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This paper investigates the possibility of the new global international system, basing on the constructivistic interpretation of the "pluralistic security community" concept by K.W. Deutsch. Major tendencies in the international politics, which led to the securitization of the international agenda, are analyzed. The main attention is paid to the European Union as a regional security community. The conceptual backgrounds of European security area are analyzed through the process of EU development and political behaviour. An idea of regional security communities' synergy as a new political order in the international relation is proposed.Full text: http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/czasopismo/589/?idno=14762

This paper investigates the possibility of the new global international system, basing on the constructivistic interpretation of the "pluralistic security community" concept by K.W. Deutsch. Major tendencies in the international politics, which led to the securitization of the international agenda, are analyzed. The main attention is paid to the European Union as a regional security community. The conceptual backgrounds of European security area are analyzed through the process of EU development and political behaviour. An idea of regional security communities' synergy as a new political order in the international relation is proposed.Full text: http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/czasopismo/589/?idno=14762

In the 1980s and, in particular, in the 1990s the countries of the European Union experienced divergent developments of gross fixed capital formation. Estimating an investment function for a panel of ten countries and analyzing the paths of the determinants of investment in the countries under consideration reveals that the different development of final demand is the main factor responsible for the divergences in investment. Other factors are disparities in the decline of real interest rates and of relative prices for capital goods.

This book investigates the European Union (EU) policy-making process and why this process has taken major steps to advance environmental regulation in some areas, such as the waste trade, and not in others. The book develops a framework emphasizing decision-making modes, which provide a more nuanced understanding, compared to traditional EU theoretical approaches, of how EU actors make decisions. Using this approach, the work explores three environmental issue areas; transboundary air pollution, the carbon/energy tax proposal, and hazardous waste.

Introduction -- Part I The Evolution of European Defence Integration -- 1 All Quiet on the Western Front: The Early Legal History of European Defence Integration 1944-1958 -- 2 A Pillar of Our Security: European Foreign and Security Law 1959-1998 -- 3 Between Saint-Malo and a New Rome: The Current State of European Defence and Security Integration 1998-2005 -- Part II Community Law as an Instrument of European Defence Integration -- 4 A Fine Balance: Free Movement and Public Security in The EC Treaty -- 5 An Even Finer Balance: Armaments, Secrecy, and Article 296 EC -- 6 The Finest Balance : Article 297 EC and Community Law in Times of Crisis and War -- 7 Heavy Equipment, Food, Fodder, and Stores for the Armies of Europe: Community Law and Regulation of European Defence Procurement -- 8 Policing an Armed Market: The Regulation of the European Defence Industries -- 9 European Bands of Brothers and Sisters: The Regulation of Sex Equality in the Armed Forces of the Member States -- Part III European Defence Integration Under the Constitutional Treaty -- 10 Joining Pillars, Joining Forces: The Objectives and Principles of the Common Security and Defence Policy -- 11 Crisis Management, Armaments, and Collective Defence: The Scope of Defence Integration Under the Constitutional Treaty -- 12 The Old Players and a New Minister: The Institutional Structure of the Common Security and Defence Policy Under the Constitutional Treaty -- Conclusions

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE WESTERN BALKANS -- 1 European Union Enlargement to the Western Balkans: Political Conditionality and Problems of Democratic Consolidation -- 2 Threats to Human Security in the Western Balkans -- PART II THE EUROPEAN UNION IN ITS EASTERN AND SOUTHERN NEIGHBOURHOOD -- 3 The Many Patterns of Europeanization: European Union Relations with Russia, Ukraine and Belarus -- 4 European Union Policy towards Belarus and Libya: Old and New Double Standards? -- 5 Coming of Age: Dilemmas for the European Union's Foreign Policy in the Wider Europe -- PART III THE EUROPEAN UNION AND RUSSIA -- 6 The European Union and Russia: Partners by Default? -- 7 The European Union Institutional Balance: Assessment of its Impact on the Relationship with Russia -- 8 The European Union, Russia, and the 'In-between Europe': Managing Interdependence -- 9 Challenges and Opportunities at the European Union's Vicinity: Assessing Policies and Practices -- Conclusion: The European Union in the Twenty-first Century