The future of Southeastern Europe and connected EU policies are a much more important issue than just guaranteeing regional stability and sustainable modernization in the -backyard of Europe-. The credibility of the EU, as a global -soft power- is at stake, with far reaching consequences on the future of the European integration, affecting both further enlargement and urgently needed deepening. The strategy oriented analysis commissioned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Budapest is based on an interdisciplinary approach with clear emphasis on economic issues, such as global, EU-related and...

This book gathers together contributions from thirty-two former and current professors who have, through their teaching in the Legal Studies Department at the College of Europe, enhanced the College s reputation as an authentic European academic postgraduate centre of excellence.
Within their areas of specialisation the authors analyse both the evolution of European law over the years and more specific questions. The contributions cover institutional/constitutional law, judicial remedies, the law governing the internal market and its accompanying politics, competition law, and the law of...

The color of the book s cover alludes to the time and context in which this important volume originated: the 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating International Women s Day at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At that time orange alerts were issued by the United States to create a climate of fear and thereby stifle any critical debate of its foreign and domestic policy. The feminist thinkers presented in this volume are alert that such a critique is needed. They draw on the various languages of their fields to address wide-ranging topics and key questions in feminist...

The book analyses the transnational Alpine region where historical, social, and geo-economic specificities have led to a distinctive type of democracy and identity. Differentialist identities, multi-level consociational accommodation, and corporatist intermediation are typical features of this region s -consensual politics-, and the process of European integration adds further to this complexity. These forms of consensual politics are challenged today by large and persistent populist parties that express strong anti-elitist sentiments, local identities, and Euro-sceptic attitudes.
The...

Japan and the European Union are two -civilian powers- that have dramatically extended and diversified their role on the world stage and that have launched together an Action Plan dealing with peace and stability, economic, environmental, commercial and financial governance, and cultural exchanges and cooperation. Their bilateral cooperation has been intensified as well as their cross contribution to the G8 and multilateral organisations like the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation. In parallel, their respective domestic and international positions have changed. The EU has...

Creee informellement en 1989, la conference des pays editeurs de documents diplomatiques a reuni a Paris en octobre 2005, a l occasion de sa 8e session, une trentaine de delegations qui ont travaille tant sur des questions de methodologie que sur un theme historique, celui de la naissance et de l evolution de l Organisation des Nations unies.
L ensemble de leurs contributions est reuni dans ce volume, dont la direction des Archives du ministere francais des Affaires etrangeres, organisatrice de la reunion, a choisi de confier la publication aux editions Peter Lang, qui publie deja les...

This book aims at deepening our understanding of concrete, topical developments in the growth of social partnership economies. Inspired by the theory of 'policy learning', it discusses the impact of potential triggers, such as wars and economic crises, on the development of consultative arrangements, questioning how policy adjustments came about and what exactly made them possible. What is the space for policy learning in institutional environments that are notorious for immobility and path-dependency? Different national case studies analyse the origins and development of different social...

This book approaches literary existentialism (1935-1960) from a philosophical point of view and provides a semantic frame through which the primary works of this movement can be interpreted. Readings of Sartre, Sabato, Camus, Boll, De Beauvoir, Nooteboom, and others emphasize the place and themes specific to each writer within literary existentialism as a whole.
One of the most original features of this study is its focus on the central notion of engagement after 1960. Having highlighted its waning in postmodernism, van Stralen then demonstrates the vigorous resurgence of this pivotal...

Mudrooroo: A Likely Story reads the fiction of one of Australia s most controversial and enigmatic literary figures against the backdrop of the likelihood that he assumed an Aboriginal identity to which he was not entitled. As he is neither black nor white, Colin Johnson (a.k.a. Mudrooroo) writes on issues of identity and belonging from the position of an outsider. The book argues that the experimental nature of Johnson s creative body of work coupled with the complexities of his in-between status, mean that both the man and his writing evade neat categorisation within mainstream...

L Europe de la mediterranee, comparee aux autres regions europeennes, dispose d une histoire et d une geographie particulieres. Et pourtant elle entretient avec ces regions de nombreux rapports qu il conviendra d analyser afin d enrichir notre comprehension de l Europe dans son ensemble. Une longue tradition de rapports economiques et culturels rapproche tous les pays donnant sur la mer, berceau des principales civilisations du monde, bassin ou s echangent hommes, idees, matieres premieres, et technologies.
L Union europeenne est appelee a developper une grande politique mediterraneenne,...