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1. European Integration and Transformation in the Western Balkans

   Europeanization or Business as Usual?

   Edited by Arolda Elbasani

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

   The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. The extension of EU enlargement policy to the region has generated high expectations that enlargement will regulate democratic institution-building and foster reform, much as it did...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Europeanization and the European Economic Area

   Iceland's Participation in the EU's Policy Process

   By Johanna Jonsdottir

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

   This book examines Europeanization in the European Economic Area (EEA), exploring whether non-member states can have an input into EU decision-making and whether the EU can successfully export its policies within the framework of the EEA. Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein, while not EU member...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Cultural Politics of Europe

   European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s

   Edited by Kiran Klaus Patel

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

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

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Bureaucrats as Law-makers

   Committee decision-making in the EU Council of Ministers

   By Frank Häge

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

   The Council of Ministers is one of the most powerful institutions of the European Union (EU) and plays a major role in the European policy-making process. Drawing on formal theory and combining quantitative and qualitative methods in an innovative fashion, this book provides novel insights into the...

   Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. The European Union and South East Europe

   The Dynamics of Europeanization and Multilevel Governance

   By Andrew Geddes, Charles Lees, Andrew Taylor

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

   This book explores the interaction of the EU in Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia in three key policy sectors – cohesion, border managements and the environment – and assesses the degree to which the European Union’s engagement with the democracies of South East Europe has promoted...

   Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession

   Conditionality, legitimacy and compliance

   By Gergana Noutcheva

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

   The Balkan countries have responded differently to the EU’s conditional offer of membership. This book examines the diverging compliance patterns of the Balkan accession states and asks why some of them have complied substantially, some only partially and others have defied the EU. The book...

   Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
7. The European Union as a Leader in International Climate Change Politics

   Edited by Rüdiger Wurzel, James Connelly

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

   Climate change poses one of the biggest challenges facing humankind. The European Union (EU) has developed into a leader in international climate change politics although it was originally set up as a ‘leaderless Europe’ in which decision-making powers are spread amongst EU institutional, member...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. The European Parliament’s Committees

   National Party Influence and Legislative Empowerment

   By Richard Whitaker

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

   This book analyzes the development of the European Parliament’s (EP) committees and their relationship with national political parties in the light of the EP’s increased legislative role over the last three decades. The book argues that national parties have a greater incentive to care about what...

   Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
9. The European Union, Civil Society and Conflict

   Edited by Nathalie Tocci

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

   Until recently, the European Union tended to view violent mass conflicts predominantly through the lens of negotiations between conflict leaders and powerful external actors. Today, the EU has begun to recognize the imperative of understanding and influencing developments on the ground in conflict...

   Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge
10. The European Union and International Development

    The Politics of Foreign Aid

    By Maurizio Carbone

    Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

    The European Union is a leading actor in international development, providing more than half of the world’s foreign aid, but also a unique case, combining the characteristics of a bilateral and a multilateral donor. Despite the general acknowledgment that policy coordination substantially improves...

    Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge