Routledge, 2017. — 195 p. The EU’s approach to Iran has emerged as one of the few successes of European foreign policy. Still, its role in international negotiations from 2003, as much as its broader approach to Iran, are generally poorly appreciated by policy-makers in Europe, the United States, and around the world. This book aims to explain the specifics of the EU’s approach...
Routledge, 2012. — 272 p. This book examines how sovereignty works in the context of European integration and postcolonialism. Focusing on a group of micro-polities associated with the European Union, it offers a new understanding of international relations in the context of modern sovereignty. This book offers a systematic and comparative analysis of the Overseas Countries and...
Lexington Books, 2012. — 317 p. Although Turkey has a long-held aspiration for European Union membership and has been a candidate for more than a decade, relations between the EU and Turkey have not received the attention it deserves from non-Turkish researchers thus far, and consequently the international literature on EU-Turkey relations is rather limited. In light of recent...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 587 p. The European Union celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2017, but celebrations were muted by Brexit and the growing sense of a crisis of identity. However, as this seminal work shows, the history and ambition of the European Union are considerable. Written by key stakeholders who, between them, acted as architects, adjudicators and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 248 p. Bafoil's book combines an empirically rich and theoretically valid analysis of the impact of the European Union on the Central and Eastern European states. A significant and stimulating contribution to understanding the process of Europeanization and social change in the new member states. This ambitious attempt at analysis of today s Central...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 280 р. — ISBN 978-3-030-18000-3, 978-3-030-18001-0. This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order. These challenges arise both within the EU itself and beyond its borders, and put into question the values of free trade and liberal democracy. The book’s interdisciplinary approach brings...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 280 р. — ISBN 978-3-030-18000-3, 978-3-030-18001-0. This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order. These challenges arise both within the EU itself and beyond its borders, and put into question the values of free trade and liberal democracy. The book’s interdisciplinary approach brings...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 280 р. — ISBN 978-3-030-18000-3, 978-3-030-18001-0. This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order. These challenges arise both within the EU itself and beyond its borders, and put into question the values of free trade and liberal democracy. The book’s interdisciplinary approach brings...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 280 р. — ISBN 978-3-030-18000-3, 978-3-030-18001-0. This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order. These challenges arise both within the EU itself and beyond its borders, and put into question the values of free trade and liberal democracy. The book’s interdisciplinary approach brings...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 280 р. — ISBN 978-3-030-18000-3, 978-3-030-18001-0. This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order. These challenges arise both within the EU itself and beyond its borders, and put into question the values of free trade and liberal democracy. The book’s interdisciplinary approach brings...
Routledge, 2011. — 224 p. This book investigates the disparity between rhetoric and performance in the European Union response to abuses of human rights and transgression of democracy. With the Arab spring putting the spotlight on the EU’s self-portrait as committed to promoting global human rights and democracy, this book examines the paradoxes of its international posture and...
Routledge, 2016. — 224 p. New democracies are uniquely positioned to promote democratic values and have a competitive advantage in the global democracy assistance industry. This book examines the attempts of one group of young democracies, from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), to channel this pro-democracy agenda into both national and European foreign policy and development...
Routledge, 2020. — 178 p. This book assesses the current political, economic, and military dimensions of Europe's international relations. It focuses on the role of the rival alliance systems, Soviet conceptions of the future of Europe, and Europe's assessment of its own interests and objective.
Routledge, 2021. — 578 p. This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of Critical European Union Studies, sets the research agenda and highlights emerging areas of study. Bringing together critical analyses of European Union politics, policies and processes with an expert range of contributors, it overcomes disciplinary borders and paradigms and addresses four...
Routledge, 2013. — 152 p. This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers. At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size makes the EU a global power. However, the EU needs to take into account that many international actors continue to measure power mostly by assessing military...
Routledge, 2009. — 255 p. This book examines just what the European Union is, in the context of the ongoing structural transformation of the global system. The author develops an integrated approach to global transformations, drawing on geopolitics, political geography, international relations, economics, economic and political history, political economy and macro-sociology to...
Routledge, 2021. — 230 p. — ISBN 978-0-367-76139-4 ( This book investigates the multifaceted conflicts of sovereignty in the recent crises in the European Union. Although the notion of sovereignty has been central in the contentious debates triggered by the recent crises in the European Union, it remains strikingly under-researched in political science. This book bridges this...
Routledge, 2021. — 538 p. — ISBN 978-0-367-76139-4 ( This book investigates the multifaceted conflicts of sovereignty in the recent crises in the European Union. Although the notion of sovereignty has been central in the contentious debates triggered by the recent crises in the European Union, it remains strikingly under-researched in political science. This book bridges this...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 424 p. For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis. Between sluggish growth; political turmoil following a decade of austerity politics; Brexit; and the rise of Asian influence, the EU is seen as a declining power on the world stage. Columbia Law professor Anu Bradford argues the opposite in her important new book The...
