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What role, if any, does the foreign ministry perform in contemporary world politics? Is the argument that it is in a state of terminal decline accurate or rooted in only partial understandings of its changing character? Foreign Ministries i… more

This study addresses the problem of EU legitimacy, integrating existing work on the “democratic deficit” with emergent literature on the EU as a new kind of polity. It argues that existing approaches to the legitimacy crisis are rooted in s… more

This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society.It shows how the welfare states that we have inherited from the early post-war years had one main objective: to protec… more

The European Union is widely held to suffer from a democratic deficit, and this raises a wider question: can democracy at all be applied to decision-making bodies beyond the nation state? Today, the EU is a highly complex entity undergoing … more

This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the west in the twenty-first century, urban military operations - as currently being undertaken by US and UK forces in Iraq. It relates military operations in citi… more

A fast automatic reduction of regional disparities within the EU is unlikely. Regional policy will thus remain an important topic. This book analyzes EU regional policy and its co-ordination with other European and national public policies,… more

Covering all the basics and more, this book is a concise and accessible introduction for students new to the study of the European Union, and for the general reader wanting to understand this increasingly important subject. Including useful… more

The aim of this book is to link demand and supply of environmental information in the field of Life Cycle Management. The book is based on the results of the CHAINET concerted action financed by EU-DGXII for the work period 1998-2000, and i… more

Understanding the institutions of the European Union is vital to understanding how it functions. This book provides students with a user-friendly introduction to the main institutions, and explains their different roles in the functioning a… more

Contemporary globalisation both challenges conventional forms of democracy and is opening up new needs and possibilities for democratisation beyond the territoriality of national states. These issues are explored by an international and mul… more

After the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late eighties, the capitalist system, based on private ownership and voluntary exchange, became the dominant model in both the developed and the developing world. Its strengths should not be underes… more

Europe was told that it had no choice but to accept agbiotech, yet this imperative was turned into a test of democratic accountability for societal choices.  Since the late 1990s, European public controversy has kept the agri-biotech indust… more

This book examines the role that language has played in forming modern European nations. With language an omnipresent issue within the European Union, the importance languages have played within the histories and present situations of membe… more

A study of illiberal practices of liberal regimes in the field of security. The work explores the relationship between the internal and external effects of these practices in an increasingly interconnected world order, as well as the effect… more

Heinz Duthel. l’Union européenne. L’utopisme technocratique.L’Europe sans les Etats. L’illusion démocratique.The European Union and the rennaisance of populism.ISBN: 978-0-557-68011-5Publisher: IAC Society, Heinz Duthel© Heinz Duthel 2010 l… more

Written specifically for exporters and those without legal training, this book is an introduction to the business laws of the European Union that need to be understood by those operating outside the EU. It is a practical guide to the regula… more

This Very Short Introduction explains the European Union in plain English. Fully updated for 2007 to include controversial and current topics such as the Euro currency, the EU’s enlargement, and its role in ongoing world affairs, this acces… more

The military has traditionally been a group within the nation state which has had deep rooted local identities grounded in class, regional, ethnic, national, and religious realities. The processes of regionalisation eg the European Union an… more

Clearly discusses the impact and uses of interest representation in the development of the EU system. Examines the complexities of representation at EU level, a vital issue for potential lobbyists and interest groups Charts new trends and… more

Providing readers with a multi-faceted assessment of the implementation of fiscal policies in the euro zone and their macroeconomic effects five years after the inception of the euro, this book, international in perspective and scope, is th… more