Biostratigraphic zonation and correlation of Mississippian rocks in Western Europe: some case studies in the late Viséan/Serpukhovian

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 209-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian D. Somerville
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Mississippian Rocks

scholarly journals Ethnic Hatred and Universal Benevolence: Ethnicity and Loyalty in Precolonial Myanmar, and Britain

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-338
Author(s):  
Victor Lieberman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Pressures ◽  
Legal Equality ◽  
The One

AbstractInsisting on a radical divide between post-1750 ideologies in Europe and earlier political thought in both Europe and Asia, modernist scholars of nationalism have called attention, quite justifiably, to European nationalisms’ unique focus on popular sovereignty, legal equality, territorial fixity, and the primacy of secular over universal religious loyalties. Yet this essay argues that nationalism also shared basic developmental and expressive features with political thought in pre-1750 Europe as well as in rimland—that is to say outlying—sectors of Asia. Polities in Western Europe and rimland Asia were all protected against Inner Asian occupation, all enjoyed relatively cohesive local geographies, and all experienced economic and social pressures to integration that were not only sustained but surprisingly synchronized throughout the second millennium. In Western Europe and rimland Asia each major state came to identify with a named ethnicity, specific artifacts became badges of inclusion, and central ethnicity expanded and grew more standardized. Using Myanmar and pre-1750 England/Britain as case studies, this essay reconstructs these centuries-long similarities in process and form between “political ethnicity,” on the one hand, and modern nationalism, on the other. Finally, however, this essay explores cultural and material answers to the obvious question: if political ethnicities in Myanmar and pre-1750 England/Britain were indeed comparable, why did the latter realm alone generate recognizable expressions of nationalism? As such, this essay both strengthens and weakens claims for European exceptionalism.

scholarly journals Studentification in the postsocialist context: The case of Cracow and the Tri-City (Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot)

Geografie ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Murzyn-Kupisz ◽  
Magdalena Szmytkowska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Geographic Scope ◽  
Western European

For over a decade, the term studentification has been used to denote the process of urban changes linked with the presence of student populations in urban centres. This text broadens the geographic scope of research into studentification using two Polish metropolitan areas as case studies, analysing and comparing research results to existing findings referring to Western European and Anglo-Saxon settings. Using the example of Cracow and the Tri-City (Trójmiasto), two significant centres of higher education in Poland, the paper presents empirical evidence indicating that while some aspects of students’ impact on Polish cities are similar to trends observed in Western Europe and non-European Anglo-Saxon countries, the colonisation of Polish cities by students nonetheless displays some unique features strongly influenced by the post-socialist context in which such cities and their student populations function.

The Politics of Nuclear Energy in Western Europe

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Energy Policies ◽  
Qualitative Comparison ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Post War

This volume investigates nuclear energy policies in Western Europe over the entire post-war period, giving special attention to the two most recent decades. It focuses on the interplay between voters’ attitudes, anti-nuclear movements, party competition, and coalition formation. Based on a mixed-methods approach using structured case studies, qualitative comparison, and quantitative analyses, it shows that the nature of party competition under given institutional contexts is a key driver for policy change. Part I introduces the practical and theoretical relevance of the topic. It outlines the reasoning of the major scientific contribution with regard to nuclear energy policies, and offers a theoretical alternative to the previous literature that has been predominantly movements-oriented. It also formulates a set of specific hypotheses on policy change and stability. Additionally, it provides core economic and political indicators of the changing role of nuclear energy in the countries. Part II consists of seven in-depth country case studies applying the outlined analytical perspective. Part III consists of an evaluation of the hypotheses, qualitative comparison of sixteen Western European cases (drawing, in addition to the country case studies on short narratives of the remaining countries) and of a quantitative assessment of the multivariate impact of factors for policy change.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Schulze
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
European Countries ◽  
General Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Nuclear Energy Policy

This chapter first evaluates the hypotheses presented in Chapter 2, drawing on the book’s seven country case studies. Second, it extends the scope of analysis to all of Western Europe, with short analytical narratives of the nuclear energy trajectory in the remaining West European countries in an appendix. The chapter distinguishes four groups of countries in terms of nuclear energy policy reversals and discusses the commonalities and differences between them. Third, the chapter turns to quantitative analysis. On the most general level the analyses in this book demonstrate that nuclear energy policy has become incorporated in the competition between the mainstream parties that have proved remarkably flexible in adapting their positions and policy-making if government office was at stake. The chapter highlights the factors that will be important for the future of nuclear energy in Western Europe and the world.

