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Free Download Mirena Pencheva, "EU-UK Police and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters "
English | ISBN: 3030714748 | 2021 | 145 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book looks at the past, present and possible future relationship between the EU and the UK in the fields of law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. It examines successively the EU-UK relationship prior to 1 February 2020; the relationship during the transition period; the relationship after the end of the transition period. The book analyses the relevant provisions of the Withdrawal Agreement, the Political Declaration, of the EU and UK negotiating mandates and draft legal texts, and the state of play of the negotiations. It looks at the possible forms that the future cooperation can take and the likely areas, which might be covered, such as cooperation with Europol and Eurojust; criminal records; DNA, dactyloscopic and vehicle registration data; passenger name records; surrender procedures, and mutual legal assistance. It also analyses the overarching issues of protection of personal data and the future role of the Court of Justice of the EU. Finally, this book puts forward some ideas on the possible impact of Brexit on security cooperation within wider Europe and on the possible emergence in future of a European Security Union within wider Europe. The volume is aimed at practitioners and academics in European Studies, International Relations, and Law.

Free Download Lydia Malmedie, "EU Promotion of Human Rights for LGBTI Persons in Uganda: Translating and Organizing a Wicked Problem"
English | ISBN: 3031458257 | 2023 | 385 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Examining the EU’s promotion of human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans+ and intersex (LGBTI) persons in Uganda during the period of 2009 to 2017, this book investigates how a public administration defines and deals with a wicked problem. The empirical puzzle of how the topic of human rights for LGBTI persons, despite its highly contested nature, travelled between Brussels and Kampala, became codified in form of LGBTI Guidelines (2013) and institutionalized within EU foreign policy is addressed as one of translation and sensemaking. The investigation focuses on the process of problem definition in everyday practice by EU staff and EU member states’ staff in Brussels and Kampala. This book therefore provides key insights into how public administrations deal with wicked problems, how contested ideas can become institutionalized and how an idea is translated and made sense of across time, levels and cultural boundaries. The findings are of interest especially to scholars of wicked problems, sociological new institutionalism and public administration as well as international relations and EU studies, human rights, gender and sexuality studies.

Free Download Kieran Doyle, "EU Peacebuilding Missions: Developing Security in Post-conflict Nations "
English | ISBN: 3031187687 | 2022 | 180 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores the EU’s approach to peacebuilding and questions the EU global role as crisis manager and capacity builder. It highlights the significant contributions of the EU to civilian peacebuilding and also critically evaluates the activities of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) within their rule of law and human rights peacebuilding missions. It draws on the author’s twenty years of experience working on CSDP and EU defence matters including his research on EU police missions in Africa and Middle East. It exposes emergent tension between peacebuilding in its neighbourhood and security issues. It examines the practice of EU peacebuilding including performance of its missions and how deployed personnel can professionalise their diplomatic (mediation, negotiation and dialogue facilitation) capacity to fully realise the potential of missions and exploit opportunities for expanding the vision of peace. It formulates convincing policy recommendations for the future planning of EU external relations in post conflict environments and offers valuable insights into how to connect with people and communities in the aftermath of conflict.

Free Download Digdem Soyaltin-Colella, "EU Good Governance Promotion in the Age of Democratic Decline"
English | ISBN: 3031057805 | 2022 | 323 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The European Union (EU) support for good governance reforms has been the cornerstone of its conditionality and funding policies and contributed its role as a transformative power. This book re-evaluates the EU’s governance promotion capacity both within the EU and beyond its borders in light of the simultaneous decline in democracy in Europe in particular, and across the whole world in general. The book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the EU’s good governance transfer to member and accession countries. Part II examines how and to what extent the EU’s governance promotion strategies travel beyond its borders and focuses on neighbours, partners, and aid recipient countries especially in Africa. Part III turns to other regional and global actors and discusses the implications of illiberal contesters such as China and Russia on the future of EU’s good governance promotion efforts. The findings of the book bring fresh insights for the scope and depth of the EU’s governancetransfer capacity.