Routledge, 2022. — 147 p. The electoral success of secessionist parties in Catalonia and Scotland over the last decade, together with Brexit and the support for Eurosceptic parties in many EU member states, have prompted a rethink of many taken-for-granted notions about politics in Spain, the UK and the EU. Secessionist parties in Catalonia and Scotland often combine calls for...
Macmillan Education, 2018. — 208 p. This new textbook offers a path-breaking interpretation of the role of the European Union's most important member state: Germany. Analyzing Germany's domestic politics, European policy, relations with partners, and the resultant expressions of power within the EU, the text addresses such key questions as whether Germany is becoming Europe's...
Routledge, 2020. — 320 p. This volume brings together contributions that conceptualize and measure EU perceptions in the strategic regions around the world in the aftermath of the UK referendum. Contributors assess the evolution of EU perceptions in each location and discuss how their findings may contribute to crafting foreign policy options for the "new EU-27". Brexit is very...
Routledge, 2017. — 194 p. EU foreign and defence policy is largely formulated in the working parties and committees of the Council of the EU and the vast majority of decisions in this field are made by the national diplomats working in the around 35 groups of the CFSP/CSDP. Although the importance of these committees and their participants has been increasingly recognised, we...
Routledge, 2018. — 241 p. This book investigates and explains the European Union’s approach to conflict resolution in three countries of the Western Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo. In doing so, it critically interrogates claims that the EU acts as an agent of conflict transformation in its engagement with conflict-affected states. The book argues,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 245 p. Do the various aspects of Europe's multi-leveled public diplomacy form a coherent overall image, or do they work against each other to some extent? European Public Diplomacy pushes the literature on public diplomacy forward through a multifaceted exploration of the European case.
Routledge, 2018. — 295 p. In recent decades, the external action of the European Union (EU) has been undergoing considerable change. An expansion of the EU’s external policy portfolio can be observed in many areas as previous policies for internal purposes – such as competition, energy, the environment, justice and home affairs or monetary governance but also gender, science,...
Routledge, 2016. — 158 p. Written as EU-Russia relations began their swift decline as a result of the Ukrainian crisis, this book examines the nature of these two actors’ relationship in respect of their Partnership for Modernisation. The contributing authors look at modernisation through different lenses applying varying methodologies, delivering: historical analysis, economic...
Routledge, 2016. — 181 p. The literature on the European Union influence’s in its Eastern neighbourhood has tended to focus on EU-level policies and prioritize EU-related variables. This book seeks to overcome this EU-centric approach by connecting EU policy transfer to the domestic and regional environment in which it unfolds. It looks at the way in which the EU seeks to...
Routledge, 2016. — 241 p. Do the EU and NATO threaten Russian security? The book explores the rise of these exclusive ’inter-democratic’ security institutions after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ensuing effects on relations with Russia. Two competing theories are tested to explore whether these institutions aggravate or mitigate the security dilemma with Russia....
Routledge, 2021. — 136 p. Originally published in 1994. In 1989 Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia began to cooperate as a regional grouping in the Warsaw Treaty Organisation(WTO). With the primary objective to cooperate with western organisations they have also worked to dismantle the WTO and the CMEA. Since 1991, they have been regarded as the Visegrad Group which now...
Routledge, 2014. — 280 p. This new volume develops a conceptual framework for considering and evaluating the roles played by the EU in international politics, drawing upon the literatures of role analysis, international relations and European integration. It pays particular attention to five aspects of role analysis: role conceptions, origins of roles, role...
Routledge, 2015. — 209 p. This book is a comparative study which aims to answer the question: under what circumstances does the EU undertake military operations? Since 2003, the EU has carried out six military operations. What accounts for this historic development? The EU and Military Operations examines the dynamics behind the EU´s collective use of force and situates the EU...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 347 p. This book provides a critical and updated analysis of the nature of the EU’s strategic partnership diplomacy, and of the partnerships themselves, in times of power shift and contestation. It links with key aspects of the EU’s Global Strategy; it brings together a strong list of experts who work within a clear framework for analysis; and it...
Routledge, 2019. — 202 p. This book provides an empirical understanding of how EU-level defence industrial cooperation functions in practice. Using the Liberal Intergovernmental theoretical model, the book argues that while national economic preferences are an essential factor of government interests they only explain part of the dynamic that leads to the development of defence...
Routledge, 2010. — 192 p. This book examines the effects of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union (EU) on the national foreign policies of Ireland and Austria. Small and neutral EU member states provide a fascinating case-study as the CFSP entails a dilemma for them. Their size may create assumptions that they are more likely to adopt EU policy,...
Routledge, 2019. — 215 p. Presenting the history of relations between the European Union and Japan, this book explains the origins and significance of the momentous 2018 Economic Partnership Agreement and its parallel Strategic Partnership Agreement. Set within the historical context of the 1991 Hague Declaration and Action Plan of 2001, this book analyses the impact of recent...
Routledge, 2015. — 348 p. Over the past decade the European Union (EU) has gradually developed the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) with its neighbours. At the same time, the ‘neighbours of the EU’s neighbours’ have presented new challenges. This book addresses the EU’s broader neighbourhood, comprising of the ENP countries and the neighbours of its neighbours. With specific...
