Current Issues in European
Integration
Edited by Yiannis Stivachtis
ISBN: 960-88331-7-5, 450
pages, Hardback
First published in 2004 by ATINER
Price: Hardcover: 90€ (It includes Shipping and Handling)
Table of Contents
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List of Contributors |
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Issues and Policy Imperatives in the Enlarged Europe: An Introduction |
1 |
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Yannis A. Stivachtis |
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PART I Political Issues |
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The Influence and Interests of the New Member States After the Eastern Enlargement: Decision-Making and Weighting of Votes in the EU |
23 |
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Simon Parais |
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The Optimal Decentralization of Government Activity: Normative Recommendations for the European Con-stitution |
41 |
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Markus Eller |
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3 |
Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe and the European Integration |
67 |
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Barbara Törnquist-Plewa |
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Turkey’s Place in European Designs |
91 |
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Ali Tekin |
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Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) after Iraq |
117 |
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Yannis A. Stivachtis |
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Social Choice and the Free Riding in the Spanish Par-liament: Are Lazy the Deputies? |
143 |
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Omar de la Cruz Vicente |
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PART II Institutional Issues |
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Principles and Practices of the Independence of the European Court of Justice: A Political Economy Per-spective |
165 |
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George Tridimas |
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Trying to Make a Euro Out of What Makes Sense: Competition, Cohesion, and the Role of Ideas in Euro-pean Policy Struggles |
187 |
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Stephanie L. Mudge |
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The Impacts of Financial and Factor Mobility on Euro-pean Integration and Policy Cooperation and Coordina-tion |
221 |
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Brian J. Jacobsen, John Freese and Jerry Poppe |
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Institutional Dynamism in a Changing Economic Context: The EU Maritime Safety Policy |
245 |
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Athanasios A. Pallis |
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Imitation, Flattery and the Lisbon Agenda: The Irish Model and Labor Market and Social Policy |
271 |
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Nigel Boyle |
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PART III Economic and Trade Issues |
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The EU Eastern Enlargement and the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Migration |
297 |
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Ivan D. Ivanov |
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Comparing the Trade-Creation Effects of Euroization Among EU Members |
315 |
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Bill Wan-Sing Hung and Cheung-Tai Hung |
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Contribution to the European Budget: Rethinking the Debate in Terms of Trade and Growth |
331 |
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Delphine Tatot |
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Trade Performance and the Growth of Productivity |
349 |
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I. Bournakis |
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Impacts of the Euro-Tunisian Agreements of Free Ex-change: Evaluation by a Computable General Equilibrium Model in 1996 |
367 |
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Haykel Hadj Salem |
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The Brazilian Exports of Agricultural Products for the European Union |
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Ivan Targino and Medeiros Vieira |
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PART IV Monetary Issues |
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Does the European Union Has Its Own System of Fiscal Federalism? |
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Paulo Vila Maior |
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The E.M.U. Fiscal Regime and National Rules and Procedures: The Case of Spain |
435 |
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Javier Salinas |
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Asset Prices and Monetary Policy in the Euro Area: A Tentative Model |
461 |
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Luis Miguel Pacheco |
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Purchasing Power Parity Under the Euro |
493 |
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Michael A. Jenkins |
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