Title:European Crisis Management in the 1980s
Author(s):WINN, NeilDate:1996Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This study traces three episodes in west European approaches to international crises in the early-to mid-1980s, with a particular emphasis on foreign policy co-ordination between France, West Germany and the United Kingdom, ...
Title:European Foreign and Security Policy: States, Power, Institutions, and American Hegemony
Author(s):GEGOUT, CatherineDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) stipulates that all member states must unanimously ratify policy proposals through their representatives on the EU Council. Intergovernmentalism, or the ...
Title:European foreign policy making toward the Mediterranean
Author(s):BICCHI, FedericaDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A comprehensive and theoretically informed examination of European foreign policy making towards the Mediterranean, from 1957 to nowadays. The book focuses on the reasons and the patterns of Europeans’ actions, with a ...
Title:European Governance and Democracy: Power and Protest in the EU
Author(s):CHABANET, Didier; BALME, RichardDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Considering the future of European integration, this clear and compelling study explores the interplay between collective action and democracy in the European Union and its member states. Richard Balme and Didier Chabanet ...
Title:The European Parliament: Towards a uniform procedure for direct elections
Author(s):SASSE, Christoph; BREW, David A.; GEORGEL, Jacques; HAND, Geoffrey; HUBER, Christian H.; VAN DEN BERGHE, GuidoDate:1981Type of Publication:BookAbstract:As they worked at the European University Institute on the project which has resulted in the present volume, the members of the team (whose identity and individual concerns have already been very briefly indicated in the ...
Title:European Politics: Pasts, Presents, Futures
Author(s):GOETZ, Klaus H.; MAIR, Peter; SMITH, GordonDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book arises out of a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking the journal's 30th anniversary. It examines the profound changes in the European political landscape over the last three decades, ...
Title:European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy. When and Why do they Work?
Author(s):PORTELA, ClaraDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the general public. This book examines sanctions as a political tool of influence ...
Title:The Europeanisation of Refugee Policies: Between human rights and internal security
Author(s):LAVENEX, SandraDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:From the beginnings of intergovernmental co-operation in the 1980s to the Amsterdam Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the developing EU refugee policies have oscillated between the conflicting policy frames of ...
Title:Europolis: Constitutional patriotism beyond the nation-state
Author(s):NANZ, PatriziaDate:2006Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In the growing literature on European integration there is still a lack of understanding of the key political elements of this integration. In this study the author takes what is one of the most obvious assumptions about ...
Title:Evaluative Semantics: Language, cognition, and ideology
Author(s):MALRIEU, Jean-PierreDate:1999Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Evaluation, from connotations to complex judgements of value, is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and value, this book is a comprehensive study of evaluation in ...
Title:Evolution of Institutions
Author(s):BLYTH, Mark; HODGSON, Geoffrey M.; LEWIS, Orion; STEINMO, SvenDate:2011Type of Publication:Book
Title:The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United States
Author(s):STEINMO, SvenDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The Evolution of Modern States is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism, and social science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: why ...
Title:Explaining Institutional Change in Europe
Author(s):HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:How and why do institutions change? Institutions, understood as rules of behaviour constraining and facilitating social interaction, are subject to different forms and processes of change. A change may be designed intentionally ...
Title:The Family in the Mediterranean Welfare States
Author(s):NALDINI, ManuelaDate:2003Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This work analyses in a historical and comparative perspective the relationship between the family and the welfare state in two Mediterranean countries: Italy and Spain. Two aims form the focus of the book. Firstly, to ...
Title:Family, kinship and state in contemporary Europe, Vol. 3: Perspectives on theory and policy
Author(s):HEADY, Patrick; KOHLI, MartinDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Kinship is at the heart of European society, sharing with the state responsibility for welfare and social reproduction. But the workings of kinship and their connection to state policies remain controversial. Received ...
Title:Fertility in the History of the 20th Century: Trends, theories, policies, discourses
Author(s):EHMER, Josef; EHRHARDT, Jens; KOHLI, MartinDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In this special issue, a pluridisciplinary group of scholars discuss the complex interrelationship among fertility trends, population theories, policies and public discourses. Whereas the three former fields have been ...