Routledge, 2019. — 224 p. This edited volume provides a timely analysis of the European Union’s ‘privileged’ partnerships with neighbouring countries, identifying key points of comparison. It analyses which policy areas are covered and why, the reasons why a specific institutional arrangement has been chosen, the major advantages and shortcomings for both sides and how...
Routledge, 2021. — 396 p. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing dynamics in the relationship between the African continent and the EU, provided by leading experts in the field. Structured into five parts, the handbook provides an incisive look at the past, present and potential futures of EU-Africa relations. The cutting-edge chapters cover themes like...
Routledge, 2017. — 304 p. Foreign Policies of EU Member States provides a clear and current overview of the motivations and outcomes of EU Member States regarding their foreign policy-making within and beyond the EU. It provides an in-depth analysis of intra-EU policy-making and sheds light, in an innovative and understandable way, on the lesser-known aspects of the inter-EU...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 759 p. This handbook offers a comprehensive picture of the European foreign and integral activities of national parliaments in all 28 member states of the European Union. In the aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty, it assesses the extent to which national legislatures actually matter in European governance.
Routledge, 1996. — 328 p. Five years ago observers might have doubted that national foreign policies would continue to be of importance: it seemed inevitable that collective European positions were becoming ever more common and effective. Now the pendulum has swung back with a vengeance. The divided European responses to the prospect of war with Iraq in 1990-1991, and to the...
Columbia University Press, 2018. — 531 p. The optimistic vision of a "Europe whole and free" after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has given way to disillusionment, bitterness, and renewed hostility between Russia and the West. In No Place for Russia, William H. Hill traces the development of the post-Cold War European security order to explain today's tensions, showing how...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 295 p. What role, if any, does the foreign ministry perform in contemporary world politics? Is the argument that it is in a state of terminal decline accurate or rooted in only partial understandings of its changing character? Foreign Ministries in the European Union explores this theme in the context of the EU where foreign ministry has played a key...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 147 p. This book interprets the relationship between Ireland and the European Union (EU). We are coming up to 50 years since Ireland acceded to the EU (2023), and the links between the two are unique and distinctive. The volume presents an original interpretation of Irish-EU relations, and this in turn has implications for a wider understanding of...
Springer, 2020. — 218 p. The European Union's foreign policy and its international role are increasingly being contested both globally and at home. At the global level, a growing number of states are now challenging the Western-led liberal order defended by the EU. Large as well as smaller states are vying for more leeway to act out their own communitarian principles on and...
SAGE Publications, 2015. — 1114 p. During the last two decades the study of European foreign policy has experienced remarkable growth, presumably reflecting a more significant international role of the European Union. The Union has significantly expanded its policy portfolio and though empty symbolic politics still exists, the Union’s international relations have become more...
Routledge, 2013. — 512 p. While the EU has championed "effective multilateralism" and experienced a dramatic internal reform process to improve its performance in external relations, broader multilateral processes have also undergone dramatic change. This handbook addresses the increasingly contested issue of profound political importance: Europe’s presence in multilateral...
Routledge, 2015. — 272 p. It has been argued that the emergence of a European collective identity would help overcome growing disparity caused by the increasing diversity of today’s European Union, with 28 member states and more than 500 million people. Research on European integration is facing the pressing question of what holds ‘Europe’ together in times of crisis, growing...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 270 p. This book looks at the role of multiculturalism in the complex construction of the European Union, acknowledging the tension of creating a new political space for identities that are simultaneously national, regional, linguistic, and religious, and yet strive to encompass a political and geographic whole. The process of European unification...
Routledge, 2016. — 248 p. This book critically examines the process of statebuilding by the EU, focusing on its attempts to build Member States in the Western Balkan region. This book analyses the European Union's policies towards, and the impact they have, upon the states of the Western Balkans, and assesses how these affect the nature of EU foreign policy. To this end, it...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 542 p. This book analyses the theory and practice of the European Union’s ‘ethical foreign policy’, arguing that current practices dilute the impact and efficacy of EU policies but that an effort which is at times effective is being made to protect certain values in the Union’s international relations. Beginning with an investigation of the...
I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 260 p. The activities of pro-Israel pressure groups and lobbyists in the US are well-known. But the pro-Israel lobby in Europe is less prominent in both academic and media accounts. In a unique account of her book The Pro-Israel Lobby in Europe - The Politics of Religion and Christian Zionism in the European Union, Elvira King identifies the pro-Israeli...
I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 260 p. The activities of pro-Israel pressure groups and lobbyists in the US are well-known. But the pro-Israel lobby in Europe is less prominent in both academic and media accounts. In a unique account of her book The Pro-Israel Lobby in Europe - The Politics of Religion and Christian Zionism in the European Union, Elvira King identifies the pro-Israeli...
Routledge, 2018. — 180 p. This book is the first of its kind to paint a comprehensive picture of the manner in which the European Union (the EU) interacts with transnational policy networks (TPNs). The TPNs covered are those in a variety of fields including: conflict-prone natural resources, health, energy security, migration, human trafficking, combating of terrorism financing...
