Authors:Gian Antonio Benacchio, Barbara Pasa,  Lesle
Publisher: Central European University Pre
Keywords: europe, law, common
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9637326340
ISBN-13: 9789637326349

This is an essential guide for lawmakers, scholars, and students of law, this work takes on the formidable task of providing a detailed overview of the harmonization of law in the European Union. Skillfully researched, the authors seek to approach this topic with an eye to the recent enlargement process. In highlighting the most recent actions of the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance, the book seeks to analyze the future strengths and pitfalls of EU Common Law. Court rulings are quoted at length, and work in conjunction with text inserts in providing a format that break

Authors:Adam Czarnota, Martin Krygier, Wojciech Sadurski
Publisher: Central European University Pre
Keywords: communism, law, rule, rethinking
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 9637326227
ISBN-13: 9789637326226

This volume surveys and contributes to the prolific debates that occurred in the years between the collapse of communism and the enlargement of the European Union regarding the issues of constitutionalism, dealing with the past, and the rule of law in the post-communist world. Eminent scholars explore the issue of transitional justice, highlighting the distinct roles of legal and constitutional bodies in the post-transition period. The introduction seeks to frame the work as an intervention in the discussion of communism and transition - two stable and separate points - while emphasizing the i

Authors:Abdelmajid Sharfi, Abd Al-Majid Sharafi,
Publisher: Central European University Pre
Keywords: history, message, divine, islam
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 9639241873
ISBN-13: 9789639241879

This work attempts to introduce the characteristics of the Mohammedan Mission, with the aspiration to be faithful to its essential purposes and to historical truth at the same time. The author thus illustrates the different ways in which people have understood the Mission and the reasons that led them to those various interpretations.

Author: Andras Bozoki
Publisher: Central European University Pre
Keywords: europe, central, politics, intellectuals
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 9639116211
ISBN-13: 9789639116214

Discussing the role of intellectuals in the political transition of the late 1980s and early 1990s and their participation in the political life of the new democracies of Central Europe, this text presents essays from authors who discuss the eight countries in the region. In the introduction, the editor gives a historical overview of the tradition of the political involvement of intellectuals in these countries, especially in the nineteenth century. The chapters which follow describe the typical political and social attitude of Central European intellectuals, including writers, poets, artists,

Author: Laszlo Borhi
Publisher: Central European University Pre
Keywords: war, cold, hungary
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 9639241806
ISBN-13: 9789639241800

Based on new archival evidence, examines Soviet Empire building in Hungary and the American response to it. Hungary was not important enough to resist the Soviets, its democratic opposition failed to win American sympathy, the US simply had no leverage over the Soviets, who sacrificed cooperation with the West for a closed sphere in Eastern Europe. The imposition of a Stalinist regime assured Hungary’s unconditional loyalty to Soviet imperial needs. Unlike the GDR, Eastern Europe was never considered a bargaining chip for bettering relations with the West. The book analyzes why, given al

Author: Lord Dahrendorf
Publisher: Central European University Pre
Keywords: consequences, unintended, paradoxes
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 9639241091
ISBN-13: 9789639241091

This volume of essays is dedicated to George Soros in honor of his seventieth birthday. The authors come from the different but intersecting worlds of academia, politics and business. The editors have chosen the title The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences to encourage the contributors to adopt a dialogue-oriented approach and in reference to the example of Giordano Bruno, who was burnt at the stake 400 years ago for holding heretic views which were probably far more backward than the views of those condemning him. The idea behind this approach was that any complex social process or politica

Author: Andras Rona-Ta
Publisher: Central European University Pre
Keywords: hungarian, history, introduction, ages, europe, middle, hungarians
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9639116483
ISBN-13: 9789639116481

Lavishly illustrated, the book contains seventy one illustrations including forty-nine historical maps and sixteen colour plates which visualize the historical background of Hungary and introduces its early history to a broader readership. The early history of Hungarians is embedded into the history of Eurasia and special attention is given to the relationship of the Hungarians with the Khazars and the Bulghar-Turks. The first part of the book deals with methods and sources which can be used for elucidating the ancient history of the Hungarians, relying on research in linguistics, archaeology,