Bücher der Reihe Routledge/GARNET series

This volume focuses on environmental governance as a key issue of analysis, to provide an important new conceptualisation of 'region' and regional power.

This book explores and analyzes the multidimensional influence the European Union exerts in the world, focusing on its contribution to regional and global governance.

Identifies European collective preferences and analyzes to what extent these preferences inform and shape EU foreign policy and are shared by other actors in the international system.

Addresses the extent of coherence between the Union's international social objectives compared with the activities of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and with other EU foreign policy goals. This title is of interest to students and researchers in EU studies, Globalization studies, and Social Policy.

Explores the relationship between the European Union and international organizations such as UN, WTO, and NATO. This book demonstrates how EU supports 'effective multilateralism' and global governance. It is suitable for students of international relations, European Politics, Political Science, and International Organizations.

Challenges ideas that deeper political and social problems of development may be addressed by institutional or governance fixes. This book examines the principles and prescriptions of 'good' governance as part of larger conflicts over power and its distribution.

Explores and analyses the multidimensional influence the European Union exerts in the world, focusing on its contribution to regional and global governance. This book examines the EU as global player and international power in the making. It is of interest to scholars of European Politics, International Relations, and European Studies.

Explores the EU's approach toward civil society since the 1990s and its contribution to democratisation from transition to consolidation, and from the quality of democracy to sustainable development.

Brings together a cluster of some of the high profile scholars, from various disciplinary backgrounds to debate the ontological and epistemological aspects of research on identity and legitimacy formation in the EU.

The EU has developed various strategies towards Africa and the Asian regions and this book provides both conceptual and empirical arguments to offer an innovative perspective on the EU as a global actor.

The EU's internal borders have become mostly invisible. Today, external borders are at the centre of controversy about an alleged 'fortress Europe'. Using different theoretical and methodological perspectives this book examines the challenges facing the EU's external borders, including Neighborhood Policy, migration issues and the diffusion of norms and values to other countries.

This book seeks to understand how governance agendas are constructed at both the global and national levels and asks what factors define success and failure in their implementation. It features case studies drawn from Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Examines the nature of the EU and its external role in relation to social issues raised by globalization. It explores how the EU influences, both directly and indirectly, the rest of the world in relation to the social component of globalization.