A New Europe in the Changing Global System (UNU, 1997, 253 pages)

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Introduction

PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY

1: Opening Address: Who Are We Europeans?

2: Keynote Address: Europe and the World System in a Historical Perspective

PART TWO: THE WIDER CONTEXT

3: Europe in a World of Regions

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1. The New Regionalism

2. Hegemonic Succession in the Capitalist World

3. The New Political Landscape of Europe

4. Soviet Decline and the Formation of a Post-Communist World

5. Third World Regionalism: The European Factor

6. The Promise of Benign Mercantilism

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4: A World in Chaos

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1. Global Rationality or Chaos with New Globalization and Polarization?

2. The Empire of Chaos

3. Problems Specific to the Different Regions of the World

4. The Way out of the Impasse

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5: Structural Issues of Global Governance: Implications for Europe

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1. Global Governance in the Transition from the Twentieth to the Twenty-first Century

2. Europe's Choices: Forms of State and Society

3. The Sequel to "Real Socialism"

4. Europe and the World

Notes

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6: Failure in Europe: Regional Security after the Cold War

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1. A Time for Humility and Reassessment

2. Explaining the Yugoslav Failure: The Ascent of the Weak State

3. Lessons for Europe and Their Limits: The Menace of Geopolitical Regression

Notes

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PART THREE: THE LEGACY OF COMMUNIST RULE

7: Nationalism and Ethnicity in Europe

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1. Nationhood and Nationalism

2. "Consociationalism"

3. The Central and Eastern European Pattern

4. Perspectives on the Future

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8: The European Communities and Eastern and Central Europe

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1. Reintegration into the World Economy

2. Helping the Reforms

3. Road to Association

4. Costs and Benefits of EC Association

5. EC Interests in Association with the East

6. Benefits for the West

7. Western Assistance and the Developing Countries

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9: Transfer of Technology: Some Lessons from the International Economy

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1. Technology Policies or Price Policies, Role of the State or Market Forces behind NIC Success?

2. The Usual Concerns about Technology Transfer in the Context of Industrialization Strategy

3. Implications of Technologically Stagnant and Dynamic Patterns of Export Development

4. Relevant Lessons and Eastern European Specificities

Appendix

Notes

10: Science and Technology in Central and Eastern Europe

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1. Recent Changes in National Science and Technology Policies in the Advanced Countries

2. Science and Technology in Eastern and Central Europe

3. Characteristics of the S&T Systems in Eastern and Central Europe

4. Reforms and Recent Changes

5. International Assistance to Transform the S&T Systems

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11: Democratization of Eastern and Central Europe and the Relations between North and South

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1. The Transition to a Market Economy

2. Trade Effects on Developing Countries

3. Financial Flows and Implications of Official Development Assistance (ODA)

4. An Overall View

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PART FOUR: TRANSITION TO A NEW EUROPE

12: Europe: Hope with Many Uncertainties

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1. Ambiguities in Europe's Role in History

2. The Big Hope

3. Big Problems

4. Big Lessons

5. Big Backward Movements

6. Big Changes

7. Success and Failure

8. Crisis of the Nation-State

9. Monocentralism or International Pluralism

10. Latin America's Expectations

11. Thinking about the Future

13: The Agenda of European Politics in the 1990s

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1. The End of an Era and the New Beginnings

2. Character and Speed of the Integration Process

3. From the Union to the Commonwealth and Beyond

4. The Great Transformation: Will the Future Repeat the Past?

5. The Unified Germany: Old Concerns and New Realities

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14: The New Dimensions of European Economies: Integration and Disintegration in the Post-1992, Post-communist Era

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1. Interaction of Two Landslide Transformations with Different Scenarios of Integration or Disintegration

2. The 1980s, a Decade of Global Strategies and Regional Dialogues

3. The Unexpected Model: The European Community as a Post-interdependence Construct

4. Fragmentation plus Integration: The "Four Clusters" European Galaxy

5. Europe as Part of the Global Economy

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15: The Future of EC Institutions: Reform Process in the 1980s

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1. Institutions and the Community: Reform in the 1980s

2. The Positive Outcome of the Single European Act

3. Returning to Lessons from the Past

4. Towards Further Reform of Community Institutions

Appendix

Notes

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