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• Transforming South-East Europe: A Challenge for Smart Power.- Greece-France: A New Alliance.- The Czech Presidency of the European Union: A Return to Roots.- Quo Vadis, Europe?.- The 'Promise' of the Lisbon Treaty: A Critical Reading.- Climate Change and Its Effects in Greece.- Union for the Mediterranean, or Nicolas Sarkozy's Voluntarism in International Relations.- Does Too Much Regulation Stifle Employment?.- Greek Ideals in the American Democracy.- The Miracle and the Defects.- Euro-Atlantic Relations Following the Election of Barack Obama in the United States.- The Forgotten Crisis: Rising Food Prices.- On the Road to Damascus: Towards a New European Policy on the Middle East?.- The Unrest of the 1960s: Common Grounds and Legacy.- The Return of Cultural Property to Its Countries of Origin.
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Constantine Arvanitopoulos and Konstantina E. Botsiou Europe at a Crossroads European uni?cation has rested on a dual premise. One part was the effort of the European nations to consolidate peace by overcoming the nationalism which had 1 twice drenched the continent in blood in the 20th century. War among West European states became unthinkable in the post-war era. The second part was the creation of a single European economy following the tremendous task of post-war 2 reconstruction and recovery. Over the years the achievement of economic stability was matched by initiatives that aimed to render Western Europe competitive on a global scale. The creation of the European Union (EU) in the 1990s through the Treaties of Maastricht (1992) and Amsterdam (1997), and later Nice (2001), which successively revised the founding Treaties of Rome (1957), was largely a response 3 to the challenge of globalisation. Integration 'rejuvenated' the nation state, thus creating the hybrid of the Euro- 4 pean welfare state, a mix of state-imposed stability and private initiative. Like its 1 Sforza, C. (1936). Europe and the Europeans: Community: Report A study in historical psych- ogy and international politics. London: George G. Harrap and Company. 2 Milward, A. S. (1984). The reconstruction of Western Europe 1945-1951. London: Routledge. Hogan, M. J. (1987). The Marshall plan: America, Britain, and the reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1954. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 3 Dyson, K. , & Featherstone, K. (1999).
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This book investigates the new challenges confronted by the EU as an international actor within the context of recent economic and political developments, with particular attention to common foreign and security policies; the appraisal of development-aid policies; EU sanctions in the post-Soviet space, as harder instruments complementing the toolbox of the EU "soft power" polity; preferential trade agreements as a key element of EU external trade policy; external relations of the EU; international aspects of the monetary policy of the ECB in the context of the financial and sovereign debt cris.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Europeanisation of conflict resolution: theory and framework
• 3. The early years: European integration as a system of conflict resolution in the Franco-German relationship (1950-63)
• 4. Northern Ireland: Europeanisation breakthrough
• 5. The case of Cyprus: Unmet expectations?
• 6. Kosovo: Europeanisation in the making
• 7. Conclusion References
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This book is about the EU's role in conflict resolution and reconciliation in Europe. Ever since it was implemented as a political project of the post-World War II reality in Western Europe, European integration has been credited with performing conflict resolution functions. It allegedly transformed the long-standing adversarial relationship between France and Germany into a strategic partnership. Conflict in Western Europe became obsolete. The end of the Cold War further reinforced its role as a regional peace project. While these evolutionary dynamics are uncontested, the deeper meaning of the process, its transformative power, is still to be elucidated. How does European integration restore peace when its equilibrium is broken and conflict or the legacies of enmity persist? This book sets out to do exactly that. It explores the peace and conflict-resolution role of European integration by testing its somewhat vague, albeit well-established, macro-political rationale of a peace project in the practical settings of conflicts. The analytical lens of that of Europeanization. The central argument of the book is that the evolution of the policy mix, resources, framing influences and political opportunities through which European integration affects conflicts and processes of conflict resolution demonstrates a historical trend through which the EU has become an indispensable factor of conflict resolution . It begins with the pooling together of policy-making at the European level for the management of particular sectors (early integration in the European Coal and Steel Community) through the functioning of core EU policies (Northern Ireland) to the challenges of enlargement (Cyprus) and the European perspective for the Western Balkans (Kosovo). The book will be of value to academics and non-expert observers alike with an interest in European integration and peace studies. -- .
