Contemporary issues and debates in EU policy: The European Union and international relations

by Vassiliki Koutrakou (Editor)

Overview

An exploration of the European Union with sections on conflict, intelligence and security, immigration and human rights, world economic development and environmental sustainability, high technologies and their growing impact.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719064197
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Vassiliki N. Koutrakou is Lecturer in European Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in European Studies (CREST) at the University of East Anglia, Norwich

Table of Contents

Part I Conflict and foreign and security approaches
Introduction to part I
1. Interdependence and fragmentation: The articulations of political space in the discourses of integration and ethnic conflict – Tarja Väyrynen
2. The Kosovo intervention and European security: NATO's pyrrhic victory – James H. Wyllie
3. European Union Intelligence Agency: A necessary institution for Common Intelligence Policy? – John M. Nomikos
4. Recent developments in EU migration and asylum policies – Barbara Marshall
5. Enforcing human rights in Europe and beyond: International law and human rights in a changing world – Caroline Nolan
PART II Issues of Economic Development
Introduction to part II
6. EU economic governance in the present world system – Jonathan Luckhurst and Vassiliki N. Koutrakou
7. New directions in the EU's Third World policy: From aid to trade under the watchful eye of the WTO – Vassiliki N. Koutrakou
8. Transboundary cooperation and regional networks in Sweden and the Baltic States; integration on the new European frontier at the turn of the century – Geoffrey Gooch
9. An ever more sustainable union? Integrating economy, society and environment in a rapidly enlarging Europe – Andrew Jordan and Timothy O'Riordan
10. Cooperation or competition? Nuclear energy and the Ostpolitik of the European Union – Sabine Saurugger
11. Cross border transport: The EU policy agenda – Steve Dawe
12. The Europeanisation of firms and the role of Euro-groups in European integration – Jenny Fairbrass
PART III: The high technology factor
Introduction to part III
13. Euratom: The toothless treaty? – Hazel Dawe
14. Interest groups, institutions, and expertise: The new politics of EU biotechnology regulation – Michael E. Smith
15. Deregulation and coordination in european telecommunications strategies – Nicola Murrell
16. J(EU)nesse sans frontières: Information age governance, youth and the EU – Paul G. Nixon