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Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy
This volume examines the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis that began in 2010. Europe's crisis of legitimacy stems from 'governing by rules and ruling by numbers' in the sovereign debt crisis, which played havoc with the eurozone economy while fueling political discontent. Using the lens of democratic theory, the book assesses the legitimacy of EU governing activities first in terms of their procedural quality ('throughput),' by charting EU actors' different pathways to legitimacy, and then evaluates their policy effectiveness ('output') and political responsiveness ('input'). In addition to an engaging and distinctive analysis of Eurozone crisis governance and its impact on democratic legitimacy, the book offers a number of theoretical insights into the broader question of the functioning of the EU and supranational governance more generally. It concludes with proposals for how to remedy the EU's problems of legitimacy, reinvigorate its national democracies, and rethink its future.
Transatlantic Security from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa
As the so-called Arab Spring has slid into political uncertainty, lingering insecurity and civil conflict, European and American initial enthusiasm for anti-authoritarian protests has given way to growing concerns that revolutionary turmoil in North Africa may in fact have exposed the West to new risks. Critical in cementing this conviction has been the realisation that developments originated from Arab Mediterranean countries and spread to the Sahel have now such a potential to affect Western security and interests as to warrant even military intervention, as France’s operation in Mali attests. EU and US involvement in fighting piracy off the Horn of Africa had already laid bare the nexus...
European Union Political Economy
The European political economy: policy and theory, provides students, researchers and policy makers with a profound understanding of the theory and policy of the EU. The book covers in a comprehensive way the key issue areas of the European Union activity and it includes an analysis of all the important current developments in Europe such as the Brexit, the European Union sovereign debt crisis, the European economic governance problems and the macroeconomic adjustment challenges within Eurozone. The book also includes critical resources for readers and students such as review questions, appendixes, references and further reading lists. More specifically, the textbook explains thoroughly the ...
Promoting Stability and Development in Africa
Africa is experiencing one of the greatest transformations of its history. Today’s Sub-Saharan Africa is still marked by enduring instability, mass migrations and crises, but at the same time it is also characterised by positive developments including economic growth and regional integration. This publication sheds light on these changes from three perspectives: economic policies and sustainable development; good governance and democracy; peace and security. Research in relevant regions in Sub-Saharan Africa and key countries (Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa) has been conducted by African and European experts with the aim of assessing the role of the private sector and determining the partner-ship opportunities that could potentially be developed with the public sector. A series of policy recommendations are offered to the European Union on how to tackle these opportunities in cooperation with old and new actors.
Italy and the Security in the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean is a highly interconnected geopolitical space in which instability, conflict and insecurity have increased dramatically in the last few years. Today, Mediterranean security is even more central to the national interests of Italy, and therefore requires a continuous, systematic and in-depth reflection by the country’s elites and public opinion. The book aims to contribute to this reflection by addressing the issue with a comprehensive and pragmatic approach. The first chapter analyses the “arc of crisis” in the Arab world, linking current instability and conflicts to the socio-economic, religious, political and geopolitical dynamics. The second chapter focuses on the M...
A Bed of Earth
In this “deliciously creepy” novel by the Bram Stoker Award winner, two feuding families face supernatural vengeance in a parallel 16th-century Venice (Publishers Weekly). In the City of Venus, two noble families—the della Scorpias and the Barbarons—have been locked in a bitter dispute over burial grounds on the overcrowded Isle of the Dead. But it is fourteen-year-old Meralda della Scorpia who pays the ultimate price for their rivalry. As years pass, parties complicit in her disappearance begin to suffer the consequences. Their shocking deaths can only mean one thing: A supernatural force has been unearthed from the city’s rotting understructure. As these bizarre events throw the city into a panic, a humble apprentice gravedigger is left to sort out the mysteries and subdue the ancient terror that threatens to destroy the entire republic.
Governing Europe
A collection of the contributions to the CSF-IAI Governing Europe project, which tackles the current situation and future developments of the European mechanism of governance, putting forward policy and institutional recommendations, aimed at improving the democratic nature and the effectiveness of the European decision-making processes.
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La sicurezza nel Mediterraneo e l'Italia
Il Mediterraneo costituisce uno spazio geopolitico estremamente interconnesso, che negli ultimi anni ha visto aumentare drammaticamente l’instabilità, la conflittualità e l’insicurezza al suo interno. La sicurezza nel Mediterraneo è oggi ancora più centrale per gli interessi nazionali dell’Italia, e necessita quindi di una riflessione continua, sistematica e approfondita da parte della classe dirigente e dell’opinione pubblica del Paese. Il Quaderno intente dare un contributo a tale riflessione affrontando la tematica con un approccio omnicomprensivo e pragmatico. Il primo capitolo analizza l’arco di crisi nel mondo arabo, collegando l’instabilità e la conflittualità attual...
Rapporto sulla politica estera italiana: il governo Renzi
Le sfide più impegnative di politica estera con cui si è misurato il governo Renzi la crescente instabilità del vicinato, la crisi migratoria, l’acuirsi della minaccia terroristica, le riemergenti turbolenze finanziarie – possono trovare un’efficace risposta solo a livello europeo, in una rinnovata capacità dei membri dell’Ue di agire in modo collettivo e solidale. L’Unione europea è in effetti rimasta il principale campo di azione della diplomazia italiana. Tuttavia, i progetti di riforma delle politiche Ue sostenuti o promossi dal governo, che miravano a rafforzare i meccanismi e gli strumenti di integrazione e solidarietà fra i paesi membri in settori chiave come la govern...
