This interdisciplinary work presents a conceptual framework and brings together constructivist and rationalist accounts of how EU norms are adopted, adapted, resisted or rejected. These chapters provide empirical cases and critical analysis of a rich variety of norm-takers from EU member states, European and non-European states, including the rejection of EU norms in Russia and Africa as well as adaptation of EU practices in Australia and New Zealand. Chapters on China, ASEAN and the Czech Republic demonstrate resistance to EU norm export. This volume probes differences in willingness to...

This book dispels the myth that there is an end to learning and recollection. It stresses a proven fact that acquiring knowledge and remembering it can go on forever. At any age, barring illness, we can tackle just about any mental task we want to. This book describes ways to insure events of the past and present are not forgotten.