Re-Examining EU Policies from a Global Perspective

Re-Examining EU Policies from a Global Perspective
Author: Monica Raileanu-Szeles
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137307064

New perspectives and analyses of key European policies through their past successes and failures, present challenges such as the global financial crisis and future developments. This book captures a critical turning point in the functioning of European policies and highlights the necessity of quick adjustments for critical new global developments.

The Brussels Effect

The Brussels Effect
Author: Anu Bradford
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2020
Genre: Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
ISBN: 0190088583

The Brussels Effect offers a novel account of the EU by challenging the view that it is a declining world power. Anu Bradford explains how the EU exerts global influence through its ability to unilaterally regulate the global marketplace without the need to engage in neither international cooperation nor coercion.

Global Politics and EU Trade Policy

Global Politics and EU Trade Policy
Author: Wolfgang Weiß
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-02-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030345882

This book explores how the European Union designs its trade policy to face the most recent challenges and to influence global policy issues. It provides with an interdisciplinary perspective, by combining legal, political, and economic approaches. It studies a broad set of trade instruments that are used by the EU in its trade policy, such as: trade agreements, multilateral initiatives, unilateral trade policies, as well as, internal market tools. Therefore, the contributions to this volume present the EU’s Trade Policy through different lenses providing a complex view of it.

The European Union and the Challenges of the New Global Context

The European Union and the Challenges of the New Global Context
Author: Ileana Tache
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2015-09-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1443882011

This book investigates the new challenges confronted by the EU as an international actor within the context of recent economic and political developments, with particular attention to common foreign and security policies; the appraisal of development-aid policies; EU sanctions in the post-Soviet space, as harder instruments complementing the toolbox of the EU “soft power” polity; preferential trade agreements as a key element of EU external trade policy; external relations of the EU; international aspects of the monetary policy of the ECB in the context of the financial and sovereign debt crisis; massive capital flows and the boom-bust cycle in the emerging Europe; and the macroeconomic modelling of the relationship between the EU and the rest of the world. Thoroughly up-to-date, the contributions to this volume offer analyses of recent, tense global events, including EU responses to the uprising in Arab countries and the Ukrainian conflict. The book concludes with the proposal of a unique macroeconomic model in which the EU is conceptualised as constituting a block “against” the rest of the world, but also a two country model in itself, made up of Eurozone and non-Eurozone members.

Revisiting EU-Africa Relations in a Changing World

Revisiting EU-Africa Relations in a Changing World
Author: Fargion, Valeria
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1839109823

This timely book explores the current state of EU-Africa relations from a multidisciplinary perspective, placing emphasis on recent developments in five areas that are crucial for EU-Africa relations: development cooperation, trade, migration, security and democratization. It considers how Africa’s dependence on the EU has decreased due to the declining importance of development cooperation, and increasing cooperation with emerging powers, notably the BRIC nations.

European Environmental Law

European Environmental Law
Author: Suzanne Kingston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2017-07-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107014700

A critical and contextual overview of European environmental law examining today's key environmental challenges alongside traditional topics.

The British Constitution Resettled

The British Constitution Resettled
Author: Jim McConalogue
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-07-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030252906

Adopting a political constitutionalist view of the British constitution, this book critically explores the history of legal and political thought on parliamentary sovereignty in the UK. It argues that EU membership strongly unsettled the historical precedents underpinning UK parliamentary sovereignty. Successive governments adopted practices which, although preserving fundamental legal rules, were at odds with past precedents. The author uses three key EU case studies – the financial transactions tax, freedom of movement of persons, and the working time directive – to illustrate that since 1973 the UK incorporated EU institutions which unsettled those precedents. The book further shows that the parliament’s place since the referendum on Brexit in June 2016 and the scrutinising of the terms of the withdrawal agreement constitute an enhanced, new constitutional resettlement, and a realignment of parliament with the historical precedent of consent and its sovereignty.

Environmental Policy in the European Union

Environmental Policy in the European Union
Author: Andrew Jordan
Publisher: Earthscan
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2012
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1849771227

This second and fully revised edition brings together some of the most influential work on the theory and practice of contemporary EU environmental policy. Comprising five comprehensive parts, it includes in-depth case studies of contemporary policy issues such as climate change, genetically modified organisms and trans-Atlantic relations, as well as an assessment of how well the EU is responding to new challenges such as enlargement, environmental policy integration and sustainability. The book's aim is to look forward and ask whether the EU is prepared or even able to respond to the 'new' governance challenges posed by the perceived need to use 'new' policy instruments and processes to 'mainstream' environmental thinking in all EU policy sectors.

EU External Migration Policies in an Era of Global Mobilities: Intersecting Policy Universes

EU External Migration Policies in an Era of Global Mobilities: Intersecting Policy Universes
Author: Sergio Carrera
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2018-12-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004354239

This collective volume draws on the themes of intersectionality and overlapping policy universes to examine and evaluate the shifting functions, frames and multiple actors and instruments of an ongoing and revitalized cooperation in EU external migration and asylum policies with third states. The contributions are based on problem-driven research and seek to develop bottom-up, policy-oriented solutions, while taking into account global, EU-based and local perspectives, and the shifting universes of EU migration, border and asylum policies. In 15 chapters, we explore the multifaceted dimensions of the EU external migration policy and its evolution in the post-crisis, geopolitical environment of the Global Compacts.

Research Handbook on the European Union and International Organizations

Research Handbook on the European Union and International Organizations
Author: Ramses A. Wessel
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 715
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1786438933

Over the years, the European Union has developed relationships with other international 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. This book presents a comprehensive and critical assessment of the EU’s engagement with other international institutions, examining both the EU’s representation and cooperation as well as the influence of these bodies on the development of EU law and policy.