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Offers an analysis of the ways in which minority nationalist party attitudes towards European integration have evolved from 1979 to 2005. This book is suitable for students and scholars interested in minority nationalism, the Europeanisation of political parties and comparative research on regional politics.

The delegation of policy-competencies to the European Union has changed the context in which national actors form their interests and represent them. Shaping European markets and societies, EU regulation has important effects in the member states. This book analyses how business interest organizations respond to this challenge.

The European Union is a leading actor in international development, providing more than half of the world's foreign aid. Using development policy, this book provides analysis of the interaction between the European Commission and Member States by exploring the conditions in which European Commission influences outcomes in EU decision making.

An examination of the European Union, as it departs from its path of integration, this book discusses the indications of the development and explains why it happened only a decade after an enthusiasm in the early 1990s. The question was whether the EU would become less important for the member states or whether the German pattern would prevail.

This book presents an up-to-date, scholarly analysis of the foreign and development policy dilemmas facing Europe today. It will be essential reading for students of development policy, external relations and international affairs.

An ideal introductory text for students studying the EU. The evolution and extent of European integration in areas ranging from industrial development to international relations is explained.

Informed by and against the backdrop of the 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections, this innovative book provides a critical assessment of where Europe stands in terms of the quest for achieving democratic legitimacy.

Including case studies that discuss both successful and failed examples of informal action in European integration, this book assembles cutting-edge research by both early-career and more experienced scholars from all over Europe to fill this lacuna.

Changing Borders in Europe focuses on the territorial dimension of the European Union. It examines the transformation of state sovereignty within the EU, the emergence of varied self-determination claims, and the existence of a tailor-made architecture of functional borders, established by multiple agreements.

This edited book carries out a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and innovative analysis of the relationship between competitiveness and solidarity in the contemporary European Union.

The volume sets out to explain how such an innately contradictory phenomenon as transnational Euroscepticism has emerged. It draws on a variety of perspectives and case studies in a number of spheres ¿ the European Parliament, political parties, the media, civil society and public opinion. Examining to what extent the pan-European dimension of Euroscepticism is becoming increasingly influential, it argues that opposition to European integration has for too long been viewed somewhat narrowly, through the paradigm of national party politics.

Using an original database of 138 questionnaires and 37 interviews, this book addresses this lack of knowledge, studying what these committees do and how they negotiate and resolve issues. It explores three key areas: the formulation of the national position; the identity of CFSP/CSDP policy-makers; negotiation practices and outputs.

This book collects Thomas Risse's most important articles together in a single volume. Covering a wide range of issues ¿ the end of the Cold War, transatlantic relations, the "democratic peace", human rights, governance in areas of limited statehood, Europeanization, European identity and public spheres, most recently comparative regionalism - it is testament to the breadth and excellence of this highly respected International Relations scholar's work.

This book analyses core-periphery relations to highlight the growing cleavage, and potential conflict, between the core and peripheral member-states of the Union in the face of the devastating consequences of Eurozone crisis. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of European Union studies, European integration, political economy, public policy, and comparative politics.

This ground-breaking volume provides a new perspective on the EU¿s foreign policy and offers a reconstruction of EU research that extends beyond narrow-minded concepts of `power¿ and `actorness¿. Focusing on two intertwined research questions, it presents a more sustainable base for studying EU foreign policy: What is the EU¿s foreign policy quality in terms of `actorness¿ and `power¿ compared to other types of actors in international relations and global politics? What factors influence the EU¿s foreign policy performance in comparison to states and international organizations? This guiding principle and application of a `grounded theory¿ or `heuristic case study¿ approach allows the book to deliver a structured comparative analysis of EU foreign policy, comparing findings across policy fields, different legal foundations and respective policy modes of governance.

The volume sets out to explain how such an innately contradictory phenomenon as transnational Euroscepticism has emerged. It draws on a variety of perspectives and case studies in a number of spheres ¿ the European Parliament, political parties, the media, civil society and public opinion. Examining to what extent the pan-European dimension of Euroscepticism is becoming increasingly influential, it argues that opposition to European integration has for too long been viewed somewhat narrowly, through the paradigm of national party politics.

This book collects Thomas Risse's most important articles together in a single volume. Covering a wide range of issues ¿ the end of the Cold War, transatlantic relations, the "democratic peace", human rights, governance in areas of limited statehood, Europeanization, European identity and public spheres, most recently comparative regionalism - it is testament to the breadth and excellence of this highly respected International Relations scholar's work.

This ground-breaking volume provides a new perspective on the EU¿s foreign policy and offers a reconstruction of EU research that extends beyond narrow-minded concepts of `power¿ and `actorness¿. Focusing on two intertwined research questions, it presents a more sustainable base for studying EU foreign policy: What is the EU¿s foreign policy quality in terms of `actorness¿ and `power¿ compared to other types of actors in international relations and global politics? What factors influence the EU¿s foreign policy performance in comparison to states and international organizations? This guiding principle and application of a `grounded theory¿ or `heuristic case study¿ approach allows the book to deliver a structured comparative analysis of EU foreign policy, comparing findings across policy fields, different legal foundations and respective policy modes of governance.

EU foreign and defence policy is largely formulated in the working parties and committees of the Council of the EU and the vast majority of decisions in this field are made by the national diplomats working in the around 35 groups of the CFSP/CSDP.Although the importance of these committees and their participants has been increasingly recognised, we still know relatively little about them. Using an original database of 138 questionnaires and 37 interviews, this book addresses this lack of knowledge, studying what these committees do and how they negotiate and resolve issues. It explores three key areas: the formulation of the national position; the identity of CFSP/CSDP policy-makers; negotiation practices and outputs. In doing so, it provides an innovative observation point from which EU foreign policy can be analysed.

The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans.

Culture is one of the most complex and contested fields of European integration. This book analyzes EU cultural politics, both at the central as well as at local levels, since their emergence in the 1980s with a particular focus on the European Capital of Culture program, the flagship of EU cultural policy.

Analyzes the Nordic and Baltic states' relationship with the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). This work offers a general background to the EU's ESDP, the strategic situation of Northern Europe, the security and defence policy issues faced by the states, also outlining the theoretical considerations concerning security in the region.