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Book Europe  a time for strategy  Egmont Paper 27

Download or read book Europe a time for strategy Egmont Paper 27 written by and published by Academia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate was concluded by the adoption of a Report on the Implementation of the European Security Strategy - Providing Security in a Changing World by the December 2008 European Council,1 which decided to leave the text of the ESS itself untouched. The Report "does not replace the ESS, but reinforces it" and the ESS remains in force. The question now is: will actionable conclusions be drawn from the Report in order to effectively improve implementation of the ESS? For even if one agrees with the decision not to revise the ESS itself, problems of implementation there undoubtedly are. If the process ends here, most observers will rightfully be disappointed. This Egmont Paper summarizes what we see as urgent priorities for the EU to address in order to fulfil its inevitable ambition of being a global strategic actor.

Book The Delphic Oracle on Europe

Download or read book The Delphic Oracle on Europe written by Loukas Tsoukalis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Delphic Oracle on Europe brings together leading thinkers and policy-makers from different academic disciplines and policy-oriented backgrounds from all over Europe. The chapters reflect on ways forward for the European Union (EU) in a time of global crisis and profound change. Contributors debate the institutional and political consequences of the Lisbon Treaty, the reform of economic governance in light of the economic and financial crisis, and Europe's global role in a rapidly changing international and regional environment. The volume is divided into three parts: Part I focuses on the Union's institutions and the question of leadership in an EU27+. Part II concentrates on the key elements of a new international socio-economic consensus. And Part III discusses the stakes in the agonising search for the EU's global role in a post-Lisbon and post-crisis world. A substantial concluding chapter pulls the themes of the volume together and looks to the future. The list of contributors includes a number of leading thinkers and policy-makers: Josep Borrell Fontelles, Jonas Condomines Beraud, Olaf Cramme, Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Dieter Helm, Philippe Herzog, Jolyon Howorth, Zaki Laidi, Roger Liddle, Pier Carlo Padoan, André Sapir, and Loukas Tsoukalis.

Book The Diplomatic System of the European Union

Download or read book The Diplomatic System of the European Union written by Michael Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 diplomatic system of the EU, locating it within the broader study of diplomacy and the European integration project. The volume is structured around the interrelated themes of institutional change and the evolving practices of EU diplomacy. It tracks the development of the EU’s system of diplomacy, with particular reference to the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, the establishment of the EEAS and the emerging practices of EU strategic and structural diplomacy. Bringing together contributions from leading experts in the field, this book provides an original approach to the development and operation of the EU’s diplomatic system. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of European Union international relations, European Union politics and diplomacy.

Book The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy written by Knud Erik Jorgensen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 substantial and its foreign policy more focused. European foreign policy has become a dynamic policy area, being adapted to changing challenges and environments, such as the Arab Spring, new emerging economies/powers; the crisis of multilateralism and much more. The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy, Two-Volume set, is a major reference work for Foreign Policy Programmes around the world. The Handbook is designed to be accessible to graduate and postgraduate students in a wide variety of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Both volumes are structured to address areas of critical concern to scholars at the cutting edge of all major dimensions of foreign policy. The volumes are composed of original chapters written specifically to the following themes: · Research traditions and historical experience · Theoretical perspectives · EU actors · State actors · Societal actors · The politics of European foreign policy · Bilateral relations · Relations with multilateral institutions · Individual policies · Transnational challenges The Handbook will be an essential reference for both advanced students and scholars.

Book A New geography of European power   Egmont papers 42

Download or read book A New geography of European power Egmont papers 42 written by James Rogers and published by Academia Press. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations written by Thomas Hoerber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations fills a significant gap in the European studies literature by providing crucial and groundbreaking coverage of several key areas that are usually neglected or excluded in European integration collections. Whilst still examining the largest and most influential institutions, bodies and highly-funded policy areas as acknowledged dominant topics in European studies, it crucially does so with much greater balance by devoting equal billing to areas such as culture in European integration or new technologies and their impact on the EU. Organised around three main sections – culture, technology and ‘tangibles’ – the book: offers an authoritative ‘encyclopaedia’ to ‘alternative’ areas in European integration, from media, football, Erasmus and tourism, to transport, space, AI and energy; retains coverage of the dominant topics in European studies, such as the Eurozone, the Common Internal Market, or European law, but in balance with other areas of interest; and provides an essential companion to existing scholarship in European studies. The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners involved in, and actively concerned about, research in the study of European integration/studies. The Open Access version of Chapter 14 in this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book China and Africa Development Relations

