Author: Publisher: Harvester/Wheatsheaf ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 616
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Brings together the texts of all the key European Union treaties, including the Treaty of Rome, Maastricht, the Social Charter, ESSC and Euratom. A commentary on the Treaty texts and their amendments is included, with particular emphasis on policy implications and the structure of the Treaties.
Author: Matthias Ruffert Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1800373619 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 264
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With the transfer of ever more tasks and competences to the European level the EU’s administration has become increasingly complex, with ‘agencification’ as the most visible sign of this differentiation. This book offers a much-needed analytical overview of the field, with the aim of improving our understanding of administration at the European level, and indeed of improving the administration itself.
Author: Tamar Gutner Publisher: CQ Press ISBN: 1483355055 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 418
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International organizations (IOs) are essential and controversial actors in world politics today. They work on just about every imaginable issue that states cannot easily address individually. This timely and engaging new title offers a comprehensive overview of major IOs and their role in global governance. International Organizations in World Politics by Tamar Gutner presents a variety of theoretical approaches to analyzing the roles and impact of IOs. It then examines the historical development, governance structure, activities, and performance of major IOs. The book offers comprehensive, historically-grounded overviews of the most influential IOs, including the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization. For each IO, there is a detailed case study that illuminates the constraints and challenges the IO faces in areas that include conflict resolution, development, the environment, trade, and financial crisis. The book also examines regional organizations, with an emphasis on the European Union and the euro crisis and the African Union’s peace operations.
Author: Ian Ward Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230376142 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 205
Book Description
The Margins of European Law attempts to provide a critical and sceptical approach to European law. The related themes of the book attempt to introduce a historical and theoretical context for European law. Ultimately, it is suggested that the new European order requires a very different legal and jurisprudential approach; one which is distinctively post-modern. European Community law, at its margins, is a mass of inconsistencies and injustices, and a post-modern model can better effect the erasing of the margins of European law.
Author: Fritz W Scharpf Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429968825 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 335
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Games Real Actors Play provides a persuasive argument for the use of basic concepts of game theory in understanding public policy conflicts. Fritz Scharpf criticizes public choice theory as too narrow in its examination of actor motives and discursive democracy as too blind to the institutional incentives of political parties. With the nonspecialist in mind, the author presents a coherent actor-centered model of institutional rational choice that integrates a wide variety of theoretical contributions, such as game theory, negotiation theory, transaction cost economics, international relations, and democratic theory.Games Real Actors Play offers a framework for linking positive theory to the normative issues that necessarily arise in policy research and employs many cross-national examples, including a comparative use of game theory to understand the differing reactions of Great Britain, Sweden, Austria, and the Federal Republic of Germany to the economic stagflation of the 1970s.
Author: Ulrich Hilpert Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134603932 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
While processes of innovation are increasingly realised globally, they can also take a highly regionalised expression. In this book, the global networks that link regions are set against the local aspects of innovation. With contributions from international experts, this book examines local 'Islands of Innovation' where research and industrial expertise are concentrated, along with areas where traditional industrial regions have passed through a process of innovative restructuring.
Author: Diamond Ashiagbor Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107379385 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 345
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This volume of essays casts light on the shape and future direction of the EU in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty and highlights the incomplete nature of the reforms. Contributors analyse some of the most innovative and most controversial aspects of the Treaty, such as the role and nature of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the relationship between the EU and the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, they reflect on the ongoing economic and financial crisis in the Euro area, which has forced the EU Member States to re-open negotiations and update a number of aspects of the Lisbon 'settlement'. Together, the essays provide a variety of insights into some of the most crucial innovations introduced by the Lisbon Treaty and in the context of the adoption of the new European Financial Stability Mechanism.
Author: Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199250146 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 515
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This comprehensive survey aims to provide an overview of all aspects of politics in western Europe. Aspects of the European Union & the Europeanization of institutions are discussed in detail, along with the welfare state, economic issues & the conditionof democracy across the continent.
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