Product Description: The Flying Fitz is the remarkable story of the flight of the Bremen airplane. Commadant James C. Fitzmaurice and two German co-pilots face great challenges as they attempt to complete the first East to West Transatlantic crossing by air.

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Product Description: The conflict between Hungary and Slovakia over the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros dam system on the Danube is a potentially explosive threat to regional stability along this key economic artery between the North Sea and the Black Sea. Emblematic of the difficulties in establishing a post-communist regional order, this bitter battle between material economic values and post-materialist environmental and cultural values threatens to resurrect nationalist resentments buried by forty years of communism...read more

In recent years Belgium's complicated federal system has been threatened by resurgent competition for power between the Flemish and Walloon communities. Calls for a breakup of the state along linguistic lines have been defeated, but separatist - although usually non-violent - sentiment remains strong in some areas. This balanced study considers the effects of the country's internal divisiveness and presents a definitive introduction to Belgium's history, social and economic development, political system, and foreign policy - especially with regard to the EU.

This book examines the historical, political, cultural and economic links between the littoral states of the Baltic sea and seeks to analyse what it is that has created a strong sense of regional identity within the area, that has enabled the area to survive conflicts external to the region that have been projected onto the region. Thus, this sense of identity now forms the basis for future regional cooperation that could be a significant factor for stability in the region.

Product Description: By the same author as "Security and Politics in the Nordic Area", and "The Politics of Belgium", this book examines contemporary Austrian society and politics. It also reflects the effect that Nazism and the Austrian role in World War II still plays in the international image of Austria today...read more

Product Description: The book looks at Quebec - its society and economic and political system - as autonomous, albeit linked to a wider system.