Here are two seminar series in the framework of Bo Stråth's and Peter Wagner's project EUI Europe's Cultural Heritage Reconsidered: Rupture and Continuity in European Cultural Orientations.
The Political Constitution of Contemporary Capitalism Christian Joerges, Bo Stråth and Peter Wagner (eds.),The Economy as a Polity. London: Cavendish Press 2005. Abstract The debate about so-called economic globalisation has reached a new phase. In the face of...
The union between Sweden and Norway was established in 1814 after the continental turbulence provoked by the Napoleonic wars. It was dissolved in 1905 when Norway broke up from the arrangement imposed upon them by the European power game in the post-Napoleonic reordering. The book is an in-depth study of the union and its preconditions.The rise of the German empire shook its basis and the issue of democracy broke it up.
The project's focus was multicultural metropolitan spaces for exploring the new challenges and opportunities associated with contemporary social and
cultural transformations; especially those associated with migration.
De förenade rikena Sverige och Norge 1814-1905 Union och demokrati. De Förenade rikena Sverige-Norge 1814-1905 (Union and Democracy. The United Kingdoms Sweden-Norway 1814-1905). Nora: Nya Doxa 2005. 734 pp. Ill. Norwegian translation Union og demokrati. Dei...
Preconditions for Future Policies from a Historical Perspective Lars Magnusson and Bo Stråth (eds.), A European Social Citizenship? Preconditions for Future Policies from a Historical Perspective. Brussels: PIE-Peter Lang 2004 Abstract The aim of this book is to...
Here are twelve conferences/workshops and one book launch between 1998 and 2004 supporting several book projects under the umbrella of The Cutural Construction of Community exploring the contradictions of modernity and addressing the question of what keeps modern societies together and what divides them.
The project's aim was to explore the preconditions of European social citizenship given the historical fact that the social dimension of citizenship is deeply entrenched in national histories. What did the expanding market radicalism in the 1990s mean for the preconditions?
Media, elites and civil society : the collective state of the art and historical reports Anna Triandafyllidou and Bo Stråth (eds.), Representations of Europe and the Nation in Current and Prospective Member States: Media, Elites and Civil Society. The Collective...
History, Theory, Prospects Quentin Skinner, Bo Stråth (eds.), States and Citizens. History, Theory, Prospects. Cambridge UP, 2003 Abstract The imminent demise of the nation-state in the face of global capitalism and supra-national agencies has often been predicted,...
