This edited work critically analyses developments in European Political Economy and their effects on the continental European economies. Leading political economists from Europe and the United States consider how the influential 'Varieties of Capitalism' approach can help us und…
by Sievers, Wiebke, Perchinig, Bernhard
fromIMISCOE research
Does the fact that the majority of Turkey's population is Muslim form a hindrance to its EU membership? According to a recent policy advice by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the answer is an adamant 'no'. Why is this issue of Turkish Islam releva…
This volume, from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, examines the discussion surrounding both actual and possible future expansion of the European Union. The contributors address the key issues in the debate, providing new insights.
"The global financial crisis, which started in the United States in 2007, spread to Europe in 2009. It especially hit Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain, countries which have introduced the single currency, the euro. These eurozone countries no longer have monetary poli…
No subject has more bearing on the future economic prosperity of Britain, no subject has been the cause of so many arguments across the land, in Parliament and pub, no subject has been the touch-fire of so many late-night monologues by irate taxi-drivers than Europe, and, more s…
Carolyn Ban breaks new ground by analyzing the European Commission from a public management perspective. Based on extensive interviews conducted over six years, it explores how the European Commission faced the challenge of enlargement, how it recruited and socialized thousands …
"Carolyn Ban breaks new ground by analyzing the European Commission from a public management perspective. Based on extensive interviews conducted over six years, it explores how the European Commission faced the challenge of enlargement, how it recruited and socialized thousands…
by Marek, Dan, Baun, Michael J.
fromEurope and the nation state
Given the recent inertia in EU-Turkey relations in the midst of regional economic and political upheavals, Europeanization of Turkey takes a step back from the latest headlines to provide a comprehensive stocktaking of EU-inspired reform efforts in Turkey with an eye to understa…
This book offers the first in-depth and systematic analysis of the challenges of the Euro Area and the eastward enlargement of the European Union. Combing country and sectoral case studies with a thematic treatment, it focuses in particular on how the prolonged process of access…
A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration explains the violent break-up of the former Yugoslavia in early 1990s in the context of two legal principles- sovereignty and the self-determination of peoples. The author recounts Yugoslavia's history, with a focus on the country…
The term social dumping regularly appears in public debates and in policymaking circles. However, due to its ambiguity it is used in a manner that is convenient for individual discourse participants, thus opening the door for misconceptions and ill-grounded accusations. This boo…
"Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and Germany, this book provides a less glittering answer. The EU has betrayed hopes of social cohesion: social re…
