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31. Russia’s European Agenda and the Baltic States

    By Janina Šleivyte

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    Russian foreign policy has become an increasing concern in 21st century, together with Russia’s relations with its former Soviet neighbours - but its relations with the Baltic States are particularly sensitive, given the Baltic membership of NATO and the EU and Russia’s increasingly fractious...

    Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge
32. The Constitutionalization of the European Union

    Edited by Berthold Rittberger, Frank Schimmelfennig

    Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

    This volume presents a theory of constitutionalization as well as comparative analyses and case studies to underscore the claim that the European integration process itself engenders a democratic self-healing mechanism. There exists a consensus among academics, politicians, and the public that the...

    Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
33. National Parliaments within the Enlarged European Union

    From 'Victims' of Integration to Competitive Actors?

    Edited by John O'Brennan, Tapio Raunio

    Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

    This book presents a wide range of perspectives on the role of national parliaments in EU politics and policy-making. Many accounts of the role of national parliaments portray them as passive victims of European integration. This study instead examines their role within the EU policy-making process...

    Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
34. Reforming the European Commission

    Edited by Michael W. Bauer

    Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

    Many international and supranational organisations have lately been busy modernising their internal administration. But nowhere has management change received a similar amount of attention than in the case of the European Commission. Although the perception prevails that the Commission has been...

    Published December 10th 2008 by Routledge
35. Comparative European Politics

    3rd Edition

    Edited by Josep M. Colomer

    This is a clear, comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the institutional regimes of countries in Western Europe written by an outstanding group of political scientists. Completely revised and updated throughout, Comparative European Politics 3rd edition: provides a complete coverage of...

    Published July 23rd 2008 by Routledge
36. The European Union's Roles in International Politics

    Concepts and Analysis

    Edited by Ole Elgström, Michael Smith

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    This new volume develops a conceptual framework for considering and evaluating the roles played by the EU in international politics, drawing upon the literatures of role analysis, international relations and European integration. It pays particular attention to five aspects of role analysis: role...

    Published October 21st 2007 by Routledge
37. Politics and the European Commission

    Actors, Interdependence, Legitimacy

    Edited by Andy Smith

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. In contrast to the prevailing image of the Commission as a 'bureaucrat's paradise', however, and by using the results of original research, this book...

    Published December 4th 2006 by Routledge
38. Governing Europe

    Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration

    By William Walters, Jens Henrik Haahr

    Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

    Governing Europe is the first book to systematically link Michel Foucault's hypotheses on power and 'governmentality' with the study of European integration. Through a series of empirical encounters that spans the fifty-year history of European integration, it explores both the diverse political...

    Published November 21st 2006 by Routledge
39. Iceland and European Integration

    On the Edge

    Edited by BALDUR THORHALLSSON

    Series: Europe and the Nation State

    Why has Iceland not sought membership of the European Union?This unique volume uses the case study of Iceland - the only Nordic state to have never applied for EU membership - to explore the complex attitudes of small states to European intergration and provide a new theoretical approach for...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
40. European Governance and Supranational Institutions

    Making States Comply

    By Jonas Talberg

    Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

    This book examines the influence of the European Commission and the European Court of Justice in the political and legal enforcement of member state compliance in the EU. The authors show how the EU's supranational institutions have played an independent role in the creation of a European...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge