Issues in International Politics,

Economy, and Governance

Edited by Yannis A. Stivachtis & Christopher Price

ISBN: 978-618-5065-36-2, 328 pages

First published in 2014 by ATINER

Price: Paperback: 40€ (It includes Shipping and Handling)

Electronic copy: 30€

Table of Contents

List of Contributors About ATINER About the Editors Acknowledgments
Issues in International Politics, Economy, and Governance Yannis A. Stivachtis & Christopher Price		i
Part I: Foreign Policy
1.	Kosovo: The New European State Sónia Rodrigues	1
2.	Curtailing Global Terror Finance: Strategies for a Post-9/11 Era Kim Ezra Shienbaum & Esram Sohail	19
3.	A Necessary ‘Retreat from Globalism’? The Foreign Policy of the Obama Administration David Jervis	31
4.	U.S. Policy in the Middle East Faces the Arab Spring: Is U.S. Influence Waning? Maria do Céu Pinto	45
5.	Superman without Borders: The Controversial Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship and its Political Implications for U.S. ‘Soft Power’ Iuri Andréas Reblin & Kathlen Luana de Oliveira	59
PART II: Politics and Security in the Middle East
6.	Beyond the Tragedy of Failure: Debating the Role of State Failure in the Middle East and North Africa as a Root Cause of Political Violence in the Region Tiffany Howard	75
7.	The Egyptian Revolution and Its Impact on Stability in the Middle East Sayed Khatab	121
8.	The Regional Repercussions of Turkey-Syria Relations Jülide Karakoç & Fulya Doğruel	135
PART III: International Political Economy
9.	The 2011 Commission Proposal for a Revision of the Generalized System of Preferences: Articulating Trade, Development and Foreign Policy Objectives Anne-Claire Marangoni	151
10.	Oil Volatility and the Limits of Government Action Kent Moors	165
11.	The Return of the Value Added Tax: A New Own Resource to Finance the Budget of the European Union Auke R. Leen	177
12.	Time to Rethink the Single Market’s Approach to the Outside World? Viviane de Beaufort	189
PART IV: International Governance
13.	Governmance and International Normativity Pierre Vercauteren	203
14.	Conflict Prevention Through Unresolved Dispute: How the Pending Joint Gas Development Initiative Contributed to Regime Building and Peace in the East China Sea Vida Macikenaite	223
15.	Genetically Modified Food Global Governance: A Theoretical Approach Monika A. Szkarłat	237
16.	Exploring the Roles of NGOs as Promoters of Peace: The Case of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland Max Stephenson & Laura Zanotti	251
17.	International Organizations and International Security in Post-Enlargement Europe Yannis Stivachtis	275
18.	Can Turkish Migration be a Remedy for the Aging European Population and Labor Market Needs? Yasin Kerem Gümüş	293