Free Download Alexandre Veuthey, "EU Foreign Policy via Sectoral Cooperation: The EU Joined-up Approach Towards Switzerland, Israel and Morocco "
English | ISBN: 3031489977 | 2023 | 310 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book conceptualizes the EU’s ambition at exercising a "joined up approach" (i.e. the mobilization of EU sectoral policies to realize EU foreign policy goals towards a third country). The framework is applied to three case studies: Switzerland and the Institutional Framework Agreement, Morocco and the Western Sahara issue, and Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With the help of these, the author argues that the EU is more likely to follow foreign policy objectives by leveraging on sectoral cooperation ties when the foreign policy objective concerns the conditions of participation in the single market (Switzerland). He also shows that a lack of member states’ coherence concerning the compatibility of the foreign policy objective with overarching economic (Israel) or regional/geopolitical (Israel and Morocco) interests counteracts the exercise of a joined-up approach.

Free Download Astrid Lorenz, "EU Citizenship Beyond Urban Centres: Perceptions and Practices of Young People in East Central European Peripheral Areas"
English | ISBN: 303129792X | 2023 | 259 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This open access book provides in-depth and comparative analyses of how young people in peripheral areas in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania perceive EU citizenship. It also informs the reader about the challenges faced by EU Youth Dialogue projects that aim at promoting active (EU) citizenship in these areas and it offers context-specific recommendations for local, regional, national and European policymakers and people working with young people. The contributions are based on new qualitative data collected within the framework of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Leipzig University. It will be of interest to practitioners and scholars working on Europe and the EU, citizenship and the promotion of an active EU citizenship beyond urban centres.

Free Download The Future of EU Agricultural Markets by AGMEMOD By Kevin F. Hanrahan, Trevor Donnellan, Emil Erjavec (auth.), Frédéric Chantreuil, Kevin Hanrahan, Myrna van Leeuwen (eds.)
2012 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 9400722907 | PDF | 5 MB
This book grasps the opportunity to show the strength of AGMEMOD in terms of baseline analysis at detailed regional and market levels, supported by an experienced team of country-based modellers. This analysis, produced using the AGMEMOD model, will be of interest to researchers working in the field of agricultural policy analysis as well as to policy makers from both the European Commission and its member states’ agriculture ministries.

Free Download Die EU-Staaten im Vergleich: Strukturen, Prozesse, Politikinhalte By Dr. Oscar W. Gabriel, Dr. Sabine Kropp (auth.), Oscar W. Gabriel, Sabine Kropp (eds.)
2008 | 745 Pages | ISBN: 3531422820 | PDF | 6 MB
Mit der Einrichtung des europäischen Binnenmarktes und dem Inkrafttreten des Maastrichter Vertrages hat sich die gesellschaftliche, wirtschaftliche und politische Verflechtung innerhalb der Europäischen Union intensiviert. Die Vertiefung der Zusammenarbeit zwischen den EU-Staaten wird nicht nur die europäischen Institutionen verändern, sondern auch die Abläufe in den nationalen politischen Systemen beeinflussen. Für das Verständnis der politischen Vorgänge im integrierten Europa ist eine gründliche Kenntnis der nationalen politischen Systeme erforderlich. Solche Kenntnisse vermittelt dieser Band in einer systematischen, vergleichenden Übersicht über die politischen Strukturen und Prozesse der EU-Mitgliedsstaaten sowie über ausgewählte Inhalte der staatlichen Politik.

Free Download Marc Veenbrink Anne Looijestijn-Clearie, Catalin S. Rusu, "Boosting the Enforcement of EU Competition Law at the Domestic Level"
English | ISBN: 1443852015 | 2017 | 205 pages | PDF | 730 KB

Free Download Jan Crijns, "The Enforcement of EU Financial Law "
English | ISBN: 1509959742 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book focuses on the enforcement of EU financial law on the national and supra-national levels. Emphasis is laid on the interaction between the EU and national levels (vertical interaction), as well as between the private, administrative, and criminal law levels (horizontal interaction). The book takes a multi-jurisdiction and inter-disciplinary approach and covers a range of issues that are highly topical, such as the new EU Anti-Money Laundering regime, and the ReNEUAL model for administrative law.