What is the European Union international role and identity becoming after the cold war, September 11th and the transatlantic rift? Is the second global actor challenging the trends towards a 'pax americana'? EUROPE: A CIVILIAN POWER? provides an original account of the features and the external relations of the EU as a civilian power in the making. It addresses the key questions on the new security threat, world emergencies challenging the EU, not only as a peace and democracy stablizer on a continental scale, but also as an actor which shares responsibility for global governance and world...
What is the European Union international role and identity becoming after the cold war, September 11th and the transatlantic rift? Is the second globa...
This book explores and analyses the multidimensional influence the European Union exerts in the world, focusing on its contribution to regional and global governance.
Presenting a multidisciplinary approach with contributions by a panel of outstanding scholars from political science, economics, legal studies, philosophy and history, the book examines the EU as global player and international power in the making. The book is divided into three parts:
Part I examines the influence of the EU as such on global governance, considering the Euro, the common...
This book explores and analyses the multidimensional influence the European Union exerts in the world, focusing on its contribution to regional and...
Brexit confirms that the EU is not a super-state in the making but rather an advanced regional organization. This book bridges the gap between EU studies and international relations by providing a student-friendly presentation of regional, multidimensional cooperation among neighbouring states and societies, its four epochs and relevant variations and similarities across five continents, its interplay with globalization, and the changing post-hegemonic and post-Cold War international order.
This text secondly focuses on the question of regionalism in hard times: whether the global...
Brexit confirms that the EU is not a super-state in the making but rather an advanced regional organization. This book bridges the gap between EU s...
Brexit confirms that the EU is not a super-state in the making but rather an advanced regional organization. This book bridges the gap between EU studies and international relations by providing a student-friendly presentation of regional, multidimensional cooperation among neighbouring states and societies, its four epochs and relevant variations and similarities across five continents, its interplay with globalization, and the changing post-hegemonic and post-Cold War international order.
This text secondly focuses on the question of regionalism in hard times: whether the global...
Brexit confirms that the EU is not a super-state in the making but rather an advanced regional organization. This book bridges the gap between EU s...
This volume presents a reconsideration of the concepts of State and political power within the evolving multilateral network of cooperation and conflict. By means of an innovating research strategy, it explains state resilience within global governance while deepening the obsolescence of the traditional sovereign state concepts, including by emerging powers. Rather than considering the EU as an isolated case study, the book considers the EU as both a reference and a proactive player, which fosters a new research agenda both for comparative studies and political theory. Lastly, in view of...
This volume presents a reconsideration of the concepts of State and political power within the evolving multilateral network of cooperation and con...
This title was first published in 2001. This is a collection of papers that look at the structure of the global economy, and its changing paradigms over the years. The contributors look at how the classic concept of state - autonomous, sovereign and freed of all constraint - never really reflected the reality of the international scene, despite the role it has played in realist and neo-realist theory for many decades. Instead, they consider that the political, social and economic characteristics originally attributed to states seem increasingly to be expressed through regional constructs....
This title was first published in 2001. This is a collection of papers that look at the structure of the global economy, and its changing paradigms...
