The European Union in the Asia-Pacific: Rethinking Europe's strategies and policies (Song Weiqing)(Pevná vazba)

The European Union in the Asia-Pacific: Rethinking Europe's strategies and policies (Song Weiqing)(Pevná vazba)

The collection studies the interactions of the European Union and the Asia Pacific, focusing on the EU as an emerging global player in contemporary international

Ever Closer Union?: Europe in the West (Anderson Perry)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive, critical assessment of the EU after Brexit The European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of its representatives. Sixty years after the

National Identity and Europe in Times of Crisis: Doing and Undoing Europe (Karner Christian)(Pevná vazba)

The European Union currently finds itself in the midst of its most profound crises since its creation. In the minds and writings of many commentators, politicians and European citizens, these multiple contemporary crises call the very future of the European project into doubt. Against the backdrop

Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union (Ghervas Stella)(Pevná vazba)

A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer lasting peace.Political peace in Europe has historically been elusive and ephemeral. Stella Ghervas shows that since the eighteenth century, European

Strategies of Multinational Corporations and Social Regulations: European and Asian Perspectives (Richet Xavier)(Pevná vazba)

Introduction.- Part I: FDI Flows and Institutional Dynamics in Europe and Asia.- Part II: Redesigning of Public Policies to Meet Competitiveness and Attractiveness Challenges, while Dealing with Business Lobbying.- Part III: Multinational Companies across Home and Host Countries: Transfer,

The Great Catalyst: European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey (Temel Blent)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the ways by which the European Union impacts economic and political processes in its member and candidate countries. Positive Turkish and negative Greek experiences suggest that the EU functions as a powerful catalyst of political and economic change, if towards various

After Brexit: Consequences for the European Union (Da Costa Cabral Nazar)(Pevná vazba)

​Confronts the economic and social fragility of the European Union in a globalized world Questions the future of the European integration project Address the major areas of the EU that can be affected by

After Europe (Krastev Ivan)(Pevná vazba)

A impassioned defense of the European Union and a concise analysis of its present challenges and futureIn this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union--and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise

Policy Design in the European Union: An Empire of Shopkeepers in the Making? (Heiskala Risto)(Pevná vazba)

Explores in detail the formation of EU policies in a variety of policy sectorsProposes a sociological approach to European integrationDeals comprehensively with several empirical manifestations of the emerging empire structure of the

The Economic Integration of Europe (Pomfret Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The clearest and most up-to-date account of the achievements--and setbacks--of the European Union since 1945. Europe has been transformed since the Second World War. No longer a checkerboard of entirely sovereign states, the continent has become the largest single-market area in the world, with

Climate-Induced Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region: Response, Recovery, Adaptation (Neef Andreas)(Pevná vazba)

Climate-induced disasters constitute a major risk to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on case studies from Cambodia, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Samoa, the contributions in this volume examine local response, recovery and adaptation strategies, incorporating the perspectives

Policy-Making in the European Union (Wallace Helen)(Paperback)

From agriculture to security, the policies of the European Union have wide-reaching consequences for the EU's member states and citizens, and for the wider world. Policy-Making in the European Union begins with an overview of EU policy-making as a whole, defining the processes and institutions

Underground Modernity: Urban Poetics in East-Central Europe, Pre- And Post-1989 (Kliems Alfrun)(Pevná vazba)

The literary scholar Alfrun Kliems explores the aesthetic strategies of Eastern European underground literature, art, film and music in the decades before and after the fall of communism, ranging from the 'father' of Prague Underground, Egon Bondy, to the neo-Dada Club of Polish Losers in Berlin

Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union (Balci Bayram)(Pevná vazba)

A tour d'horizon of the role Islam plays in politics and the private sphere in Central Asia and the

Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union (Verhofstadt Guy)(Pevná vazba)

In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen issues a clarion call to radically remake the European Union in the mold of the United States' own federal government Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalog of ills seems

Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit (Wall Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Bradford Anu)(Pevná vazba)

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis. Between sluggish growth; political turmoil following a decade of austerity politics; Brexit; and the rise of Asian influence, the EU is seen as a declining power on the world stage. Columbia Law professor Anu Bradford argues the

The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival? (Soros George)(Pevná vazba)

The European Union could soon be a thing of the past. Xenophobia is rampant and commonly reflected in elections across the continent. Great Britain may hold a referendum on whether to abandon the union altogether. Spurred by anti-EU sentiments due to the euro crisis, national interests conflict

The evolving role of national parliaments in the European Union: Ireland as a case study (Barrett Gavin)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the gradually increasing role of national parliaments in the European Union (EU) and asks how and why this came about. Using Ireland as a case study it delves into the relationship between the Oireachtas and the EU. This is a pioneering study of parliament's role in European

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe (Siklodi Nora)(Pevná vazba)

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe explores contemporary models of national and European Union (EU) citizenship in the context of intra-EU mobility. Scholars have often addressed these models from separate disciplinary standpoints. National citizenship has been studied through the prism

European Union Governance and Policy Making: A Canadian Perspective (Brunet-Jailly Emmanuel)(Pevná vazba)

European Union Governance and Policy Making introduces Canadian students to the politics of the EU. Divided into three parts, the collection examines its political system (history, theories, institutions), specific policies, and some of the challenges that the EU currently faces. Geared toward

Demystifying the European Union: The Enduring Logic of Regional Integration, Second Edition (Ginsberg Roy H.)(Pevná vazba)

Written by one of the premier scholars on the European Union and hailed as the best undergraduate text on the subject, this book has been thoroughly revised and updated to include the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. Clear and comprehensive, it 'demystifies' one of the world's most important

Politics in the European Union (Bulmer Simon)(Paperback)

Politics in the European Union is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the EU. Unique in its in-depth coverage of the history of the EU, the book explores a wide range of topics including institutions and policies, making it a complete guide to understanding the complex nature of the EU

Advances in Vision Research, Volume II: Genetic Eye Research in Asia and the Pacific (Prakash Gyan)(Pevná vazba)

This second volume continues with a focus on the state of the art in genetic eye research in Asia and the Pacific. Though there has been an explosion of information on genetic eye research in western countries, more than sixty percent of the human genes involved in eye diseases in the Asian and