...tworks-formed for the sake of family, faith, interest, and ideology--that fill this space. Central and East European dissidence flourished within a highly restricted version of civil society, and the ...
...ety." One wonders about the audience for Walzer's paper. It makes most sense as a reminder to East European s who think that civil society can stand on its own, without political support. In E...
...ur stage, our arena has been opened so much more widely by the end of the Cold War than has, I suspect, the European . ...
...k in the way of "order, purpose, discipline." Even before Wilson committed American troops to the European War, Lippmann and other progressives claimed that war would be good for the state. ...
...riple assault. The first is an assault at the hands of economic growth and change, a familiar topic in both European and American social theory. The second assault--and this is a somewhat less familia...
...;s Nephew, Diderot tried to show the vanity and emptiness of the pre-revolutionary culture and character of European life. This story about modernity does not fit in seamlessly with the story about au...
... "postmodern populism"), but has also already been the occasion for articles and debates in major European newspapers, e.g., the Frankfurter Rundschau in Germany. Many American schola...
...ework of a civil society. Therefore, strategies of transforming the centralized planning systems of Eastern European countries should not only rely on market mechanisms, but also on the necessity of d...
... in a few short years many U.S. high-tech firms found themselves outspent and outmaneuvered by Japanese and European companies whose home markets were secured by protectionist policies and who had acc...
...ic policy of the future and, if there is, whether this role is a transitional or a permanent one. For most European s, there's no doubt these days that capitalism has proven to be the better econo...
...s, it should be clear that there is no chance to return to the social welfare policy conducted by most West European countries in the 1960s and early 1970s. It is very unlikely that the high economic ...
...esis in many ways) have played the role that politics and political negotiation and conflict have played in European societies. So, as it has often been noted, even labor in the United States never ha...
The political world has been changing radically since the Central European revolution of 1989. Instead of traditional bi-polar conflict, we now have the potential for multi-polar political conflict. S
...s in the West. What could have been more stark than the contrast between Western and Eastern Europe? As the European Community pursued new modes of integration, nationalist virulence asserted itself i...
...nces of living through a period of global mass migration comparable to and potentially much bigger than the European mass migration of 1880 to 1920. What we are seeing today is not a proof of the irr...
...returned to autocratic, even fascist regimes. Today it is a fact that democracy is deeply rooted in Western European countries and all communist regimes in the eastern half of Europe have failed. Some...
... that of Western Europe have taken increasingly divergent paths. That is a sufficient reason to see how the European s interpreted have recently their own traditions in the realms that connect society ...
As the Berlin wall and the Gulf War underscored, the European Left is out of step with history. As long as Europe remains little more than an alibi for surrendering or converting to liberalism,
...ity in these regions, while the inability of the Twelve to cope with the phenomenon causes skepticism about European integration and the role of the EU in managing security affairs at its own borders....
