Confessional Culture and the Limits of Integration
Showcases the powerful role of religion in shaping European attitudes on politics, political integration, and the national and continental identities of its leaders and citizens. In this book the authors present the cultural divide, rooted in the struggles of the reformation, resists the ongoing secularization of the continent.
This revised and updated edition discusses auditing and the law beyond the issue of third-party liability, and provides coverage of developments in audit methodologies and technologies. It also includes: a survey of developments in audit automation; a discussion of the nature and development of the audit market, both in the UK and the EU; and an assessment of the impact of the Cadbury report on corporate governance, with particular attention to the role of audit committees. Each chapter includes questions for discussion.
Behind the Scenes of America's Influence on EU-Turkey Relations
A rapidly-changing nation and a key player in the Middle East, Turkey has long been centrally important to both the United States and the European Union. A major partner both of the EU and Turkey, the US has also been the most ardent and committed supporter of closer ties between them. Yet while Turkey's relations with the US and the EU have been ......
Contemporary European Foreign Policy introduces and examines the latest developments in European foreign policy. It provides a complete overview of the ways in which the very nature of foreign policy in Europe has changed and advances new insights into contemporary European foreign policy analysis. Throughout Contemporary European Foreign Policy the authors address and incorporate both the national and European Union levels of foreign policy and explore the complex interactions between the two.
Updated for the fourth edition, this work analyzes the political systems of 18 European countries, their political parties, elections, and party systems, as well as government structure at local, regional, national and European Union levels. Key theoretical ideas are accessibly introduced and examined against empirical data on civil society and ......
In May 2007, the European Union and ASEAN agreed to launch negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA), and talks are ongoing on the specific design and membership, with a joint working committee being established. This book identifies the present barriers in the relations between the regions, and aims to make an ASEAN-EU FTA useful as well as ......
A fresh alternative to traditional state-centred analyses of the process of European integration is presented in this book. World-renowned scholars analyze the state in terms of its component parts and clearly show the interaction of subnational, national and supranational actors in the emerging European polity. This `multi-level politics' ......
This text provides an overview of the reasons why European integration in foreign and security policy has proved so difficult to achieve. The obstacles to developing a common policy in this second pillar of the European Union go the the heart of debates around the sovereignty of the nation-state. A group of international contributors explain how ......
Advocacy in the United States and the European Union
Presents the study of lobbying strategies and outcomes in the United States and the European Union. This book challenges the stereotypes that attribute any differences between the two systems to cultural ones - the American, a partisan and combative approach, and the European, a consensus-based one.
