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«Unclear Enemy»: Why the Guerrilla War in France in 1814 Failed
: Author of the article analyzes the reasons of the fail of Napoleon’s attempts to set the guerrilla war in France during the campaign of 1814. While the forces of anti-Napoleonic coalition were standing near the border of France, Napoleon did his best ...
N. A. Mogilevskiy
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Defensive realism and the Concert of Europe [PDF]
Why do great powers expand? Offensive realist John Mearsheimer claims that states wage an eternal struggle for power, and that those strong enough to seek regional hegemony nearly always do.
Rendall, Matthew
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On 15 March 1813, Tsar Alexander i, in pursuit of the retreating Grande Armée, passed through the Prussian city of Breslau. The Prince of Orange, William vi, who was residing in exile on his private estates nearby, seized the opportunity to meet the ...
Mark Edward Hay
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Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen [PDF]
The aim of this essay is to investigate the concepts of cultural identity and national sovereignty as they emerge in radical German nationalism after 1806 in relation to French Revolutionary ideas and seek to reconstruct a radical revolutionary, i.e.
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External conditionality and the debt crisis: the ‘Troika’ and public administration reform in Greece [PDF]
Levering domestic reform via external conditionality has become crucial to the rescues of European Union member states in the context of the eurozone crisis.
Featherstone, Kevin
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Interpreting the Outsider Tradition in British European Policy Speeches from Thatcher to Cameron [PDF]
The article investigates how British European policy thinking has been informed by what it identifies as an ‘outsider’ tradition of thinking about ‘Europe’ in British foreign policy dating from imperial times to the presen.
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Maryland Insurance Co. v. Woods [PDF]
Maryland Insurance Company v. Woods, 10 U.S. 29 (1810). In 1803, Britain utilized France’s interference in the Civil Swiss Strife as a pretext to continue its occupancy of Malta, effectively ending the short-lived Treaty of Amiens. As the most impressive
Weissenberg, Andrew
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Modern empires and nation-states [PDF]
Empires and nation-states are not opposed or distinct forms of polity but closely linked forms. Pre-modern empire existed without any contrasting form of polity we might call a nation-state.
Breuilly, John
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Poland in the Period of Partitions 1795–1914 [PDF]
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Żurawski vel Grajewski, Radosław
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Regional Republicans: the Alsatian socialists and the politics of primary schooling in Alsace, 1918-1939 [PDF]
This article deals with political discussions about the place of language and religion in interwar Alsatian primary schools viewed through the lens of the local Socialist Party (SFIO).
Carrol, Alison
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