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The volume shows that neoliberalism concerns a tradition carried by a network of people, who understood themselves as liberals (and at times as neoliberals) and who sought to create societies based on individual freedom and a free market economy. It also shows that neoliberalism emerged as a transnational and multilingual phenomenon and that it cannot be reduced to one doctrine or practice. The book will enrich the reader's knowledge of the political-ideological landscapes and developments in various European regions and countries, in addition to transforming the overall picture of European (n

This fully revised new edition develops a comprehensive framework for understanding the key security issues facing Europe. The book addresses key developments in the global and European security environment, such as the impact of the global financial crisis, the rising power of the BRIC countries and NATO's involvement in the Arab Spring uprisings

The book rediscovers liberal modernity as the master process and destination of Western civilization, and its anti-liberal adversaries, notably conservatism, as the ghosts of a dead past. The anti-liberal rumors of the 'dead' of liberalism are 'greatly exaggerated'.

In the 20th century, liberalism stood up in a fight against two authoritarian (totalitarian) regimes – the nazi one and the communist one. This lead to conclusion on the "end of history" – the end of the world competition in common forms. It took little time to make sure that sharp turns of historical processes are unpredictable, etatist (authoritarian, statist) regimes are diverse, and liberalism has to argue for its historically superior role in a dispute with them over and over again. In some cases, and in some ways, authoritarian regimes have proven to be more effective than liberal ones. This was discussed by qualified experts at international workshops held in Moscow in 2017–2018. Following these discussions, a book was published in 2019. The proceeding of the dispute is represented in this article. The liberal strategy has been searching for a synthesis of freedom and equality for more than a century. However, in practice, their organic convergence is problematic. It is difficult to balance the aims of liberals and socialists, and therefore, to define possibilities and limits of a dialogue between them. Social state is one of the main ideas that liberal parties bring to elections. But it is hard to compile with material and administrative resources concentration in state hands. Nations are a reality of the modern world. Building and developing civil nations within the borders of one state (and particularly of interstate formations) is the task that has no vivid and familiar solutions. The same as the problem of nation-state sovereignty (the apologetic attitude to which has become widespread) has no simple and unambiguous solution. The apparent success of illiberal (and in some countries – anti-liberal) methods of partial modernization is one of the most сruel surprises sprung on the liberal doctrine and policy by modern world processes. All this makes the promotion of liberal values in Europe and Russia very challenging.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrative Material -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Is there a European society? -- Europe's debatable boundaries -- Identifying sub-regions of Europe -- Conclusion -- 2 The people of Europe -- Life expectancy -- Birth rates -- Death rates -- Immigration and overall changes in population size -- Marriage and family -- Conclusion -- 3 Identities: religion and ­ethnicity -- European religion -- Ethnicity, immigration and cultural diversity -- Conclusion -- 4 Europeans at work -- Employment sectors organized by type of product -- Types of occupation -- Conclusion -- 5 From occupations to classes -- Occupations, income and social class -- Income inequality, taxation, transfers and public services -- Conclusion -- 6 Delineating the class structures of contemporary Europe -- Class and citizenship -- Classes and power -- Conclusion -- 7 The wider implications of class -- Education and social mobility -- Health and life expectancy -- Class and political identity -- Conclusion -- 8 How many Europes? -- Norden -- South-West Europe -- Central Eastern Europe -- Further Eastern Europe -- North-West Europe -- The anglophones -- Conclusion -- Statistical Appendix -- References -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Diverse Europe Under Stress -- Introduction -- Institutional diversity -- Institutional clusters and the classification types -- Institutional diversity under stress -- Conclusion -- 3 The Liberal(ising) State: Industrial Policies and Tax Competition -- Introduction -- States and markets: industrial policy -- Mobile capital and taxes -- Conclusion -- 4 Europe's Money and the Crisis of Political Economic Strategy -- Introduction -- Making Europe's money -- The euro in crisis -- The euro: from stabilisation to stability? -- Conclusion -- 5 Financial Systems: From Fragmentation to Crisis -- Introduction -- Finance systems and national capitalism at the end of the 20th century -- Challenges to national finance -- From national to European finance? -- Finance and national economies: transforming relationships? -- Financial crisis and the governance of European finance -- Conclusion -- 6 Corporate Ownership, Control and Governance: Shareholders, Stakeholders and Liberal Transformation -- Introduction -- Shareholders and stakeholders -- Transformative pressures -- National systems: evidence of transformation? -- Conclusion -- 7 Labour Markets and Social Models: The Triumph of Liberalisation? -- Introduction -- Social models: national diversity and sub-regional clusters at the turn of the 21st century -- Social models under stress -- Social models in Europe: liberalisation, recalibration or dualisation? -- National social model change -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Two vignettes of contemporary memory politics, from the beginning and the end of the very recent period of cultural history that interests us, help to set out in the first part of this Introduction some coordinates for the field of transversal intersections which permeate 21st-century Holocaust legacies and which this special issue of Quest sets out to explore. The first vignette focusses on a strange conjunction at the turn of the millennium between two museum projects, one of them at least obliquely Holocaust-related, both forced to negotiate across fraught trans-communal cultural divides and to relate difficult parallel, convergent and divergent histories. The second picks out an instant, a transient flashpoint from the rolling news media of summer 2016, at which the sites, values and language of Holocaust memory were used to confront, in awkward but powerful ways, immediately contemporary anxieties and atrocities. Following these, the Introduction will move on to address the larger field of intersection between the terms, usages and scholarship of the Holocaust and genocide, including its often problematic aspects. Its aim is to set the stage and provide a framework for the six 'intersectional' essays that follow.

