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 Free Download James H. Wyllie, "European Security in the New Political Environment: An Analysis of the Relationships Between National Interests, International Institutions and the Great Powers in Post Cold War European Security" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0582244021, 058224403X | EPUB | pages: 140 | 0.4 mb This text provides an analysis of the detail and nature of post-Cold War security issues, from both traditional and new security agendas, assessing the current efficacy of current institutions and policies to address these issues.  Free Download Stefania Paladini, "European Security in a Post-Brexit World (Brexit Studies Series)" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1787698408 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 0.5 mb The European Union's security strongly relies on the member states' capabilities of working together, sharing information and cooperating on issues of common interest. Security against transnational threats and challengesis better and more easily protected within a cooperative framework.  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Free Download Peter Van Ham, "European Integration and the Postmodern Condition: Governance, Democracy, Identity" English | 2000 | ISBN: 0415246997 | EPUB | pages: 270 | 0.4 mb This is the first book to look at the process of European integration by drawing on both established and new trends in postmodern thinking and analysis. The book asks how we can study the process of European integration in the current climate, and maps out the central elements of the academic debate dealing with the future of integration, and 'Europe' in general.  Free Download Vera Axyonova, "European Engagement Under Review: Exporting Values, Rules, and Practices to the Post-Soviet Space" English | 2016 | ISBN: 3838208900 | EPUB | pages: 200 | 0.4 mb This timely book seeks to contribute to the debate on the transfer of values, rules, and practices by European actors to former Soviet countries. The actors in focus include multilateral organizations, such as the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as European governments and non-governmental organizations. The contributions in this collection address different aspects of the export or transfer of values, such as democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, as well as rules and practices in the fields of education and migration management, examining the motives, mechanisms, and effects of European engagement.  Free Download Francis Cheneval, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig, "European Democracy as Demoi-cracy" English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138857874 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 0.7 mb Whereas 'democracy' assumes a single demos or people, 'demoi-cracy' refers to democratic government and governance in a polity constituted by separate peoples. Since the European Union consists of many demoi with different collective identities, largely separate public spheres, and a predominantly national political infrastructure, demoi-cracy is an appropriate standard for the analysis and evaluation of democracy in the EU. In its vertical dimension, demoi-cracy is based on the equality and interaction of citizens' and statespeoples' representatives in the making of common policies. Horizontally, it seeks to balance equal transnational rights of citizens with national policy-making autonomy.  Free Download Joseph Lacey, Kalypso Nicolaidis, "European Boundaries in Question" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367892634 | EPUB | pages: 178 | 0.6 mb European Union boundaries have always been unusual. In no other political community is both the prospect of enlargement and the ever-present possibility of withdrawal part of the constitutional framework. We find few other instances where some territories in a political community adopt a common currency while others do not. Examples of thick association agreements, such as we find between the EU and third countries like Switzerland and Norway, are uncommon. Over the last number of years, EU boundaries have been challenged like never before. Brexit poses a fundamental threat to the EU's territorial integrity and the rights of EU citizens to cross what have been regarded as open borders; the refugee crisis and the increase of terrorism both call into question the EU's ability to justly and effectively manage its external borders; the rise of populism is a direct challenge to internal free movement as the demand to reassert national borders becomes formidable; while the aftermath of the euro-crisis continues to put Monetary Union in doubt. By distinguishing between three categories of boundary change - boundary-making, boundary-crossing and boundary-unbundling - the authors in this volume attempt to shed light on the sustainability and legitimacy of Europe's boundaries in question. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of European Integration.  Free Download Tom Gallagher, "Europe's path to crisis: Disintegration via monetary union" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0719096049, 0719096030 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.6 mb The EU's single currency crisis and the ensuing human costs have led to Europe's biggest disaster since 1945. This book examines each of its stages and the political and social impact, and reveals the longer-term origins of the crisis, particularly the failure of elites to promote a genuine European partnership grounded in democratic values and a desire to co-exist with a national outlook.  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And through banks failures and massive bail-outs, the financial sector - hitherto a driving force behind the cross-border integration of finance - has been reconfigured. |
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