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This book offers an innovative theoretical and empirical analysis of integration in EU foreign and interior policies across the three pillars, from the Maastricht Treaty to the Treaty of Nice.

The establishment of the three pillar structure with the Maastricht Treaty has been one of the key transformations of European governance. This divided EU policies into three main areas: European...

This volume brings together a group of leading international scholars to discuss how US-China-EU relations will shape the future of international politics.

Arguing that these three powers will play a key role in establishing and managing a new world order, the contributors examine how a future global order is developed by the interaction of these leading actors in the international system...

Analog zum Credit Point System im europäischen Hochschulraum hat die EU-Kommission ein Leistungspunktesystem für die berufliche Erstausbildung initiiert. Damit soll die Mobilität von Auszubildenden auf dem europäischen Arbeitsmarkt vereinfacht und erhöht werden. Im Rahmen der Einführung von ECVET (European Credit Transfer System for Vocational Education and Training) hat die EU-Kommission das F...

The question of how to organize and manage sustainable regional development has recently come to the fore in many places across the industrialized countries of Central and Western Europe, and especially within the European Union (EU).

This book looks at the home-grown natural, economic and social, socio-political, political and administrative conditions which policy makers face, while also be...

In 2004, the European Unions Intergovernmental Conference finalized the historic process of enlarging the EU from fifteen to twenty-five members. This book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the state of the European Unions biggest enlargement so far, and also considers its future prospects in several key areas. It explains why the ten applicant countries wanted to join the EU and h...

Bomberg argues the greening of European politics and the advancement of European integration are inextricably linked and that the EU presents a strategic dilemma to Green parties. In short, how can Greens reconcile their radical, alternative politics with the EUs mainstream, traditional institutions and practices? Bombergs analysis is based on over 100 interviews with leading green politicians,...

Obwohl die Außenpolitik im Vergleich zu anderen Politikbereichen der Europäischen Union (EU) nach wie vor in geringem Maße vergemeinschaftet ist, hat es seit den Anfängen der außenpolitischen Kooperation der Mitgliedstaaten im Jahr 1970 beachtliche institutionelle Fortschritte in diesem Bereich gegeben und die Politikkoordination zwischen den Mitgliedstaaten nahm deutlich zu. Österreich hat 198...

The tool has been developed out of a multidisciplinary study in EU countries which was designed to find out wh...

Security and defence is the area in which the EU has advanced most in recent years. A principal element of this process is the proliferating number of military and civilian crisis management missions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Clearly, Europe has come a long way since the disappointments and frustration in the 1990s, when, in light of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavi...

This book presents a fresh examination of the values and principles that inform EU foreign policy, exploring the implications of these values and principles on the construction of European Union identity today.

The authors show how current debates on European Union foreign policy and on European identity tend to be kept separated, as if the process of identity formation had only an in...

While recent EU Rural Development policy clearly recognises the economic, ecological, and social advantages of agroforestry systems, to date the implementation of such systems remains poor throughout most of Europe. In light of this, this collection of peer-reviewed papers brings together some of the most important current research in European agroforestry, and evaluates the current scope and f...

This work is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, widely-calibrated checklist for EU sustainable landscape management, which is intended to serve both as an analytical tool of reference as well as a design tool for local, regional and European policy making on sustainable developments.

The tool has been developed out of a multidisciplinary study in EU countries which was designed to find out...

EU equality law is multidimensional in being based on different rationales and concepts. Consequently, the concept of discrimination has become fragmented, with different instruments envisaging different scopes of protection. This raises questions as to the ability of EU law to address the situation of persons excluded on a number of grounds.

This edited collection addresses the incre...