Can Europe’s nations go alone in their quest for a secure, competitive and environmentally-sustainable energy future? Or will this lead to a dispersion of effort, even to mutually undercutting national policies?
If a common energy policy is the way forward, can the EU manage the necessary political arbitrage between 27+ different countries? This report seeks to answer these questions.
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 2007
Price: 9.43 €
Regulating the utilities
This new book presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states, together with an empirical study of regulatory change within European utilities.
Pages: 221
Publication date: January 2007
Price: 104.25 €
The European Union is often accused of being an opaque, bureaucratic organisation. I am convinced that those who want to learn more about the European Union (its functioning, institutional set-up, decision-making and legal systems), and discover why European integration is so complicated and cumbersome, will fi nd the answers to their questions in the pages of this Handbook. The book sets out to cover not only the legal and institutional architecture, but also to explore all policy areas, ranging from economic policy to environmental protection, from cultural affairs to justice and home affairs, from trade to foreign policy.
European integration is a long and laborious process, but – nevertheless – it is the best way to ensure the prosperity of Europe’s peoples, as has been demonstrated by recent historic achievements, such as the introduction of the euro and the reunifi cation of Europe through the accession of Central and Eastern European countries that were not long ago separated from the rest of the continent by the Iron Curtain. Throughout history, there have always been ups and downs and successes are inevitably followed by crises, such as the referenda rejecting the Constitutional Treaty a few years ago. However, it is my conviction that such decisions are usually due to misinformation or a lack of information.This Handbook contributes to a better understanding of European integration and provides its readers with comprehensive up-to-date information to enable them to make the best use of the opportunities that the EU has to offer. The success of a united Europe hinges on well-informed citizens. I wish all readers a successful future in the European Union.
Katalin Szili
Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly
Price: 24.00 €
This major new text by a leading authority on European security provides a full assessment of the historical, political and systemic reasons behind the rise of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). The author argues that the key issues involved - the challenges of defining a more balanced partnership between the two sides of the Atlantic and of transforming the EU from a civilian power into a new type of crisis management actor - are the most significant since the creation of NATO and the EU at the end of World War 2.
Published: June 15, 2007
Pages: 336
Price: 32.55 €
2nd Edition
The fully revised second edition of this highly-acclaimed book provides an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the role of organized interests in the everyday policy-making of the EU, and of the significance of interest representation for European integration and for the democratic legitimacy of the EU.
Published: April 20, 2007
Pages: 272
Price: 31.79 €
3rd Edition
Social policy is constantly evolving in the European Union and is closely intertwined with other EU policy areas. Since publication of the second edition of this well received text, we have seen the enlargement of the union to the east and increased debate about how to adapt its institutional structures to reflect its extended membership. The third edition takes account of these debates, as well as debates about the constitution, the need for more open European governance, and citizenship rights. It continues to offer a compact, clear and authoritative account of social policy formation and implementation across the European Union.
Publication Date: May 11, 2007
Pages: 304
Price: 32.55 €
Examines the origins, workings and priorities of the European Union's foreign policy and its role in world politics, arguing that the EU has become an increasingly influential superpower.
This title reviews the evolution of the EU's international role and illustrates the influence of the EU in traditional areas.
Pages: 255
Publication date: 2007
Price: 30.05 €
Setting EU Priorities 2007 consists of five substantial papers based on the European Strategy Forum’s first meeting, in Ponte de Lima, Portugal. The topics covered are: The State of the Union at the beginning of 2007, EU Energy Policy, Reform of the EU Budget, European Security and Defence Policy and the Future of the Constitutional Treaty.
Publication date: March 2007
Pages:116
Price: 18.82 €
An unparalleled cast of the most authoritative thought leaders from the world of politics, academia, business and the arts offer their personal assessment of the state of the Union and their ideas and proposals for the Union´s next half –century. The publication also offers a range of views and suggestions about Europe from young people right across the European Union.
The proposals in the publication will be fed into the process of reflection on the future of the EU which has begun under the German EU Presidency and which is set to continue into the medium term.
The publication will include a useful calendar of EU-related events until 2009, and is set to be an invaluable source of ideas for anyone interested in the European Union.
