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	ie-politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is apart from the rather separatist caste of mind of the of the party in terms of its broad political culture - the 'ourselves alone' element of Sinn Féin, as it were.
		In a politics that is all about discipline, the “gaffe” -- which is by definition a lapse of discipline – is everything, and campaigns live to catch the other side in a gaffe and to avoid the slip themselves.
		Such a politics is uninspiring and unengaging, and ultimately hugely narrows the range of choices and options available in the political arena.
	iepolitics.typepad.com /iepolitics (4566 words)

	Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the south by the Mediterranean and the Caucasus.
		Europe's boundary to the east is vague, but has traditionally been given as the Ural Mountains and Caspian Sea to the southeast: the Urals are considered by most to be a geographical and tectonic landmark separating Asia from Europe.
		Azerbaijan and Georgia have territory in Europe north of the crest of the Caucasus and the Kura river.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Europe (3477 words)

	Power Politics: Europe Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Its political institutions, historically weak, were unstable and quite fragile; furthermore, unlike the the United States, with its tradition of liberalism, Russia has a tradition of authoritarianism.
		Corruption is widespread, political power has become unbalanced in favor of the office of the president, and the fourth estate has been suppressed.
		Europe's relationship with Asia is focused heavily along the lines of exchange, both economic and political.
	www.powerpolitics.org /archives/europe.html (15674 words)

	Politics \| Inside Europe
		For the mini-summit will be a painful reminder of how bad things were, within the union and between Europe and the US, just when it makes sense for Europeans to try to patch up their own quarrels and repair the damage to transatlantic relations.
		With even Jacques Chirac now embracing "pragmatism" and rushing to ingratiate himself with the Americans, this is not the moment for an initiative that is certain to confirm Donald Rumsfeld's prejudice towards "old Europe" and encourage US divide- and-rule tactics.
		It begins in Rhodes, but takes to sea for lunch in Kastellorizo before establishing a teatime bridgehead on the nearby coast of Turkey, presumably a signal of readiness that one day it, too, will be welcomed into the expanding club.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4656462-107988,00.html (610 words)

	Govt 101 Comparative Politics: Western Europe
		This course is an introduction to the study of comparative politics as a field of political science.
		A focus on political culture will give us a historical framework with which to examine contemporary institutions, with particular emphasis on the role of monarchs, presidents and prime ministers, cabinets, legislatures, political parties, ideologies, elections, interest groups, federal arrangements, the bureaucracy, and courts.
		This wider context includes the history of postwar economic and political reconstruction, the role of Superpower conflicts in shaping West European politics, the legacy of decolonization, and attempts to create a federal European political structure in response to the challenges of a globalizing world.
	home.earthlink.net /~tebrister/syllabi/govt101f97.htm (1282 words)

	UCL Mellon Programme - Discourse, Identity and Politics in Europe
		The aim of the conference is to examine the creation of hegemonic political, historical, cultural and national discourses and their impact on politics in contemporary Europe.
		Europe today is presented with a dilemma, which can be roughly summed up as a choice of remaining within, what I shall call, a post-liberalism of uncertainty or embracing a more cosmopolitan view of itself.
		The rise of the novel and the establishment of the academic discipline of History in Europe during the first half of the nineteenth century are seen by Benedict Anderson, in Imagined Communities (1991), as part and parcel of the overall development of the diachronic dimension of the nation in the popular imagination.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /mellon-program/events/discourse/index.shtml (3143 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Europe \| Britain shuns EU info centres
		The government has asked that the roll-out of the scheme be postponed in the UK "pending discussions with the commission about their purpose and development".
		The Europe Direct initiative was launched by Tony Blair during the UK presidency of the EU at the Cardiff summit in June 1998, but British officials confirmed yesterday that around 40 planned centres would be withheld from British soil.
		Underlining renewed political sensitivities about promoting the EU and its new constitution on the eve of today's general election, officials disclosed that the government has turned down the offer of €840,000 (£572,000) from Brussels to set up the new centres.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /europe/story/0,9153,1476641,00.html (405 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Europe \| Europe can help make poverty history in the Caribbean
		Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, portrays the Caribbean as wanting to benefit from preferential trade access to Europe which is denied to other countries (For real trade justice, barriers must come down gradually, October 3).
		Europe's negotiators must act urgently to allay fears that the partnership proposals threaten the safeguards which Caribbean countries need.
		Europe's approach to these negotiations is a test of our commitment to achieving the millennium development goals.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /europe/comment/0,,1591907,00.html (627 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Europe's cross-border politics
		Jean Thierry, a spokesman for the Danish Greens, believes his colleagues in Europe have sold their soul to a damaging institution.
		Politely but firmly, leading Belgian Green MEP Pierre Joncier, says: "Grow up".
		"When you are a political party the difference is that you have to try to achieve some political majority in the European parliament," he says.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3770803.stm (517 words)