Routledge, 2022. — 192 p. This book analyses the EU’s approach to peacebuilding in its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, and explores how this approach impacts on the EU’s role in international conflict management. Peacebuilding carried out through CSDP instruments has become central to the self-conception of the EU as an actor in international conflict...
Edward Elgar, 2014. — 308 p. Written by leading experts, this book focuses on central issues of the foreign policy of the European Union. The issues explored include: * how the EU's judges understand its relationship with the international order; * the coherence of the Union's external action; * the EU's policy to its neighbours; * the Common Security and Defence Policy; and, *...
Routledge, 2019. — 214 p. This title was first published in 2003. Combining a critique of existing multilevel approaches with the development of a new theory and a broad range of case studies, the author of this text aims to provide new insights into contemporary foreign policy decision-making which should be of particular interest to students and scholars of European foreign...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 302 p. This book is the first detailed analysis of how the EU responded to Brexit. It is an important reference point for future studies of the Brexit negotiations. The authors conducted in-depth interviews with key institutional players in Brussels and in several member states to document how the EU handled the first-ever exit of one of its members....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 181 p. Can Europe defend its social model in a globalized world when the US, China, India and Russia are enhancing their national sovereignties and playing power politics? This original and informative book addresses such questions and considers if Europe, although it is not a 'super state', would be able to impose norms over force. This important...
Springer, 1990. — 225 p. Rarely if ever have the political, economic, and military foundations of the Western Alliance been in such a state of flux. Walter Laqueur and Leon Sloss, therefore, deserve credit not just for the quality of the analysis in this superb book but also for the timeliness of its appearance. As Laqueur says in his chapter "Touring the Western European...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 327 p. This book, which is aimed at scholars, practitioners, advanced under-graduate and post-graduate students, seeks to contribute to the understanding of the EU as an international negotiator by analysing a number of external policy areas where the EU to a great extent engages internationally through negotiations, including development, trade,...
Peter Lang, 2012. — 325 p. Transatlantic economic relations remain extremely important for the European Union as well as for other countries in the world. When it comes to trade and foreign direct investment, the EU and the United States remain arguably the world’s most powerful actors, despite the financial crisis which started in the United States in 2007 and subsequently...
Routledge, 2019. — 170 p. International trade policy, including the trade policies of the European Union (EU), has become controversial in recent years. This book illuminates the politicised process of the EU’s contemporary trade negotiations. The book uses the notion of ‘contentious market regulation’ to examine contemporary EU Free-Trade Agreements (FTAs) with industrialised...
Routledge, 2009. — 320 p. Much has been said about the driving forces of region-building processes or regionalization worldwide, yet few systematic and comparative studies have been conducted on how regions can contribute to the building of other regions - and more concretely, how the European Union has 'pushed' for regionalization worldwide. This comparative book investigates...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 247 p. This is a start-of-the-art consideration of the European Union’s crisis response mechanisms. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to examine how and why the EU responds to crises on its borders and further afield. The work is based on extensive fieldwork in among another places, Afghanistan, Libya, Mali...
Routledge, 2005. — 348 p. The collapse of the bipolar world sustained by the United States and the former Soviet Union led to a power vacuum in the 1990s that the European Union has only reluctantly begun to fill. It is under pressure to take over important international tasks and roles in order to develop a new equilibrium in the system of international relations. After 2000,...
Brookings Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Initiative, 2020. — 26 p. The most significant event for Italian foreign policy in 2019 was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China endorsing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which marked a break in the ranks of G-7, raising important concerns from Washington that Italy would become an entry point for...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 225 p. When Kissinger lamented, 'When I want to call Europe, I cannot find a phone number', the implication was clear. Since then, the momentum of the EU towards a common foreign and security policy has increased. Yet, the viability of this institutionalization effort is questionable. This book advances a new perspective on this paradox. This book...
Analytical report. — Brussels: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, European Office Brussels, 2025. — 39 p. Over a decade since its launch, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) remains widely misunderstood. This report cuts through the noise: the BRI is less a grand strategy, more a decentralised, narrative-driven vehicle for advancing Chinese interests. The report asks what the EU can...
Routledge, 2010. — 195 p. This edited book examines European external interventions in human security, in order to illustrate the evolution and nature of the European Union as a global political actor. In 2003, the EU deployed its first external mission under the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) with a military force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia....
Clarity Press, 2021. — 282 p. While Europe as a whole remains a first world economic power despite Brexit, it has been unable to build a truly democratic and efficient state or carry weight as a respected power on the international scene. Its splendid intellectual and artistic icons of the past two centuries are dimming in memory, leaving it no longer a radiant cultural Mecca...
Routledge, 2021. — 492 p. This title was first published in 2000: Contemporary Greek society is characterized by an all-embracing trend for reform. This task, however, is constrained by problems of Greek polity rooted in the historical and political culture. This text explores the important facets of divergence between Greece and the EU, examining the process through which they...
