Innovative Union Practices in Central-Eastern Europe
Author: Magdalena Bernaciak (politolog)
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9782874524493
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Handbook on the EU and International Trade
Author: Sangeeta Khorana
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2018-08-31
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1785367471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook on the EU and International Trade presents a multidisciplinary overview of the major perspectives, actors and issues in contemporary EU trade relations. Changes in institutional dynamics, Brexit, the politicisation of trade, competing foreign policy agendas, and adaptation to trade patterns of value chains and the digital and knowledge economy are reshaping the European Union's trade policy. The authors tackle how these challenges frame the aims, processes and effectiveness of trade policy making in the context of the EU's trade relations with developed, developing and emerging states in the global economy.
Interest Representation and Europeanization of Trade Unions from EU Member States of the Eastern Enlargement
Author: Christin Landgraf
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9783838207445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the integration of trade unions from the six biggest countries of the EU's Eastern enlargement of EU governance structures. Based on more than 150 in-depth interviews, comprehensive data, document research, and eight detailed case studies, contributions describe the activities and perceptions of the trade unions under investigation and different levels of engagement, including European umbrella organizations, interregional cooperation, and European Works Councils. The book contributes to political science research on interest representation and Europeanization, as well as sociological research on labor relations.
Globalization and the State in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Jan Drahokoupil
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0415466032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the transformation of the state in Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism and adoption of market oriented reform in the early 1990s, exploring the impact of globalization and economic liberalization on the region’s states, societies and political economy. It compares the different policies and national strategies adopted by key Central and Eastern European states, including the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, showing how initial internally oriented strategies of market reform, privileging domestic sources of investment, had by the late 1990s given way to externally oriented strategies emphasising the promotion of competitiveness by attracting foreign investment. It explores the reasons behind this convergence, considering the influence of internal and external forces, and the roles of interests, institutions and ideas. It argues that internationalization of the state is forged in the processes through which domestic groups linked to transnational capital attain domestic influence necessary to shape state policy and strategy. These groups — the comprador service sector in particular — constitute and organize political, social and institutional support of the competition state in the region. Overall, this book not only provides a detailed account of the political economy of post-communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, but also the processes by which states adapt to the forces of globalization.
Turkey and Central and Eastern European Countries in Transition
Author: V. Balasubramanyam
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0333978005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a comparative study of the Central and Eastern European and Turkish economies that analyses the implications of EU enlargement. The contributors discuss issues related to the creation of a legal infrastructure that encourages entrepreneurial initiative, fair competition, market forces and investor confidence. They assess the benefits of following prudent monetary and fiscal policies together with appropriate competition, trade and foreign direct investment policies in Turkey and Central and Eastern Europe.
Democracy Promotion and the Normative Power Europe Framework
Author: Marek Neuman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-07-20
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 331992690X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a topical, holistic assessment of the European Union’s democracy promotion in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, analyzed through the prism of the Normative Power Europe (NPE) framework of transnational policy formation. To do so, it brings together three scholarly domains that traditionally stand apart and are discussed separately. The first addresses the notion of the European Union conducting a normatively-driven foreign policy both near and far abroad. The second is concerned with the legitimacy, operationality, and effectiveness of promoting democracy in third-world countries. The third addresses the quality of the relationship the European Union has been able to establish with some vital – yet often troubled – countries in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Finally, based on the empirical findings presented in each chapter, this volume concludes by rethinking the concept and relevance of NPE to the field’s understanding of the EU’s foreign policy making. This edited volume offers the reader both a theoretically and empirically rich analysis of the European Union’s efforts to promote democracy abroad. As such is scholars and students of EU studies, particularly EU foreign policy, as well as policy makers at EU and national level and civil society representatives responsible for designing/implementing democracy promoting projects on the ground.
Labour and Social Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Violaine Delteil
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-22
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1317402197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver a quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 10 years after their accession to the European Union (EU), Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEECs) still show marked differences with the rest of Europe in the fields of labour, work and industrial relations. This book presents a detailed and original analysis of labour and social transformations in the CEECs. By examining a wide range of countries in Central Europe, Labour and Social Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe offers a comprehensive and contrasting view of labour developments in Central and Eastern Europe. Chapters explore three related issues. The first deals with the understanding of the complex process of Europeanization applied in the sphere of labour, employment and industrial relations. The second issue refers to the attempt to link the Europeanization approach with an analysis mobilizing the theoretical concept of "dependent capitalism(s)". The third issue refers to the cumulative trends of labour weakening and labour awakening that has emerged, in particular in the aftermath of the crisis beginning in 2007-2008. This book will be of interest to academics, policy makers and stakeholders at European and national level in the EU member states.
The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Frank Schimmelfennig
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780801489617
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949: Eastern Europe; the Soviet Union
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 1032
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmigration and Its Economic Impact on Eastern Europe
Author: Mr.Ruben Atoyan
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2016-07-20
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1498367453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper analyses the impact of large and persistent emigration from Eastern European countries over the past 25 years on these countries’ growth and income convergence to advanced Europe. While emigration has likely benefited migrants themselves, the receiving countries and the EU as a whole, its impact on sending countries’ economies has been largely negative. The analysis suggests that labor outflows, particularly of skilled workers, lowered productivity growth, pushed up wages, and slowed growth and income convergence. At the same time, while remittance inflows supported financial deepening, consumption and investment in some countries, they also reduced incentives to work and led to exchange rate appreciations, eroding competiveness. The departure of the young also added to the fiscal pressures of already aging populations in Eastern Europe. The paper concludes with policy recommendations for sending countries to mitigate the negative impact of emigration on their economies, and the EU-wide initiatives that could support these efforts.