Price: 67.00 €
This new book by a former official of the EC Monetary Committee is the complete guide to Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Carefully referencing treaty provisions and other legislation at every point, it answers concrete questions on the rules for public finance, the concept of an excessive government deficit, the current trend of economic policy, the abolition of exchange control, exchange-rate policy for the euro and the Community’s place in the international monetary system. It makes clear what kind of currency the euro is, and above all its grounding in price stability.
Hardback. 320 pages. Publication February 15, 2007.
Price: 75.00 €
The art of lobbying the EU
Now in it fifth printing in three years and fully revised, "Machiavelli in Brussels" is filled with new facts and figures, real-life lobbying cases, and a detailed look at the European Union's newest member countries.
Price: 47.16 €
One of the most striking developments in international politics today is the significant increase in security cooperation among European Union states. Seth Jones argues that this increase in cooperation, in areas such as economic sanctions, weapons production and collaboration among military forces, has occurred because of the changing structure of the international and regional systems.
Pages: 301
Price: 30.04 €
Shows the increasing importance of a controversial 'EU foreign policy', discussing how its agenda is forged and detailing the resulting actions taken.
Price: 25.00 €
EU policy shapes all areas of our lives -- from our money, to our food, to our welfare. Yet we know little about how EU decisions are made, and who benefits from them. This book is a critical guide to the policies of the EU. Written with clarity and precision, this book is ideal for students of the EU and anyone looking for an incisive critique of the role of corporate capital in the development of EU policy.
Price: 24.00 €
12th edition
Written by a former European Commission adviser, this annually revised title is an excellent reference and textbook for any student of European integration.
Price: 31.49 €
The political dynamics of the European Union can often appear confusing, shrouded as they are in complex legislative processes. This book offers a clear and thorough critical introduction to the origins, development and current direction of the EU, and pinpoints the major policy debates animating decision-makers.
Publication Date: October 2005
Pages: 240pp Size: DEMY (215x135mm)
Price: 24.00 €
Internal and External Dimensions
Since the Treaty of Amsterdam, sustainable development is legally enshrined among the fundamental objectives of European integration. But how has the European Union addressed this issue? Is sustainable development a truly innovative policy paradigm which will revolutionize the way Europe approaches economic, social and environmental issues, or is it little more than a fashionable but vacuous political buzzword?
341 pages
Price: 40.00 €
Une démarche qui répond au besoin d'« Évaluer l'Europe »
En savoir plus et mieux sur l'Europe, pouvoir évaluer ses acteurs, telle est la raison d'être de l'Observatoire des institutions européennes (OIE) créé par le Centre d'études européennes de Sciences Po autour d'une équipe internationale de spécialistes des questions institutionnelles.
127 pages
Price: 9.43 €
Aspirations, Inputs and Performance
Legitimating the European Union focuses on notions of political legitimacy in the European Union. The book link legitimacy theory to the way in which the EU’s citizens experience and react to supranational forms of governance.
Price: 69.00 €
Europe Alone?
What will be the future of security cooperation in Europe after the Bush administration? Is the famous rift between ‘Old Europe’ and America too great to repair? Is the European Union ready to assume a more prominent place on the world stage?
Published: March 2007
Pages: 242
Price: 75.38 €
“Franchino has raised the bar in the study of EU government several notches. Using advanced theoretical models and empirical techniques he demonstrates that the balance of power between the national and European levels, and the design of government at the European level, are products of careful and conscious choices of the EU governments, the extent of disagreement between the governments, how much the governments trust each other to implement policies, and whether the governments think the Commission can do a better job than their national administrations. Far from seeing the Commission as a ‘runaway bureaucracy’, Franchino finds that EU government is limited, constrained, and works remarkably well.” – Simon Hix, London School of Economics and Political Science
Publication date: 2007
Pages: 355
Price: 33.96 €
An Ever Stronger Partnership
The United Nations and the European Union: an ever stronger partnership provides a comprehensive overview of EU-UN cooperation, identifying the role of the various actors involved in the decision-making process and its influence in areas stretching from environmental protection to human rights, crisis management, public health and the protection of refugees.
