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.


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.


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 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.


Rethinking Security in Post-Cold-War Europe

Rethinking Security in Post-Cold-War Europe

Author: William Park

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1317884574

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Provides a survey of the principal items on the agenda following the end of the Cold War, focusing upon the institutions and regions where the reconsideration of security issues has been particularly profound. The book is organised into three main sections: the first examines the changed roles of the main security institutions which have survived the Cold War; NATO, the European Union/Western European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The second analyses the Central European countries, Russia and States of the former Soviet Union in terms of their ideologies, political structures and relationships of the Cold War period. Lastly the text examines the northern and southern regions of Europe where quite different perspectives and agendas are concerned.


Revisiting the European Union as Empire

Revisiting the European Union as Empire

Author: Hartmut Behr

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1317595114

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The European Union’s stalled expansion, the Euro deficit and emerging crises of economic and political sovereignty in Greece, Italy and Spain have significantly altered the image of the EU as a model of progressive civilization. However, despite recent events the EU maintains its international image as the paragon of European politics and global governance. This book unites leading scholars on Europe and Empire to revisit the view of the European Union as an ‘imperial’ power. It offers a re-appraisal of the EU as empire in response to geopolitical and economic developments since 2007 and asks if the policies, practices, and priorities of the Union exhibit characteristics of a modern empire. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of the EU, European studies, history, sociology, international relations, and economics.


German Strategic Culture Revisited

German Strategic Culture Revisited

Author: Tobias Wilke

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 3825807312

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On the background of the heated debates on the extension of the Bundeswehr's spatial and functional remit since the mid-1990s, the EU member-states' readiness to agree on the 2003 European Security Strategy appears puzzling, as this document sets the normative and ideational framework for a new kind of robust military engagement on a global scale. Employing epistemological ideas of the concept of strategic culture on basis of a constructivist ontology, this book explores the causal mechanisms sufficient for the origin and adaptation of a pacifist turned "normal" German strategic culture.