DGAPanalyse August 2011 №2. — DGAP, 2011.
Review of the EU policies and conceptions for dealing with the countries in its neighborhood, including country case studies.
Routledge, 2018. — 245 p. The creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU’s new diplomatic body, was accompanied by high expectations for improving the way Europe would deal with foreign policy. However, observers of its first years of operation have come to the opposite conclusion. This book explains why the EEAS, despite being hailed as a milestone in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 212 p. This book provides a detailed analysis of the policy-making processes of EU strategies in foreign and security policy and external action. It uses the European Security Strategy and the EU Global Strategy to assess their policy-making dynamics both before and after the Lisbon Treaty. Inter-institutional relations in strategy-making are put...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 188 p. Securitizing Immigration deals with the growing concern for immigration as a matter of security at the EU level. It combines an analysis of the way bureaucratic and political processes have interacted in the integration process with an analysis of how these practices are located in a context shaped by the preoccupation with risk.
Routledge, 2016. — 178 p. This book explores and analyses the various factors that affected the formulation of the common EU policy towards the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP), as well as the specifics of the process by which the EU created EUPOL COPPS and EUBAM Rafah. It answers two central questions: firstly, why and how did the EU decide to create and deploy these missions?...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 255 p. The book presents a model of interaction effects between policymakers and the media which can shed light on the former's ability to enhance democratic legitimacy in foreign policy decision-making. It shows that the media enhanced the democratic legitimacy of the EU's foreign policy in relation to its climate policy and its approach towards Russia.
Routledge, 2018. — 234 p. This book analyses the role of the European Union in the process of institutional change in its Eastern neighbourhood and explains why EU policies arrive at contradictory outcomes at the sectoral level. Combining EU studies approaches with insights from the fields of new institutionalism, international development studies and transnationalisation, it...
Routledge, 2012. — 248 p. The Balkan countries have responded differently to the EU’s conditional offer of membership. This book examines the diverging compliance patterns of the Balkan accession states and asks why some of them have complied substantially, some only partially and others have defied the EU. The book examines the compliance of the Balkan states with the EU...
Routledge, 2022. — 252 p. This book explores key elements of European Union (EU) engagement with the Belt Road Initiative (BRI), drawing on the expertise of leading practitioners and scholars of EU-China relations. Under the theme of discerning the BRI and its nexus with the EU, chapters examine the nature of the BRI as China’s approach to global governance and consider how BRI...
Routledge, 2018. — 228 p. This title was first published in 2002: Offering a new and challenging perspective on how the European Union (EU) sought to structure its relations with Central and Southeast Europe after the Cold War, this volume draws upon key debates in both politics and international relations. A historically and theoretically informed examination of the EU's...
Routledge, 2019. — 345 p. Originally published in 1999, Bridges and Barriers is a detailed study of the European Union’s Mediterranean Policy from the initial agreements in the 1960s to the recent Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. The scope of this analysis includes the Maghreb and Mashreq countries in addition to Turkey, Malta, Israel, the Occupied Territories and Cyprus. The...
Routledge, 2014. — 232 p. This book explores the drivers of the EU’s recent forays into peace- and state-building operations. Since the Union’s European (now Common) Security and Defence Policy (ESDP/CSDP) became operational in 2003, the EU has conducted more than 20 civilian and military operations that broadly served to either deter aggression in host countries, and/or to...
Routledge, 2011. — 224 p. Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the general public. This book examines sanctions as a political tool of influence and evaluates the efficacy of sanctions imposed by the EU against third countries and their ability to bring about the desired...
Routledge, 2016. — 255 p. Over the last few decades international organisations, national governments, and governmental and private actors have all multiplied their efforts to limit the extent to which natural catastrophes, man-made atrocities and political and economic breakdowns affect civil populations. The European Union and Humanitarian Crises: Patterns of Intervention...
Routledge, 2019. — 147 p. This book analyses European foreign policy as the activity of the European Union (EU) as a global actor and explores its efforts to raise its visibility in Southeast Asia through its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Myanmar. Contributors examine the EU’s engagement in a process of dynamic consolidation of its...
Routledge, 2018. — 192 p. This book provides the first comprehensive review of the European Union’s role in military conflict management beyond its borders and makes an important contribution to debates on the EU’s role in global security governance. The EU has launched five military operations within the framework of its Common Security and Defence Policy with the explicit...
Routledge, 2019. — 277 p. Since the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, key improvements have occurred in the democratisation of EU international relations through the increased powers of the European Parliament. Nevertheless, a comprehensive legal analysis of the new developments in democratic control of EU external action has not yet been performed. This book aims to...
Routledge, 2020. — 584 p. The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the EU’s most important foreign policy instrument, provided by leading experts in the field. Coherently structured and adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this handbook covers the most important themes, developments and dynamics in the EU’s neighbourhood...
Ibidem Press, 2017. — 295 p. Brussels's idea of a "wider Europe" implies that Europeanisation is not limited to EU member states. The EU can, so it claims, also exert impact beyond its borders. One of the channels of external EU influence is cooperation between Europarties and parties outside the Union. Through mutual visits and joint activities, non-EU parties become...
