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The following new publications are available for reference at the European Documentation Centre.
COMPARING FEDERAL SYSTEMS
Ronald Watts
Queen’s University
At present there are 25 functioning federations in the world (containing over 40 percent of the
world's population). A distinctive feature of the popularity of federalism in the contemporary world is
that its application has taken a variety of forms and has included some new variants and
innovations. This third edition has been fully updated and now encompasses reference to a much
wider range of federations and federal experiments including mature federations such as the United
States of America, Switzerland, Canada, Austria, Germany and India; emergent federations such as
Mexico, Malaysia, Pakistan, Spain, Brazil, Belgium, Russia, Argentina, Ethiopia, South Africa,
Nigeria and Venezuela; micro-federations such as Micronesia, Belau, St.Kitts and Nevis, and
Comoros; federal-confederal hybrids such as the United Arab Emirates and the European Union,
and post-conflict federal experiments such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sudan, Iraq, and Congo; as
well as examining federations that have failed. Watts compares the interaction of social diversity
and political institutions, the distribution of powers and finances, the processes contributing to
flexibility or rigidity in adjustment, the extent of internal symmetry or asymmetry, the character of
representation in federal institutions, the role of constitutions and courts, the provisions for
constitutional rights and secession, the degree of centralization and non-centralization, and the
pathology of federations.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN APPLIED ECONOMICS
Don Ethridge
Iowa State University Press
Focused attention on how to organize and conduct research can increase the efficiency of the
research process and its outcomes. The second edition of "Research Methodology in Applied
Economics" provides time-tested guidelines to instruct graduate students in the research process.
Emphasizing research methodology as it applies to economics, Ethridge provides an overview of
the conceptual and philosophical basis of research methodology, and procedural guidelines on
designing, coordinating, and conducting research projects. This textbook integrates philosophies,
concepts, and procedures in research methodology, adding practical tips such as how to write a
research proposal, how to apply for funding, and how to write reports that effectively present
research. This edition updates and increases the use of relevant examples for today's students,
faculty, and researchers.
EU FOREIGN POLICY THROUGH THE LENS OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: MAKING
SENSE OF DIVERSITY
Caterina Carta
Ashgate
Leading scholars in discourse analysis and European foreign policy join forces in this book, marking
a real breakthrough in the literature. Not only do they offer original perspectives on European
foreign policy, but they bring together various theories on foreign policy discourses that remain too
often isolated from each other. This theoretical diversity is clearly reflected in the book's fourpronged structure: Part I - Post-structuralist Approaches (with contributions from Thomas Diez,
Henrik Larsen and Beste Isleyne). Part II - Constructivist Approaches (with contributions from Knud
Erik Jorgensen, Jan Orbie, Ferdi de Ville, Esther Barbe?, Anna Herranz-Surralle?s and Michal
Natorski) Part III - Critical Discourse Analytical Approaches (with contributions from Senem AydinDuzgit, Amelie Kutter, Ruth Wodak, Salomi Boukala, and Caterina Carta. Part IV- Discoursive
Institutionalist Approaches (with contributions from Ben Rosamond, Antoine Rayroux,and Vivien A.
Schmidt). The volume is the first full-length study on how to apply different discourse analytical
approaches and methodologies to European foreign policy.
CARBON POLITICS AND THE FAILURE OF THE KYOTO PROTOCOL
Gerald Kutney
Routledge
Carbon Politics and the Failure of Kyoto charts the framework and political evolution of the Kyoto
Protocol negotiations and examines the ensuing failure of the international community to
adequately address climate change. The focus is not on the science or consequences of climate
change but on the political gamesmanship of the major players throughout the UNFCCC negotiation
process. More than an updated history of the subject matter, this book provides a detailed study of
the carbon targets which became the biggest influencing factor on the reaction of nations to Kyoto's
binding agreements. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the leading nations' motives,
including the US, China and Germany, in entering the negotiations, in particular, their economic
interests. Despite the effort to combat climate change in politics that the negotiations represent, the
book concludes that an agreement which requires almost 200 very different nations to agree on a
single protocol is doomed to failure. The book offers a novel contribution to our understanding of
this failure and suggests alternative frameworks and policies to tackle what is arguably the most
complex political issue of our time.
CONCEPTUALIZING CULTURAL AND SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN THE EUROMEDITERRANEAN AREA: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
Michelle Pace & Tobias Schumacher
Routledge
This collection critically analyses the dynamics and complexities of the wider Euro-Mediterranean
area on the basis of individual theory-informed designs and conceptual frameworks. Since the
predominant focus has been on the first (political and security partnership) and the second baskets
(economic and financial partnership) of the Barcelona Process, our contributors analyze social and
cultural issues (the third basket of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership), drawing upon linkages
between concepts, structures and policy outcomes. Some articles focus on the impact of the EU's
actor capability in the area of EU policies towards the South in enhancing interregional dialogue,
understanding and cultural cooperation. Others focus on a critical discourse analysis of dialogue,
identity, power, human rights and civil society (including Western and non-Western conceptions).
Finally, the volume culminates with a discussion on cultural democracy in Euro-Mediterranean
relations.
THE EUROPEAN UNION’S DEMOCRATIZATION AGENDA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Michelle Pace & Peter Seeberg
Routledge
Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains a central pillar of the
foreign policy of the European Union (EU). Rather than concentrating on the relations between the
incumbent authoritarian regimes and the opposition in the relevant countries, and on the degree to
which these relations are affected by EU efforts at promoting democracy, human rights and the
rule of law (an outside-in approach), this collection of articles inverts the focus of such relationships
and attempts to look at them 'inside-out'. While some contributions also emphasise the 'outside-in'
axis, given that this continues to be analytically rewarding, the overarching thrust of this book is to
provide some empirical substance for the claim that EU policy making is not unidirectional and is
influenced by the perceptions and actions of its 'targets'. Thus, the focus is on domestic political
changes on the ground in the MENA and how they link into what the EU is attempting to achieve in
the region. Finally, the self-representation of the EU and its (lack of a) clear regional role is
discussed.
THE POLITICS OF REGIONAL IDENTITY: MEDDLING WITH THE MEDITERRANEAN
Michelle Pace
Palgrave
A keen analysis of the impact of European regionalism in the Mediterranean, focusing on the
politics of representation and constructions of identity. The Mediterranean - as a region, as an area
of EU policy and as a place on the fringe of a rapidly integrating Europe - has been a theoretically
under-researched area. Containing empirical research on Greece, Malta and Morocco, this theoryled investigation into the political effects of the Mediterranean's symbolic geography, complements
work done on the constitution of entities such as nations, Europe and the West. The Politics of
Regional Identity draws on the field of critical IR and critical geopolitics to examine both the
theoretical and empirical manifestations of these changing geopolitical images and discourses.
This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics, international relations and
the European Union.
ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
ADAPTATION
Anil Markandya et al.
Routledge
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty
regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems. Many publications deal
with economic issues relating to mitigation policies, but the economics of adaptation to climate
change has received comparatively little attention. However, this area is critical and a central pillar
of any adaptation strategy or plan and is the economic dimension, which therefore merits the
increase in attention it is receiving. This book deals with the difficulties that face the economics of
adaptation. Critical issues include: uncertainty; baselines; reversibility, flexibility and adaptive
management; distributional impacts; discount rates and time horizons; mixing monetary and nonmonetary evaluations and limits to the use of cost-benefit analysis; economy-wide impacts and
cross-sectoral linkages. All of these are addressed in the book from the perspective of economics
of adaptation. Other dimensions of adaptation are also included, such as the role of low- and
middle-income countries, technology and the impacts of extreme events.