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The European Union (EU) faces many crises and risks to its security
and existence. While few of them threaten the lives of EU citizens,
they all create a sense of anxiety and insecurity about the future
for many ordinary Europeans. This comprehensive volume explores the
concept of 'ontological security' which was introduced into
international relations over a decade ago to better understand the
'security of being' found in feelings of fear, anxiety, crisis, and
threat to wellbeing. The authors make use of this concept to
explore how narratives of European integration have been part of
public discourses in the post-war period and how reconciliation
dynamics, national biographical narratives and memory politics have
been enacted to create ontological security. Within this context,
they also discuss the anxiety of the 'remainers' in the Brexit
referendum and the consequences of its failure to address the
ontological anxieties and insecurities of remain voters. The book
also explores: how European security firms market ontological
security and provide an ontological security-inspired reading of
the EU's relations with post-communist states; the EU and NATO's
engagement with hybrid threats; and the EU as an anxious community.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal European Security.
This text provides a clear and current overview of the
motivations and outcomes of EU Member States regarding their
foreign policy-making within and beyond the EU. It provides an
in-depth analysis of intra-EU policy-making, and sheds light in an
innovative and understandable way on the lesser known aspects of
the inter-EU and extra-EU foreign policies of the 27 Member
States.
The text has an innovative method of thematic organisation in
which case study state profiles emerge via dominant foreign policy
themes. The text examines the three main policy challenges
currently faced by the 27 Member States.
First, EU Member States must cooperate within the mechanisms of
the EU, including the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
Intra-EU policy-making sees the states cooperating according to
well-practised inter-governmental methods, but along supranational
lines for a widening number of areas.
Second, EU Member States continue to construct their own
inter-EU foreign policies. In other words, bilateral arrangements
between EU Member States but largely independent of the treaties
and structures of the EU itself
Third, is the sovereign prerogative exercised by all EU Member
States to construct their own foreign policies on everything from
trade and defence with the rest of the world However, in directing
extra-EU foreign policies, EU Member States directly experience the
tension between the practice of Europeanisation and the pull of
sovereignty.
This combination of clarity, thematic structure and empirical
case studies make this an ideal textbook for all upper-level
students of European foreign policy, comparative European politics
and European studies.
This book presents a fresh examination of the values and
principles that inform EU foreign policy, exploring the
implications of these values and principles on the construction of
European Union identity today.
The authors show how current debates on European Union foreign
policy and on European identity tend to be kept separated, as if
the process of identity formation had only an internal dimension or
it was not related to the external behaviour of an international
actor. Conceiving EU foreign policy in its broadest context as a
set of political actions that are regarded by external actors as
'EU' actions, the book focuses on both Pillar I and Pillar II
policies, involving EU and member state actions and material
political actions and less material ones such as speech acts.
Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective and drawing on
political science, political economy, sociology, environmental
science and women's studies, this book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of European studies and politics.
This book presents a fresh examination of the values and principles
that inform EU foreign policy, exploring the implications of these
values and principles on the construction of European Union
identity today. The authors show how current debates on European
Union foreign policy and on European identity tend to be kept
separated, as if the process of identity formation had only an
internal dimension or it was not related to the external behaviour
of an international actor. Conceiving EU foreign policy in its
broadest context as a set of political actions that are regarded by
external actors as 'EU' actions, the book focuses on both Pillar I
and Pillar II policies, involving EU and member state actions and
material political actions and less material ones such as speech
acts. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective and drawing on
political science, political economy, sociology, environmental
science and women's studies, this book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of European studies and politics.
This text provides a clear and current overview of the
motivations and outcomes of EU Member States regarding their
foreign policy-making within and beyond the EU. It provides an
in-depth analysis of intra-EU policy-making, and sheds light in an
innovative and understandable way on the lesser known aspects of
the inter-EU and extra-EU foreign policies of the 27 Member
States.
The text has an innovative method of thematic organisation in
which case study state profiles emerge via dominant foreign policy
themes. The text examines the three main policy challenges
currently faced by the 27 Member States.
First, EU Member States must cooperate within the mechanisms of
the EU, including the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
Intra-EU policy-making sees the states cooperating according to
well-practised inter-governmental methods, but along supranational
lines for a widening number of areas.
Second, EU Member States continue to construct their own
inter-EU foreign policies. In other words, bilateral arrangements
between EU Member States but largely independent of the treaties
and structures of the EU itself
Third, is the sovereign prerogative exercised by all EU Member
States to construct their own foreign policies on everything from
trade and defence with the rest of the world However, in directing
extra-EU foreign policies, EU Member States directly experience the
tension between the practice of Europeanisation and the pull of
sovereignty.