Two vignettes of contemporary memory politics, from the beginning and the end of the very recent period of cultural history that interests us, help to set out in the first part of this Introduction some coordinates for the field of transversal intersections which permeate 21st-century Holocaust legacies and which this special issue of Quest sets out to explore. The first vignette focuses on a strange conjunction at the turn of the millennium between two museum projects, one of them at least obliquely Holocaust-related, both forced to negotiate across fraught trans-communal cultural divides and to relate difficult parallel, convergent and divergent histories. The second picks out an instant, a transient flash point from the rolling news media of summer 2016, at which the sites, values and language of Holocaust memory were used to confront, in awkward but powerful ways,immediately contemporary anxieties and atrocities. Following these, the Introduction will move on to address the larger field of intersection between the terms, usages and scholarship of the Holocaust and genocide, including its often problematic aspects. Its aim is to set the stage and provide a framework for the six 'intersectional' essays that follow.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Introduction -- The Quest for the "Authentic" Central Europe -- Jewish Demography in the European Union – Virtuous and Vicious Paths -- Renewal or Regression? Jewish Self-Assertion and Re-Orientation in Twenty-first Century Central Europe -- "Russians," "Sephardi", and "Israelis": The Changing Structure of Austrian Jewry -- Jewish Religious-Cultural Traditions and Identity Patterns in Post-Communist Hungary -- The "Missing" and "Missed" Jews in Hungary -- Memories and Hopes: The Zionist Youth Movements and the Communist Regimes in Central Europe, 1944–1950 -- Jews and Jewishness in Cinema and Literature: The Case of the Czech Republic -- Ethno-religious Othering as a Reason Behind the Central European* Jewish Distancing from Israel -- Jews and Muslims in the Czech Republic – Demography, Communal Institutions, Mutual Relations -- Jewish-Roma Relations in the former Czechoslovakia: An Alliance Against Racism -- Holocaust Denial as a Symptom of Unresolved European History -- The Antisemitic Paradox in Europe: Empirical Evidences and Jewish Perceptions. A Comparative Study Between the West and East -- What is Jewish about Contemporary Central European Jewish Culture? -- Preserving Jewish Cemeteries as an Actual Challenge in Contemporary Poland -- Holocaust Memorialization in Poland: A Case Study of Polin Museum -- Thirty Years After. The Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow of the Czech Jewish Community -- About the Authors -- Index of persons