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• Introduction / Alex de Ruyter and Beverley Nielsen
• Brexit and the question of the UK constitution / A.C. Grayling
• The UK approach to Brexit / Patrick Minford
• The UK economy and trade post-Brexit / Bernard Jenkin
• The British Labour Party's attitude towards the EU : a brief history / John Mills
• Explaining the Brexit vote : a socioeconomic and psychological exploration of the referendum vote / David Hearne, Rebecca Semmens-Wheeler and Kimberley M. Hill
• Custom unions and common markets as economic security fault lines : the garlic case / Stefania Paladini
• The impact of Brexit on the City of London / Mark Boleat
• Brexit and the potential business impact on English SMEs / Vicky Pryce, Beverley Nielsen and Steven McCabe
• Brexit and the auto industry : understanding the issues for supply chain management / Di Li, Shishank Shishank, Alex de Ruyter, Syed Ali, David Bailey, David Hearne and Sukhwinder Salh
• Conclusion: Where do we go from here? / Alex de Ruyter and Beverley Nielsen.

Brexit Negotiations after Article 50: Assessing Process, Progress and Impact brings together contributors from academia, politics and practice to discuss and debate the progress (or lack of) to date since the Prime Minister, Theresa May, enacted the Article 50 process to leave the EU on 29th March 2017. This collection is split into two key areas of inquiry. The first section explores the process of Brexit and the multifaceted aspects of the Article 50 process, examining the arguments for and against membership of the European Union. The second section develops the arguments within the first section by providing thematic chapters on the likely impact of Brexit on particular sectors of the UK economy, namely: the financial services sector; SMEs and related supply chain issues; and, the automotive sector (as an emblematic sector for UK manufacturing). The book will make a unique contribution to the debate on Brexit as it brings together academics and practitioners from both a 'Remain' and 'Leave' persuasion, including Sir Bernard Jenkin, MP, economist Vicky Pryce and philosopher AC Grayling.
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• Introduction / John Armour and Horst Eidenmüller
• Brexit negotiations and their impact on the Brexit planning of banks : as with many negotiation processes, timing is everything / Johannes Adolff
• Leaving the EU : impact on bank customers / Luis Correia da Silva
• The landscape for post-Brexit European financial services / Thierry Philipponnat
• Brexit and financial services : bargaining in the shadow of equivalence / John Armour
• Negotiating a financial services deal : politics, preferences, and predictions / Niamh Moloney
• Implications of Brexit for private equity and private equity-backed firms / Mark Soundy
• A Brexit deal for financial services / Wolf-Greg Ringe
• Brexit and corporate governance : an economics perspective / Colin Mayer
• The Brexit stakes for corporate activity : a restructuring & insolvency perspective / Wolfram Prusko
• The effect of Brexit on the resolution of international disputes : choice of law and jurisdiction in civil and commercial matters / Giesela Rühl
• Negotiating Brexit : recognition and enforcement of judgments / Tom Snelling
• The effect of Brexit on the resolution of international disputes : the impact of Brexit on international commercial arbitration / Marco Torsello
• The effect of Brexit on the UK's trade with non-EU member states under the EU's mixed free trade agreements / Robert Volterra
• Empty threats : why the United Kingdom has currently no chance to become a tax or regulatory haven / Luca Enriques
• Brexit arithmetics / Kalypso Nicolaidis
• Triggering Article 50 : strategic approaches to Brexit negotiations / Own Darbishire
• Creating the value in the Brexit negotiations / Felix Steffek
• Brexit negotiations : process proposals / Andreas Hacke
• How to negotiate a successful Brexit / Horst Eidenmüller.

Brexit is on its way. By mid 2019, the UK will no longer be a member of the European Union and its new relationship with the EU will be have taken shape. Getting to that point will involve complex negotiations untangling legal, economic and political issues. This volume brings together leading commentators to examine three crucial questions on the risk, the negotiating framework and the process.
