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European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy: When and Why do they Work?

Format: Hardback

Authored by: Clara Portela
Publication Date: July 2010
Publisher: Routledge

Pages: 208

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 and evaluates the efficacy of sanctions imposed by the EU against third countries and their ability to bring about the desired outcome.

While the principal sanctions activity of the EU takes place under the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the author also considers the suspension of development aid under the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement, the withdrawal of trade privileges under the Generalized System of Preferences and other sanctions outside these frameworks. Reviewing the sanctions practice of the EU in its virtual entirety, Portela assesses the relevance of classical sanctions theory by testing a series of hypotheses with empirical case-studies attempting to identify the determinants of success of EU sanctions.

Enhancing our understanding of the EU's international role, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics, security studies, EU studies, human rights and democracy, conflict management, IPE and development studies.

 

 

The EU through the Eyes of Asia Volume II: New Cases, New Findings

Format: Paperback

Edited by: Natalia Chaban, Martin Holland, &, Peter Ryan
Publication Date: November 2009
Publisher: World Scientific

Pages: 270 (approx)

Asia and Europe have become increasingly interconnected over the last decades, this growth in mutual interest is due largely to their economic, political, cultural, and historical ties to one another. Due to the deepening relations of the two regions, it seems natural to ask, “How is the European Union perceived in Asia?” This question has become very relevant to Asia-Europe relations, especially as the EU is usually the most significant economic partner for many Asian countries, while increasingly emerging as a prominent political and security dialogue partner for the region. This second volume offers new and reliable knowledge about the perception of the EU in Asia.

In 2006, the Asia-Europe Foundation and National Centre for Research on Europe (University of Canterbury) created the European Studies in Asia (ESiA) Network and initiated the “EU through the Eyes of Asia” survey. This unprecedented comparative study looks at the attitudes and citizens’ perceptions of the EU in Asia, and, by 2009, has been undertaken in 12 research sites throughout Asia. In each locality, the project systematically assessed daily representations of the EU in reputable local news media, as well as the EU’s imagery among the general public and the EU’s vision among the national stakeholders and opinion leaders.

Presenting the findings of this project, this book provides a systematic and detailed empirical insight into EU visibility in the public discourses of three Southeast Asian countries — Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines — the so-called “VIP”. The data and analyses in this work cover 2008 and the first half of 2009. The volume also compares the findings with those from the first stage of the project conducted in China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand in 2006 (published in the first volume in 2007). Volumes 1 & 2 of EU through the Eyes of Asia are indispensable to policy-makers and opinion leaders in the Asian and European milieux, putting forward vital recommendations to the EU, Asian governments, the media and other actors in managing relations between the two regions.

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The European Union and China: Interests and Dilemmas.

Format: Hardback

Edited by: Wiessala, Georg, John Wilson and Pradeep Taneja (Eds.)
Publication Date: November 2009
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.

Pages: 295

This volume brings together the best of contemporary critical analysis of EU-China relations, offered here by an international team of policy analysts, academics and practitioners. The fifteen chapters assembled in this book represent a wide-ranging investigation of the development and framework of EU-China relations and its wider geo-political context. This includes an examination of key areas of concern, such as human rights, economic cooperation, energy security, sports, maritime safety and media policy. Many aspects of EU-China relations covered in this title have, until now, not been available for systematic scrutiny by a wider public. Importantly, this collection presents an examination of the significance of China’s relations with selected global partners – such as the US, Russia, India and Central Asia – for the further evolution of Sino-EU interaction.

 

It should be read by anyone interested in EU foreign policies, the future of China-EU strategic partnership, China’s place in the world, and the development of a multi-polar world order.

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The Future of European Studies in Asia

Format: Paperback

Edited by: Peter Ryan, Prof. Martin Holland, &, Dr. Silviu Jora
Publication Date: September2008
Publisher: Asia Europe Foundation, European Union Institute Japan-Kansai, National Centre for Research on Europe

Pages: 188

This volume brings together eminent European Union scholars from both Europe and Asia in a timely initiative to reflect on the record of European Studies in Asia , evaluate the current state of affairs, as well as to look for best practises to guide future developments. While intentionally introspective in focus, setting out for the first time a comprehensive ana lysis is enhanced by comparative reflections from the EU experience and through the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)'s institutional experiences.

Country chapters on the EU curriculum include experiences in China , Hong Kong and Macao SARs, India , Japan , Singapore , South Korea and Thailand . Thematic contributions offer wider perspectives on Asia-Europe relations, the ASEM Education Hub, “EU perceptions” as a pedagogical contribution and the complementarity of the various EU studies organizations and initiatives that co-exist and cooperate within Asia . The experience of the College of Europe, the European University Institute and EU programmes at other European universities are also explored in other chapters in an attempt to identify any potential trends that may impact upon EU Studies in Asia in the future.

