The Wider Europe Matrix
Author: Michael Emerson
Publisher: CEPS
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9789290794691
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Regional Economic Growth, SMEs and the Wider Europe
Author: B. Fingleton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-22
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1351771272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2003. This work intends to make an important and interesting contribution to the wider debate on European regional development. It looks beyond the confines of the EU proper and combines interesting and relevant case studies from a broader pan-European perspective. Also, the approaches adopted are informed by a variety of theoretical positions. By addressing the changing roles of SMEs in different regions of Eastern Europe, readers should gain insights into the different dimensions of SME development and the link between SMEs and regional growth.
The Boundaries of EU Enlargement
Author: J. DeBardeleben
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-12-14
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0230591043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2004 and 2007 enlargements pushed the EU's external border further east as well as closer to unstable areas in the western Balkans. With future enlargements unlikely in the short-term, the EU faces new challenges in securing stable relationships with these neighbouring countries, while not fostering false hopes of early accession.
Readings in European Security
Author: François Heisbourg
Publisher: CEPS
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9290795905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume serves as a prism through which the European Union's external relations and security can be assessed. Experts tackle strategic issues such as Russia's relationship with the West, the rise of China (with special reference to arms supplies), Iran"s nuclear program, and European homeland security against the background of global terrorism. On these issues and others, transatlantic relations continue to be more relevant than ever, with the United States and the EU intertwined in the world's tightest network of economic and societal relations. As the enlarging EU stretches to cover an expanding area of competence, its responses to these challenges affect not only its internal security but increasingly that of its neighbors and other powerful actors on the world stage.
The European Union and its Eastern Neighbours
Author: Elena Korosteleva
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1136471782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours. Based on extensive original research – including surveys, focus-groups, a study of school essays and in-depth interviews with key people in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia and in Brussels – it assesses why the EU’s initiatives have received limited legitimacy in the neighbourhood. The European Neighbourhood Policy of 2004, and the subsequent Eastern Partnership of 2009 heralded a new form of relations with the EU’s neighbours – partnership based on joint ownership and shared values – which would complement if not entirely replace the EU’s traditional governance framework used for enlargement. These initiatives have, however, received a mixed response from the EU’s eastern neighbours. The book shows how the key elements of partnership have been forged mainly by the EU, rather than jointly, and examines the idea and application of external governance, and how this has been over-prescriptive and confusing.
The EU's Experience in Integration
Author: Lisheng Dong
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9783039114290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thirteen ASEAN+3 countries are inching forward toward closer economic cooperation. Can the European Union serve as a model for this Asian interregional integration process? Although there are common cultural threads running through all ASEAN+3 countries, these countries have not so far envisaged themselves forming a political and supra-national legal community similar to the EU. Nevertheless, the EU as innovator and forerunner offers Asia an unparalleled road map to further regional integration. Where are the boundaries of the European Model? What form will Asian economic cooperation take? Asian and European scholars discussed these and other pressing questions on the invitation of the EU-China European Studies Centres Programme (ESCP) at a conference entitled «The EU's Experience in Integration - A Model for ASEAN+3?» held in Shanghai in January 2006. Their findings are presented in this collection of fifteen papers on politics, economics and history of the two regions.
Europeanization and Conflict Resolution
Author: Bruno Coppieters
Publisher: Academia Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789038206486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume studies the relevance of European integration for conflict settlement and conflict resolution in divided states such as Cyprus or Serbia and Montenegro.
Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement
Author: Warwick Armstrong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-04-24
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1134301324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an integral picture of the EU's internal and external borders to reveal the processes of re-bordering and social change currently taking place, exploring issues such as security, immigration, economic development and changing social and political attitudes.
The New Basel Capital Accord and the Future of the European Financial System
Author: Rym Ayadi
Publisher: CEPS
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9789290794905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of this report is to provide a detailed, up-to-date and critical analysis of the New Basel Capital Accord framework. It focuses on the limitations and pitfalls that may deserve further investigation, particularly at the European level. Moreover, it provides a provisional assessment of its effects on small- and medium-sized European banks, as well as small- and medium-sized European enterprises. It examines the procyclicality of the new Accord and offers mechanisms to counter it. Finally, it addresses the challenges of implementing the new rules at the EU level.
Europe's Relations with North Africa
Author: Adam Yousef
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-04-25
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1786721686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rapid evolution of events in the European, Middle Eastern, and North African spheres has reinvigorated the debate on Euro-Mediterranean relations. Since 1995 these relations have operated under the auspices of the Barcelona Process, which laid the foundations for three initiatives that define European policy towards neighbouring states: the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the European Neighbourhood Policy, and the Union for the Mediterranean. This book scrutinises these initiatives through a socioeconomic prism. Adam Yousef reviews how appropriate these initiatives have been in promoting socioeconomic development in North African states, projects the long-term implications of these policies and investigates whether they can reduce the gap in social outcomes across the Mediterranean Basin over time. Using Morocco as a case study, this book employs a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative and quantitative data as well as economic theory. It reveals not only that the Barcelona Process has had a limited impact on promoting social outcomes in Morocco, but crucially that it is also unlikely to do so in the future, suggesting a new approach may be required.
