Die nationalen und bündnisinternen Entscheidungsprozesse auf dem Weg zum Atlantischen Bündnis vor dem Hintergrund beunruhigend empfundener Bedrohungsvorstellungen geben in multinationaler Perspektive auf teils neu erschlossener Quellengrundlage umfassend Einblick in die höchst unterschiedlichen Interessen und Motive, aus denen sich die internationalen und nationalen Akteure auf eine solidarische Allianz einließen.
Das vorliegende Lehrbuch gibt dem interessierten Leser auf hohem wissenschaftlichem Niveau einen profunden Überblick über die wichtigsten Organisationen und Institutionen im weiten Bereich internationaler wirtschaftlicher Kooperation und Integration – zum Beispiel: die WTO, den internationalen Währungsfonds, die Weltbank sowie die OECD und die Europäische Union.
The year 2023 marked the tenth anniversary of Croatia's membership of the European Union, the last acceding country to the EU, and thus represents a fitting opportunity to explore the political, economic and social dimensions of this tremendous transformation.
Dieses Buch gibt dem Leser Einblicke in die Arbeitsweise der etwas verborgenen Welt der globalen Entwicklungs-Organisationen auf dem Gebiet der Wasserwirtschaft im landwirtschaftlichen Sektor.
This new work examines how the European states, the United Kingdom and the United States will approach the defence and Security of Europe in the medium and long-term.
The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the present.
Russia's intervention in the Ukraine, Donald Trump's presidency and instability in the Middle East are just a few of the factors that have brought an end to the immediate post-Cold War belief that a new international order was emerging: one where fear and uncertainty gave way to a thick normative and institutional architecture that diminished the importance of material power.
This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice.
Much attention has been paid to the ongoing and unpredictable Brexit negotiations between the EU and the UK, but much less on what the absence of the UK might entail for the remaining 27 EU Member States.
This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.
This book offers a theoretically informed study of recent Chinese initiatives to provide forms of regional economic governance; or as it is often termed in Chinese discourses, regional "e;public goods"e;.
This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges faced during the resolution's first decade.
This book takes up one of the key theoretical challenges in the English School's conceptual framework, namely the nature of the institutions of international society.
This book describes the problems of intelligence sharing among peacekeeping partners, mainly due to security concerns and a lack of policies and resources.
Within the context of regional integration, comparative regionalism, organizational change, and regional security literatures, this book investigates three cases wherein regional economic organizations were confronted with conventional security threats: the 1978-91 Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Vietnam Standoff, the 1990 Economic Community of West Africa-Liberian Civil War Challenge, and the 1990-91 European Communities-Balkans Crisis.
In the last two decades, Turkey has witnessed a variety of bordering interventions rooted in its problematisation as variously "e;transit,"e; "e;destination,"e; "e;European,"e; "e;Muslim"e; and "e;safe.