This volume provides a comprehensive account of the European Union s social role in the world assessing the EU s ability to shape the social aspect of globalization from both law and political science perspectives. Focusing explicitly on the EU the authors address the... Lees meer.

This volume focuses on environmental governance as a key issue of analysis to provide an important new conceptualisation of region and regional power. Comparative Environmental Regionalism focuses on environmental governance as a key issue of analysis to provide... Lees meer.

This book provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of the link between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia as well as offering an interpretation of Russia s coherence on the international stage. This book provides an original and thoroughly... Lees meer.

A reconceptualization of the concept of region and its function within power and order systems. Regional Powers and Regional Orders presents a re-examination and re-conceptualization of the concept of region and its function within power and order systems. Util... Lees meer.

This book seeks to understand how governance agendas are constructed at both the global and national levels and asks what factors define success and failure in their implementation. It features case studies drawn from Africa Latin America and Asia. This book is ab... Lees meer.

Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only - or even the most important - determinants of those political economic and social developments and dynamics that shape the modern world. This book analyses the increasing impact of non... Lees meer.

This book explores the EU s approach toward civil society since the 1990s and its contribution to democratisation from transition to consolidation and from the quality of democracy to sustainable development. Since the end of the Cold War the promotion of democrac... Lees meer.

Utilises case studies and a comparative country thematic approach to prove a compehensive survey of the regulation and governance of knowledge flow research and innovation. There is an increasing scientific and political sensibility for questions regarding the g... Lees meer.

This book considers the interactions between Africa Asia and Europe analysing the short and long term strategies various states have adopted to external relations. The urgency attached to the agenda of international terrorism and human and drugs- trafficking has force... Lees meer.

This book is about the way governance has become the new orthodoxy of development following earlier failed attempts at building working market economies through policy reform in developing countries. Considering how its proponents define good governance the contrib... Lees meer.

Since the end of the Cold War the promotion of democracy has occupied centre stage in global politics and in the academic debate on international relations. Governments intergovernmental agencies and international donors have invested significant resources to support... Lees meer.

This book examines the link between political identity and legitimacy in the European Union. Stimulated by the crisis of legitimacy and identity suffered by the EU after the referenda on the Constitutional Treaty the editors have developed a theoretical framework to ex... Lees meer.

This book explores and analyses the multidimensional influence the European Union exerts in the world focusing on its contribution to regional and global governance. Presenting a multidisciplinary approach with contributions by a panel of outstanding scholars from poli... Lees meer.

Written by leading experts in the field this volume identifies European collective preferences and analyzes to what extent these preferences inform and shape EU foreign policy and are shared by other actors in the international system. While studies of the EU s foreign... Lees meer.

This book brings together a cluster of high profile scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to debate the ontological and epistemological aspects of research on identity and legitimacy formation in the EU. How can we conceptualize identity and legitimacy in... Lees meer.