This combination of clarity, thematic structure and empirical
case studies make this an ideal textbook for all upper-level
students of European foreign policy, comparative European politics
and European studies.
The European Union (EU) faces many crises and risks to its security
and existence. While few of them threaten the lives of EU citizens,
they all create a sense of anxiety and insecurity about the future
for many ordinary Europeans. This comprehensive volume explores the
concept of 'ontological security' which was introduced into
international relations over a decade ago to better understand the
'security of being' found in feelings of fear, anxiety, crisis, and
threat to wellbeing. The authors make use of this concept to
explore how narratives of European integration have been part of
public discourses in the post-war period and how reconciliation
dynamics, national biographical narratives and memory politics have
been enacted to create ontological security. Within this context,
they also discuss the anxiety of the 'remainers' in the Brexit
referendum and the consequences of its failure to address the
ontological anxieties and insecurities of remain voters. The book
also explores: how European security firms market ontological
security and provide an ontological security-inspired reading of
the EU's relations with post-communist states; the EU and NATO's
engagement with hybrid threats; and the EU as an anxious community.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal European Security.
The only comparative analysis of the foreign policies of European
Union member states. Examines those policies which are
'Europeanised' through the EU's processes and those policies which
are retained or excluded from these processes. Analyses the dual
impact of the Maastricht Treaty on the European Union, and the
post-Cold War environment on the foreign policy processes of the
EU's member states. Argues for a distinctive approach to the
foreign policy analysis of EU states which recognises the
fundamental changes that membership brings after the Cold War, but
also acknowledges the diverse role of policies which states seek to
retain or advance as being 'special'. All the empirical chapters
are structured by six sets of explanatory questions. -- .
How can sustainable peace be achieved? The book identifies
potential supranational, state and non-state actors involved in
peacebuilding processes. Further - more, it develops strategies to
address the problems and dilemmas of international peacebuilding.
An important contribution to a highly topical debate. Hopes for a
less conflict-prone world after the end of the Cold War were
bitterly disappointed. Instead, the international community is
faced with protracted wars and violent conflicts today. In
addition, social, economic and cultural insecurities as well as
fragile statehood challenge the post-Westphalian environment. As a
result, scholars and policy-makers alike are trying to develop
viable strategies for sustainable peace. The book contributes to
this debate, as it illustrates current research results on the
topic and addresses the complex problems and dilemmas that various
international peace - building actors are confronted with.
Ring systems represent a very important branch of organic
chemistry. Benzene is perhaps the pre-eminent example and provides
the benchmark for the so-called aromatic character of cyclic
systems. Cycloalkanes are another prominent class of organic
compounds and these saturated ring systems form a homologous series
known as alicyclics. Materials that are constructed from organic
polymers such as polythene, polystyrene, polyisoprene (natural
rubber) and polyvinyl chloride are common features of our daily
lives. Most of these and related organic polymers are generated
from acyclic precursors by free radical, anionic, cationic or
organometallic polymerisation processes or by condensation
reactions. The focus of this book is monocyclic inorganic ring
systems of the p-block elements and the polymers that are, in many
cases derived from them. Bicyclic or polycyclic arrangements are
considered when they are closely related to those of monocyclic
systems. Inorganic heterocycles that are more accurately described
as coordination complexes of chelating inorganic ligands are
included only when they are directly related to an inorganic
homocycle or heterocycle by the replacement of one p-block element
by a more metallic p-block element. After a short introductory
chapter, the first half of the book is comprised of seven chapters
that deal with the fundamentals of the subject intended for
undergraduates or researchers who are unfamiliar with the topic,
covering the following areas: - synthetic methods -
characterisation techniques - delocalisation in inorganic rings -
paramagnetic inorganic rings - inorganic macrocycles - ligand
chemistry - inorganic polymers (general concepts including,
synthesis, structure and bonding, characterisation methods,
properties and applications) The final four chapters discuss in
detail the chemistry of inorganic homo- and hetero-cycles involving
the elements of groups 13-16 (the p-block elements). The focus is
on relating the early seminal contributions to the field with
exciting new developments. From the fundamental standpoint, novel
structures and new bonding concepts are highlighted, in addition to
synthetic approaches. This is the first book that addresses both
the fundamental and applied aspects of inorganic ring systems
through an emphasis of their use as precursors to inorganic
polymers and other useful materials (e.g. semiconductors and
ceramics). The book is intended primarily for senior undergraduates
and graduate students in inorganic chemistry, as well research
workers in the field of inorganic ring systems and polymers. At the
undergraduate level it serves as a supplementary text to the more
general inorganic chemistry text books and at the graduate level it
would be the text of choice for a course in the area of inorganic
rings and polymers.
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