Routledge, 2020. — 177 p. This book examines the relationship between national identity construction and current foreign policy discourses on Russia in selected European Union member states in 2014–2018. It shows that divergent national discourses on Russia derive from the different ways in which the country was constructed in national identity. The book develops an...
Routledge, 2014. — 282 p. Over the past five years, the EU has established a new system of diplomacy centred on the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. This new system reflects a process of evolution in a changing context, and has been faced by major challenges since its inception. This book examines the...
Routledge, 2014. — 174 p. Ben Soetendorp examines the extent to which individual member states - each with their own history, special interests and styles of foreign policy-making - still dominate the common foreign policy making process within the European Union. The first part of the book reviews the diverse foreign policy patterns of the individual member states towards...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. — 335 p. The beginning of the millennium has been influenced by a visible acceleration of the globalisation process. A complex and dynamic phenomenon, it has generated a series of consequences at the political, strategic and military levels, as well as the cultural level. The increase of interdependence between actors on the international...
Marsilio, 2014. — 110 p. — ISBN 8831719114. L'Europa è fatta di nazioni che nascono, rinascono, si rinnovano, si fondono, si separano. Forte della sua profonda conoscenza della Russia, Vittorio Strada propone il suo contributo a una discussione sempre aperta su temi cruciali e attuali. Gli interrogativi a cui il libro cerca di dare risposta non sono pochi: si deve parlare di...
Routledge, 2013. — 265 p. A very timely and topical volume concerned with the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the European Union’s (EU) capacity to further develop a distinctive foreign policy in accordance with the various policy instruments necessary to fulfil its role as a global actor. This edited volume brings together a host of scholars in the fields of European Studies...
Springer Nature, 2020. — 336 p. This book explains why the EU is not a ‘normative actor’ in the Southern Mediterranean, and how and why EU democracy promotion fails. Drawing on a combination of discourse analysis of EU policy documents and evidence from opinion polls showing ‘what the people want’, the book shows EU policy fails because the EU promotes a conception of democracy...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 252 p. A novel explanation of how EU member states overcome their divergent preferences to reach agreement on common EU foreign policies, with fourteen in-depth case studies covering diplomatic and security issues, enlargement, trade, development and environmental protection.
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 288 p. Where does Europe begin and end? How have the European Union and its precursors decided which countries are eligible to join the community and which are not? Few issues are more hotly debated, more important for the course of European integration, or more consequential for individuals in and around the EU. As this book demonstrates, the...
Routledge, 2021. — 365 p. This edited volume brings together some of the most important scholarly perspectives – in the form of both journal article reprints and original contributions – on the structure and dynamics of the EU’s multi-layered relations with its Eastern neighbours within the Eastern Partnership (EaP) framework and beyond. In May 2019, the EU’s EaP – an ambitious...
Routledge, 2021. — 372 p. This handbook provides comprehensive and expert analysis of the impact of the Brexit process and the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on existing and future EU–UK relations within the context of both EU and international law. Examining the wider international law implications, it additionally assesses the complex legal...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 286 p. Adopting a broad conceptualization of foreign and security policy, the book examines the role of the High Representative as chair of the Foreign Affairs Council and in her/his capacity as Vice President of the European Commission to assess different patterns of integrated efforts in EU foreign and security policies. In this way, it presents a...
Routledge, 2000. — 364 p. In unveiling the parliamentary multi-faceted view of these events, reference has been made to the positions taken by constituent political groups and their voting behaviour. In particular, the following questions have been addressed: has the European Parliament sought to define and shape a common foreign policy with respect to the above crises? What...
Routledge, 2019. — 491 p. The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe provides a rigorous and critical examination of what is exceptional about the European politics of migration and the study of it. Crucially, this book goes beyond the study of the politics of migration in the handful of Western European countries to showcase a European approach to the study...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. — 720 p. The European Union has established relationships with other international organizations and institutions, mainly as a result of its increasingly active role as a global actor and the transfer of competences from the Member States to the EU. Containing chapters by leading scholars, this Research Handbook presents a comprehensive and...
Routledge, 2012. — 272 p. In recent years the European Union (EU) has played an increasingly important role as a manager of global conflicts. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how the EU has performed in facilitating mediation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding across the globe. Offering an accessible introduction to the theories, processes and practice of...
The Development of CFSP and ESDP The Geopolitical Changes Hard-liners Prevail Balancing of Dominant American Power Revitalisation of the CFSP The Composition of the EURRF An Expeditionary Force for the EU? The New Requirements: Towards Expeditionary Capabilities? Austria and the EURRF A Conceptual Approach The Security Environment Political Ambitions The Operational Context...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 313 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-93469-3, ISBN 978-3-319-93470-9. Investigates the background to, processes for, and objectives of British, French and German engagement. Uses a combination of detailed documentary analysis and interviews with senior officials and politicians in London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels. Reveals is the dynamism inherent in the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 313 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-93469-3, ISBN 978-3-319-93470-9. Investigates the background to, processes for, and objectives of British, French and German engagement. Uses a combination of detailed documentary analysis and interviews with senior officials and politicians in London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels. Reveals is the dynamism inherent in the...
