foreign policy consultations demonstrate that sectoral policy paradigms are a key factor that mediates the influence of the policy advocates on specific policy areas. ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2014

      Children's rights, Eastern enlargement and the EU human rights regime

      by Ingi Iusmen, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Simon Bulmer, Andrew Geddes, Peter Humphreys

      This book critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on EU human rights policy. By drawing on the EU's intervention in human rights provision in Romania before 2007, it is demonstrated that the feedback effects of this intervention have led to the emergence of an EU child rights policy. Eastern enlargement has also raised the profile of Roma protection, international adoptions and mental health at the EU level. The impact of these developments has been further reinforced by the constitutional and legal provisions included in the Lisbon Treaty. It is argued that Eastern enlargement has led to the emergence of a more robust and well-defined EU human rights regime in terms of its scope and institutional clout. This book makes a substantial contribution to the scholarship on EU enlargement, Europeanisation and EU human rights policy by providing empirical evidence for the emergence and persistence of EU institutional and policy structures upholding human rights. ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      August 2014

      EU enlargement, the clash of capitalisms and the European social dimension

      by Paul Copeland, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Simon Bulmer, Andrew Geddes, Peter Humphreys

      At the heart of the European integration process is the political economy debate over whether the EU should be a market-making project, or if it should combine this with integration in employment and social policy. What has been the impact of the 2004 and 2007 rounds of enlargement upon the political economy of European integration? EU enlargement, the clash of capitalisms and the European social dimension analyses the impact of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements upon the politics of European integration within EU employment and social policy. This book analyses the main policy negotiations in the field and analyses the political positions and contributions of the Central and Eastern European Member States. Through analyses of the negotiations of the Services Directive, the revision of the Working Time Directive and the Europe 2020 poverty target, the book argues that the addition of the Central and Eastern European states has strengthened liberal forces at the EU level and undermined integration with EU employment and social policy. ;

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      Medicine

      Manual Trigger Point Therapy and Dry Needling for Chronic Pain

      Myofascial medicine as an approach to an unresolved challenge

      by Beat Dejung

      Medicine for the relief of pain has made little progress in the last 50 years. 16% of our population claim to suffer from chronic pain, for which no lasting help can be found, despite years of treatment by different doctors. Trigger point therapy experts have integrated myofascial techniques into their everyday therapy in recent decades and through this they have achieved good results even with complex and chronic problems. In this book, instructors from the Interest Group for Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy (IMTT) in Switzerland present 33 complex cases of patients with chronic pain, whose pain they were able to relieve perma­nently with manual trigger point therapy and dry needling. Using these case studies, double­page spreads with an edu­cational, uniform layout clearly present the diagnosis, pathophysiology and chronifcation of myofascial pain syn­dromes and, in conclusion, describe encouraging and sur­prising successes despite previous therapy resistance.

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      January 2004

      Expansion und Gefährdung

      Amerikanische Mission und europäische Krise der Jesuiten im 18. Jahrhundert

      by Herausgegeben von Decot, Rolf

    • Trusted Partner
      September 1998

      Expansion, Integration, Globalisierung

      Studien zur Geschichte der Weltwirtschaft

      by Fischer, Wolfram

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      November 1986

      Expansion und Gleichgewicht.

      Studien zur europäischen Mächtepolitik des ancien régime.

      by Herausgegeben von Kunisch, Johannes

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      May 2009

      The politics of expansion

      by John Walsh

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      May 2009

      The politics of expansion

      by John Walsh, Rebecca Mortimer

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      June 1971

      Produktivität und Expansion.

      Ein Beitrag zur empirischen Theorie des Wirtschaftswachstums und des Unternehmerverhaltens.

      by Dierkes, Meinolf

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 2012

      The expansion of Europe, 1250–1500

      by Michael North, Steve Rigby

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 2012

      The expansion of Europe, 1250–1500

      by Michael North

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      April 1999

      Aspekte deutsch-britischer Expansion.

      Die Überseeinteressen der deutschen Migranten in Großbritannien in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts.

      by Kirchberger, Ulrike

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      April 1967

      Außenhandel, wirtschaftliche Expansion und Preisniveau.

      Ein Beitrag zur dynamischen Inflationstheorie.

      by Hieber, Manfred

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      Business, Economics & Law
      February 2025

      The political economy of Turkey’s integration to Europe

      Uneven development and hegemony

      by Elif Uzgören

      This book examines Turkey's integration with Europe within structural dynamics of globalisation from a critical political economy perspective. Critical approaches have been sidelined within European Studies. Turkish enlargement is not an exemption. The analyses are based on original data generated by 109 interviews conducted in 2010, 2017 and 2023 with five categories of actors: representatives of capital and labour, political parties, state officials, and struggles around ecology, patriarchy and migration. It argues that the pro-membership was hegemonic in the 2000s which was contested by two rival class strategies, Ha-vet and neo-mercantilism. In the 2010s, pro-membership is no longer hegemonic within rising critical tone of social forces supporting rival class strategies. Unevenness of Turkey's trajectory of integration to Europe is likely to be consolidated through market integration and management of migration through transactional approach.

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