Publication date: 2006
Pages: 434
Price: 98.58 €
Where is Europe going? Prominent European economists here offer essays on five big challenges to the development of the European Union (EU), namely, the new European Constitution, European finances and the euro, the need to boost economic growth, competition in both new member states and countries further to the east, and the goal of forming a cooperative and productive relationship with countries on the European periphery.
Pages: 239
Publication date: 2007
Price: 69.72 €
This distinctive textbook combines comprehensive coverage of the key policy areas of the European Union with analysis of individual countries, including the recent accession countries and Turkey.
The book is unique in providing both an EU perspective and European nation-state perspective on the major policy issues which have arisen since the end of World War II, as well as putting the economic analysis into an historical narrative which emphasizes the responses of policy-makers to external shocks such as the Cold War, the oil shocks, German reunification, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Published: March 19, 2007
Pages: 456
Price: 37.26 €
"Fragmented Power: Europe and the Global Economy" is the first comprehensive review of the external economic policies of the EU. The book’s authors assess European policies vis-à-vis the EU’s global and regional partners in the fields of trade, development, competition, financial markets regulation, exchange rate, migration and energy and make recommendations for improvements. It reviews and evaluates the Union’s current arrangements for the governance of its international relations as well as discussing Europe’s global, transatlantic and regional agendas. The authors explain why Europe must wake up to global responsibilities and why internal reform of its own systems of governance is essential to end fragmented power in key areas.
Price: 25.00 €
Rights, Rents and Fairness
A critical issue in dealing with climate change is deciding who has a right to emit carbon dioxide. Allocation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme provides the first in-depth description and analysis of the process by which rights to emit carbon dioxide were created and distributed in the European Union.
Published: June 7, 2007
Pages: 442
Price: 92.92 €
The argument over the EU’s reform treaty is over – at least between its political leaders. Now the spotlight moves away from institutions and back towards the policies, outputs and ‘deliverables’ on which the EU’s legitimacy depends.
Following on the success of the award-winning EU: the Next Fifty Years, EU : Policies and Priorities will set out the issues at the top of the EU’s ‘must do’ list – and the instruments for dealing with them.
Contributors include Janez Janŝa, Jośe Manuel Barroso, Charlie McCreevy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Javier Solana and more.
“The notion of energy independence is not a realistic option”
Efficient markets, a favourable investment climate, innovative research and finance for low-carbon technologies are the keys to stable energy supply.”
Peter Sutherland – President, The Federal Trust writing exclusively in the EUPP book
Price: 67.00 €
Report on the euro area
This report surveys the economic performance of the euro area and gives recommendations about six policy challenges of major importance for the future of EMU.
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Pages: 123
Publication Date: 2008
Price: 14.15 €
The internationalisation of European firms
New facts based on firm-level evidence.
The 2007 report from the research network European Firms and International Markets (EFIM) is the first systematic, cross-country, firm-level research of the features of European firms that compete in international markets.
Pages: 81
Price: 9.43 €
Les débats sur l'avenir de l'Union européenne réactualisent deux questions programmatiques qui traversent l'histoire européenne depuis la Première Guerre mondiale : faut-il unifier l'Europe en une vaste zone de libre-échange sans entamer les souverainetés nationales ? Faut-il plutôt encadrer un marché unique européen par des institutions supranationales dont l'objectif politique et social est plus affirmé ? Ce livre explique pourquoi et comment la construction européenne a progressé de manière tout à fait originale en instaurant un marché institutionnalisé dans lequel la problématique sociale est présente dès le début.
Depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la prise de conscience de la nécessité d'assurer la paix a poussé à explorer toutes les voies possibles pour bâtir une Europe unie. Cet ouvrage retrace le cheminement intellectuel qui a mené à l'instauration d'un marché commun destiné à améliorer les conditions de vie des Européens. Il analyse comment la Communauté européenne a permis d'affronter, sans catastrophe sociale, les mutations majeures du monde moderne. L'ouverture des marchés et la globalisation de l'économie, une nouvelle révolution agricole, le passage d'une société industrielle à une société de l'innovation technologique et de la communication, les bouleversements énergétiques, le défi environnemental, les élargissements successifs et l'Europe sociale sont quelques-uns des thèmes qui sont traités.
Sur le plan méthodologique, le retour aux sources et la mobilisation des nouvelles potentialités scientifiques et pédagogiques offertes par les bibliothèques numériques renouvellent la démarche historique en vue de rendre plus accessible la complexité et les enjeux profonds de la construction européenne.