This Volume is a collection of papers presented at two workshops on EU/European Studies curriculum developments, one supported by ASEF's European Studies in Asia network and hosted by Ateneo de Manila University in December 2007, the other by the EU Institute in Japan , Kansai, hosted by Kobe University in January 2008.

The volume was co-edited by Mr. Peter Ryan, Prof. Martin Holland and Dr. Silviu Jora. The publication is a partnership between: the Asia Europe Foundation, EU Institute in Japan , Kansai , and the National Centre for Research on Europe,with the support of: the European Commission and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Crossroad Europe

'Crossroad Europe' (2009) was written by Dutch photographer and journalist Bruno van den Elshout as a result of his one-year journey through the 27 member states of the European Union. The book's many photographs and quotes draw an accurate impression of what daily life in Europe looks like.   'Crossroad Europe' is not about politics nor about exotic communities at the verge of extinction. It's about what Finns think of harsh winter weather and about how life in Romania changed drastically during the last two decades. About Italians thinking of their own coffee, food, football and fashion as superiour to everybody else's.

And about why the Danes are supposed to be the happiest EU inhabitants. It's about what young Europeans expect from the future and about their view of the outside world.

' 'Crossroad Europe' includes many interesting photographs and is a useful  travel guide for anyone travelling througout Europe. Whatever use you find for it, may it serve you as a starting point for further explorations into Europe’s marvellous cultural diversity.


For more information on the book please visit www.crossroad-europe.com

 

 

Centre for European Integration Studies (ZEI) Discussion and Working Papers

The Center for European Integration Studies is a research institute at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn. Founded in 1995, since then the centre has engaged in future-oriented research, political consultancy, events that link science with its practical application and innovative concepts of post graduate studies and advanced education. The centre has a very active publications sector, which include the ZEI Discussion paper and the ZEI Working paper.

The ZEI DISCUSSION PAPER are intended to stimulate discussion among researchers, practitioners and policy makers on current and emerging issues of European integration and Europe’s global role. They express the personal opinion of the authors. The papers often reflect on-going research projects at ZEI. The ZEI DISCUSSION PAPERs are published several times a year.

The ZEI WORKING PAPERs prominently comment on the economic and fiscal implications of the European integration process. The papers often reflect on-going research projects at ZEI. The ZEI WORKING PAPERs are published several times a year.

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Beyond 2010: Priorities and challenges for higher education in the next decade

 

Format: Paperback

Edited by: Maria Kelo
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: Bonn: Lemmens

ISBN: 978-3-932306-92-1


2010 is an important date on the European calendar. It marks the first decade of advancement on the European Lisbon goals, i.e. making Europe a globally competitive knowledge-based economy - and in education policy terms, it is a significant benchmark for both the Education and Training 2010 agenda and the higher education reforms related to the Bologna Process. However, many of the goals of these processes will not be wholly accomplished across Europe by the established timeframe, despite the ambitions and efforts.

What will be the hot issues in the next years, and what current challenges will persist well into the next decade? Where is European higher education heading and how do the global changes impact its future? This book, which is a collection of articles by renowned experts in international higher education, attempts to provide a number of responses to these questions through scrutiny of themes that will not lose their centrality at the end of this decade: student mobility, alternative delivery of international education, funding of higher education, and the impact of labour market changes on higher education. The articles in this volume are based on papers prepared for the ACA Conference Beyond 2010, held in Tallinn in June 2008.

The book can be obtained through any bookshop. It can also be ordered from the publisher, Lemmens Medien GmbH, Matthias-Grünewald-Str. 1-3, D-53175 Bonn,
tel.: +49(0)2 28/42 13 70 , fax: +49(0)2 28/42 13 7-29, E-mail: info@lemmens.de, or online via the publishers' website at http://www.lemmens.de/verlag/buecher.html.

Price: 29.80 Euro (paperback version)

 

Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux

 

Format: Hardback

Edited by : Philomena Murray
Publication Date: October 2008
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Pages: 232

This book aims to enhance our understanding of European Union-East Asia relations and of European and Asian regional integration in a comparative context. This edited collection is distinctively multidisciplinary in approach, bringing together a set of contributions which, although they share common themes, are nonetheless diverse in their subject matter and disciplinary approaches.

In investigating the external impact of the EU on the East Asian region, this book contributes to our understanding both of the EU as a political, economic and security actor with civil society dimensions and of its regional integration agenda and that agenda's influence on East Asia. In bringing together scholars from three continents, the book aims not simply to provide an examination of EU-East Asia relations, but also to explore the idea that the EU might constitute a paradigm for East Asian regionalism. It examines EU links with East Asia in the Asia Europe Meetings (ASEM), the role of formal and informal integration and networks within the East Asian region, the new wave of regionalism in Asia and the role of institutions and actors.

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