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by Julian Priestley, Nereo Peñalver García
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This book tells the inside story of Europe's first presidential campaign, the candidates, how they were chosen, the campaign trail, the TV debates and the tense negotiations which followed. It explains what led to this new way of choosing the Commission president and what it means for the future of the EU.
Transaction Costs and Security Institutions
Unravelling the ESDP
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Examines international cooperation in European security from a transaction cost economics perspective. This book addresses the puzzle of how to approach differing institutional preferences. It argues that the reduction and limitation of transaction costs was the primary determinant of security preferences.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Based on cutting-edge research, this edited volume examines how citizens and political elites perceive the legitimacy of regional integration in Europe and the Americas. It analyses public opinion and political discourse on the EU, NAFTA and MERCOSUR, arguing that legitimation patterns shape the development of regional governance.
by Hanna Ojanen
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book studies inter-organisational relations from a new angle: power. Drawing on examples that highlight how the EU relates to NATO and to the UN, it shows how consequential inter-organisational relations are for the functioning and nature of the organisations, and how important it is to detect...
by Stefanie Pukallus
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book is a study of the multiple meanings of European citizenship, which has been represented and publicly communicated by the European Commission in five distinctive ways – Homo Oeconomicus (1951-1972), A People's Europe (1973-1992), Europe of Transparency (1993-2004), Europe of Agorai (2005-2009)...
Communicating Europe in Times of Crisis
External Perceptions of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The EU views itself as an important actor on the world stage, a perspective supported by the role it plays in global politics. This collection presents a true reflection of the EU as an international actor by exploring how it is viewed externally and the impact that events like the Eurozone debt crisis have had on external perceptions of the EU.
The Micro and Meso Levels of Activism
A Comparative Case Study of Attac France and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Focusing on the Attac movements in France and Germany, this book seeks to explain the dramatic differences that exist between the individual and organisational levels of activism. The author derives engagement patterns for various types of activists and develops a typology of social movement organisations positing possible trends in membership.
International Intervention in Ethnic Conflict
A Comparison of the European Union and the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Tannam focuses on the role of bureaucracies when dealing with conflict in two international organisations, the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN), providing a unique comparative account of their policy-making procedures.
Managing Crises, Making Peace
Towards a Strategic EU Vision for Security and Defense
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In the face of emerging new threats, the EU's capacity to build a distinctive role in crisis management remains problematic. Analysing EU policies and actions, this collection sheds light on the EU's role in managing crises and peacekeeping, exploring avenues for a strategic EU vision for security and defense.
Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research
A Unified Typology of Capitalisms
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Varieties of Capitalism' typology, into a unified typology of capitalist diversity. The author shows empircally that certain welfare states bundle together with certain production systems.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres. The approach confronts research on European democracy and the public sphere with gender and diversity research and reflections about European equality and diversity issues are based on new research from a large-scale EU project.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to. This book explores responses to changing social risks across areas such as structural unemployment, entrepreneurship, immigration, single parenthood, education and health.
Seven Figures in the History of Swedish Economic Thought
Knut Wicksell, Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin, Torsten Gårdlund, Sven Rydenfelt, Staffan Burenstam Linder and Jaime Behar
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Who are the greatest economic thinkers of Sweden? Seventeen essays on seven Swedish economists aim to answer this question, exploring the contributions of Knut Wicksell, Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin, Torsten Gårdlund, Sven Rydenfelt, Staffan Burenstam Linder and Jaime Behar. Swedish academic economists...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Based on contributions from international experts, this volume provides an up-to-date account of globalization's influences on individual life courses in nine different modern societies, and of cross-nationally varying political strategies to mediate this influence.