Constructing the Limits of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructing the Limits of Europe write by Rumena Filipova. This book was released on 2022-04-30. Constructing the Limits of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comparative study harks back to the revolutionary year of 1989 and asks two critical questions about the resulting reconfiguration of Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of communism: Why did Central and East European states display such divergent outcomes of their socio-political transitions? Why did three of those states—Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia—differ so starkly in terms of the pace and extent of their integration into Europe? Rumena Filipova argues that Poland’s, Bulgaria’s, and Russia’s dominating conceptions of national identity have principally shaped these countries’ foreign policy behavior after 1989. Such an explanation of these three nations’ diverging degrees of Europeanization stands in contrast to institutionalist-rationalist, interest-based accounts of democratic transition and international integration in post-communist Europe. She thereby makes a case for the need to include ideational factors into the study of International Relations and demonstrates that identities are not easily malleable and may not be as fluid as often assumed. She proposes a theoretical “middle-ground” argument that calls for “qualified post-positivism” as an integrated perspective that combines positivist and post-positivist orientations in the study of IR.
The Limits of Europe
The Limits of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Limits of Europe write by Daniel C. Thomas. This book was released on 2021. The Limits of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Where does Europe begin and end? How have the European Union and its precursors decided which countries are eligible to join the community and which are not? Few issues are more hotly debated, more important for the course of European integration, or more consequential for individuals in and around the EU. As this book demonstrates, the limits of Europe are determined by the values shared at particular moments in time by the leaders of the community's member states, regardless of their particular policy preferences. These membership norms shape the community's decisions on enlargement by empowering certain political forces and disempowering others. And contrary to conventional wisdom, these norms have changed considerably over time. The Limits of Europe: Membership Norms and the Contestation of Regional Integration uses a novel combination of normative genealogy, statistical analysis and detailed tracing of EU decision-making on Greece, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine to demonstrate that changing membership norms have had a stronger impact on the community's enlargement since the 1950s than treaty rules, the location of the states seeking membership, or even the commercial or security interests of member states.
France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007
France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007 write by Michael Sutton. This book was released on 2011-03. France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive history shows how France coupled the pursuit of power and the furtherance of European integration over a 60 year period, from the close of the Second World War to the hesitation caused by the French electorate's referendum rejection of the European Union's constitutional treaty in 2005.
Constructing European Union Trade Policy
Constructing European Union Trade Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructing European Union Trade Policy write by Gabriel Siles-Brügge. This book was released on 2014-02-18. Constructing European Union Trade Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the stagnation of the Doha Round of multilateral talks, trade liberalisation is increasingly undertaken through free trade agreements. Gabriel Siles-Brügge examines the EU's decision following the 2006 'Global Europe' strategy to negotiate such agreements with emerging economies. Eschewing the purely materialist explanations prominent in the field, he develops a novel constructivist argument to highlight the role of language and ideas in shaping EU trade policy. Drawing on extensive interviews and documentary analysis, Siles-Brügge shows how EU trade policymakers have privileged the interests of exporters to the detriment of import-competing groups, creating an ideational imperative for market-opening. Even during the on-going economic crisis the overriding mantra has been that the EU's future well-being depends on its ability to compete in global markets. The increasingly neoliberal orientation of EU trade policy has also had important consequences for its economic diplomacy with the developing economies of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states.
The Search for Europe
The Search for Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Search for Europe write by Daron Acemoglu. This book was released on 2016. The Search for Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is now the eighth in the annual series sponsored by BBVA as part of its OpenMind initiative, which is devoted to disseminating knowledge on key issues of our time. The Search for Europe analyses the present and future of the old continent and its integration project, surely the most ambitious political and economic integration project ever attempted in history, a benchmark for similar processes in other regions. The book is divided into three main sections: "The economic foundations of the European project", "Europe and its nations: Politics, society and culture", and "The unresolved Limits of Europe and the new global powers". It features pieces written by international experts such as Javier Solana, Barry Eichengreen, Philip Cooke, Bichara Khader, Vivien Ann Schmidt, John Peet and Thomas Christiansen, among others.
