This original and up-to-date consideration of the key issues affecting the EU and international affairs generally should appeal to upper-level undergraduates of European studies, politics and international relations.
Edited by:
Vassiliki Koutrakou
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 467g
ISBN: 9780719064197
ISBN 10: 0719064198
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 April 2004
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I Conflict and foreign and security approaches Introduction to part I 1. Interdependence and fragmentation: The articulations of political space in the discourses of integration and ethnic conflict – Tarja Väyrynen 2. The Kosovo intervention and European security: NATO's pyrrhic victory – James H. Wyllie 3. European Union Intelligence Agency: A necessary institution for Common Intelligence Policy? – John M. Nomikos 4. Recent developments in EU migration and asylum policies – Barbara Marshall 5. Enforcing human rights in Europe and beyond: International law and human rights in a changing world – Caroline Nolan PART II Issues of Economic Development Introduction to part II 6. EU economic governance in the present world system – Jonathan Luckhurst and Vassiliki N. Koutrakou 7. New directions in the EU's Third World policy: From aid to trade under the watchful eye of the WTO – Vassiliki N. Koutrakou 8. Transboundary cooperation and regional networks in Sweden and the Baltic States; integration on the new European frontier at the turn of the century – Geoffrey Gooch 9. An ever more sustainable union? Integrating economy, society and environment in a rapidly enlarging Europe – Andrew Jordan and Timothy O'Riordan 10. Cooperation or competition? Nuclear energy and the Ostpolitik of the European Union – Sabine Saurugger 11. Cross border transport: The EU policy agenda – Steve Dawe 12. The Europeanisation of firms and the role of Euro-groups in European integration – Jenny Fairbrass PART III: The high technology factor Introduction to part III 13. Euratom: The toothless treaty? – Hazel Dawe 14. Interest groups, institutions, and expertise: The new politics of EU biotechnology regulation – Michael E. Smith 15. Deregulation and coordination in european telecommunications strategies – Nicola Murrell 16. J(EU)nesse sans frontières: Information age governance, youth and the EU – Paul G. Nixon -- .
Vassiliki N. Koutrakou is Lecturer in European Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in European Studies (CREST) at the University of East Anglia, Norwich