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Europe's Future

Decoupling and Reforming

By: Sergio Fabbrini

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Europe's Future

Decoupling and Reforming

By: Sergio Fabbrini

Sergio Fabbrini proposes a way out of the EU's crises, which have triggered an unprecedented cleavage between 'sovereignist' and 'Europeanist' forces. The intergovernmental governance of the multiple crises of the past decade has led to a division on the very rationale of Europe's integration project. Sovereignism (the expression of nationalistic and populist forces) has demanded more decision-making autonomy for the EU member states, although Europeanism has struggled to make an effective case against this challenge. Fabbrini proposes a new perspective to release the EU from this predicament, involving the decoupling and reforming of the EU: on the one hand, the economic community of the single market (consisting of the current member states of the EU and of others interested in joining or re-joining it); and on the other, the political union (largely based on the eurozone reformed according to an original model of the federal union).

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1316999521

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Compound Democracies

Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar

By: Sergio Fabbrini

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Compound Democracies

Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar

By: Sergio Fabbrini

This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems. By deploying a powerful new model to analyse the two systems it draws some challenging conclusions about their increasing similarity. Professor Fabbrini argues that the process of regional integration in Europe over the last 60 years, has significantly reduced the historical differences between the democracies on either side of the Atlantic. The EU and the US are now similar because they represent two different species of the same political genus: the compound democracy. The defining feature of compound democracy is the union of states and their citizens. Through such union, the states agree to pool their sovereignty within a larger integrated supra-state or supranational framework. They do so because these unions are primarily pacts for avoiding war. Because the states which made those unions were, and continue to be, asymmetrically correlated, any attempt to create a unified polity - that is a political system where the decision-making power is monopolized by only one institution - is likely to fail. He goes on to argue that the US and the EU are based on a multiple diffusion of powers which guarantees that any interest can have a voice in the decision-making process and no majority will be able to control all the institutional levels of the polity. This type of system allows an inter-states organization to operate as a supra-state polity - but it does so at the expense of decision-making capacity and accountability.

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0191614181

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Compound Democracies

Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar

By: Sergio Fabbrini

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Compound Democracies

Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar

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A major and broad-ranging new comparison of the American and European political systems that argues provocatively that they are growing increasingly similar and offers a compelling new model for understanding them.

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Oxford University Press

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0199566003

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America and Its Critics

Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower

By: Sergio Fabbrini

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America and Its Critics

Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower

By: Sergio Fabbrini

No other country in the world evokes such contrasting sentiments as the United States of America. This is not new, but it has become particularly virulent in recent years. The reason is simple: after the end of the cold war America has remained the only super power in the world. Or rather, it has become a veritable hyper-power without apparent limits to the exercise of its power. The fate of the world lies in large part in its hands. This book analyses the most widespread criticisms of American democracy – namely , that it is plebiscitary, devoid of voters, unduly favours the rich, and imperial. It shows that these criticisms fail to hit the mark. Yet even if its vices are fewer and different from what its critics often claim, American democracy cannot be read as an exemplary catalogue of virtues, as its apologists would have it. Resting on contradictions rather than coherence, American democracy cannot be seen as a model and even less as an ideology. Rather it should be understood as a method. Clearing away the misunderstandings and prejudices that cloud contemporary debates about America, this book brings out with exceptional clarity the strengths as well as the weaknesses of the American democratic experience. In a century when no country can hope to escape from the influence of American power, it is vital to understand both.

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Polity

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0745642519

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9780745642512

Which European Union?

By: Sergio Fabbrini

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Which European Union?

By: Sergio Fabbrini

This book asks how the European Union can tackle the constitutional conundrum caused by the Euro crisis.

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1107103940

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Europe's Future

Decoupling and Reforming

By: Sergio Fabbrini

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Decoupling and Reforming

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America and Its Critics

Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower

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Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower

