The Politics of Regional Cooperation and the Impact on the European Union

The Politics of Regional Cooperation and the Impact on the European Union
Author: Mats Braun
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789906466

This unique book explores what subregions are in a European context and what roles they fulfil in relation to the European integration process, exploring how subregional cooperation and integration in Europe largely take place in the shadow of the European integration process.

The EU, Promoting Regional Integration, and Conflict Resolution

The EU, Promoting Regional Integration, and Conflict Resolution
Author: Thomas Diez
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2017-02-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319475304

This book provides a comprehensive study into the promotion of regional integration as a central pillar of European Union (EU) relations with the rest of the world. It is a strategy to deal with a core security challenge: the transformation of conflicts and, in particular, regional conflicts. Yet to what extent has the promotion of regional integration been successful in transforming conflicts? What can we regard as the core mechanisms of such an impact? This volume offers a comprehensive assessment of the nexus between promoting integration and conflict transformation. The authors systematically compare the consequences of EU involvement in eight conflicts in four world regions within a common framework. In doing so, they focus on the promotion of integration as a preventative strategy to avoid conflicts turning violent and as a long-term strategy to transform violent conflicts by placing them in a broader institutional context. The book will be of use to students and scholars interested in European foreign policy, comparative regionalism, and conflict resolution.

The European Union and Europe's New Regionalism

The European Union and Europe's New Regionalism
Author: Boyka M. Stefanova
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319601075

This book presents a new approach to studying the European Union’s regional and global relevance. It recasts into a dynamic perspective the three most significant systemic processes that define the EU as a regionalist project: its enlargement, neighborhood, and mega-regional policies. The book argues that these processes collectively demonstrate a dynamic shift of the core tenets of European regionalism from an inward-looking process of region building to an open, selective system of global interactions.

Europeanizing Montenegro

Europeanizing Montenegro
Author: Vladimir Vučković
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781793607751

This study examines the impact of European Union policies on Montenegro since 2007. The author examines whether recent changes were driven by the EU or by domestic factors and argues that the EU failed to pressure Montenegro to comply with their conditions during the ascension process.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU)

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU)
Author: Johannes Muntschick
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2017-10-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319453300

This book explores regionalism in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and highlights the influence of the European Union (EU) as an extra-regional actor on the organization and integration process. The analysis is guided by theory and explains the emergence, institutional design and performance of SADC’s major integration projects in the issue areas of the economy, security and infrastructure. It provides in this way a profound assessment of the organization as a whole. The study shows that South Africa plays a regional key role as driver for integration while external influence of the EU is ambivalent in character because it unfolds a supportive or obstructive impact. The author argues that the EU gains influence over regional integration processes in the SADC on the basis of patterns of asymmetric interdependence and becomes a ‘game-changer’ insofar as it facilitates or impedes solutions to regional cooperation problems.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism
Author: Tanja A. Börzel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 705
Release: 2016
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199682305

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism - the first of its kind - offers a systematic and wide-ranging survey of the scholarship on regionalism, regionalization, and regional governance. Unpacking the major debates, leading authors of the field synthesize the state of the art, provide a guide to the comparative study of regionalism, and identify future avenues of research. Twenty-seven chapters review the theoretical and empirical scholarship with regard to the emergence of regionalism, the institutional design of regional organizations and issue-specific governance, as well as the effects of regionalism and its relationship with processes of regionalization. The authors explore theories of cooperation, integration, and diffusion explaining the rise and the different forms of regionalism. The handbook also discusses the state of the art on the world regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, Eurasia, Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Various chapters survey the literature on regional governance in major issue areas such as security and peace, trade and finance, environment, migration, social and gender policies, as well as democracy and human rights. Finally, the handbook engages in cross-regional comparisons with regard to institutional design, dispute settlement, identities and communities, legitimacy and democracy, as well as inter- and transregionalism.

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.

The European Union and the Global South

The European Union and the Global South
Author: Fredrik Söderbaum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The development of coherent and effective relations with other regions and countries is one of the most challenging tasks faced by the European Union. This original volume explores the EU's engagement with the global South, focusing on three controversial policy areas: economic cooperation, development cooperation, and conflict management. A discussion of the EU's interregional model - which promotes interaction with regions rather than nation-states - provides a backdrop for case studies of EU policies with regard to Africa, Asia, and Latin America. While disclosing the tensions and overlaps between the EU's foreign policies and those of its member states, the authors also highlight an increasing trend toward successful policy coordination.

Handbook on Cohesion Policy in the EU

Handbook on Cohesion Policy in the EU
Author: Simona Piattoni
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2016-08-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1784715670

This Handbook covers all major aspects of EU Cohesion policy, one of the most significant areas of intervention of the European Union. Over five parts, It discusses this policy’s history and governing principles; the theoretical approaches from which it can be assessed; the inter-institutional and multi-level dynamics that it tends to elicit; its practical implementation and impact on EU member states; its interactions with other EU policies and strategies; and the cognitive maps and narratives with which it can be associated. An absolute must for all students of the EU.