Deaf-Blindness and the Institutionalization of Special Education in Nineteenth-Century Europe

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter Vierestraete ◽  
Ylva Söderfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Special Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Blind Person ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Blind Persons

Careful analysis of underexplored and neglected case studies demonstrates how an initial interest in the behavior and constitution of early-nineteenth-century deaf-blind persons gradually made possible a professional and impersonal approach. The deaf-blind person in the early nineteenth century had been a creature of mostly unrefined, but therefore authentic, sensory experience, whose reduction to the supposedly simpler senses of smell, touch, and taste made the basic nature of humankind appear more clearly. In contrast, the educated deaf-blind person later in the century was a vessel for the display of pedagogic expertise. The institutionalization of special education for deaf-blind persons in western Europe thus can be characterized by a shift from listening to the “sound” of deaf-blind persons to a mere repetition of the discursive “noise” of professionals.

Europe and Islam: Internalizing the External ‘Threat’

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naozad Hodiwala
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
European Society ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
External Threat

This article will first characterize the nature of the Islamic ‘threat’ facing modern day Europe, by arguing that such ‘threats’ are fed by the forces of internalization. By specifically focusing on case studies found in Jytte Klausen’s “The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe”, this article will take as its departure point the basis that “Europeans tend to ignore the fact that their established norms and policies are not necessarily secular, but reflects long-standing practices that were instituted in order to appease national churches”. Three facets of European society will be examined; national laws, media coverage, and politicians and their actions.     Full text available at: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v4i2.196  

scholarly journals Local Flexibility Markets for Distribution Network Congestion-Management in Center-Western Europe: Which Design for Which Needs?

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4113
Author(s):  
Fabien Roques ◽  
Theo Dronne ◽  
Marcelo Saguan
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Market Design ◽  
Congestion Management ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Network Congestion ◽  
Electricity System ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Local Flexibility

With the growth of decentralized resources, congestion management at the distribution level has become a growing issue in Europe. Several initiatives with local flexibility markets are being implemented, with different designs and objectives. In this paper, we provide a comparative assessment of four case studies of local flexibility markets (ENERA, GOPACS, UKPN, and ENEDIS) in different center-western Europe countries: Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France. We identify a number of differences across these countries that have an impact on the drivers of implementation of these local flexibility markets and their market design such as the type and depth of congestion, the organization and governance of networks operators, the current approach for congestion management, and the need for the development of additional flexibility sources. We find that the different market design choices can be explained by the local specificities and use the four case studies to generalize our findings and define a typology of possible approaches for flexibility markets depending on the electricity system local specificities, as well as the sector governance and the policy priorities.

scholarly journals POLITIK KETAHANAN NASIONAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (02) ◽  
pp. 347-363
Author(s):  
Muhammad Angga Ramdhan
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
The Political ◽  
Classical Realism ◽  
Democratic Election

The rise of nationalism values among democratic election in Western Europe had brought back the trend of classical realism in current international relations. Brexit phenomena, in which Great Britain choose to withdraw from European Union membership, is not separated from the trend. The phenomena become interesting case studies when compared to Indonesian election in 2019 where national resilience becomes the political focus. Using classical realism, this article aimed to understand why populism movement based on national resilience values was accepted in Brexit referendum but insignificant in Indonesian election. From the inquiries, this article concludes that populism movement emphasizing threats and nationalistic approach works in Great Britain due to instability caused by migrant, while Indonesia was much stable due to stronger national resilience against threats.

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