Renewables and the Core of the Energy Union: How the Pentalateral Forum Facilitates the Energy Transition in Western Europe

2018 ◽  
pp. 277-303
Author(s):  
Susann Handke
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
The Core ◽  
Energy Union

Populism in Western Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Taggart
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
National Context ◽  
The Core ◽  
Fault Lines

This chapter examines populism in contemporary Western Europe. The argument is made that populism in this region tends to primarily focus on four different issues as a result of the national context in which it arises. The chapter illustrates how various populist parties in Western Europe focus on these four issues of immigration, regionalism, corruption, and Euroskepticism. The argument is made that we can only understand populism in this region if we also understand that populism politicizes these issues. The argument is also that these issue areas, taken at their broadest meaning, constitute attacks on the core pillars of contemporary Western Europe and therefore that populist forces tell us about the fault lines of politics in the region.

scholarly journals The Gold Standard as a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval”

1996 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Bordo ◽  
Hugh Rockoff
Keyword(s):  
Asset Pricing ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Capital Asset Pricing ◽  
Pricing Model ◽  
Capital Asset ◽  
Asset Pricing Model ◽  
The Core ◽  
Good Housekeeping ◽  
Seal Of Approval

In this article we argue that during the period from 1870 to 1914 adherence to the gold standard was a signal of financial rectitude, a “good housekeeping seal of approval”, that facilitated access by peripheral countries to capital from the core countries of western Europe. Examination of data from nine widely different capital-importing countries, using a model inspired by the Capital Asset Pricing Model, reveals that countries with poor records of adherence were charged considerably more than those with good records, enough to explain the determined effort to stay on gold made by a number of capital-importing countries.

scholarly journals Dynamics of Academic Mobility: Hegemonic Internationalisation or Fluid Globalisation

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (S1) ◽  
pp. S55-S69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Scott
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
North America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
The Core

Two broad frameworks are used to describe and analyse the mobility of academic staff. The first, and dominant, framework focuses on flows from the ‘periphery’ to the ‘core’, although that ‘core’ is also evolving (and is no longer dominated by North America and Western Europe but is increasingly likely to embrace dynamic East Asia systems). This first approach is labelled ‘hegemonic internationalisation’. The second framework focuses instead on issues of development, the emergence of global communities and social movements. This is labelled ‘fluid globalisation’. The article argues that the latter may be more useful for understanding trends in academic mobility.

scholarly journals Two new species in the Micarea prasina group from Western Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter P. G. VAN DEN BOOM ◽  
A. Maarten BRAND ◽  
Brian J. COPPINS ◽  
Emmanuël SÉRUSIAUX
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Anatomical Studies ◽  
Core Group ◽  
The Core ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Gyrophoric Acid

AbstractDetailed morphological and anatomical studies informed by molecular inferences with mtSSU as a marker revealed two new species of Micarea in Western Europe, both belonging to the core group of the genus, namely the M. prasina group: M. herbarum from the Netherlands and Poland and M. meridionalis from Portugal and Italy. Micarea herbarum looks like a small or depauperate M. denigrata but clearly differs by the lack of gyrophoric acid, while M. meridionalis is distinguished by its granular thallus and the production of micareic acid.

Problems of Ottoman Economic History and the Core-periphery model

Itinerario ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-149
Author(s):  
Astrid Kotenbach
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Subject

The discovery of new areas beyond the Atlantic Ocean and the pioneering of a new searoute via the Cape to the Indian Ocean led to expansion of western Europe in the sixteenth century. There of course followed the development of trade routes to the new areas outside Europe, but there was also a significant expansion of trade inside Europe and the Middle East, as well as changes in existing trade and production patterns. These are the subject of this paper.

scholarly journals East Asia

2019 ◽  
pp. 477-503
Author(s):  
Robert H. Wade
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Not Given ◽  
The Core ◽  
Developmental States ◽  
The World ◽  
Rapid Ascent ◽  
Second World

Few non-Western countries have reached the general prosperity of Western Europe and North America in the past two centuries. The core–periphery structure of the world economy, created in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, has proved robust, even after seven decades of self-conscious ‘development’ following the Second World War. Just about all the countries in the periphery in 1960 remain in the periphery today. The clearest ‘escapees’ are in capitalist Northeast Asia. This chapter argues that the East Asian ‘developmental states’ were crucial for their rapid ascent up the world hierarchies of income and production capability. Today, capital is no longer scarce and flourishing democracies are in place, but their erstwhile developmental states have not given up a central ‘developmental mindset’. Rather than becoming approximations to neo-liberal states, they have moved from developmental states 1.0 to 2.0. Other countries can learn from their experience of how to institute developmental states 2.0.

Critical Thinking in a World of Fake News. Teaching the Public to Make Good Choices

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Ştefana Ciortea-Neamţiu
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
News Media ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Popularization Of Science ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

"Fake news are a big concern for media, audiences and governments. Some journalists are engaged in finding fake news and disclose them. Fake news is also a concern to the researchers and journalism professors, but they should not focus only on the way fake news work, or how to teach future journalists about them, a big challenge would be to teach the audiences, the public to make the right choices and identify fake news. Tackling this problem of the popularization of science and teaching the public should actually be one of the key-concerns of the journalism professors today in Romania. It is the purpose of this paper to propose a list of criteria to identify fake news, by using critical thinking, a list that could be easily explained to people from the public, so they can make good choices. The core notion used hereby will be quality. A large discussion on quality in journalism raised at the end of the 1990s in Western Europe, not so in Romania. Therefore, it seems more than appropriate to start it now. Keywords: fake news, media, critical thinking, education, public, criteria. "

Reforming Democracy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Bedock
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Western European ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Key Questions

When, why, and how are democratic institutions reformed? This is the broad question guiding this research, rooted in a context of declining political support in Western Europe. This book deals with the context, the motives, and the mechanisms explaining the incidence of institutional engineering in consolidated Western European democracies between 1990 and 2015. It is centred on the choice of elites to use—or not to use—institutional engineering as a response to the challenges they face. The book answers two key questions about institutional change. First, how much change to the core democratic rules can be observed over the course of the last twenty-five years, where did change take place, and at what point in time? Second, why are some reform attempts successful while others are not? The use of a wide comparison of Western European democracies over time is the central contribution of the book in tackling these two issues. This enables a development of the concept of bundles of reforms, a key analytical tool to understand institutional change in a longitudinal and comparative perspective.

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