This is a study of the European Union's external decision-making processes and the present debate which surrounds them. It considers in turn three main elements of these processes, the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the External Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)and the Common Commercial Policy (CCP).

A European Foreign Policy? Decision-Making in European External Policy

History

Haseler, Stephen

Donnelly, Brendan

Ladzik, Jeannette

Europe

Forumpress

With a foreword by former BBC political editor and Ambassador to Washington Peter Jay, this collection of essays examines the geo-political and economic implications of the City of London's financial markets in a globalised world.  Exploring globalisation, the growth of China and India, terrorism, corporate social responsibility, the powerful foreign exchange markets and questions of democratic control, this book is lively and stimulating.

The Geo-Politics of the City

Business & Money

When Germany took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2007, it was confronted with high hopes for the outcome of its presidency. These expectations stemmed from a long list of pressing problems and challenges the EU was facing. This report will concentrate on whether the German presidency was able to push forward an ambitious agenda in the field of security and defence policy and further developed ESDP instrument. It will also give an outlook for the future development of ESDP.

The Development of Esdp Instruments During the German Eu Presidency and Beyond

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The greatest disappointment of the post-Communist era has been the failure of the West's relationship with Russia. Most policy-makers and experts expected that, after an inevitably troublesome period of transition, Russia would join the United States and Europe in a strategic and economic partnership, based on shared interests and values. The pace of change might be doubtful, but not its direction. Today, the area of shared interests has shrunk, and the divergence of values has grown.

Russia's Place in the World in the 21st Century (Research)

Skidelsky, Professor of Political Economy Robert

France, European Defence and NATO

Lisbonne-De Vergeron, Karine

Meltdown tells the full story of the global financial and economic crisis. Drawing on a decade of research it looks at the roots of the catastrophe and reveals the true underlying causes of the global meltdown - some of which might be surprising.   And it answers the question: who is to blame? The book also asks vital and urgent questions for the future. What role now for the West? Will China dominate the new century? Is free market capitalism over?  Meltdown: How The 'Masters of the Universe' Destroyed The West's Power and Prosperity is a comprehensive guide to the political and economic transformation through which we are living.

Meltdown - How the 'Masters of the Universe' destroyed the West's Power and Prosperity

Economics

In the wake of the economic crisis that caught the world unprepared in 2008, the state has seen a remarkable comeback. After an age of neoliberalism, in which the cutting back of state activity was the mantra, it was the state that was turned to when banks and markets failed. Governments all over the world developed rescue and stimulus packages and even nationalized significant parts of the financial sectors. The state has regained political and economic power and is using it.  But what exactly is the state and what can and should it do? Where is the line between what the market can, and what the state needs, to provide? What can and should civil society expect from the state?  Erhard Eppler answers these vital questions, drawing on historical and political examples from all over the world.

The Return of the State?

Eppler, Erhard

Education & Reference

<p>For some politicians and commentators, Britain is always destined to be the 'odd man out' in the European Union, with a history and set of political attitudes which must always pit the United Kingdom's interests against those of its neighbours. For others, such claims of British exceptionalism are at best much exaggerated, and to the extent this exceptionalism exists it arises largely from subjective rather than objective factors. This collection of essays reviews British attitudes towards a number of current European issues. It does not attempt finally to decide the controversy about British exceptionalism, but rather to provide material for a more informed debate on this complex subject.</p>

Odd Man Out? Myth and Realities in the British Approach to the European Union

Meltdown UK is the story of how Britain's leaders - from Thatcher to Blair - through arrogance and recklessness turned Britain into an 'island experiment' for global finance and 'market madness'. It all came crashing down in the great banking crisis - and we are now paying the price. Following his prescient warnings in his earlier books, The Super-Rich (in 2000) and Meltdown (in 2008) Stephen Haseler, in this latest work, draws the lessons from the crisis. Whilst our political class are paralysed, playing by the rules of the old, failed, system - by cutting deficits and the public sector - he points to 'another way'.  He argues that:  • Global financial 'markets' caused the crisis, and now no longer function. They need to be confronted by governments, not appeased.  • Britain should end its two decades-long big business-led hatred of government, public service, the public sector and the 'big state'.  • Britain's elites need to end their love affair with the mega-rich and unearned privilege, and instead create a much more equal society by redistributing wealth.  • In order to survive, Britain needs to be part of a bigger political union, a wider grouping of countries, and the only one on offer is Europe.  COMMENTS ON STEPHEN HASELER'S MELTDOWN:  'A great book...superb insight into the origins of the global meltdown' PROFESSOR LORD SKIDELSKY, AUTHOR OF KEYNES  'I enjoyed the book...Absolutely right to point out that the debt mountain is the result of globalisation' LARRY ELLIOTT, ECONOMICS EDITOR, THE GUARDIAN

Meltdown UK - There is Another Way

<p>Brexit represents an existential crisis for the British state and people. As Brexit Britain slips its moorings and moves away from the mainstream of European civilisation huge questions remain unanswered. What is Britain’s role in a dangerous world And what plans are there to stabilise the British islands as separatism grows stronger and stronger in Scotland and Northern IrelandIn these essays Professor Haseler develops a central theme of his earlier books that the country has ‘auditioned’ for this Brexit crisis over several decades during which its elites have failed to come to terms with Britain’s loss of empire and reduced status – and instead have conveniently blamed Europe for the country’s decline.Haseler suggests that so profound is our sense of national decline that we now face a deep crisis of identity, indeed of ‘Englishness’ – of what it means to be English today. In his essay ‘The Making and Un-Making of Englishness’ he looks at how this identity was created, and how it is now dissolving.He further argues that we British need nothing less than a radical culture shift away from childish English nationalism and tabloid bombast. Alongside this cultural change we also need radical constitutional surgery to save the state from disintegration.In the final essay he argues that Brexit is a dead end. That it will lead to ‘England Alone’ in a dangerous world. And that the time has come for an act of real – rather than phoney – patriotism and courage. Brexit needs to be reversed and Europe re-engaged. Professor Stephen Haseler was Emeritus Professor and Director of the Global Policy Institute. He authored fifteen books on British and European Politics. He held a PhD from the LSE, and Visiting Professorships at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities in Washington D.C. His recent books include The English Tribe, The Grand Delusion, Meltdown and Meltdown UK</p>

England Alone: Brexit and the Crisis of English Identity

Sociology

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