Title:Ethical Traceability and Communicating Food
Author(s):KORTHALS, Michiel; COFF, Christian; BARLING, David; NIELSEN, ThorkildDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Traceability – the ability to track a product from farm to plate – is now widely used in the food sector for a range of purposes: it allows companies to improve efficiency, facilitates product recall, and helps producers ...
Title:EU Federalism and Constitutionalism. The Legacy of Altiero Spinelli
Author(s):GLENCROSS, Andrew; TRECHSEL, Alexander H.Date:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This work represents the first book-length study of the travails of the implementation of federalism at the European level from the perspective of Altiero Spinelli's ideas and his political life, which were both devoted ...
Title:Europa: l'impossibile status quo
Author(s):CRESPO, Enrique BaronDate:1996Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Nel 1993 un gruppo di studiosi e politici di diversi paesi, con diverse esperienze professionali, si sono spontaneamente uniti, sotto la presidenza di Kohnstamm, con l'intento di contribuire a una riflessione sistematica ...
Title:Europe and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: A political failure in search of a scholarly explanation
Author(s):LUCARELLI, SoniaDate:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:On June 26, 1991, after some 46 years without a war in Europe, violent conflict erupted in the territory of what used to be the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It took more than four years of atrocities before a ...
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 ...