Out of all this will come forth Europe, a solid and united Europe - This was the preface to a declaration made by Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister (1948-55), as Europe lay in ruins in the aftermath of the Second World War. ... Both of which must be evaluated based upon their own merits, with specific reference to achieving and sustaining peace and stability in Europe, discussion is also necessary on the further potential for friction and conflict and these institutional systems are adapted to handle these issues, specifically the events of and after 11 September 2001. In Western ...

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British and French officials became more concerned with urban development during and after the war, especially in efforts to create a stable and docile urban workforce. ... To the British, French, and Germans, the primary colonizing nations, the individual needs of their colonial subjects were not important. ...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and new forms of multinational production. Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standar...

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At the time this Report is being released, the world economy continues to emerge slowly from the most serious economic crisis of the post–World War II period-one that has deeply transformed the global economy and highlighted the increasingly important role that emerging markets and developing economies play in the global economy. As advanced economies are searching for ways to speed up their economic engines, emerging and developing countries have been important drivers of the global economic recovery. ... The work carried out to date on these important aspects of human and economic deve...

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