Download or read book China and Africa Development Relations written by Christopher M. Dent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is among a number of large developing country or new powers on the ascendance in the international system, all of which are deepening their economic relations with Africa However, China is the largest and most powerful of this group. it has sought closer economic relationships with other developing country regions and continents such as Latin America and Central Asia, but it is with Africa – the continent that hosts more developing countries than any other – that China has fostered the closest links. This book provides an overview of how the China – Africa relationship has evolved over the last few decades and examines whether it presents a new paradigm of ‘development relations’ in the international system. The contributors investigate what is particularly special about the emerging development partnership between Africa and China, and how it may evolve in the future. The contributors focus on various development capacity issues – infrastructural, industrial, technocratic, institutional, human capital, sustainable economic practices – and consider various debates on ‘development’ and development ideologies, including whether China’s practices in Africa pose a challenge to Western conventions on development assistance. China-Africa Development Relations will be of interest to those students and scholars of African studies, Chinese studies, international development and development studies.

Book The EU s Common Foreign and Security Policy in Germany and the UK

Download or read book The EU s Common Foreign and Security Policy in Germany and the UK written by Nicholas Wright and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact on member states of long-term foreign policy co-operation through the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Focusing on Germany and the UK, it provides an up-to-date account of how they have navigated and responded to the demands co-operation places on all member states and how their national foreign policies and policy-making processes have changed and adapted as a consequence. As well as exploring in depth the foreign policy traditions and institutions in both states, the book also offers detailed analyses of how they addressed two major policy questions: the Iranian nuclear crisis; and the establishment and development of the European External Action Service. The book’s synthesis of country and case studies seeks to add to our understanding of the nature of inter-state co-operation in the area of foreign and security policy and what it means for the states involved.

Book EU External Relations Law and the European Neighbourhood Policy

Download or read book EU External Relations Law and the European Neighbourhood Policy written by Bart Van Vooren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thorough legal and policy examination of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) as latest 'grand' experiment in achieving coherent external relations for the Union. The book draws on legal and political scholarship to attain a definition of coherence in EU external relations. It argues that traditional definitions such as vertical or horizontal coherence are insufficient and sets out a new definition in order to more accurately capture the reality of EU external relations. The book goes on to look in depth at the ENP, arguing that the innovative nature of the ENP in regard to coherence lies beyond the narrowly defined legal sphere, but stems mostly from its hybrid composition of hard legal, soft legal and non-legal policy instruments.

Book Europe  Strategy and Armed Forces

Download or read book Europe Strategy and Armed Forces written by Sven Biscop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 capability. To preserve its status as an economic power, therefore, the EU has to become a power across the board, which requires a grand strategy, and the means and the will to proactively pursue one. The authors of this book aim to demonstrate that the EU can develop a purposive yet distinctive grand strategy that preserves the value-based nature of EU external action while also safeguarding its vital economic interests. The book analyses the existing military capability of the European Union and its bottom-up nature, which results in a national-based focus in the member-states, impeding deployment capability. A systematic realignment of national defence planning at the strategic level will enable each member-states to focus its defence effort on the right capabilities, make maximal use of pooling and specialization, and contribute to multinational projects in order to address Europe’s strategic capability shortfalls. A stronger Europe will therefore result, it is argued, a real global actor, which can then become an equal strategic partner to the United States, leading to a revitalized Transatlantic partnership in turn. This book will be of interest to students of military studies, European Union policy, strategic studies and International Relations generally.

Book The ABC of European Union strategy  ambition  benchmark  culture  Egmont Paper 16

Download or read book The ABC of European Union strategy ambition benchmark culture Egmont Paper 16 written by Sven Biscop and published by Academia Press. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Shared Security Strategy for a Euro Atlantic Partnership of Equals

Download or read book A Shared Security Strategy for a Euro Atlantic Partnership of Equals written by Simon Serfaty and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2009 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Europe Deploys Towards a civil military strategy for CSDP  Egmont Papers   49

Download or read book Europe Deploys Towards a civil military strategy for CSDP Egmont Papers 49 written by and published by Academia Press. This book was released on with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strategic Studies Quarterly

Download or read book Strategic Studies Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strategy Making in the European Union

Download or read book Strategy Making in the European Union written by Frank Hagemann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The single market in need of a strategic relaunch   Egmont Papers 43

Download or read book The single market in need of a strategic relaunch Egmont Papers 43 written by and published by Academia Press. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A BRIC in the world  emerging powers  Europe  and the coming order  Egmont Papers 31

Download or read book A BRIC in the world emerging powers Europe and the coming order Egmont Papers 31 written by Thomas Renard and published by Academia Press. This book was released on with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: