Out of the EU Waiting Room
Author: Natasha Wunsch
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9788683411825
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Macroeconomic Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Neven Vidaković
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-07-17
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 3030754448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines economic policies utilized within Southeast Europe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering countries both within and outside the European Union, the human and economic cost of the pandemic is calculated using macroeconomic models from a short and longer term perspective. The economic policies used during the pandemic are analyzed, alongside crisis management approaches, to highlight the effectiveness of monetary policy, fiscal policies and potential future economic solutions for the post COVID-19 period. This book aims to provide policy recommendations based on findings from Southeast Europe. It is relevant to researchers and policymakers involved in economic policy and the political economy, as well as anyone interested in the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Opting Out of the European Union
Author: Rebecca Adler-Nissen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-08-14
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1107043212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides the first in-depth account of how European Union opt-outs and differentiated integration work in practice.
OECD Health Policy Studies Waiting Times for Health Services Next in Line
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9264989048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe report reviews a range of policies that countries have used to tackle waiting times for different services, including elective surgery and primary care consultations, but also cancer care and mental health services, with a focus on identifying the most successful ones.
Provincializing Europe
Author: Dipesh Chakrabarty
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-06-05
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1400828651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and sovereignty. Measured against such mythical standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often seemed either incomplete or lacking. Provincializing Europe proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their thought--categories into the categories and self-understandings of capitalist modernity. Now featuring a new preface in which Chakrabarty responds to his critics, this book globalizes European thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins.
Challenges and Barriers to the European Union Expansion to the Balkan Region
Author: Costa, Bruno Ferreira
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2022-01-21
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1799890570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite all efforts to create a political union capable of improving European citizens’ quality of life, there are several barriers to the European Union’s (EU) expansion to the Balkan Region. The EU enlargement and expansion to the Balkan Region is one of the Union’s greatest challenges and political objectives in recent years. In the turmoil of economic, social, and sanitarian crises, where is the space to debate the enlargement of the EU? Challenges and Barriers to the European Union Expansion to the Balkan Region presents the EU’s structure, the process of enlargement, and the challenges related to the Balkan region. This book addresses critical issues and challenges in the EU and the emerging trends for the EU’s future. Covering topics such as enlargement policy, integration, NATO, and political challenges, this book is a valuable resource for post-grad students of political science and international affairs, faculty of higher education, researchers, academicians, politicians, world leaders, and policymakers.
Living Alliances, Leaving Alliances
Author: Franck Orban
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Published: 2022-01-20
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 3830944497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout history, alliances have taken many different forms and they have been difficult to understand in their totality. As we now experience an unprecedented pandemic, which highlights the need for both external alliances between states and internal alliances between governments and populations, understanding alliances is more than ever critical to apprehend an open and interactive world that knows no borders and in which challenges imposed on humans are global. The book “Living Alliances, Leaving Alliances” is an interdisciplinary approach to investigating past, present and future alliances on an interpersonal, subnational, international and transnational level. It is the result of a two-year project by AreaS, a research group in area studies located at the Østfold University College in Norway.
Cultures of Democracy in Serbia and Bulgaria
Author: Dr James Dawson
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-12-28
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1472443101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a time when some EU member states are attracting attention for the rise to power of illiberal, anti-democratic political movements, this book’s analytical focus on ideas and identities helps explain why institutional progress is not necessarily reflected in the formation of liberal, democratic publics. Starting from the premise that citizens can only uphold the institutions of liberal democracy when they understand and identify with the principles enshrined in them, the author applies normative public sphere theory to the analysis of political discourse and everyday discussion in Serbia and Bulgaria. From this perspective, the Serbian public sphere is observed to be more contested, pluralist and, at the margins, liberal than that of Bulgaria. Considering that Bulgaria has been a full EU member since 2007 while Serbia remains stuck in the waiting room, it is argued that democratic cultures are not shaped by elite-led drives to meet institutional criteria but rather by the spread of ideas through politics, the media and the discussions of citizens. Moving beyond the narrow focus on institutions that currently prevails in studies of democratization, this book demonstrates the value of a more ethnographic and society-oriented approach.
EU Rule of Law Promotion
Author: Marko Kmezic
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-10-14
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1317140176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo EU institutions have an influence on the implementation of the rule of law in potential candidate countries and, if so, of what kind? During the compliance monitoring process related to the effective rule of law and democracy the EU Commission tests and criticizes the effectiveness of the judiciary and strengthens the rule of law in preparation for accession. In the Western Balkans this was a process fraught with difficulties. Despite the fact that academic scholarship and democratic politics agree on rule of law as a legitimizing principle for the exercise of state authority, there is no uniform European standard for institution-building or monitoring activities by the EU in this area. With focus on the reform of the judiciary in five case study countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, this empirical research investigates the EU's transformative power with regard to the effectiveness of rule of law and judicial sector reform in its infancy. It analyses the depth and limitations of EU rule of law promotion in the Western Balkans and presents policy recommendations intended to address the shortcomings in judiciary reform. This book aims to fill the gap in the existing academic scholarship of EU politics, law and Western Balkans literature.
East African Community Law
Author: Emmanuel Ugirashebuja
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-03-06
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 9004322078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEast African Community Law provides a comprehensive and open-access text book on EAC law. Written by leading experts, including the president of the EACJ, national judges, academics and practitioners, it provides the most complete overview to date of this increasingly important field. Uniquely, the book also provides a systematic comparison with EU law. EU companion chapters provide concise overviews of EU law and its development, offering valuable inspiration for the application and further development of EAC law. The book has been written for all practitioners, judges, civil servants, academics and students faced with questions of EAC law. It discusses institutional, substantive and jurisdictional issues, including the nature of EAC law, free movement and competition law as well as the reception of EAC law in Partner States.