Enfin, ce livre fournit une synthèse à la fois précise et claire, nourrie de sources qualitatives et quantitatives, qui a fait longtemps défaut.
Pages: 711
Publication Date : 2008
Price: 49.81 €
Les enjeux de la PAC clairement présentés et expliqués dans l'Europe à vingt-sept
La Politique agricole commune, doyenne des politiques communes européennes, a connu depuis sa création des mutations de grande ampleur. La PAC, désormais simplifiée après la dernière réforme de 2003, n'en est pas moins l'objet d'interrogations. Les pays qui ne sont pas bénéficiaires nets de la PAC trouvent son coût trop élevé. Les crises sanitaires, l'utilisation des OGM, les effets des pratiques agricoles sur l'environnement sont sources d'inquiétude ; À l'extérieur de l'Union, elle est attaquée par les grands pays agricoles qui veulent libéraliser la production mondiale ou par des pays en développement qui l'estiment préjudiciable à leurs agricultures. Désormais soucieuse de développement durable et d'aménagement des territoires, la PAC devra mieux prendre en compte la bipolarisation de l'agriculture, avec des produits de base standard, directement confrontée au défi de la mondialisation, et une production diversifiée de produits de qualité avec des filières territorialisées. Ces enjeux sont présentés ici avec l'histoire de la PAC ainsi que ses mécanismes et son fonctionnement.
Pages: 206
Publication Date : Février 2008
Price: 11.32 €
Biographical Notes Peter Ludlow retired in 2001 after twenty years as founding director of the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels (CEPS). He is now executive president of the Europen Strategy Forum. He has written many books and articles on 20th century European history and the politics and institutions of the EU, including detailed accounts of almost all the meetings of the European Council during the last decade. Wolfgang Münchau is associate editor and European economics columnist of the Financial Times and, together with his wife Susanne Mundschenk, is co-director of eurointelligence.com, a macro website offering news and comment about the euro area. He lives in Brussels. Iain Begg is a Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research work is on the political economy of European integration and EU economic governance. He has directed and participated in a series of research projects on different facets of EU policy and his current projects include studies on the governance of EU economic and social policy, the EU’s Lisbon Strategy, the social impact of globalisation and reform of the EU budget. Bassma Kodmani is the Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative, a consortium of Arab policy research institutes working in partnership with European and US institutes on issues of reform and democratic transitions in the Arab worl. She is also senior adviser on international cooperation to the French national research council (CNRS). She has written books and articles on conflicts in the Middle
East and regional security. Her latest publication, The dangers of political exclusion: Egypt’s Islamist problem, is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Nicole Gnesotto is currently Professor of International Relations, Head of the European Union Chair, at the Conservatoire National das Arts et Métiers, Paris. Prior to this she was the first director of the EU Institute for Security Studies, from January 2002 until May 2007. She is the author of many books and articles on contemporary European security, including EU security and defence policy – The first five years (1999-2004), Paris 2004, and The global puzzle: What worl for the EU in 2025?, Paris 2006 (With Giovanni Grevi). The latter title was published in French in October 2007, Le monde en 2025, edited by Robert Laffont. Manuel Preto has been Managing Director at Banco Santander Totta since 2005 with responsibilities in the financial area, including asset and liability management, corporate finances, financial participations and investor relations. Mr Preto joined Banco Santander de Negócios in 1996 as na equity analyst and, before assuming his current position, he was Head of Equity Research and Strategy for Portugal. Rui Constantino is the Chief Economist at Banco Santander Totta. His responsibilities include the macroeconomic analysis of the Portuguese economy within the Santander Group, and also the analysis of macroeconomic and financial developments, supporting the board and business areas of Santander Totta. Prior to joining the bank, he was an economist at the Research Department of the Portuguese Ministry of Finance. António Cortina has been Chief Analyst of Economic Research at Santander since 2001. His responsibilities include providing macroeconomic analysis, interest rate and exchange rate forecasts for Spain, the euro area, the USA and Latin American countries to the Group’s Financial Division and all other support and business areas.
Pages: 143
Publication Date : 2008
Price: 18.82 €