European Union Institutions Books

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11. The Routledge Handbook of European Security

    Edited by Sven Biscop, Richard Whitman

    This new Handbook brings together key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds to examine the European Union (EU) as an international security actor. In the two decades since the end of the Cold War, the EU has gradually emerged as an autonomous actor in the field of...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
12. Dynamics of Change in the European Union

    Edited by Daniel Naurin, Anne Rasmussen

    Series: West European Politics

    Agreements concerning inter-institutional rules in the treaties of the European Union often give rise to reactions and processes of adaptation within the EU institutions. Recent literature on EU legislative politics has increasingly examined decision-making within the EU institutions, but has...

    Published July 29th 2012 by Routledge
13. Bureaucrats as Law-makers

    Committee decision-making in the EU Council of Ministers

    By Frank Häge

    Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

    The Council of Ministers is one of the most powerful institutions of the European Union (EU) and plays a major role in the European policy-making process. Drawing on formal theory and combining quantitative and qualitative methods in an innovative fashion, this book provides novel insights into the...

    Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
14. The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy

    The Quest for Democracy

    Edited by Helene Sjursen

    Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

    This book reorients the study of European foreign and security policy towards the question of democracy. Blending insights from international relations and democratic theory, it aims to enhance our understanding of the issues at stake. The main structures, the institutional setting and the...

    Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
15. Centralised Enforcement, Legitimacy and Good Governance in the EU

    By Melanie Smith

    Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

    Article 226 EC is the central mechanism of enforcement in the EC Treaty, and has remained unchanged since the original Treaty of Rome. It provides the European Commission, as guardian of the Treaty, with a broad power of policing Member States’ conduct. Article 226 has been traditionally...

    Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
16. European Homeland Security

    A European Strategy in the Making?

    Edited by Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard, Patryk Pawlak

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider context of European integration. The EU functions in a complex security environment, with perceived security threats from Islamist terrorists, migration...

    Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge
17. European Parliament Elections after Eastern Enlargement

    Edited by Hermann Schmitt

    Series: Journal of European Integration Special Issues

    This book reflects on the questions raised by the European Election Study 2004 whose analytical focus was on the legitimacy of EU politics after Eastern enlargement. It also assesses the dynamics and the contents of the campaign, on the determinants of the extremely low...

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
18. The Evolving EU Counter-terrorism Legal Framework

    By Maria O'Neill

    Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

    Since the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, and the contemporaneous publication of the Stockholm Programme, the area of freedom, security and justice has obtained a more secure legal basis within the EU treaty framework and now has a coherent policy programme set out for its...

    Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
19. Energy Security

    Europe's New Foreign Policy Challenge

    By Richard Youngs

    Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

    The geopolitics of oil and gas have made a spectacular return to the international political agenda. The European Union (EU) has recognized the importance of incorporating energy security more systematically into foreign policy. It has committed itself to pursuing an energy security policy based on...

    Published October 6th 2011 by Routledge
20. Perspectives of National Elites on European Citizenship

    A South European View

    Edited by Nicolò Conti, Maurizio Cotta, Pedro Tavares de Almeida

    Series: South European Society and Politics

    Over the last two decades, the process of European integration has become interwoven with the theme of citizenship and the debate on the democratic quality of the EU and of its institutions has become more salient. What are the views about Europe which emerge when we interrogate the national elites...

    Published October 2nd 2011 by Routledge