Revisiting European Security

Revisiting European Security

Author: Hatice Yazgan

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1527560104

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The EU is currently facing multiple crises, ranging from democratic backsliding to migration, and its so-called “rule-based order” is challenged by both internal and international circumstances. Nevertheless, the EU is an evolving international actor and, despite the shortfalls, it has provoked the hopes of being a normative international actor which defends multilateralism and rule-based order. This edited volume re-examines the EU as an international actor and power in the context of recent challenges both in the EU and in international politics, and addresses the following questions: Does the EU make a difference in various regions and issue areas? Is it influential and visible? What kind of a power is the EU regarding these regions? How is the EU perceived by other powers? What are the main threats perceived by the EU and how will the EU address these threats? How will the EU defend its values under current circumstances? This research focuses on the migration and asylum policies of the EU as a key area, and examines the EU’s role as an international actor in neighbouring regions and in Africa and China. The book provides a context in current international circumstances and will be useful for students and practitioners.


Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy

Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy

Author: Ben Tonra

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780719060021

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This text reviews a variety of approaches to the study of the European Union's foreign policy. Much analysis of EU foreign policy contains implicit theoretical assumptions about the nature of the EU and its member states, their inter-relationships, the international system in which they operate and the nature and direction of European integration. In many instances such assumptions, given that they are not discussed openly, curtail rather than facilitate debate. The purpose of this book is to open up this field of enquiry so that students, observers and analysts of EU foreign policy can review a broad range of tools and theoretical templates from which the development and the trajectory of the EU's foreign policy can be studied.


Revisiting EU-Africa Relations in a Changing World

Revisiting EU-Africa Relations in a Changing World

Author: Fargion, Valeria

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1839109823

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This timely book explores the current state of EU-Africa relations from a multidisciplinary perspective, placing emphasis on recent developments in five areas that are crucial for EU-Africa relations: development cooperation, trade, migration, security and democratization. It considers how Africa’s dependence on the EU has decreased due to the declining importance of development cooperation, and increasing cooperation with emerging powers, notably the BRIC nations.


European Security in NATO's Shadow

European Security in NATO's Shadow

Author: Stephanie C. Hofmann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-01-03

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1107029090

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This book asks why European countries tried to build a security institution outside of NATO, emphasising the influence of political party ideologies.


Revisiting Proportionality in International and European Law

Revisiting Proportionality in International and European Law

Author: Ulf Linderfalk

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-05-12

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9004448071

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In this edited volume, scholars from a wide range of areas of international law consider whose interests are at stake in the application of the principle of proportionality. In so doing, the volume casts new light this important principle.


The European Security and Defense Policy

The European Security and Defense Policy

Author: Robert E. Hunter

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2002-04-29

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0833032283

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The emergence of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) in the last two-thirds of the 1990s and continuing into the new century, has been a complex process intertwining politics, economics, national cultures, and numerous institutions. This book provides an essential background for understanding how security issues as between NATO and the European Union are being posed for the early part of the 21st century, including the new circumstances following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. This study should be of interest to those interested in the evolution of U.S.-European relations, especially in, but not limited to, the security field; the development of institutional relationships; and key choices that lie ahead in regard to these critical arrangements.


Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System

Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System

Author: K. Aaslestad

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-29

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1137345578

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Economic warfare during the Napoleonic era transformed international commerce; redirecting trade and generating illicit commerce. This volume re-evaluates the Continental System through urban and regional case studies that analyze the power triangle of the French, British and neutral powers and their strategies to adapt to trade restrictions.


Open Door

Open Door

Author: Daniel S. Hamilton

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781733733922

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NATO's decision to open itself to new members and new missions is one of the most contentious and least understood issues of the post-Cold War world. This book, an unusual and intriguing blend of memoirs and scholarship, takes us back to the decade when those momentous decisions were made. Former senior officials from the United States, Russia, Western and Eastern Europe who were directly involved in the decisions of that time describe their considerations, concerns, and pressures. They are joined by scholars who have been able to draw on newly declassified archival sources to revisit NATO's evolving role in the 1990s.


Revisiting Secularism in Theory and Practice

Revisiting Secularism in Theory and Practice

Author: Seda Ünsar

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-02-21

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 3030374564

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This book offers a philosophical and macro-historical analysis of secularism, supported by an investigation of various contemporary cases. Starting with an in-depth theoretical discussion of the meaning of secularism, it subsequently presents a historical study on the secularization of norms and identities in Europe. The respective case studies cover topics such as the epistemologies of secularism, liberalization and embedded secularism, the relationship between modernity and secularism, the socio-anthropology of secularism, Turkish modernization as a cultural revolution, the political economy of secularism in Turkey, and the secular rationale of the EU neighborhood policy.


European Security in Integration Theory

European Security in Integration Theory

Author: Kamil Zwolski

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-02-08

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 3319695177

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This book examines federalism and functionalism – two fundamental, yet largely forgotten, theories of international integration. Following the recent outbreak of the war in Ukraine, policy practitioners and scholars have been in search of a deeper understanding of the likely causes of the conflict and its consequences for the European security architecture. Various theories have been deployed to this end, but international and European integration theory remains conspicuously absent. The author shows how the core tenets of integration theories developed after World War I, particularly how they viewed territoriality and geopolitical boundaries, remain as relevant today as they were almost 100 years ago.