Free Download EU-MERCOSUR Interregionalism: Diplomatic and Trade Relations by Mario Torres Jarrín , Lourdes Gabriela Daza Aramayo
English | EPUB | 2023 | 214 Pages | ISBN : 3031192168 | 6.84 MB
This book focuses on EU-MERCOSUR relations from a diplomatic and trade perspective against the background of the political agreement between the two in 2019. The authors take into consideration that EU-MERCOSUR cooperation developed during recent decades has tried, on the one hand, to build a strategic partnership to respond to the main challenges of international agendas and, on the other, to incorporate in Latin American countries the European new vision of transatlantic regionalism. Starting from a historical perspective of the development of interregionalism between the EU and MERCOSUR, the book goes on to study the geopolitical impacts of Brexit, stagnation of the EU-USA relationship, the COVID-19 pandemic, and of new geopolitical players in EU-LAC interregionalism. It discusses the legal institutional framework of the EU-MERCOSUR relations and provides a comparative view of features of MERCOSUR countries vis-à-vis the European Union.

Free Download Fishing Power Europe: The EU's Normativity in Its External Fisheries Action (Global Europe: Legal and Policy Issues of the EU's External Action, 3) by Mihail Vatsov
2023 | ISBN: 9462655820 | English | 261 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book examines how the EU and international law frameworks impact the EU's ability to act normatively in its external action in the area of fisheries. The EU, a major fishing power, portrays itself as a normative actor and a champion of sustainable fishing. The volume reconceptualises the Normative Power Europe narrative by identifying three interrelated elements - universality, use of instruments, and legitimacy - as the key criteria against which to evaluate the normativity of the EU's conduct. The universality element examines the level of international acceptance of the stated aims of EU action; the use of instruments element examines the EU's participation limitations in relevant international institutions and the means (persuasion as opposed to coercion) through which it acts; and the legitimacy element examines the substance of the EU's action in terms of legality, protection of common or self-interests, and coherence and consistency.

Free Download Christoph Herrmann, "EU Trade Defence Law and Practice: An Introduction "
English | ISBN: 3031253299 | 2023 | 124 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The European Union is one of the most outward-oriented economies in the world, and free trade is one of its founding principles. As such, instruments intended to ensure that international trade is conducted on a level playing field have been part of the EU's policy toolbox since the beginning of European integration. Adapting to the current changes in international trade, these instruments have since undergone major reforms. This work provides an overview of the EU's legal framework on the use of its trade defence instruments, in particular measures under the Trade Barriers Regulation, the Basic Anti-Dumping Regulation and the Basic-Anti Subsidy Regulation. The book shares valuable insights into how EU institutions currently apply these instruments and places their application in the broader political context in which international trade takes place, which has been shaped e.g. by developments related to the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU and the ongoing blockade of the WTO Appellate Body.

Free Download EU Integrated Urban Initiatives: Policy Learning and Quality of Life Impacts in Spain
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031208846 | 290 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
This open access book presents a unique interdiscplinary analysis of urban projects promoted by the EU from a comparative perspective This book presents cross-sectional and cross-time analyses at the territorial level targeted by these initiatives focusing on the design, theory and impacts of urban projects developed under the framework of initiatives promoted by the European Union. The book includes a new methodology to analyse the design and theory of urban plans (the comparative urban portfolio analysis) and quasi-experimental strategies to perform impact assessment at the neighbourhood level (the territorial target of those initiatives). Although empirical analyses focus on examples in Spain, the resulting analytical and methodological outcomes of these studies can be applied in a broader context to analyse integral urban policies in other countries.

The EU in International Negotiations by Magdalena Frennhoff Larsén
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 327 Pages | ISBN : 3031064194 | 7.4 MB
This book, which is aimed at scholars, practitioners, advanced under-graduate and post-graduate students, seeks to contribute to the understanding of the EU as an international negotiator by analysing a number of external policy areas where the EU to a great extent engages internationally through negotiations, including development, trade, enlargement, and withdrawal.

The EU in Southeast Asian Security By Ronja Scheler
2020 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 0367622653 | PDF | 6 MB
This book revealingly traces the ways in which third-party perceptions of an international actor affect its agency in global affairs by using the example of the European Union's engagement in Southeast Asian non-traditional security. Utilizing an innovative analytical framework emphasising the intersubjective nature of international actorness, it provides novel insights into cooperation between the EU and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The book covers fields such as counter-terrorism, disaster management, or maritime security affairs and emphasises the role that ASEAN's perceptions of the EU play in them. Based on rich empirical data gained from multiple interviews in Europe and Southeast Asia, the author uncovers the missing link between external perceptions of the EU and their impact on joint EU-ASEAN endeavours in non-traditional security fields. The book concludes by making some concrete recommendations to policy-makers engaged in EU external relations and reminds us that 'the other' and its domestic context might be even more important in thinking about international affairs than acknowledged thus far. This book is of key interest to scholars, practitioners and students of EU foreign policy, EU-ASEAN affairs, EU-Asia relations, and more broadly of EU studies, International Relations, regionalism and interregionalism as well as security studies.

Alistair J.K. Shepherd, "The EU Security Continuum: Blurring Internal and External Security "
English | ISBN: 1138026093 | 2021 | 230 pages | EPUB | 703 KB
This book examines how internal and external security are blurring at the EU level, and the implications this has for EU security governance and the EU as a security actor.

Sacha Garben, Inge Govaere, "The EU Better Regulation Agenda: A Critical Assessment"
English | 2018 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1509917330, 1509941134 | PDF | 4,7 mb
Better Regulation in the EU is a perennial and topical question which has important implications for the future direction of EU law. While actions directed at improving the quality and accessibility of EU regulation are not novel, in recent years the Better Regulation Agenda has significantly affected the structural organisation and day-to-day operation of the EU legislative process. Yet, many questions about the future of the Agenda remain, not least in light of Brexit. Exploring the Better Regulation Agenda (and its relation to the overall EU legal and political order) necessitates an integrated, interdisciplinary approach. This edited volume presents insights from economics, political science and legal scholarship. Furthermore, to allow full understanding, it examines institutional practice, where the Agenda is made and shaped on a daily basis. Hence, the book features contributions from the perspective of the work of the main EU institutions: the European Commission, the Parliament, the Council and the Court of Justice. This results in a seminal overview of the subject, of interest to scholars and practitioners alike.

Javier Argomaniz, "EU Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence: A Critical Assessment"
English | ISBN: 113829487X | 2017 | 238 pages | EPUB | 598 KB
The Treaty on the European Union stipulates that one of the key objectives of the Union is to provide citizens with a high level of safety within an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Given that the fight against terrorism is a prominent aspect of this general objective, it is remarkable that, in spite of its political relevance and decade-long history, it has only relatively recently received due attention in the academic community. Yet an analysis of the successes and failures of the EU's involvement in this field is imperative and this is a particularly pertinent moment to take stock of progress.

EKC2008 Proceedings of the EU-Korea Conference on Science and Technology by Seung-Deog Yoo
English | 2008 | ISBN: 3540851895 | 533 Pages | PDF | 89.0 MB
Current research fields in science and technology were presented and discussed at the EKC2008, informing about the interests and directions of the scientists and engineers in EU countries and Korea.