Europe's Old States and the New World Order

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The twelve essays in this collection by leading academics from the countries discussed examine how rapid global change and social transformation are impacting on all aspects of political life in the UK, Ireland, Northern Ireland, France, Spain, and t

Acknowledgements

vii

Contributors to this volume

viii

Theoretical and comparative introduction

1 A politics of transition in Britain, France and Spain

JENNIFER TODD, ANNE MANDEVILLE AND JOSEPH RUANE

(15)

2 Theorising the transition: longue durée and current conjuncture in centre-periphery relations in Britain, France and Spain

JOSEPH RUANE

(22)

Part 1: Transformations of territorial politics: the state in transition

3 Spain: the 1978 constitution and centre-periphery tensions

JOSÉ-MARIA COMAS

(24)

4 The British state since devolution: reconfigurations and continuities

JENNIFER TODD

(22)

5 Beyond exceptionalism? Changing regional and local governance in France

ALISTAIR COLE

(17)

Part 2: Regionalism, nationalism, separatism: the changing articulation of peripheral nationalist demands

6 Catalonia: autonomous community or nascent state?

JORDI ARGELAGUET

101

(20)

7 A changed Irish nationalism? The significance of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998

JOSEPH RUANE AND JENNIFER TODD

121

(25)

8 France's peripheral parties: nuanced demands

FABIEN CHARLET

146

(21)

Part 3: The role of institutions: the security forces and the maintenance of order

9 The Basque imbroglio: a clash of logics and a multiplicity of actors

JÉRÔME MONTES

167

(16)

10 The maintenance of order in a changing state: the reform of policing in the United Kingdom

ANNE MANDEVILLE

183

(24)

11 The maintenance of public order in France: inertia and transformation in the contemporary evolution of French state security

ALAIN PICARD

207

(20)

12 Europe's old states and the new world order

JENNIFER TODD

227

(19)

Appendices

Appendix A Spain

A: 1 Map of the autonomous communities of Spain

246

(1)

A: 2 The autonomous communities: demographic and economic profile

247

(1)

A: 3 Political parties in Spain

248

(4)

Appendix B United Kingdom

B: 1 Map of the regions of the United Kingdom

252

(1)

B: 2 Asymmetric devolution in the United Kingdom

253

(3)

B: 3 Political parties in the United Kingdom

256

(4)

Appendix C France

C: 1 Map of the administrative and historic regions of France

260

(1)

C: 2 Some key phases in the political organisation and assertion of the region-nations of France

261

(4)

C: 3 Peripheral political parties in France

265

(1)

Notes

266

(23)

Bibliography

289

(21)

Index

310

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