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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the European Union with sections on conflict, intelligence and security, immigration and human rights, world economic development and environmental sustainability, high technologies and their growing impact. -- .
Table of ContentsPart I Conflict and foreign and security approaches
Introduction to part I
1. Interdependence and fragmentation: The articulations of political space in the discourses of integration and ethnic conflict – Tarja Väyrynen
2. The Kosovo intervention and European security: NATO's pyrrhic victory – James H. Wyllie
3. European Union Intelligence Agency: A necessary institution for Common Intelligence Policy? – John M. Nomikos
4. Recent developments in EU migration and asylum policies – Barbara Marshall
5. Enforcing human rights in Europe and beyond: International law and human rights in a changing world – Caroline Nolan
PART II Issues of Economic Development
Introduction to part II
6. EU economic governance in the present world system – Jonathan Luckhurst and Vassiliki N. Koutrakou
7. New directions in the EU's Third World policy: From aid to trade under the watchful eye of the WTO – Vassiliki N. Koutrakou
8. Transboundary cooperation and regional networks in Sweden and the Baltic States; integration on the new European frontier at the turn of the century – Geoffrey Gooch
9. An ever more sustainable union? Integrating economy, society and environment in a rapidly enlarging Europe – Andrew Jordan and Timothy O'Riordan
10. Cooperation or competition? Nuclear energy and the Ostpolitik of the European Union – Sabine Saurugger
11. Cross border transport: The EU policy agenda – Steve Dawe
12. The Europeanisation of firms and the role of Euro-groups in European integration – Jenny Fairbrass
PART III: The high technology factor
Introduction to part III
13. Euratom: The toothless treaty? – Hazel Dawe
14. Interest groups, institutions, and expertise: The new politics of EU biotechnology regulation – Michael E. Smith
15. Deregulation and coordination in european telecommunications strategies – Nicola Murrell
16. J(EU)nesse sans frontières: Information age governance, youth and the EU – Paul G. Nixon
