Autumn 2012

Editor: Peter Scholten, Erasmus Rotterdam University

This issue of Perspectives on Europe shines a spotlight on the Comparative Agendas Project and the processes that influence policy agenda formation on both sides of the Atlantic.  Other articles examine the ethno-religious identity in Northern Ireland, the consolidation of Ottoman power in 16th-century Bosnia, imperial forestry management in Hapsburg Spain, and much more.

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Spring 2012

Editor: Peter Scholten, Erasmus Rotterdam University

This issue of Perspectives on Europe features a comprehensive mini-forum examining the politics and history of gender and sexuality in Europe.  Other articles examine the localization of Islam in Europen societies, early modern Portugal's role in global drug trafficking, the commercialization of right-wing consumer clothing in Germany, and much more.

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• Gender & Sexual Politics: A Central Issue for European Studies (mini-forum essays)
  •  by Members of the Research Network on Gender & Sexuality

• The Extreme Goes Mainstream? Commercialized Right-Wing Extremism in Germany
  • by Cynthia Miller-Idriss

• Portugal, Early Modern Globalization and the Origins of the Global Drug Trade (sponsored research)
  • by Benjamin Breen

• Transgression and Transmission: Performance Art in Post-Soviet Moscow (sponsored research)
  • by Michelle Maydanchik

• Cultivating Vitality: Examining the Experience of Aging for Italian Women in Midlife (sponsored research)
  • by Laura A.M. Vares

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Autumn 2011

Editor: Peter Scholten, Erasmus Rotterdam University

This issue of Perspectives on Europe features an extensive mini-forum on the Eurozone crisis and its likely fallout.  Other articles examine ethnography and communist nostalgia, institutional stability in the GDR, factors influencing Euroscepticism, the music of Kurdish Alevi immigrants in Germany, and much more.

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• Europe and the Crisis (mini-forum essays)
  •  by Members of the Research Network on European Integration  and the Global Political Economy: New Directions

• The Politics of Anamnesis: Communist Nostalgia, Ethnography and a Challenge for European Studies
  • by Kristen Ghodsee

• Insincere Voters and the Individual-Level Determinants of Euroscepticism (sponsored research)
  • by Galina Zapryanova

• "A l'Auteur du Journal": What Letters to the Editor tell us about the French Enlightenment (sponsored research)
  • by Elizabeth Andrews

• Music of the Kurdish Alevi Diaspora in Germany: Struggling 'with' and 'for' Multiple Identities (sponsored research)
  • by Ozan Aksoy

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