Bøger i Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies serien

This accessible book examines the ways in which the European community will have to adapt to cope with a potential influx of new members into the next millenium. It will be essential reading for students and practitioners of European politics.

Explores how European institutions address the issues of the plurality of religious faiths and ethical beliefs in a multicultural society and assesses how this impacts on political integration. This book focuses on the issues of differential treatment across Europe.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of long- and short-term EU conflict prevention and crisis management policies undertaken in various theatres and policy domains, featuring case studies on West Africa, Afghanistan, and Morocco.

Explores the EU's relations with civil society organizations in an effort to improve the effectiveness and relevance of its conflict and peace policies.

Explaining the origins and key institutions, this book provides an assessment of the European Union's leadership role in international climate change politics, with case studies on Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, businesses and environmental NGOs.

Using fresh theoretical insights and empirical data, this title develops a model to analyze the transitional processes of Romania, Turkey, Serbia and Ukraine. Offering a different stance from most of the literature on the subject, this book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the international dimensions of democratization.

Sets out to re-conceptualize the history of the European Union (EU) as the gradual emergence over time of a European-level polity: a supranational political system with a complex institutional set-up and policy-making structures.

Identifies measures and compares public awareness and perceptions of the EU within the Asia-Pacific region. This book deals with the under-researched issue of the public perception of the EU outside the Union and the role of the media in shaping such perceptions.

Examines the adoption, implementation and internalization of the rule of law. This book also examines the rule of law as a central dimension of liberal and substantive democracy; and, the interaction between external and domestic structures and agents.