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The Handbook on European Union Climate Change Policy and Politics
provides a wide-ranging and in-depth assessment of current and
emerging challenges facing the EU in committing to and delivering
increasingly ambitious climate policy objectives. It traces the
development of climate and energy policies since the early 1990s
and examines their continued evolution in the context of the 2019
European Green Deal. With contributions from leading international
scholars, it describes the key dynamics driving policy developments
and the role of key actors in climate and energy-related policy
processes. Covering topics that have previously been relatively
neglected, or have recently gained greater significance, such as
finance and investment, ‘hard to abate’ sectors and negative
emissions, this timely Handbook offers an up-to-date and unrivalled
exploration of the complexities of climate policymaking. It will be
of primary interest to academics researching EU politics, and
environmental politics, policy, regulation and governance more
widely. It will be especially pertinent to students and researchers
who require more specialized knowledge of EU climate policy and
politics.
The 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe was not only a human and ecological
disaster, but also a political-ideological one, severely
discrediting Soviet governance and galvanizing dissidents in the
Eastern Bloc. In the case of Poland, what began as isolated
protests against the Soviet nuclear site grew to encompass domestic
nuclear projects in general, and in the process spread across the
country and attracted new segments of society. This innovative
study, combining scholarly analysis with oral histories and other
accounts from participants, traces the growth and development of
the Polish anti-nuclear movement, showing how it exemplified the
broader generational and cultural changes in the nation's
opposition movements during the waning days of the state socialist
era.
This edited collection highlights the different meanings that have
been attached to the notion of energy security and how it is taken
to refer to different objects. Official policy definitions of
energy security are broadly similar across countries and emphasize
the reliability and affordability of access to sufficient energy
resources for a community to uphold its normal economic and social
functions. However, perceptions of energy security vary between
states causing different actions to be taken, both in international
relations and in domestic politics. Energy Security in Europe moves
the policy debates on energy security beyond a consideration of its
seemingly objective nature. It also provides a series of
contributions that shed light on the conditions under which similar
material factors are met with very different energy security
policies and divergent discourses across Europe. Furthermore, it
problematizes established notions prevalent in energy security
studies, such as whether energy security is 'geopolitical', and an
element of high politics, or purely 'economic', and should be left
for the markets to regulate. This book will be of particular
relevance to students and academics in the fields of energy studies
and political science seeking to understand the divergence in
perspectives and understandings of energy security challenges
between EU member states and in multilateral relationships between
the EU as a whole.
This monograph traces the history of the dissident as a
transnational phenomenon, exploring Soviet dissidents in Communist
Central Europe from the mid-1960s until 1989. It argues that our
understanding of the transnational activist would not be what it is
today without the input of Central European oppositionists and ties
the term to the global emergence and evolution of human rights. The
book examines how we define dissidents and explores the association
of political resistance to authoritarian regimes, as well as the
impact of domestic and international recognition of the dissident
figure. Turning to literature to analyse the meaning and impact of
the dissident label, the book also incorporates interviews and
primary accounts from former activists. Combining a unique
theoretical approach with new empirical material, this book will
appeal to students and scholars of contemporary history, politics
and culture in Central Europe.
This open access book is the first monograph that brings together
insights from comparative politics, political sociology, and
migration studies to introduce the current state of knowledge on
external voting and transnational politics. Drawing on new data
gathered within the DIASPOlitic project, which created a
comparative dataset of external voting results for 6 countries of
origin and 17 countries of residence as well as an extensive
qualitative dataset of 80 in-depth interviews with four groups of
migrants, this book not only illustrates theoretical problems with
empirical material, but also provides answers to previously
unaddressed questions. The empirical material focuses on the
European context. The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union
(2004-2007) triggered a westward wave of migration from Central and
Eastern European countries which faced the expansion of existing
emigre communities and the emergence of new ones. As this process
coincided with the expansion of migrant voting rights, the result
is a large set of populous diaspora communities which can
potentially have a significant impact on country electoral
politics, making the study of external voting highly relevant. This
book's introduction takes stock of current research on
transnational politics and external voting, presenting core
puzzles. The following chapter introduces the context of
intra-European migration and the political situation in
Central-Eastern European sending countries. The next two sections
address the empirical puzzles, drawing on new quantitative and
qualitative. The conclusion takes stock of the evidence gathered,
discusses the normative problem of non-resident voters
enfranchisement, connects external voting to the broader debate on
political remittances and finally, maps the terrain ahead for
future research. This concise, empirically grounded introduction to
external voting is critical reading in structuring the debate
around migration and shaping research agendas for the future.
This monograph traces the history of the dissident as a
transnational phenomenon, exploring Soviet dissidents in Communist
Central Europe from the mid-1960s until 1989. It argues that our
understanding of the transnational activist would not be what it is
today without the input of Central European oppositionists and ties
the term to the global emergence and evolution of human rights. The
book examines how we define dissidents and explores the association
of political resistance to authoritarian regimes, as well as the
impact of domestic and international recognition of the dissident
figure. Turning to literature to analyse the meaning and impact of
the dissident label, the book also incorporates interviews and
primary accounts from former activists. Combining a unique
theoretical approach with new empirical material, this book will
appeal to students and scholars of contemporary history, politics
and culture in Central Europe.
Stability is at the core of every discussion of order,
organization or institutionalization. From an inside perspective,
the stability of each order-constituting element is assumed. In
contrast, in critical discourses instability (e.g. through
ambiguity, or non-control) is located at the outside of the social
order as its negative. By treating this argumentative symmetrical
structure as idioms of stability and de-stabilization, the articles
try to rethink order: How can we describe structures from a
perspective in which instability, non-control and irrationality are
not contrary to ordering systems, but contribute to their
stability? How might the notions of identity, knowledge and
institution in social and cultural studies be contested by this
change of perspective?
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