The renovation of Western hegemony: European alternatives in international relations

European intellectual production on international relations is central to the renovation of Western hegemony in the post-Cold War, ‘post-American’ world. This includes both policy and academic discourses and a focus of this work is an account of the fields in which these discourses are generated that relates them at a deep level. Working within ‘Amsterdam School’ accounts of European integration, I develop the focus on class formation and the internal relation between class and the international for the post-Cold War era. The ‘shift to Europe’ within the previously Anglo-centric Atlantic transnational capitalist class alongside developments in the EU’s ability to cohesively project power means that a developing bi-polar West must be considered within any understanding of attempts to maintain and reformulate Western hegemony. I consider the EU policy field in this context, focusing on the EU think tank field, as it relates to the ‘global power Europe’ discourse; this discourse concerned with harnessing the international legitimacy of the concept of ‘civilian power Europe’ for military interventions. I map the ‘global power Europe’ think tank network, and assess its position within the formation of a hegemonic bloc. Turning to the field of IR I give a novel reading of the principal salient features of the field’s development, as well as allowing an exploration of the field’s limitations and possibilities through tracing the trajectories of European approaches to security, seen as the operationalization of European difference within IR. This methodology, focusing on trajectories rather than paradigms, allows an understanding of the effects of IR theories, as well as the limits and possibilities inherent from their conditions of production, beyond that which can be gleaned from the surface of theoretical debates and configurations. Approached from these two different directions – through policy institutes as a capital-policy nexus, and academic discourse as related to its social conditions of production – and exploring the homologies across them gives a non-reductive grasp on the interaction of the ideational and material in the renovation of Western hegemony

We\u27ll Go No More Roving

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Hebräische Gesänge : aus dem Englischen des Lord Byron von Franz Theremin ; mit beigedrucktem englischen Text

Die „Hebräischen Gesänge“ („Hebrew Melodies“), eine Jugenddichtung von Lord Byron, wurden vom „Damen-Conversations-Lexikon“ (1834) als „vielleicht die gelungensten lyrischen Gedichte der englischen Literatur“ gefeiert. Das Goethezeitportal publiziert die Übersetzung von Franz Theremin (1820), Hof- und Domprediger in Berlin und Mitglied der dortigen Literaturszene. Sein Vorwort ist ein Dokument für die damalige (von antisemitischen Topoi nicht freie) Auffassung des Judentums

Custodianship of wildlife on private land to support conservation-an Australian model

A large proportion of the world's extinctions have occurred in Australia, and threatened species lists continue to grow, notwithstanding government and philanthropic efforts. Most losses have been on private land, so relying on national parks and reserves is not enough to reverse trends and meet Australia's responsibilities. This paper proposes a model that could increase abundance and distribution of Australia's biodiversity, while providing financial incentives to private landholders to do so. It addresses the question, can landholder management of wildlife, and a form of private ownership, remedy shortfalls in government funding for biodiversity conservation and the resulting consequences of vast biodiversity losses? Landholders currently invest in propagating introduced livestock species, but they are prevented by current regulations from investing in a similar manner in threatened Australian native species. Market-based incentives could increase the distribution and abundance of species on private land and help protect the habitat of other biodiversity. The enabling changes would be contentious to some people but are consistent with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Sustainable Use policy. Different versions of wildlife privatisation have been successfully applied internationally: there is urgency for Australia to draw on these experiences and develop its own model to encourage and support wildlife on private freehold land. The model proposed in this paper focuses on: identifying locally overabundant populations or captive-bred populations as sources of supply; finding landholders and philanthropists who would like to have custodianship of species; enabling entrepreneurs to respond to demand; and bringing the two together where there is scope for a market-based sharing economy. Encouraging wildlife custodianship on private freehold land would be mutually beneficial, as it would not only result in an increase in biodiversity, but the economic value of wildlife could provide an income to landholders as well as enhancing Australia's conservation system

Fare Thee Well

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The social identity of the Post - Olympic use of the Olympic Village settlement in Athens-Greece

The Olympic Village settlement was constructed under the responsibility of Workers Housing Organization during the preparation of the 2004 Olympic Games. It is a new city with 2.292 housing units which was developed in a very short time period (3.5 years) via the system of organized planning. It is situated in an area outside of the urban fabric of Attica and the post - Olympic settlement has a population of approximately 10,000 inhabitants with different demographic, socioeconomic and cultural characteristics. The inhabitants of the post - Olympic settlement are beneficiaries of the Workers Housing Organization. They have been selected after a lottery and satisfied previously determined social criteria. The methodology of the research was supported by the analysis and statistical process of 2,292 questionnaires supplemented to the beneficiaries by the year 2003, during the Census of Workers Housing Organization for the lottery of housing units of Olympic Village settlement. The results of the study determine the social identity of the post-Olympic Village after re-designing the data base and analyzing main characteristics of the inhabitants such as the synthesis of the households, the age, the labor status, the income and the educational level of the population. The analysis aims to contribute to the identification of the resident's needs which is an essential factor for the successful post-Olympic use of the settlement

Model of real-time automation and control systems for combined sewers

CER72-73WB-CBW-GLS41.Includes bibliographical references (page 79).Supported by OWRR grant number 14-31-0001-3410, project no. C-2207 from funds provided by the U.S. Dept. of Interior as authorized under the Water Resources Act of 1964, Public Law 88-379, as amended.Supported by OWRR grant number 14-31-0001-3410, project no. C-2207

Altimetric system: Earth observing system. Volume 2h: Panel report

A rationale and recommendations for planning, implementing, and operating an altimetric system aboard the Earth observing system (Eos) spacecraft is provided. In keeping with the recommendations of the Eos Science and Mission Requirements Working Group, a complete altimetric system is defined that is capable of perpetuating the data set to be derived from TOPEX/Poseidon, enabling key scientific questions to be addressed. Since the scientific utility and technical maturity of spaceborne radar altimeters is well documented, the discussion is limited to highlighting those Eos-specific considerations that materially impact upon radar altimetric measurements