The Political Logic of Disintegration: Seven Lessons from the Soviet Collapse. CEPS Essay (No. 1), September 2012

In short, the European Union, as we know it, no longer exists. The very foundations on which it was built are eroding. Shared memories of the Second World War have faded away – half the 15- and 16-year-olds in German high schools do not know that Hitler was a dictator, while a third believe that he protected human rights. The collapse of the Soviet Union has stripped away the geopolitical rationale for European unity. The democratic welfare state that was at the heart of the post-war political consensus is under siege by, among other things, sheer demographics. And the prosperity that bolstered the European project’s political legitimacy is vanishing. More than six out of ten Europeans believe that the lives of today’s children will be more difficult than those of people from their own generation. Against this background, how unthinkable is the EU’s disintegration? Should Europeans make the mistake of taking the Union for granted? Should they assume that the Union would not collapse because it should not collapse? Here, Europe’s capacity to learn from the Soviet precedent could play a crucial part. For the very survival of the EU may depend on its leaders’ ability to manage a similar mix of political, economic and psychological factors that were in play in the process of the Soviet collapse. The game of disintegration is primarily a political one driven much more by the perceptions and misperceptions of the political actors than simply by the constellation of the structural factors – institutional and economic.

Banking Union: are the EMU design mistakes being repeated? European Policy Brief No. 12, October 2012

This Policy Brief pleads for an unambiguous commitment by eurozone leaders to establishing a Banking Union that is based on all three of its pillars: common supervision, a single bank resolution authority and a joint deposit insurance. There is a clear risk that the EU will agree on common supervision, but subsequently fails to put in place the remaining elements of its Banking Union. By doing so, the EU would make the same mistake as when it designed EMU, namely, creating a system with built-in flaws that risks leading to huge costs and a questioning of the European project as such.

I dieci libri dell'architettvra /

Includes errata, V1r, V3v.

The queer folk of Fife; tales from the Kingdom,

The breach of promise.--Her dead self.--God's own scholar.--The gentleman tramp.--The one fatal mistake.--A romance of the harvest field.--The boy heretic.--How the deacon became an abstainer.

The novels, tales and letters of Prosper Mérimée /

v.1. Carmen; Arsène Guillot, Abbé Aubain. Tr. by E. M. Waller, M. Loyd and E. B. Thompson; with illus. by G. Fraipont and S. Arco.--v.2. Colomba, tr by the Lady Mary Loyd; with illustrations by G. Vuillier.--v.3. The mosaic, comprising Mateo Falcone, and other tales. Tr. by Emily M. Waller and Mary H. Dey; with illustrations by J. Le Blant, P. Sinibaldi, L. O. Merson, Myrbach, E. de Beaumont, and Lalauze.--v.4. The double mistake; Souls in purgatory; The Venus of Ille. Tr. by W. M. Arnold, Olive E. Palmer, and Emily M. Waller; with illustrations by G. Fraipont, A. Bramtot, and J. J. Aranda.--v.5. Last stories and translations, tr. by Emily M. Waller and Louise Paul; with illustrations by A. Robaudi; Lokis, The "Viccolo" of Madam Lucrezia. The blue chamber. Djoûmane. The Spanish witches. The pistol shot. The queen of spades. The Bohemians. The hussar.--v.6. A chronicle of the reign of Charles IX. Tr. by G. Saintsbury; with illus. by E. Toudouze.--v.7-8. Letters to an unknown, tr. by Olive E. Palmer.

Clavis prophetica; or a key to the prophecies of Mons. Marion, and the other Camisars. With some reflections on the characters of these envoys, and of Mons. F-- their chief secretary.

"Propositions extracted out of the book entituled, The prophetical warnings of Elias Marion ...": v. 1, p. 24-44.

De principum quibus electio Imperatoris in Germania commendata est origine seu institutione liber unus Simonis Schardii ... : in quo recentiorum quorundam sententia refutata, communis opinionis veritas defenditur ; ejusdem [Anamnēsis] juris quod in approbandis [pontificibus imperatores habuerint].

Signatures: (*)⁸ A-K⁸.

The writings of Prosper Mérimée, comprising his novels, tales and letters to an unkown, with an essay on the genius and achievement of the author,

At head of each t.p.: The novels, tales and letters of Prosper Mérimee.

What's wrong with the world,

The homelessness of man.--Imperialism, or the mistake about man.--Feminism, or the mistake about woman.--Education, or the mistake about the child.--The home of the man.--Three notes.

Plays,

v. 1. The relapse; or, virtue in danger. The provok'd wife, with a new scene. Æsop, in two parts. The false friend.--v. 2. The confederacy. The mistake. The country house. A journey to London. The provok'd husband.

Short plays about famous authors,

Introduction.--A mistake at the manor ["based on an incident in the early life of Oliver Goldsmith"]--When Heine was twenty-one.--Miss Burney at court.--A Christmas eve with Charles Dickens.--The fairies' plea; an interlude for Shakespeare day. Adapted from Thomas Hood's "Plea of the midsummer fairies."

Rocks ahead, or, The warnings of Cassandra /

Preface -- I. Political rock -- II. Economic rock -- III. Religious rock -- Appendix A. The mistake of honest democrats -- B. Unionist restrictions on labor -- C. Three men and three eras -- D. United States in recent years.

Tales and sketches.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms (n.d.) (American Culture Series, Reel 253.4)

Appearance is against them. A farce,

First acted 1785, revived 1804 under title: Mistake upon mistake.

Sir John Vanbrugh;

I. Introduction. The relapse; or, Virtue in danger. Aesop. The provok'd wife.--II. The false friend. The country house. The confederacy. The mistake. A journey to London. A short vindication of The relapse and The provok'd wife.