The EU and the eurozone crisis

policy challenges and strategic choices

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 policy autonomy, so ...

The European Union after Lisbon

polity, politics, policy

A few years have passed since the Lisbon Treaty came into force but the question still remains of what the Lisbon Treaty has actually brought about. Was it just 'relatively insignificant' as some scholars have claimed, or was it 'something' more? This book sets out ...

Asymmetric trade negotiations

The slow pace of the Doha Round has boosted the proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements. Paradoxically, the more powerful actors, the US and the European Union, who at the same time have benefited the most from the multilateral system, have also been engaged ...

The rise of China and the capitalist world order

Ed. Li Xing. China's rise within global society and politics has brought it into the spotlight - for social scientists, the country's long and dramatic transformations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries make it an ideal case study for research on political and economic ...

Comparative regional integration

Europe and beyond

Ed. Finn Laursen. This book includes up-to-date studies of regional integration efforts in all major parts of the world, especially North America, South America and East Asia. In many cases, these efforts are compared with the EU, where integration has progressed much further. Some important ...

The Euro in the 21st Century

economic crisis and financial uproar

"The Euro in the 21st Century" clarifies the perception of the euro and empirically demonstrates that the euro has become a true common currency and the Eurozone a true optimal currency area, presenting, in turn, a model to imitate. In order to demonstrate this, this ...

The EU and world regionalism

the makability of regions in the 21st Century

Eds. Philippe De Lombaerde, Michael Schulz. Much has been said about the driving forces of region-building processes or regionalization worldwide, yet few systematic and comparative studies have been conducted on how regions can contribute to the building of other regions - and more concretely, how the ...

An East Asian model for latin American success

the new path

Latin America is at a uniquely important juncture in its history and the history of development more generally. Neoliberal market-orientated policies are being called into question, growth has been volatile and equity has stayed the same or worsened. In Latin America, there is no clear ...

The EU-Russian energy dialogue

Europe's future energy security

EU-Russian energy dialogue represents a policy issue that forces us to take a serious look at several crucial questions related to the present and future of Europe such as: how can the EU area ensure its future energy security when it is running out of ...