Modell Deutschland as an Interdenominational Compromise, CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 00.3, 2000

Usually, Germany’s social market economy is understood to embody a compromise between a liberal market order and a corporatist welfare state. While this reading of the German case is certainly not entirely wrong, this paper argues that only if we account for the close intellectual correspondence between lutheran Protestantism and economic liberalism on the one hand and between Catholicism and welfare corporatism on the other, can we fully comprehend the nature of the German post-war compromise. In particular, this perspective allows to better explain the anti-liberal undercurrents of Germany’s soziale Marktwirtschaft. It was especially the role which Protestant Ordoliberals ascribed to the state in upholding economic order and market discipline which accounts for the major difference between ‘classic’ and ‘German-style’ economic liberalism. Yet, the postwar economic order did not represent a deliberately struck compromise between the two major Christian denominations. Rather, Germany’s social market economy was the result of the failure of German Protestant Ordoliberals to prevent the reconstruction of the catholic Bismarckian welfare state after the authoritarian solution, which Ordoliberals had endorsed so strongly up until 1936 and from which they had hoped the re-inauguration of Protestant hegemony, had so utterly failed. Since the ordoliberal doctrine up to the present day lacks a clear understanding of the role of the corporatist welfare state within the German political economy, its insights into the functioning logic of German capitalism have remained limit. The paper also claims that accounting for the denominational roots of the postwar compromise allows us to better understand the relationship between consociationalism and corporatism in ‘Modell Deutschland’.

The bumpy road. Difficult reform process in Ukraine. OSW Commentary, Number 192|30.11.2015

The post-Maidan Ukrainian government found itself forced to launch a comprehensive state reform process due to both the deep crisis in all the key areas of the state’s operation and the enormous demand for change among the Ukrainian public. The promise to carry out structural reforms based on the European model became a key point in Kyiv’s political rhetoric. However, one year after the formation of the second cabinet led by Arseniy Yatsenyuk (2 December 2014) and one and a half years since the inauguration of Petro Poroshenko as president (7 June 2014), it is clear that the reform process in Ukraine is moving at a snail’s pace and is far from fulfilling its post-Maidan declarations. It has also provoked increasing frustration among the public due to the lack of expected effects.

Green Diplomacy Network – What is in a name? EPC Commentary, 29 February 2016

The external representation of the European Union (EU), with 28 member states plus the Brussels institutions, has a complex architecture. While the inauguration of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the transformation of European Commission offices worldwide into EU delegations in December 2009 were meant to streamline external representation patterns, such hopes have only been partially attained. Despite a continuing series of national embassy closures abroad by EU member states, mostly spurred by shrinking budgets, many countries in the world host embassies from nearly the full complement of EU member states along with an EU delegation.

Jakob van Artevelde : Feestkantate /

"La 1re exécution de cette oeuvre a eu lieu ... à Gand, le 14 septembre 1863, jour de l'inauguration de la statue de Jacques van Artevelde."

Biographie de Thierry Martens d'Alost, premier imprimeur de la Belgique, suivie de la bibliographie de ses éditions,

"Cantate compos"ee pour l'inauguration de la statue de Thierry Martens," 3 l. at end.

Catalogue of an exhibition of mediæval and other manuscripts and jewelled book-covers arranged in the main library.

"In commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its inauguration, 1899--October 6--1924."

Molecular theories and mathematics.

"An address delivered at the inauguration of the Rice institute, by Emile Borel ... Translated from the French by Professor Albert Léon Guérard of the Rice institute."

Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ...

1. Bd. Die Gründung der Kolonien bis zur Präsidentschaft des Thomas Jefferson. 1863.--2. Bd. Von der ersten Präsidentschaft des Thomas Jefferson bis zum Ende der zweiten Präsidentschaft des Andrew Jackson. 1865.--3. Bd. Von der Präsidentschaft des Martin Van Buren bis zur Inauguration des Abraham Lincoln. 1866.

Notice sur la vie de Mr. le Baron David de Purry, suivie de son testament et d'un extrait de sa correspondance particulière.

Cover: Souvenir du 6 juillet 1855, jour d'inauguration de la statue élevée à David De Purry. Neuchâtel, Henriod, 1855.

Religious pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets on religion.

Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University (May 19, 1869-May 19, 1909)

"This essay was originally written for the Deutsche rundschau of Berlin." - Note.

The writings of George Washington : being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with A life of the author, notes, and illustrations /

Imprint varies.

The authority of Holy Scripture : an inaugural address /

Address at the author's inauguration in the Edward Robinson Chair of Biblical Theology, Union Theological Seminary.

History of the Ohio state university,

v. 1. 1870-1910, by Alexis Cope, ed. by T. C. Mendenhall.--v. 2. Continuation of the narrative from 1910 to 1925, by O. C. Hooper, ed. by T. C. Mendenhall.--v. 3. Addresses and proceedings of the semicentennial celebration, October 13-16, 1920, ed. by T. C. Mendenhall, assisted by J. S. Myers.--v. 4. The universty in the great war. pt. 1. Wartime on the campus, by W. H. Siebert, with a chapter by Carl Whittke. pt. 2. Our men in military and naval service, supervised and ed. by W. H. Siebert, except chapters II to IX, inclusive, by E. H. McNeal. pt. 3. In the camps and at the front.--v. 5. Addresses and proceedings of the inauguration of Howard Landis Bevis, October 24 and 25, 1940, ed. by William McPherson and H. K. Schellenger.--v. 6. Addresses and proceedings of the seventy-fifth anniversary, 1948-49.--v. 7. The Bevis administration, 1940-1956. pt. 1. The university in a world at war, 1940-1945. --v. 10. The Enarson years, 1972-1981, by Paul Underwood.