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This book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of the European Union's many crisis management capacities and explains their origins.
Small States in the Modern World comprehensively assesses the different modes of adaptation by small states in response to the security and economic vulnerabilities posed by global change. It uses a diverse collection of case studies to explore the complexities of change and to place them in their temporal and geographical context. Issues covered include: • international security and economic vulnerability • small states in international organizations, including the European Union • Quebec and Scotland as autonomous nations but not independent states • different modes of adaptation including market liberalism, social concertation and the management of natural resources. These contributions from renowned authors show that small states need external shelter and internal buffers in order to cope with vulnerability. Although many of the responses are path-dependent, driven by historical legacies, there is scope to choose. This compelling discussion of adaptations of small states will prove invaluable to scholars in political science, international relations and regional studies, as well as policy-makers and in particular those working in small states and would-be states.
El presente estudio se centra, en un primer momento, en el tema de la providencia, visto con detenimiento y en la complejidad de sus múltiples implicaciones desde la metafísica o la teología hasta la ética y la política, para ello partimos de un marco, desarrollado en esta Introducción, donde analizamos las distintas concepciones de la providencia desde los orígenes del pensamiento hasta bien ... [+]entrada la época moderna. Se entrecruzan términos como logos, alma del mundo, destino, fortuna, azar, historia de salvación, razón y orden universal y pedagogía divina, entre otros, como voces sinónimas o cercanas al concepto de providencia. En un segundo momento nos centramos en est...
Since the advent of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, a key turning point in terms of the crystallisation of opposition towards the European Union (EU), Euroscepticism has become a transnational phenomenon. The term ‘Euroscepticism’ has become common political language in all EU member states and, with the advent of the Eurozone, refugee and security crises have become increasingly ‘embedded’ within European nation states. Bringing together a collection of essays by established and up-and-coming authors in the field, this handbook paints a fuller, more holistic picture of the extent to which the Eurosceptic debate has influenced the EU and its member states. Crucially, it also focuses on w...
Au sommaire de ce numéro : La présidence du Conseil : sociologie d'une institution de l'UE / The reform of the Council Presidency / L'institutionnalisation de la présidence du Conseil européen : entre dépendance institutionnelle et inflexions franco-allemandes / Déplacements structurels, construction des intérêts et stratégies des diplomates au Conseil / Préparer une présidence / The Presidency in EU External Relations : Who is at the helm ?
This is a comprehensive and rounded thematic study of the EU-member states. The text provides detailed coverage of the principal member states and comparative studies of the smaller states, as well as discussing the issue of enlargement and covering empirical themes.
Depuis plusieurs décennies, le langage de la " mémoire " est devenu dominant pour dire les rapports sociaux au passé. " Demandes sociales de mémoire " et " concurrence des mémoires "... Depuis plusieurs décennies, le langage de la " mémoire " est devenu dominant pour dire les rapports sociaux au passé. " Demandes sociales de mémoire " et " concurrence des mémoires " se seraient substituées au grand récit national, plaçant les pouvoirs publics en position d'arbitre entre des aspirations éclatées et rivales. C'est cette vision convenue, source de tant d'articles, de rapports ou d'essais, que cette vaste enquête entend mettre à l'épreuve des faits. Qui pose les questions mémo...
Consular Affairs and Diplomacy analyses the nature of diplomacy’s consular dimension in international relations. It contributes to our understanding of key themes in consular affairs today, the challenges that are facing the three great powers, as well as the historical origins of the consular institution.