Since the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of the European Union and Nato have been keys to Spain's new prominence, although the country has also tried to build on its traditional "special relationships" with Latin America and the Arab world. This is the first thorough study of democratic Spain's re-emergence on the international scene.By focusing on the relationship between external relations and domestic policy the book makes an important contribution to the literature on democratisation, as well as showing how Spanish foreign policy evolved between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s.While the book focuses on democratic Spain, its revisionist view of democratic transitions is of more general relevance. Democratization is seen as an integral process involving related, though not simultaneous changes in domestic policy and external relations. Only with the transformation of her external relations did Spain's new democracy finally become consolidated.This book will be required reading for students of Spanish politics and will also be useful to those interested in the process of democratization.

Product Description: Established in 1995, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership aims to create a free trade area including 30 countries and 800 million people by early in the 21st century. This book offers an assessment of the Partnership and its aims. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

What motivates workers to work harder? What can management do to create a contented and productive workforce? Discussion of these questions would be incomplete without reference to the Hawthorne experiments, one of the most famous pieces of research ever conducted in the social and behavioral sciences. Drawing on the original records of the experiments and the personal papers of the researchers, Richard Gillespie has reconstructed the intellectual and political dynamics of the experiments as they evolved from the tentative experimentation to seemingly authoritative publications. Manufacturing Knowledge raises fundamental questions about the nature of scientific knowledge, and about the assumptions and evidence that underlay debates on worker productivity. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume provides informed analysis of topical developments of international interest. As the European Union debates a major reinforcement of its Mediterranean policy, with the proposal to establish a "Euro-Mediterranean partnership", this text leads with an assessment of its Mediterranean policy in the recent past and attributes responsibility for its shortcomings as much to southern as to northern European member states...read more

Product Description: The book contains real-world examples both in text, figures, and movie files, so that readers interested in implementing PeopleSoft applications can follow along using a combination of the media they prefer. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive study of the highly influential role Spain has played in the reinforcement of the European Union's Mediterranean policy, particularly post-1975. Besides providing a historical overview of Spanish involvement in the Mediterranean, the book analyzes how relations with Morocco and Algeria were prioritized before a more global policy was adopted which extended to the Middle East...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume assesses the evolution of Spain's external relations during the 1990s, within and beyond Europe, and assesses the principal challenges facing the country at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The coincidence of several crucial global and European developments has had a profound effect on Spain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This history, the first in English, of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) traces the party's long march from defeat in the Civil War of the 1930s to power in the 1980s. Drawing on the official archives of the Socialist organizations, private collections of papers, and interviews with over fifty Spanish socialists, Gillespie examines all significant aspects of the party's life, focusing particularly on internal factionalism...read more

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