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Series: Beyond boundaries: Canadian defence and strategic studies series; 5. ; Fishing for a Solution provides a detailed, policy-based account of the development of Canada's fisheries relations with the European Union. It covers over 35 years of this contentious international relationship, from the extension of Canada's fisheries jurisdiction to 200 miles in 1977 and the creation of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) two years later, to the development of a proposed new NAFO Convention in 2007, which awaits formal approval. Based on the experience of participants from inside the deliberations and negotiations, the book explores the impact of Canada's internal politics on international fisheries negotiations. For anyone interested in the workings of Canadian foreign policy, resource policy or in the complexities of managing international relations, it offers a unique account of the development of Canada-EU fisheries relations, blending the academic perspective of a long-time student of those relations with the insights of two former senior public servants who led the international affairs directorate of Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans. ; Canadian Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary ; Yes ; 2014-07-10

This dissertation explores the effects of European integration on national level legislatures in European Union member states. Many economic and political decisions previously made by democratically elected national legislatures are now decided at a supranational, or European, level. National legislatures have responded to this change by increasing their oversight of European affairs in order to impose more democratic accountability and transparency into the opaque decision-making process of developing European legislation. While all national legislatures of European Union member states have established European Affairs Committees to help strengthen oversight of European affairs, there is considerable variation in the institutional strength and political control invested in these committees. I argue that the more recently a country joined the European Union, the more quickly the legislature will move to establish an oversight committee for European affairs and the more assertive its European Affairs Committee is likely to be. Cross-sectional statistical analysis shows a strong correlation between the timing of membership and the urgency with which the European Affairs Committee is established. There is also a strong correlation between timing of membership and a legislature's approach to parliamentary oversight of European affairs. Case studies on the German Bundestag, the Irish Oireachtas, and the German Bundesrat explore three different approaches to the oversight of European affairs