Tag: Union

Free Download Anand Menon, "The European Union: Integration and Enlargement"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1138808318 | EPUB | pages: 164 | 0.9 mb
This book explores one of the central challenges facing the EU today – how to reconcile enlargement with the pursuit of a stronger and more effective European Union. While the relationship between widening and deepening has been recognized for years as one of the big questions in the field of European integration, existing theoretical and empirical analyses of this relationship suffer from a variety of shortcomings. This book brings together a group of EU scholars who significantly advance our understanding of the relationship between widening and deepening. The contributors challenge a variety of ‘common wisdoms’ concerning the relationship between widening and deepening and offer nuanced theoretical and empirical analysis of the relationship between these two vital dimensions of European integration. Collectively, the contributors to this volume offer the most comprehensive picture available to date of the multi-faceted relationship between widening and deepening.

Free Download Melanie Torrent, Virginie Roiron, "The Commonwealth and the European Union in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities in International Relations"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138647918, 1138391719 | EPUB | pages: 134 | 0.5 mb
Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union? Is the Commonwealth of Nations still relevant for its very diverse member states, ranging from small island states to Australia and India? In contemporary British politics, both organisations have come under fierce criticism, sometimes leading to hasty assessments of historical experiences and current policies. Given the fact that the United Kingdom, Cyprys and Malta are members of both organisations, and that ‘Brexit’ would have far-ranging consequences much beyond British shores, relations between the EU and the Commonwealth have featured surprisingly rarely in major debates of international policy.

Free Download Fiscal Policy in the Southern European Union Countries: The Aftermath of COVID-19 (Contributions to Finance and Accounting) by Milan Bednář
English | May 11, 2023 | ISBN: 3031297601 | 168 pages | MOBI | 7.16 Mb
This book examines public debt hoarding within the Euro Area, which is one of the most complicated challenges regarding modern fiscal policy-making. The author offers an up-to-date analysis of the fiscal situations of Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece. The book describes key mechanisms of debt transmission, discusses the potential establishment of fiscal and debt union in the EU, identifies numerous implications, and connects the fiscal positions of the examined countries with the structural flaws of the Euro Area and the monetary policy of the European Central Bank. Moreover, the work presents an estimation of structural budget balances, including a comparison with the estimates of major international institutions such as the IMF, OECD, and European Commission. A separate chapter is devoted to analysing the fiscal policy determinants, using time series since the late 19th century, and the issue of fiscal policy efficiency. Finally, the work provides an overview of debt resolutionoptions. Overall, this book offers eight core chapters intended for the public, professional economists, and policymakers.

Free Download Arthur Meier Schlesinger, "William Sherman: Union General"
English | 2001 | pages: 81 | ISBN: 0791060055 | PDF | 6,9 mb
An easy-to-comprehend biography looks at the role William Sherman played in the Civil War, while offering readers a glimpse into the personal side of this historic figure. Simultaneous.

Free Download Sally Rohan, "The Western European Union: International Politics Between Alliance and Integration "
English | ISBN: 0714656135 | 2014 | 408 pages | EPUB | 821 KB
This full-term study of the Western European Union (WEU) brings to life the history of Europe’s search for a co-operative security and defence order, from its post World War II origins to the present day. Establishing the WEU as a support organization, designed to promote the two security "ideas" of collective defence and integration through the primary organizations of Alliance and Community, this book offers a window onto the challenges faced in the development and management of NATO and the evolving EC/EU over time. As the WEU’s historical journey unfolds, the frequently competing visions of the future organization of the European security space are exposed in the fluctuating nature of its own functional evolution and devolution. A hybrid organization driven by its dual support role, the constructively ambiguous and conveniently autonomous WEU was to provide a mechanism through which divergent interests could converge and inherent tensions be relieved, preventing NATO and EC/EU stagnation. This book offers fresh insight into the means by which the gradual transformation of the institutional framework of European security was enabled, and stakes the WEU’s claim as a fundamental and life-long contributor to the stability of the European security system.

Free Download Tim Murithi, "The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1788311507, 1788311493 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 1.0 mb
The African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace, security and development in Africa. Today, however, the intranational body is struggling in the midst of a perceived dissipating appetite for supporting continental institutions. Previously seen as the panacea to Africa’s continuing problems with violence and corruption in society, under the slogan "African Solutions to African Problems", the African Union, this book argues, seems to have run its course.

Free Download Isabelle Hertner, "Centre-left parties and the European Union: Power, accountability and democracy"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1526120356 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 0.7 mb
Does European integration contribute to, or even accelerate, the erosion of intra-party democracy? This book analyses the impact of European Union (EU) membership on power dynamics, focusing on the British Labour Party, the French Socialist Party (PS), and the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). Utilising a principal-agent framework, it investigates who within the parties determines EU policies and selects EU specialists. Drawing on original interviews with EU experts from Labour, the PS, the SPD and the Party of European Socialists (PES), as well as an e-mail questionnaire, this book reveals that European policy has remained in the hands of the party leadership. The study also suggests that the party grassroots are interested in the EU, but that interest rarely translates into influence. As regards the selection of EU specialists, this book highlights that the parties’ processes are highly political, often informal, and in some cases, undemocratic.

Free Download Chloé Brière, "Inequality and the European Union: New Frontiers in Political Science and Law "
English | ISBN: 1032821698 | 2024 | 186 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 3 MB
This book constitutes a timely and unique interdisciplinary endeavour in law and political science to investigate whether the European Union is living up to its ambitions to tackle inequalities between, across, and within European societies and states.

Free Download David Madland, "Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1501755374 | EPUB | pages: 343 | 0.9 mb
In Re-Union,David Madland explores how labor unions are essential to all workers. Yet, union systems are badly flawed and in need of rapid changes for reform. Madland’s multilayered analysis presents a solution-a model to replace the existing firm-based collective bargaining with a larger, industry-scale bargaining method coupled with powerful incentives for union membership.

Free Download Raluca Moldovan, "The European Union: Policies, Perspectives and Politics "
English | ISBN: 1536171425 | 2020 | 354 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The present volume brings together a collection of fifteen contributions both by well-known scholars and young researchers from Norway, Spain, Portugal, the Czech Republic, the United States, Germany, Ireland, and Romania, focused on various political, legal, social, and economic aspects of the contemporary European Union. The book is divided into two parts, the first one examining different EU actors, policies, and politics, from the rule of European capitalism to integration challenges, from the discourse on migration to the reform prospects of the common agricultural policy, from threats to competitiveness to the EU’s educational policies, from the potential election of the Commission president to the role of parties in the current European political landscape, and from rural and urban well-being across the Union to more technical EU law aspects. The EU’s domestic problems, ranging from the rise of populism to growing Euroscepticism in almost all member states, and from increasing public disillusionment with politicians and political processes to the never-ending chaos of Brexit, coupled with its continued inability to speak with a strong, unified voice in matters of foreign policy and international crises means that this political structure formed in the early 1950s to guarantee peace in Western Europe, which later evolved into the intricate confederative framework we know today, is facing deep, uncharted waters that may well prove difficult to navigate. The present volume aims to provide a few answers to the most pressing questions confronting today’s European Union.