This book examines the role of European Union EU agencies in the EU s external border control policy looking at how the empowerment of particular bodies has shaped the management of their external borders and influenced EU governance more broadly. This book exami... Lees meer.

This book sits at the intersection of three main interrelated themes - EU citizenship the current state of the university in Europe and student mobility - as they play out in the context of an EU funded programme established not least to promote European identity Eur... Lees meer.

This comparative book analyses the development of regional integration parliaments in three different continents of the world. It assesses and compares the expansion and current stage of institutional development of three regional assemblies the European Parliament t... Lees meer.

Written by a leading international expert on European integration this volume examines the European Union in a period of hesitation about future integration in the early twenty-first century. This book provides an innovative examination of the European Union as it... Lees meer.

Russia s impact on EU policy transfer to the post-Soviet space has not been as negative as often perceived. EU policies have traveled to countries and issue areas in which the dependence on Russia is high and Russian foreign policy is increasingly assertive. This book... Lees meer.

This book fills a gap in academic literature on the politics and public policy aspects of central banking in Europe by conducting a theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded analysis of central banking governance before and after the establishment of the Economic... Lees meer.

The book examines the behaviour of the European Commission in EU external energy relations paying particular attention to the dynamics existing between the Commission and the member states. The Dynamics of EU External Energy Relations examines the behaviour of the E... Lees meer.

This edited volume sheds light on the achievements of EU policies and programmes in the field of human rights and democracy also taking into account the challenges ahead. Though the EU has tried to place human rights and democracy at the heart of its external acti... Lees meer.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of financial accountability around the EU budget how it is spent via policies how institutions engage in checking policy performance what taxpayers money actually delivers and therein the issues of monito... Lees meer.

Empirically examining the entire development of the EU s policy towards asylum-seekers and refugees from its origins in 1993 this book analyses the extent and the modalities of the securitization of asylum-seekers and refugees in the EU. This book analyses the ex... Lees meer.

This book presents a selection of cases in which legal institutions social movements avant-gardes and minorities have tried and often succeeded to enhance the current state of human rights through traditional as well as innovative actions. While the European in... Lees meer.

The post-Cold War era saw an unexpected increase in intra-state violence against ethnic and religious groups brutal civil wars and asymmetric conflicts. Those crises posed fundamental questions for the European Union and its member states to which Europe has so far pr... Lees meer.

The delegation of policy-competencies to the European Union has changed the context in which national actors form their interests and represent them. Shaping European markets and societies EU regulation has important effects in the member states. This book analyses how... Lees meer.

Through the study of five ethno-political conflicts lying on or just beyond Europe s borders this book analyzes the impact and effectiveness of EU foreign policy on conflict resolution. Conflict resolution features strongly as an objective of the European Union s forei... Lees meer.

This book examines the role of European Union EU agencies in the EU s external border control policy looking at how the empowerment of particular bodies has shaped the management of their external borders and influenced EU governance more broadly. Focusing on four ke... Lees meer.