Contemporary issues and debates in EU policy: The European Union and international relations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719064198 ISBN 13: 9780719064197

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This book examines a broad range of fiercely debated contemporary issues which are shaping the policy-making agenda in international relations, and particularly European affairs, in the early twenty-first century. Since the late 1980s, the EU has faced the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet bloc, followed by more than a dozen new applications for membership; the re-unification of Germany; various ethnic conflicts; a fragmenting Yugoslavia and the dramas of Bosnia and Kosovo accompanied by rising waves of refugees and immigration; and a troublesome but successful completion of Monetary Union. The impact of all this upon the continuing integration of Europe, and upon its frameworks of governance and policy-making, is evidently huge. The central theme of the book is to consider the concepts of interdependence and the effectiveness of cooperation in addressing these issues

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About the Author:

Vassiliki N. Koutrakou is Lecturer in European Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in European Studies (CREST) at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0719064198
• ISBN 13: 9780719064197
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Koutrakou Vassiliki