European culture
Case study - 4 pages - Medieval history
Europe is changing positions, it has shifted and it's moving toward the north. This medieval come under pressure of the north (Viking) and the South (Israel). Monte Cessino a monastery became a type of new center of education after the closure of the academy. This is one of the marking...
Europe and the far-right movements
Case study - 9 pages - Political science
On Friday, July 22, 2011, two terrorist attacks occurred in Oslo, Norway. The first one was an explosion which happened at Regjeringskvartalet, government district of the city of Oslo, killing eight people and injuring several others. The second attack occurred two hours later in a youth camp...
The European economy 1870-1914
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
The end of the 19th century is for Europe a period of industrialization, especially characterized by a series of innovations in transports. When continental Europe started to industrialize, it emulated British industrialization. Transports were easier. There was a national market in...
Postcolonial Europe or understanding Europe in times of the postcolonial
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
The text we have is a chapter written by Gurminder K. Bhambra, extracted from a book talking about European Studies. In this chapter, the author wants to deconstruct the idea we have of modern Europe and its history in order to reconstruct our understandings of Europe in a...
Assess and discuss the role and influence of Europe in Balkans
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
The Balkans are located at the crossroad of Europe and Orient and have undergone several influences. They have been under the Byzantium, Ottoman and Communist Yugoslavia's rules and all these legacies have influenced the region's identity. Europe influenced it as well, even if the...
Importing mangoes from Philippines to Europe (France)
Thesis - 10 pages - Economy general
Big scale production and world wide distribution of fruits are a relatively recent phenomenon that we actually attribute to the development of transportation systems, of intensive production techniques and of the conservation ways. While the tempered fruits market is growing very low and actually...
What's European about Europe? Potential and weaknesses of the European social model - James Wickham
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
This text studies the case of the European Social Model. James Wickham defines and proves the existence of the European Social Model. His main idea is that this model is the main feature of the Europe's definition. He adopts the commonly recognized idea that you cannot define something...
The European Union: widening or deepening?
Case study - 4 pages - European union
“Enlargement and deepening are two wheels of a same carriage, to the pursuit of European integration”. (FNSP, 2006) Michel Emerson, researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies, describes these two exclusive events, enlargement and deepening must instead be conducted...
Imperialism and Europe
Case study - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In 1914, Europe was at the head of its power. It represented 25% of global population and held a large share of wealth (e.g. coal production). London was the central financial place. America was in debt to Europe. 80% of foreign investments were carried out in Europe. Holland...
The turning point at which Europe failed to turn. How accurately does this describe the impact of the 1848 revolutions in either Italy or Germany?
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
In January 1848, popular discontent towards the situation on the Italian peninsula manifested itself in the outbreak of revolution, which continued throughout the year and into 1849. This, known as the 1848 revolutions, was provoked by socio-economic factors like unemployment and poor harvests,...
What's European about Europe?
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The text we have is an article written by James Wickham in April 2003, and revised in 2004. In this article, the author gives us a brief analysis of the European Social Model, pointing up its potential and its weaknesses. All along this text, he interrogates about the different forms this model...
How far do you agree with the view that "the Soviet Union expanded into Europe because of the desire to acquire superpower status"?
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
By the middle of 1944, the Soviet Union's Red Army was on the offensive and was pushing the Germans firstly out of the USSR, then out of Eastern Europe. When the governments in the Eastern European countries collapsed one after another with the departure of the German forces, there were...
In 1987 the Moroccan request for membership of the European Communities (EC) was rejected on the basis that Morocco was not a European country. Where are the boundaries of Europe?
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
The Moroccan request was rejected because Morocco was not considered as a European country. This claim was based on geographical and cultural dimensions. Morocco could not be part of the political boundaries because it did not match geographical ones and because it did not share the so-called...
Is the future American? Or, can left politics preserve European welfare States from Erosion through growing 'racial' diversity? P. Taylor-Gooby
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
This text was written by P. Taylor-Gooby in 2005. It is about the erosion of European welfare States which are challenged by a growing ethnic diversity. In this text, the author tries to contradict the idea that the absence of welfare states would result from a large racial diversity. In his...
Is there a fragmentation of Economic and Social Rights between the Council of Europe and the European Union? Why does it matter?
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
After World War Two, there was all over the world and especially in Europe, new hopes for international and regional law. The Declaration of Philadelphia in 1944 which is still the foundation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), as well as the Council of Europe (CoE) in...
