European Union Politics

This book demonstrates the range, depth and complexity of Switzerland’s developing relations with Europe and provides detailed and up-to-date information on Switzerland itself...

This book gives a critical assessment of the ASEM process, which now brings together all 27 EU members, the European Commission and 16 East Asian states, and examines its progress in terms of economic and social development, politics and culture...

This book explains why the EEAS, despite being hailed as a milestone in integration in Europe’s foreign policy, has fallen short of the mark. It does so by enlisting American institutionalist approaches to European questions of institutional creation, bureaucratic organisations and change...

The book reviews the history of the Council of Europe from its foundation in 1949 through the early conventions on human rights and culture to its expansion into the fields of social affairs, environment and education. It supplies necessary factual information about expansion of membership and the e..

This book addresses the major challenges confronting the EU, analyses the consequences for the integration project, and develops fresh perspectives on the EU’s future prospects for coping with the most debated, current and upcoming issues, such as the rise of Euroscepticism or the contested idea of ..

This book is a systematic effort to empirically approach the democratic deficit of CSDP, to understand its social construction and propose ways to remedy it. It uses Foucault’s approach of governmentality to unravel the social construction of this deficit and to illuminate the power relations betwee..

This book examines the diplomatic system of the EU, locating it within the broader study of diplomacy and the European integration project. The volume is structured around the interrelated themes of institutional change and the evolving practices of EU diplomacy. It tracks the development of the EU’..

The book examines the behaviour of the European Commission in EU external energy relations paying particular attention to the dynamics existing between the Commission and the member states...

Surveying the European Union's evolution from the Rome Treaty to the present, The Emerging European Union captures the full story of Europe's ongoing integration, its changing identity, and its increasing importance as a global actor in the 21st Century...

Surveying the European Union's evolution from the Rome Treaty to the present, The Emerging European Union captures the full story of Europe's ongoing integration, its changing identity, and its increasing importance as a global actor in the 21st Century...

Through the study of five ethno-political conflicts lying on, or just beyond, Europe's borders, this book analyzes the impact and effectiveness of EU foreign policy on conflict resolution...

This book offers a theoretically informed analysis of how coherently the European Union fights terrorism in the post-9/11 era...