Europe, Globalization and the Lisbon Agenda

Europe, Globalization and the Lisbon Agenda
Author: Maria Jo¬o Rodrigues
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 184844608X

The Lisbon Agenda aims to prepare Europe for globalization by updating European policies for research, innovation, competition, trade, employment, education, social protection, environment and energy at both the European and national levels. Designed to inspire the new cycle of the Lisbon Agenda until 2010 and beyond, this timely and significant volume explores the intellectual elaboration of the agenda for the coming years. With contributions from some of Europe s leading scholars, this book explores new developments in the European agenda for globalization, addressing four critical areas: European policies, their adaptation to national diversity in Europe, their implications for the external action of the European Union and, finally, their implications for EU governance. This book presents the outcome of an organized dialogue between the political and research communities. Europe, Globalization and the Lisbon Agenda will undoubtedly prove an outstanding addition to the current literature and will be an invaluable resource for European policy-makers, governments and academics from a wide range of disciplines who are concerned about the future competitiveness of Europe.

Beyond Lisbon

Beyond Lisbon
Author: Laurent Cohen-Tanugi
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789052014616

Recoge: Europe in the global economy: the state of play - 2. The short term (2008-2010) - 3. Euroworld 2015: a european strategy for globalisation.

The EU's Lisbon Strategy

The EU's Lisbon Strategy
Author: P. Copeland
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137272163

How successful was the EU's Lisbon Strategy? This volume provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Strategy and reflects on its key developments during its 10-year cycle. The volume contains both theoretical and empirical contributions by some of the leading scholars of EU studies across the social sciences.

Globalisation and Europeanisation in Education

Globalisation and Europeanisation in Education
Author: Roger Dale
Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2009-05-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1873927908

This book grew out of the experience of a European Union Thematic Network of the same title, and focuses on aspects of the complex and varying relationships between globalisation, Europeanisation and Education. The volume is divided into two parts: PART 1: Governance and the Knowledge Economy, focuses on how the discourses of a Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning, and an emerging functional and scalar division of the labour of educational governance became central to the development of a European Education Space. Contributors emphasise the role of the European Commission, and especially the Lisbon agenda, in this process, and considers the role of the Open Method of Coordination and the Bologna Process in the construction of the EES. A key theme linking Europeanisation to globalisation is the prominence of the discourse of competitiveness, and the role allocated to education in enhancing Europe’s ability to compete with the United States and Japan. PART TWO: Citizenship, Identity and Language, looks at the emergence of a new social model for Europe, this time from the point of view of how it relates the development of individual capacities and citizenship, and the role of intellectuals in this process. A second major theme is the place, role and choice of languages and at the impact of pressures from globalisation and Europeanisation, and national and sub-national levels, on language choice and teaching, taking into account both ‘World Englishes’ and Language Europe. Finally, globalisation becomes the central issue in an analysis of its different relationships with ‘northern’ (of which European education policy is taken as the example) and ‘southern’ paradigms of educational development.

The European Union and the Social Dimension of Globalization

The European Union and the Social Dimension of Globalization
Author: Jan Orbie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2009-01-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134035535

Examines the nature of the EU and its external role in relation to social issues raised by globalization. It explores how the EU influences, both directly and indirectly, the rest of the world in relation to the social component of globalization.

Globalisation and European Integration

Globalisation and European Integration
Author: Petros Nousios
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415611849

This book explores the links between European integration and globalisation, and examines the potential for social transformation in the context of the global economic crisis and the resulting EU reforms. Divided into three parts, this book offers both empirical and theoretical analyses of social integration, supranationality and global competition. Drawing on Critical Political Economy research, Neo-Gramscian, Open Marxist, Regulationist and Post-structuralist scholars subject a wide range of European flagship policies in matters of competition, trade and security to critical scrutiny and relate them to global political economy dynamics. Contributors examine the ways in which current global economic turbulence has affected the European Union, its membership and its adjacent areas, and determine the potential for economic and political transformation in light of the global economic crisis and Europe's 2020 Strategy. In the emerging multi-polar world, in which the EU and the US are expected to share global policymaking with new powers, this book argues for a revised conceptualisation of European integration and its relationship with globalisation. Globalisation and European Integration will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of globalisation, political economy, international relations, and European Union politics.

Industrial and Regional Policies in an Enlarging EU

Industrial and Regional Policies in an Enlarging EU
Author: David Bailey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2014-10-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317989430

After years of near ‘disrepute’ in official circles, Industrial Policy has made something of a comeback over the last few years and is now very much back on the agenda at national and EU levels, driven by concerns over globalisation, deindustrialisation, unemployment and perceived poor growth in the EU. Simultaneously, the European Commission’s Fourth Report on Economic and Social Cohesion has kicked off the debate over challenges to cohesion, the shape of EU Cohesion policy beyond 2013, and how resources should be managed. This debate will find added momentum with the imminent ‘mid-term’ review being launched by the Commission. Discussions over the success or not of the Lisbon Agenda, on-going debates over cluster policies, and recent developments in policy evaluation have also contributed to a burgeoning academic literature over the last eighteen months. This edited volume is especially pertinent given such developments and pulls together a diverse range of contributions from leading authorities in the field to add to these debates and to illustrate connections between them. This book was published as a special issue of Policy Studies.

Global Europe, Social Europe

Global Europe, Social Europe
Author: Anthony Giddens
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2006-11-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0745639356

'Global Europe, Social Europe' makes an essential contribution to the debate now opening up over the future of Europe in the wake of the demise of the Constitution.

The European Union and Global Engagement

The European Union and Global Engagement
Author: Normann Witzleb
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2015-02-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783477598

Written by a broad range of international experts, The European Union and Global Engagement discusses the role of the European Union after the Lisbon Treaty and the economic crisis.