Civilizing Europe: Historical trends in violent crime
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
We have two articles which were written by Eisner in 2003 and 2008. In the first one, we focused on theoretical approaches which explain the decline of violence in the long-term. It is clear that if you look back over the last centuries, we can observe a huge decrease of violent behaviors. The...
Critically assess the role of (ethnic/racial/religious) discrimination in explaining immigrants and ethnic minorities' education and the labour market disadvantage in Western Europe
Case study - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
After World War II and the process of decolonization, European countries were regarded as egalitarian and peaceful societies (Wacquant 2008, p. 15). In a context of economic expansion, the integration of migrants was easier and their aspirations of social mobility were achievable. However, times...
Are Muslim and Western European values generally incompatible? Discuss with reference to the Turkish accession to the European Union - publié le 01/04/2013
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
The famous French poet Paul Valéry defined Europe as the geographic place in which one the Christianity has a huge influence on the spirit of society, the Roman Empire on legal systems, and where the philosophy is still inspired by Greeks thinkers. In this definition, the Europe...
Cold War essay: Why did the Cold War begin in Europe (1945-1949)?
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
Following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Vladimir Lenin caused the West to mistrust Russia: he abandoned WWI with the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, reneged on all debts of the Tsar, privatized industry, and established the Cominterm. Communism, the guiding principle of the USSR, was incompatible with...
Building strong civil societies in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism: Poland, Romania, and the importance of pre-existing social roots
Case study - 6 pages - International relations
Throughout Eastern Europe, embryonic civil societies have demonstrated in various ways but with the same result their crucial role in the advent of democracy in the early 1990s : within a few years, Eastern European communist governments were forced to cede power and undertake democratic...
Can the onset of the fall of fertility in Europe be related to the economic and social circumstances of the individual countries at the time?
Case study - 10 pages - Modern history
Understanding the onset of the fall of fertility in Europe requires understanding of changes in mortality as it is understood that "the beginning of mortality decline generally precedes that of fertility". The 'demographic transition' saw the average number of births per women...
Building strong civil societies in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism: Poland, Romania, and the importance of pre-existing social roots - publié le 21/09/2012
Case study - 6 pages - International relations
Throughout Eastern Europe, embryonic civil societies have demonstrated in various ways but with the same result their crucial role in the advent of democracy in the early 1990s : within a few years, Eastern European communist governments were forced to cede power and undertake democratic...
Describe the influx of foreign-labor migrants to Europe and the consequences for the welfare state in Western Europe
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
In Europe, the second half of the 20th century was a period of major change in all aspects of social life. It was marked by economic, social and demographic changes. Migration movements since 1945 have had an especially marked effect, both on the existing population and on newcomers, which...
What happened to the social state in Eastern Europe after 1990?
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
After the breakdown of the Soviet Union, each Eastern European and former Soviet country faced many challenges and one of them was how to cope with the welfare state under a different political organization. Now that the Soviet rule was gone, what was the road to be taken? Should the State...
le système de partis en Europe de l'est
Case study - 2 pages - European union
Since the end of the communist era in the early 90's, new countries have emerged. These countries had to rebuild a political system, which had often been based on the model given by the Western Europe countries. However, these new democracies remain unstable and complex. Indeed,...
The European financial crisis and the future of the euro
Essay - 3 pages - European union
Europe has suffered from the recent subprime financial crisis, which has spread through the stock markets in all developed market economies. This crisis will bring these countries to an economic downturn, which will perhaps, allow them to take stock, and hopefully help them avoid repeating...
Anti-semitism in Europe before 1914
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
"The Jews find their greatest interest in a lot of things." Barres cited this sentence when the Dreyfus affair, showed contempt and distrust of the French population against the Jewish people. The ‘uprooted' people, that is to say, the Jewish people, had no nation nor a state, they were...
The Nestle company - an example of organic growth in Europe
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Introduction Each company has two ways to ensure its development through external growth. One way is acquiring the competition (or a complementary increase in its business volume) and another is organic growth which is achieved by adding additional means of production that is created by the...
In which European companies to invest?
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
In comparison with many emerging countries where the fast growths in population and economy have been increasing exponentially, Europe has been quite a steady market for the past ten years. (...) While everybody's attention is focused on the emerging countries' economies, also...
The non-influence of European public opinion on Europe's engagement in Afghanistan
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
"The war in Afghanistan has been unpopular in continental Europe for a long time" noticed The Observer in July 2009 when in April 2009 the Guardian reported: “Barack Obama today won agreement for substantial NATO troop reinforcements in Afghanistan, when nine European nations,...
