Title:Reflexive Governance for Global Public Goods
Author(s):BROUSSEAU, Eric; DEDEURWAERDERE, Tom; SIEBENHÜNER, BerndDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Since the publication of the ground-breaking work on global public goods by Inge Kaul et al. a decade ago many political initiatives have been launched, a wide number of governance experiments have been run, and much ...
Title:WTO and the Greater China: Economic integration and dispute resolution
Author(s):WU, Chien-HueiDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book illustrates how the constitutional feature of the WTO – allowing separate customs territories to become a Member – brings about the coexistence of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (the Greater China) in the ...
Title:Fighting Discrimination in Europe. The case for a race-conscious approach
Author(s):MOSCHEL, Mathias; HERMANIN, Costanza; GRIGOLO, MicheleDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The member states of the EU have only very recently begun to consider race and racism in the framework of equality legislation and policies. As opposed to an established Anglo-Saxon tradition of naming races and using ...
Title:Special Responsibilities: Global problems and American power
Author(s):BUKOVANSKY, Mlada; CLARK, Ian; ECKERSLEY, Robyn; PRICE, Richard; REUS-SMIT, Christian; WHEELER, Nicholas J.Date:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The language of special responsibilities is ubiquitous in world politics, with policymakers and commentators alike speaking and acting as though particular states have, or ought to have, unique obligations in managing ...
Title:E-Commerce in China and Germany: A Sino-German comparative analysis
Author(s):Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; Department of Market Regulation, State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (SAIC); China Society of Administration for Industry & Commerce (CSAIC); METZ, Rainer; MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; SPINDLER, Gerald; HONGFENG, Yang; LEI, Wang; DONGPING, Wu; PURNHAGEN, Kai PeterDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The ways to approach the regulation of e-commerce markets are in the focus of discussion both in China and Germany. While a general need for regulation is undisputed in both countries, the scope, means and aims regulation ...
Title:Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe: Comparing cultures of remembrance, c. 1790-1840
Author(s):BOUWERS, Eveline G.Date:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Drawing on a wide range of sources, Eveline G. Bouwers probes the construction and reception of remembrance cultures across early-nineteenth-century Europe. By way of an in-depth analysis of public pantheons (i.e. buildings ...
Title:Environmental Integration in the EU's External Relations: Beyond multilateral dimensions
Author(s):MARIN DURAN, Gracia; MORGERA, ElisaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The book examines the integration of environmental protection requirements into EU external relations focusing on unilateral, bilateral and inter-regional instruments, which have been less explored than the multilateral ...
Title:Richelieu
Author(s):D'ALBIS, CécileDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il est très difficile de connaître un homme dont ses flatteurs ont dit tant de bien, et ses ennemis tant de mal », écrivait Voltaire. Cardinal et ministre de Louis XIII pendant près de vingt ans, Richelieu a dirigé la ...
Title:EU Energy Innovation Policy Towards 2050
Author(s):GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; AHNER, Nicole; MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2012Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:What is the European energy strategy for 2050? How different is it from the 2020 energy strategy? What are the technology options? What are the policy options? This volume discusses the "EU Energy Innovation Policy Towards ...
Title:El amigo alemán: El SPD y el PSOE de la dictadura a la democracia
Author(s):MUÑOZ SÁNCHEZ, AntonioDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A mediados de los años sesenta, el SPD decidió asumir hacia la dictadura de Franco una estrategia pragmática y posibilista. En su opinión, la política de aislamiento que defendía la Internacional Socialista desde hacía ...
Title:The UN and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: American hegemony and UN intervention since 1947
Author(s):DI MAURO, DaniloDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the United Nations intervention in the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1947. In his structured and exhaustive analysis, the author presents a long term perspective on ...
Title:The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe: Voting to become citizens
Author(s):RODRÍGUEZ-RUIZ, Blanca; RUBIO MARIN, RuthDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Looks at the articulation of women's suffrage rights in the countries that make up the political-unity-in-the-making we call the European Union. This book uncovers the dynamics that were at play in the recognition of male ...
Title:The Worlds of European Constitutionalism
Author(s):DE BURCA, Grainne; WEILER, Joseph H. H.Date:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The idea of the EU as a constitutional order has recently taken on renewed life, as the Court of Justice declared the primacy of EU law not just over national constitutions but also over the international legal order, ...
Title:Politics of Segmentation: Party competition and social protection in Europe
Author(s):PICOT, GeorgDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:When political parties make policy decisions they are influenced by the competition they face from other parties. This book examines how party competition and party systems affect reforms of social protection. Featuring a ...
Title:A New Architecture for EU Gas Security of Supply
Author(s):GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; HAFNER, Manfred; DE JONG, Jacques; AHNER, Nicole; TAGLIAPIETRA, SimoneDate:2012Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:Is the EU on the right track to meet its stated objective – a true European energy security policy? Is the current architecture on which the EU gas security of supply policy is built able to deliver those responses needed ...
Title:'Integration through Law' Revisited: The Making of the European Polity
Author(s):AUGENSTEIN, DanielDate:2012Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[European University Institute]Abstract:Over the last twenty years, processes of pluralization, differentiation and trans-nationalization in the European Union have arguably challenged the centrality of law to European integration. Yet these developments also ...
Title:Historische Nationsforschung im geteilten Europa 1945-1989
Author(s):KOLAR, Pavel; REZNIK, MilosDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Dabei werden Autoren, Werke, Schulen und Paradigmen in den Blick genommen, die an die Phänomene „Nation und Nationalismus“ aus einer – im weiteren Sinne – historischen Perspektive herangehen, die „Nation“ als eine historisch ...
Title:A Europe Made of Money: The emergence of the European Monetary System
Author(s):MOURLON-DRUOL, EmmanuelDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol highlights two long-term processes in the monetary and economic ...