Development and Implementation of the Eu Grand Strategies : Sociological, Policy, and Regional Considerations of Agenda 2030

This book addresses the challenging and exciting issues of the implementation of the European Union’s grand strategies, with a particular interest in the implementation of the current Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals. It provides insight into the impact of this strategic process on some of the current global issues relevant to the European Union, such as the European and global energy market, food supplies, industrial components etc. Some of the challenges have such a strong short-term impact, that already accepted strategic priorities and decisions are being questioned and re-examined. This is a particularly exciting subject, both as a research topic and as a policy issue.

Tamara Besednjak Valič is a senior scientific associate at the Rudolfovo - Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto and associate professor of sociology at the Faculty of Information Studies and School of Advanced Social Studies (Slovenia).

Victor Cepoi is an assistant professor of sociology at the Faculty of Information Studies and the School of Advanced Social Studies (Slovenia).

Erika Džajić Uršič is a scientific associate at the Rudolfovo -Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto and assistant professor of social science informatics at the Faculty of Information Studies and School of Advanced Social Studies (Slovenia).

Urška Fric is an assistant professor of information studies at the Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto and a scientific associate at the Rudolfovo - Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto (Slovenia).

Cristian Gangaliuc is an assistant with a doctorate in sociology and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Information Studies in Novo Mesto (Slovenia).

Alenka Pandiloska Jurak is a scientific associate at the Rudolfovo - Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto and an assistant professor of sociology at the Faculty of Information Studies in Novo Mesto and at the School of Advanced Social Studies (Slovenia).

Borut Rončević is a senior research fellow at the Rudolfovo - Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto and professor of sociology at the Faculty of Information Studies and the School of Advanced Social Studies (Slovenia). He is Jean Monnet Chair, a fellow of the Regional Studies Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association.