Europa Country Perspectives
About the Book Series
The new Europa Country Perspectives series, from Routledge, examines a wide range of contemporary political, economic, developmental and social issues from areas around the world. Complementing the Europa Regional Surveys of the World series, Europa Country Perspectives will be a valuable resource for academics, students, researchers, policy-makers, business people and anyone with an interest in current world affairs.
While the Europa World Year Book and its associated Regional Surveys inform on and analyse contemporary economic, political and social developments at the national and regional level, Country Perspectives provide in-depth, country-specific volumes written or edited by specialists in their field, delving into a country’s particular situation. Volumes in the series are not constrained by any particular template, but may explore a country’s recent political, economic, international relations, social, defence, or other issues in order to increase understanding.
Territorial Politics and the Party System in Spain:: Continuity and change since the financial crisis
1st Edition
By Caroline Gray
December 13, 2021
Across Western Europe, the global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath not only brought economic havoc but also, in turn, intense political upheaval. Many of the political manifestations of the crisis seen in other Western and especially Southern European countries also hit Spain, where ...
Barcelona, the Left and the Independence Movement in Catalonia
1st Edition
By Richard Gillespie
June 30, 2021
Created by social movement activists and left-wing parties during years of austerity, Barcelona en Comú, or the Comuns (as they are known in Catalan), won control of the city council of Barcelona in May 2015. The ensuing municipal government gave the city its first ever female mayor in the form of ...
Bolivia: Geopolitics of a Landlocked State
1st Edition
By Ronald Bruce St John
June 30, 2021
Bolivia: Geopolitics of a Landlocked State goes beyond the traditional focus on inter-American relations, territorial issues and the maritime question to provide the first comprehensive study of Bolivian foreign policy from independence to the present day. It aims to redress the balance between the...
The Basque Contention: Ethnicity, Politics, Violence
1st Edition
By Ludger Mees
June 30, 2021
To the outside world, for some half a century, the words ‘Basque Country’ have provoked an almost instant association with the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA, Basque Homeland and Liberty) separatist group and violent conflict. The Basque Contention: Ethnicity, Politics, Violence attempts to undo this ...
The Taiwan Issue: Problems and Prospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin Schreer, Andrew T. H. Tan
June 30, 2021
While global attention has been focused on other regional issues, such as China-US tensions and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, little attention has been paid to Taiwan. Yet the so-called Taiwan issue, namely the continued separation of the island from mainland China, remains a major regional...
Ukraine: Contested Nationhood in a European Context
1st Edition
By Ulrich Schmid
June 30, 2021
Ukraine: Contested Nationhood in a European Context challenges the common view that Ukraine is a country split between a pro-European West and a pro-Russian East. The volume navigates the complicated cultural history of Ukraine and highlights the importance of regional traditions for an ...
Darfur's Political Economy: A Quest for Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Hamid Ali
June 30, 2020
Darfur is a vast region endowed with limited and unexplored natural resources, poor infrastructure, and lack of major development projects, and identifying its economic and human development needs brings us closer to finding ways to alleviate its human suffering and environmental stress. This book ...
Greece in the 21st Century: The Politics and Economics of a Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Vassilis Fouskas, Constantine Dimoulas
June 30, 2020
For most of the first part of the 21st century Greece has been seen as a critical battlefield for the survival of the powerful and the adjustment or extinction of the weak, as if all the historical contradictions of the global financial crisis and the eurozone crisis were concentrated in that tiny ...
Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe?: A Debate on Secession within the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
By Xavier Cuadras Morató
April 09, 2020
Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe examines the main issues of the political process which is taking place in Catalonia today. The political confrontation between the Spanish and Catalan institutions has now reached the international arena, especially the debates concerning international ...
Beyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human rights, the public sphere and justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Wil G. Pansters, Benjamin T. Smith, Peter Watt
July 29, 2019
This volume aims to go beyond the study of developments within Mexico’s criminal world and their relationship with the state and law enforcement. It focuses instead on the nature and consequences of what we call the ‘totalization of the drug war’, and its projection on other domains which are key ...
Contesting Spain? The Dynamics of Nationalist Movements in Catalonia and the Basque Country
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Gillespie, Caroline Gray
September 18, 2018
Contesting Spain? The Dynamics of Nationalist Movements in Catalonia and the Basque Country offers an exploration of the dynamics behind contemporary shifts in the orientation of nationalist parties and movements with reference to Catalonia and the Basque country in Spain. The chapters were ...
Political Change in Switzerland: From Stability to Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Clive Church
September 18, 2018
Political Change in Switzerland explains the striking recent political developments in Switzerland, an important but surprisingly little known and often misunderstood country, aiming to dissipate prevailing myths about Switzerland in its European context. Firstly, the title provides an analysis of ...