Routledge, 2012. — 192 p. The possibility of Turkey’s accession to the European Union has been problematic. Initially, the EU’s pursuit of regional economic integration and enlargement of membership, at the exclusion of Turkey, strained relations between the two. It was not until 1999, and under pressure from the US, that Turkey was considered as a potential candidate for...
Routledge, 2022. — 152 p. The book examines whether EU competition policy is applied fairly and consistently to EU and non-EU firms despite persistent political pressure from member states for a relaxation of the rules and deals with the dilemma of regional organisations in the global political economy. Focussing on the EU’s desire to achieve balance between the promotion of...
Routledge, 2017. — 254 p. Shortly after the overwhelming victory of Hamas in the 2006 parliamentary and municipal elections, civil war broke out in the Gaza Strip between members of the two factions, Hamas and Fatah. The EU, along with the US, UN and Russia, not only gave its support to Fatah against Hamas, but also imposed a tough siege on the Hamas government in an attempt to...
Routledge, 2019. — 164 p. This book focuses on the hidden but ever-present civil society dimension of the EU’s policies towards Turkey and uncovers the pitfall of EU–Turkey foreign relations. It establishes the growing depoliticization of Turkish civil society (in contrast to what the EU’s policies aimed for) and engages with the questions of why and how Turkish civil society...
Монография. — М.: Ин-т Европы РАН, 2022. — 157 с. — (Доклады Института Европы / Федеральное гос. бюджетное учреждение науки Ин-т Европы Российской акад. наук; № 389). — ISBN 978-5-98163-185-6. В монографии проанализирована политика ЕС в странах Южного Кавказа, исследовано влияние норм и практик, транслируемых ЕС, на политические процессы в Армении, Грузии и Азербайджане....
Коллективная монография. — М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2009. — 128 с. — ISBN 978-5-9535-0185-9. Образ любой страны определяется совокупностью факторов, связанных с культурой, религией, историей, уровнем политических и экономических отношений между данной страной и другими участниками международных отношений, вектором внутреннего и внешнеполитического развития, информационным обеспечением...
Монография. — Ин-т Европы Российской акад. наук. — М. : ИЕ РАН; Весь Мир, 2018. — 204 с. — ISBN 978-5-98163-123-08. В научной монографии авторского коллектива Института Европы РАН рассматриваются вопросы суверенитета Евросоюза, ведущих европейских (Германии, Франции, Великобритании, Италии, Австрии, Швеции, Венгрии, Польши, Словакии, Чехии) и балканских стран. Особое внимание...
М.: Эдиториал УРСС, 2001. — 472 с. — ISBN 5-8360-0190-1. Авторы монографии всесторонне исследуют проблемы западноевропейской интеграции на рубеже XX-XXI вв. В работе выявляются важнейшие тенденции и противоречия в развитии Европейского Союза. На базе проведенного анализа дается прогноз динамики европейского интеграционного процесса на период до 2010-2015 гг. Для студентов и...
Аналитический обзор. — Бишкек: Bishkek Policy Group, Представительство фонда имени Фридриха Эберта в Кыргызской Республике, 2020. — 18 с. В данной публикации анализируется новая Стратегия ЕС для Центральной Азии, принятая в 2019 году, с точки зрения принимающей стороны - центральноазиатских стран. Принимая во внимание необходимый более широкий охват, который характерен для...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2009. — 118 с. — ISBN 978-5-9535-0220-7. Отв. ред. Арбатова Н.К. Монография посвящена проблемам соотношения атлантистского и европеиского векторов во внешней политике ведущих стран Евросоюза. Сотрудничество европейских стран с США имеет стратегический характер и будет сохранять значения в будущем. С углублением европейской интеграции всё большую актуальность...
М. : Спец книга, 2014. — 64 с. Сборник аналитических материалов по вопросам формирования Большой Европы, подготовленных Российским советом по международным делам (РСМД) и партнерскими организациями в рамках проекта «Строительство Большой Европы: необходимые меры до 2030 года». В тетради раскрывается концепция Большой Европы, принципы ее построения, механизмы взаимодействия...
Л.О. Игумнова, О.Г. Лекаренко, Ю.Г. Агафонов и др. Коллективная монография. — Иркутск: Оттиск, 2018. — 340 с. В монографии рассматриваются проблемы внешней политики Европейского Союза в 1990–2010-е гг. Авторами анализируются теоретические подходы к изучению внешней политики ЕС, исследуются региональные и страновые направления международного сотрудничества Евросоюза: отношения с...
М.: РосНОУ, 2012. — 208 с. Данное издание (монография) посвящено исследованию правовых аспектов деятельности Европейского Союза (ЕС) на постсоветском пространстве. Анализируются историческое развитие отношений с СССР и современные правовые проблемы отношений ЕС со странами СНГ. Особое внимание уделяется правовым основам отношений ЕС с Россией и странами, входящими в рамки...
