With the European Parliament comprising politicians from many different countries, cultures, languages, national parties and institutional backgrounds, one might expect politics in the Parliament to be highly-fragmented and unpredictable. By studying more than 12,000 recorded votes between 1979 and 2004 this 2007 book establishes that the opposite is in fact true: transnational parties in the E…
There is a nascent war between American power and the European Union and, its allies, over domestic and international socio-political organisation. The Americans have a more marked disposition towards realism, power and liberal economics. Europe and Canada prefer a state managed economy, equality. social cohesion, post-modern rhetoric and international dialogue In such confrontation we have the…
This assessment of EU foreign policy looks beyond the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the European Security and Defence Policy to also analyse foreign policy developed through other EU pillars. The coverage includes the EU's relations with the US, Russia, China and Islamism
Working from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on the social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities, this book investigates the causes and effects of the extremities experienced by migrants. Firstly, the volume analyses the development and political-cultural conditions of current practices and discourses of 'bordering,' 'illegality,' and 'irregularization.' Secondly, it focuses o…
The book contains a comprehensive analysis of the concept of governing through trade and investigates how the EU exports' regulation through conditional market access regulation, bilateral trade agreements and unilateral trade policy. Several case studies complement the general analysis and provide an in-depth assessment of the European Union's new trade policies.
This is a critical time for the relationship between Britain and Europe, as politicians debate the crisis facing the European Union and Britain's role within it. This second edition consists largely of new material that charts how recent political developments have changed the debate surrounding Britain's membership of the EU.
This book is a comprehensive reference book and commentary on basic documents about relations between the EU and the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the present. It contains all significant official and unofficial documents in English and Chinese about EU-China relations since the founding of the PRC in 1949. Since the opening-up of China in 1979, and especially after the establishment …
Adapting to European Integration describes how the political institutions in eight small member states and two non-members responded to the internal and external demands springing from the process of European integration in general and EC/EU membership in particular. The study makes a distinction between governmental/administrative adaptation, political adaptation and strategic adaptation. The …
What purpose does the EU serve? Why and how was it set up? How does it work? What has it already achieved for its citizens, and what new challenges does it face today? As it expands to embrace 25 or 30 countries how must the European Union change? In an age of globalisation, can the EU compete successfully with other major economies? Can Europe continue to play a leading role on the word stage?…
The 1980s have been a decade of upheaval for the European Community and its member states. Internal and external factors have made rapid change imperative. The member states have seen themselves to be under threat from outside competition which has impelled them to seek closer cooperation over an ever-increasing range of issues. A deep-seated uneasiness persists, however, over both the EC's cap…