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Europe and the Global Crisis: Economy, Geostrategy, Civil Society and Values

Europe and the Global Crisis: Economy, Geostrategy, Civil Society and Values

  • Author: Pérez-Díaz , Víctor
  • Publisher: FAES
  • Serie: Gota a Gota
  • ISBN: 9788496729308
  • eISBN Epub: 9788496729315
  • Place of publication:  Madrid , Spain
  • Year of publication: 2013
  • Year of digital publication: 2013
  • Month: March
  • Pages: 316
  • Language: English
Europe is experiencing an unprecedented crisis and its fate hinges on its ability to find solutions. This crisis is not only economic but geostrategic, political and cultural. Economic, because Europe may stagnate and/or split up. Geostrategic, because it must identify its mission in the world and administer its borders with it. Political, because it has to improve both its ability to take action and the relationship between its civil society and its political sphere. Cultural, because it is difficult for a society uncertain of its own history to find its bearings; although it may get carried away by the pretence of being in control of its destiny, clutching at the rhetoric of globalization and advanced modernity. This book brings together contributions from academics of several different countries. Juergen Donges (Cologne), Peter Hall (Harvard) and Karel Lannoo (Brussels) discuss the economic crisis. Robert Kaplan (Washington), Azar Gat (Tel Aviv), Josef Joffe (Hamburg) and Pierre Hassner (Paris) consider the geostrategical one. Lucas Meijs, (Rotterdam), Lars Trägårdh (Stockholm), Phillip Blond (London) and Michele Salvati (Milan) examine politics and civil society. Margaret Archer (Lausanne), Richard Madsen (California) and Víctor Pérez-Díaz (Madrid) look at culture; and the latter, who coordinated the seminars, has also written the introduction.
  • Contenido
  • Introduction
    • The Crisis in Europe and the Euro Problem
      • Víctor Pérez-Díaz*
        • 1. A complex economic, political and cultu
          • 1.1. An economic crisis which is deep and
          • 1.2. The strategic challenge: the views of
          • 1.3. Difficult governance and the possible
          • 1.4. Culture and values: reflexivity, dist
        • 2. The problems of agency of a European po
        • 3. A reality check and reasons for hope: t
          • 3.1. The remarkable attachment to the euro
          • 3.2. The background of reasons and sentime
          • 3.3. Conclusion: a chastened but faithful
        • References
        • Notes
  • Part I
  • Economy
    • The European Economic Crisis: Lessons and
      • Juergen B. Donges
        • The problem
        • A new architecture
        • Crisis prevention and resolution
          • 1. The supervision of public finances
          • 2. The resolution of sovereign crises
        • The challenge of competitiveness
          • 1. Business
          • 2. Economy
        • Conclusions
        • Notes
    • The Economic Crisis and Beyond: Why Variet
      • Peter A. Hall
        • A varieties-of-capitalism perspective
        • The american case
        • The roots of the euro crisis
        • Current dilemmas
        • References
        • Notes
    • The EU’s Response to the Financial Crisis:
      • Karel Lannoo
        • The ‘de Larosiere institutions’
        • The G-20 follow-up and completion of the s
        • Financial stability matters of the soverei
        • Conclusion
        • References
        • Annex 1.
        • Excerpt from the London G-20 Summit – Lead
        • Notes
  • Part II
  • Geoestrategy
    • Geostrategy: the Eurasia Region*
      • Robert Kaplan
        • Notes
    • The Return of the Capitalist-Authoritarian
      • Azar Gat
        • References
        • Notes
    • A Grand Continent, A Not-So-Grand Strategy
      • Josef Joffe
        • -I-
        • -II-
        • Notes
    • Constraints and Dilemmas of Military Inter
      • Pierre Hassner
        • References
        • Notes
  • Part III
  • Civil Society and Governance
    • Reinventing Civil Society: Three Time’s th
      • Lucas Meijs
        • Introduction
        • 1. Setting the context
        • 2. Five phases of development
          • Phase 1: Pre-pillarisation: an emancipatio
          • Phase 2: Pillarisation: serving the public
          • Phase 3: Depillarisation: going public
          • Phase 4: Going private: introducing the ma
          • Phase 5: Going for ‘ownership’: reinventin
        • Concluding remarks
        • References
        • Notes
    • Associative Democracy from Below: Democrat
      • Lars Trägårdh
        • The paradox of Swedish political culture:
        • Swedish political culture and the State/Ci
        • Governance and government commissions in S
        • The commissions: cooptation by the State o
        • Conclusions
        • References
        • Notes
    • Introducing the «Big Society»∗
      • Phillip Blond
        • References
        • Notes
    • Two Nations? Civil Society, Governance and
      • Michele Salvati
        • The great wave of anti-politics
        • The irresistible rise of Silvio Berlusconi
        • Berlusconi in power: government and «unfit
        • An attempt at explanation
        • Berlusconi in international perspective
        • Conclusions and a postscript
        • References
        • Notes
  • Part IV
  • Culture
    • Reflexivity and the Social Order of the Ne
      • Margaret S. Archer
        • Introduction
        • A brief biography of reflexivity
          • (a) Pre-Modern societies
          • (b) Modern societies
          • (c) Nascent morphogenetic society
        • Implications for millennial reflexivity
        • Prospects for a morphogenetic social order
        • References
        • Notes
    • Ambiguous Legacies of the Axial Age Anchor
      • Richard Madsen
        • Public vs private
        • Pseudo-transcendence and pseudo-universali
        • Ways forward
        • Encounters with multiplicity
        • Examples East and West
        • Conclusion
        • References
        • Notes
    • The Avatars of Advanced Modernity
      • Víctor Pérez-Díaz
        • 1. Civil Society in advanced modernity and
          • Troubled times: Civil Society’s travails a
          • Variants of Civil Society, and its eventua
        • 2. Cultural factors that may facilitate or
          • Problems of agency in a fragmented public
          • Educational failures
          • Failings in virtue and moral character
          • From diagnosis to therapy
        • 3. A conclusion: what might be done, and a
          • The story
          • Some lessons to be learnt
        • References
        • Notes

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