Монография. — Екатеринбург: Уральский федеральный университет им. Первого президента России Б.Н. Ельцина (УрФУ), 2019. — 330 с. — ISBN 978‑5‑7996‑2750‑8. В монографии рассматривается внешняя региональная политика Европейского союза, а именно взаимоотношения ЕС с региональными конструктами в различных частях мира. Взаимодействие между региональными организациями и...
Учебное пособие. — Екатеринбург: Уральский федеральный университет им. Первого президента России Б.Н. Ельцина (УрФУ), 2019. — 116 с. — ISBN 978‑5‑7996‑2764‑5. В учебном пособии рассматриваются основные направления взаимодействия современного Евросоюза со странами Азии. Целью является изучение особенностей и динамики внешней политики ЕС в отношении стран и регионов этого...
Алматы: Ақтам, 2020. — 260 б. Еуропалық Одақ елдері мен Қазақстан арасындағы саяси, экономикалық сауда, инновациялық және мәдени қарым-қатынастардың қазіргі кезеңдегі дамуы туралы баяндалған.
Алматы: Зертас, 2020. — 200 б. Еуропа және Америка елдерінің қазіргі заман тарихының екінші кезеңіне арналған оқу құралы XX ғасырдың екінші жартысындағы капиталистік және социалист елдердегі экономикалық-әлеуметтік дамудағы өзгерістерге тоқталады.
Учебное пособие. — В.И. Голдин, М.М. Паникар, Ф.Х. Соколова, И.И. Тюрикова. — Архангельск: САФУ, 2017. — 179 с. — ISBN 978-5-261-01236-8. В пособии представлена характеристика геополитического и этнокультурного пространства Арктики, основных вех истории международных отношений и внешней политики арктических и приарктических стран, обозначаются стратегические приоритеты и...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2016. – 135 c. Монография посвящена институциональным и организационным особенностям внешних сношений Европейского союза после вступления в силу Лиссабонского договора 2007 г. о реформе ЕС. На основе анализа торговой политики, политики развития, оказываемой ЕС гуманитарной помощи, политики соседства и «высокой» внешней политики ЕС выявлена специфика способов...
Учебное пособие. — Под ред. В.И. Михайленко. — Екатеринбург: Уральский университет, 2024. — 84 с. В учебном пособии рассмотрены стратегия, методы, инструменты и институты влияния Европейского союза в Центральной Азии, показано сопряжение интересов ЕС с другими акторами в регионе, анализируются результаты влияния ЕС на конструирование региона и решение региональных проблем, на...
СПб.: Свое издательство, 2013. — 402 с. — ISBN 978-5-4386-0246-0. В монографии рассматриваются особенности формирования восточного измерения политики соседства Европейского Союза – от первых предложений по отношениям с будущими соседями на восточной границе после расширения Евросоюза до оформления Восточного партнерства. Выявлены факторы, оказывавшие влияние на этот процесс....
Учебное пособие. — Омск : Изд-во Ом. гос. ун-та, 2021. — 74 с. — ISBN 978-5-7779-2548-0. Рассматривается история развития европейской интеграции как реакции на внутренние и внешние проблемы обеспечения безопасности. Материал пособия предназначен для преподавателей и учащихся высших учебных заведений, обучающихся по направлениям «Международные отношения», «Зарубежное...
Аналитический доклад. — Астана: Библиотека Первого Президента Республики Казахстан – Лидера Нации, 2016. — 60 с. Европейский Союз (ЕС) является одним из ведущих субъектов международных отношений, проявляющих большой интерес к Центральной Азии. В пользу этого свидетельствует, в частности, подписание в декабре 2015 года Соглашения о расширенном партнерстве и сотрудничестве между...
Монография. — Алматы: Центр актуальных исследований «Альтернатива», Центр германских исследований КазНУ им. аль-Фараби, Представительство Фонда Розы Люксембург в Центральной Азии, 2021. — 300 с. Настоящая монография посвящена вопросам взаимоотношений между Европейским Союзом и странами Центральной Азии в контексте завершения первой стратегии ЕС в отношении данного региона, а...
Монография. — Алматы: Центр актуальных исследований «Альтернатива»; Центр германских исследований КазНУ им. аль-Фараби; Фонд им. Фридриха Эберта в Казахстане, 2013. — 184 с. Настоящее издание посвящено одному из ведущих международных актеров, активно присутствующих в Центральной Азии – Европейскому Союзу. В монографии анализируется Стратегия ЕС в ЦА на 2007-2013 гг., даются...
Монография. — М.: Аспект Пресс, 2016. — 176 с. — (Постсоветские и восточноевропейские исследования). — ISBN 978-5-7567-0838-7. В книге рассматривается проблематика "восточной политики" Польши после расширения ЕС в 2004 г. Выделена основополагающая роль историко-идеологических факторов в позиции Варшавы по отношению к восточным соседям. Изучен процесс становления независимой...
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