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Constructing an Avant-Garde

Art in Brazil, 1949-1979

By: Sergio B. Martins

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Constructing an Avant-Garde

Art in Brazil, 1949-1979

By: Sergio B. Martins

How Brazilian postwar avant-garde artists updated modernism in a way that was radically at odds with European and North American art historical narratives. Brazilian avant-garde artists of the postwar era worked from a fundamental but productive out-of-jointness. They were modernist but distant from modernism. Europeans and North Americans may feel a similar displacement when viewing Brazilian avant-garde art; the unexpected familiarity of the works serves to make them unfamiliar. In Constructing an Avant-Garde, Sérgio Martins seizes on this uncanny obliqueness and uses it as the basis for a reconfigured account of the history of Brazil’s avant-garde. His discussion covers not only widely renowned artists and groups—including Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Cildo Meireles, and neoconcretism—but also important artists and critics who are less well known outside Brazil, including Mário Pedrosa, Ferreira Gullar, Amílcar de Castro, Luís Sacilotto, Antonio Dias, and Rubens Gerchman. Martins argues that artists of Brazil’s postwar avant-garde updated modernism in a way that was radically at odds with European and North American art historical narratives. He describes defining episodes in Brazil’s postwar avant-garde, discussing crucial critical texts, including Gullar’s “Theory of the Non-Object,” a phenomenological account of neoconcrete artworks; Oiticica, constructivity, and Mondrian; portraiture, self-portraiture, and identity; the nonvisual turn and missed encounters with conceptualism; and monochrome, manifestos, and engagement. The Brazilian avant-garde’s hijacking of modernism, Martins shows, gained further complexity as artists began to face their international minimalist and conceptualist contemporaries in the 1960s and 1970s. Reconfiguring not only art history but their own history, Brazilian avant-gardists were able to face contemporary challenges from a unique—and oblique—standpoint.

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MIT Press

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0262544105

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Psychiatric and Cognitive Disorders in Parkinson's Disease

By: Sergio E. Starkstein,Marcelo Merello

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Psychiatric and Cognitive Disorders in Parkinson's Disease

By: Sergio E. Starkstein,Marcelo Merello

A clear, comprehensive and practical account of the emotional and cognitive aspects of Parkinson's disease.

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0521663059

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Which European Union?

Europe after the Euro Crisis

By: Sergio Fabbrini

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Which European Union?

Europe after the Euro Crisis

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Sergio Fabbrini argues that the European Union (EU) is made up of states pursuing different aims, rather than simply moving in the same direction at different speeds. He describes the alternative perspectives on the EU (an economic community, an intergovernmental union, and a parliamentary union), that led to multiple compromises in its structure and shows how the Euro crisis has called them into question. The book argues that a new European political order is necessary to deal with the consequences of the crisis, based on an institutional differentiation between the EU member states interested only in market co-operation and those advancing towards a genuine economic and monetary union. Such a differentiation would allow the latter group to become a political union, conceptualised as a compound union of states and citizens, while preserving a revised framework of a single market in which both groups of states can participate.

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Central Pain Syndrome

Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management

By: Sergio Canavero,Vincenzo Bonicalzi

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Central Pain Syndrome

Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management

By: Sergio Canavero,Vincenzo Bonicalzi

A fully updated new edition of this definitive, unrivalled, no-nonsense textbook, Central Pain Syndrome: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management provides new treatment guidelines that aid the reader in effective management. • Encyclopedic coverage of all drug and surgical therapies, including the hot field of non-invasive and invasive cortical stimulation • 26 totally rewritten chapters include expanded sections on deep brain, spinal and other forms of stimulation, and a chapter on the efficacy of alternative and complementary medicine • Critical analysis of all current competing theories, including an expanded account of the leading dynamic reverberation theory which now incorporates a cortical attractor-based model • Clear-cut indications on drug usage, with black boxes for ineffective or dangerous drugs A classic textbook widely hailed on patients' websites, this is key reading for medical specialists and trainees in pain management, neurology, neurosurgery and anesthesiology, as well as for patients

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1107010217

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Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States

Exploring Post-National Governance

By: Sergio Fabbrini

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Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States

Exploring Post-National Governance

By: Sergio Fabbrini

This book brings together influential political scientists and historians to compare the European and American experiences of federalism, exploring the future development and seeking a better understanding of a post-national EU democracy.

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Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States

Exploring Post-National Governance

By: Sergio Fabbrini

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Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States

Exploring Post-National Governance

By: Sergio Fabbrini

The European Union - a supranational system with its own institutional characteristics and autonomy - has a structure and functional logic which are more similar to those of the US than those of European nation states. Yet, by and large, the EU and the US tend to be analyzed more as potential geopolitical and economic rivals or allies than compared as institutional peers. By bringing together some of the most influential political scientists and historians to compare the European and American experiences of federalism, Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States explores the future development, and seeks a better understanding, of a post-national European Union democracy. This book consists of three core parts: how the EU has developed and the implications of the process of European federalization the features of American federalism, tracing the intellectual debate that led to the approval of the American federal constitution in 1787 the future of European Union. This is essential reading for all students of European politics, democracy and international relations.

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Book's by Sergio Fabbrini

Europe's Future

Europe's Future

Compound Democracies

Compound Democracies

Compound Democracies

Compound Democracies

America and Its Critics

America and Its Critics

Which European Union?

Which European Union?

Europe's Future

Europe's Future

America and Its Critics

America and Its Critics

Constructing an Avant-Garde

Constructing an Avant-Garde

Psychiatric and Cognitive Disorders in Parkinson's Disease

Psychiatric and Cognitive Disorders in Parkinson's Disease

Which European Union?

Which European Union?

Central Pain Syndrome

Central Pain Syndrome

Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States

Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States

Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States

Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States

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