	The Politics of Southern Europe — www.greenwood.com
		Description: European integration has had a profound impact on the politics of Southern Europe, a region that was initially at the margin of the decision-making processes of the European Union, but is gradually becoming more and more influential.
		The author analyzes the development of Southern European political systems, from the establishment of democratic governments to the most recent political events, looking at each individual system and finding patterns, similarities of development, as well as differences between them.
		Among the topics examined are the building of institutions, the parties and party systems, foreign policies, the political culture of each country, and the recent efforts towards the creation of a space of security and peace in the Mediterranean.
	www.greenwood.com /books/bookdetail.asp?sku=C7787 (263 words)

	Masters (MA) in International Politics and Europe
		The taught Masters in International Politics and Europe at the University of Warwick is distinct from many other European Studies programmes, analysing European politics explicitly in the context of International Relations and/or International Political Economy.
		Our MA and Diploma in International Politics and Europe are leading leading postgraduate programmes exploring European politics in the context of the disciplines of international political economy, or international relations.
		The MA in International Politics and Europe is a new programme with the first cohort of students commencing their studies in September 2005.
	www2.warwick.ac.uk /fac/soc/pais/prospectivestudents/pgindex/ipeurope (400 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Mister Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When Vaz was appointed Minister for Europe last year, commentators noted that he came to the job free of any great Euro-baggage one way or the other.
		And even Gerhard Schroeder, who was most keen to identify himself with Blair at one point, later thought it politic not to do so quite so enthusiastically after the joint New Labour-German Social Democrat "Neue Mitte" document sparked serious rebellion in his party and plummeting fortunes at the polls.
		Here was a leader who had expressed sympathy and support for Hitler's Nazis and their policies, and whose political position in modern European politics was undeniably on the extreme right.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk_politics/651038.stm (1480 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe: Archive: Talking Politics in Europe
		I think Rick's understanding of Europe and Europeans is a result of his willingness to look at the world through their eyes, a mindset that many Americans seem constitutionally incapable of assuming.
		I think from my summer trip to Europe I have found alot more things that we have in common with them then Rick lets on- foremost he fact that all countries are now making immigration their top priority and agenda.
		Europe is a small place geographically and countries there have traditionally had to rely on the outside world for natural resources and other goods.
	www.ricksteves.com /graffiti/archives/politics_2.htm (18062 words)

	spiked-politics \| Article \| Europe: Where's the spirit of liberty now?
		Europe and the USA once held out this vision of a better life - part of the deal in societies where progress was measured not merely by materialism but also in the aspiration, and struggle, for freedom.
		On 13 July 2005, agreement among Europe's governments for draconian, and previously disputed, measures allowing electronic surveillance of mobile phones and the internet, was rushed through at an emergency meeting.
		Once, confident in the ideas of the Enlightenment, Europe and America saw freedom as both the promise and the defence of civilisation.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/0000000CACA3.htm (1222 words)

	Politics in Central Europe since 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The author outlines the emergent political spectrum of parties and coalitions, which are described in the 20 country chapters that make up the heart of the book.
		As the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe prepare to assume the responsibilities of full NATO membership, the nations will be required to show the acceleration of reform at home and a steadiness of resolve abroad.
		Politics in South-East Europe during the last decade of the 20th century; Costs and consequences of the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia; Key interest of post-communist countries.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/CenEurope.htm (2691 words)

	Comm 275: Media and Politics in Europe
		Ralph Negrine, Politics and the Mass Media in Britain, chs.
		Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini, "Speaking of the President: Political Structure and Representational Form in U.S. and Italian Television News," Theory and Society (1986)
		Juan I. Rospir, "Political Communication and Electoral Campaigns in the Young Spanish Democracy," in Swanson and Mancini, Politics, Media and Modern Demoracy
	www.communication.ucsd.edu /courses/syllabi/275.F97.html (589 words)