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• Foreword / Franco Frattini
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction : defining the frontiers of Europe from a transatlantic perspective / Federiga Bindi and Irina Angelescu
• 2. A brief history of EU enlargements / Federiga Bindi
• PART ONE : THE STATE OF EU NEGOTIATIONS AND ENLARGEMENT PERSPECTIVES
• 3. EU enlargement policy : from success to fatigue / Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
• 4. EU enlargement : benefits and obstacles / John Peet
• 5. The European Neighborhood Policy : geopolitics or value export? / Christoffer Ko̊lvraa and Jan Ifverson
• PART TWO : IMMIGRATION, TERRORISM, INTERNAL SECURITY : RELATED FOR UNRELATED PHENOMENA?
• 6. One frontier, many boundaries? European Union migration policies / Irina Angelescu
• 7. Terrorism and immigration in the European Union : strangers in the night / Gilles de Kerchove
• 8. European Union enlargement, violent radicalization, and terrorism / Jean-Luc Marret
• 9. Immigration and security in Europe : a look at the Italian case / Umberto Melotti
• PART THREE : ENERGY POLICIES : BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND POWER POLITICS
• 10 The challenge of the European Union's energy policy and regulation / Alessandro Ortis
• 11 Translating energy strategy into policy with EU enlargement / Massimo Gaiani
• PART FOUR : THE NEW FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR EUROPE
• 12. Development policy in a changing Europe : more donors, new challenges / Maurizio Carbone
• 13. The Euro crisis and the new economic governance / Luca Einaudi
• 14. European Union-China relations in light of possible future EU enlargements / Giovanni B. Andornino
• PART FIVE : A NEW SECURITY ARCHITECTURE?
• 15. A saturated alliance? Assessing the prospects for further NATO enlargement / Jan Techau
• 16. Imperatives of constructing a new security system in the Euro-Atlantic region : the Russian perspective / Mark Entin
• 17 The EU concept of security from a U.S. perspective / Kurt Volker
• PART SIX : DEMOCRACY PROMOTION AND THE RULE OF LAW
• 18. The rise and stall of democratic enlargement / Amichai Magen
• 19. European-Latin relations in the Twenty-First century / Joaquín Roy
• 20. Conclusion : the European Union should again be "open for business" / Federiga Bindi and Irina Angelescu.

"Investigates the ramifications of enlarging the size of the European Union, including the effects on policies relating to energy, immigration, security, democracy and the rule of law, and economic development, and how a larger EU would affect NATO and relations with China, Latin America, Russia, and the United States"--Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• 1. Indispensable and Intolerable Nation: The United States in European Geopolitics
• 2. "Friends again" or "Drifting apart"
• 3. Defining Threats and Interests: Drivers, Processes, and Objectives
• 4. Transatlantic Threat Perceptions: "with friends like these, who needs enemies"?
• 5. The Forgotten Ballast: Economic Interdependence vs. High Politics
• 6. Regional Case-Studies: The Politics of Transatlantic Relations
• 7. NATO after Lisbon: New Compact or Obfuscation of Irreconcilable Differences?
• 8. Dogmas and Dependence: Assessing the NATO-CSDP Impasse
• 9. U.S.-NATO-EU Cooperation on the Ground
• 10. The Military Balance: Emerging Threats or New Providers of Global Public Goods?
• 11. Normative Contest: The Decline of Western "soft power"?
• 12. Locking in Western Dominance: The West in International Organizations.
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This book offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century. The collapse of the Soviet bloc opened up an era in which the drivers and perceived benefits of the US alliance among European countries have become more variegated and shifting. The proposition that the US remains at once an 'indispensable' and 'intolerable' nation in Europe is a key concept in the alliance, as the US remains inextricably tied to the continent through economic, military and cultural links. This work examines this complex subject area from many angles, including an analysis of the historical and cultural contexts of America's relations with Europe, as well as a discussion of the politics of transatlantic affairs which utilises evidence gleaned from a series of case-studies. In the concluding chapters, the author assesses the likelihood that the West can entrench its global dominance in the realms of "soft" and "hard" power, and by effecting a "controlled reform" that will see multilateral structures open up to emerging powers. This book will be of great interest to students of European Politics, EU integration, transatlantic relations, US foreign policy/diplomacy, International Security and IR in general.
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