	Winston-Salem Journal \| Politics: Relative, Europe-bound, expects unkind remarks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		She is unhappily anticipating all kinds of disparaging questions about American politics, having had these unpleasant exchanges when she lived in Europe before.
		We were hoping you could suggest a way to respond to unkind opinions masquerading as curiosity that would neither indicate that she agrees with the opinions nor open the subject to an unpleasant disagreement about politics.
		A few polite and neutrally worded questions about the host country's issues of the day should turn the conversation from country against country to the universal harmony of citizens complaining about their own politicians.
	www.journalnow.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031785196349&path=!living!article&s=1037645509005 (591 words)

	spiked-politics \| Column \| Europe: 'We blame the government - whoever they are'
		The elections to the European Parliament suggest that Europe's voters have decided to vote against all the established parties - starting with whichever one happens to be in power where they are.
		The extent of the disconnection between governments and the governed in Europe is perhaps clearest in the new member states of the EU.
		The entire political class of Europe is now faced with stark evidence of its isolation.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/0000000CA586.htm (1253 words)

	The Politics of Western Europe - Syllabus
		This course will introduce students to the political systems of Western Europe without presupposing their prior knowledge of the region.
		The course's principal objective will be to enable students to analyze the political systems of Western Europe, to describe their main characteristics, and to make meaningful cross-national comparisons between the West European nations, the United States, and other states.
		Each case study will begin with an overview of the political history and culture of that state, then turn to a comparative analysis of that state's political institutions, processes and public policies.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~rjb3v/becksyl.htm (915 words)

	Politics of Europe
		"anti-american?" and (europe or france or germany or spain or italy)
		Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe : from the Congress of Vienna to the fall of communism.
		Europe and Eurasia from International Information Programs at the State Department.
	www.southalabama.edu /univlib/sauer/PSC360.html (454 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Editorials / POWER POLITICS IN EUROPE
		Although the dispute, which pitted Poland and Spain against countries led by France and Germany, had its technical aspect, the principle at stake was something that goes to the heart of any voluntary association of political entities: the distribution of power among the members.
		The electoral votes of the slave states were a factor leading to the Civil War, so Americans ought to be able to appreciate the intensity of feelings about the weighting of votes in the EU's Council of Ministers.
		Instead of disparaging old Europe, the Bush administration should display solidarity with European allies struggling to strike a balance between the ideal of a superstate and the reality of national sovereignty.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2003/12/21/power_politics_in_europe (518 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Europe, Thy Name Is Cowardice)
		Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and, even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and debated, and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our work for us.
		Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace-movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush...
		In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society's values and being an attractive center of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, America and China.
	www.snopes.com /politics/soapbox/dapfner.asp (755 words)

	Catholic Politics in Europe, 1918-1945 - Martin Conway - eBooks
		Martin Conway explores the fascinating history of Catholic political movements in Europe between 1918 and 1945, demonstrating the crucial role which Catholics played in the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany, the events of the Spanish Civil War and of the Second World War.
		Inspired by the values of Catholicism, these movements fought for their own political ideals; hostile to both liberal democracy and totalitarian fascism, Catholics were a 'third force' in European politics.
		Catholic Politics in Europe will provide an original key point of reference for twentieth century history, for comparison with fascist and communist movements of the period, and will give insight into the present-day character of Catholicism.
	www.ebookmall.com /alpha-titles/Catholic-Politics-in-Europe-1918-1945-Conway-Taylor-cr.htm (344 words)

	Comparative Politics: Europe
		Interest groups are a part of the political process in virtually all western democracies, including Canada.
		In both Canada and the United States there has been controversy concerning the role of the courts in the political system, with some observers charging that they are unduly intervening in the policy-making process.
		Choose one or two countries in Europe and explore the role of the judiciary in the system as a whole, particularly the extent to which it exercises "judicial review" of legislation.
	www.redeemer.on.ca /academics/polisci/courses_pol315_paper.html (1271 words)

	European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.
		I spent decades scrutinizing the U.S. from Europe, and I learned that international respect for America is directly proportional to America's own respect for its president.
		Western Europe was still grateful to the U.S. for having restored its freedom, but it had strong leftist movements that we [the Warsaw pact secret services] secretly financed.
		They rest on government-accorded privileges, particularly that of compelling membership, whether formally or informally - a privilege that, if it were exercised by a church or a political party, would horrify the public.
	www.eurotrib.com (1694 words)

	Kelley, J.G.: Ethnic Politics in Europe: The Power of Norms and Incentives.
		This detailed account of ethnic minority politics explains when and how European institutions successfully used norms and incentives to shape domestic policy toward ethnic minorities and why those measures sometimes failed.
		As one of the first systematic analyses of political rather than economic conditionality, the book illustrates under what conditions and through what mechanisms institutions influenced domestic policy in the decade, preparing the way for the historic enlargement of the European Union.
		As political requirements increasingly become part of conditionality, it also provides keen policy insights for the strategic choices made by actors in international institutions.
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/7875.html (389 words)

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