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'The Conservative Human Rights Revolution' reconsiders the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors, foremost among them Winston Churchill, conceived of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a means of realizing a controversial political agenda and advancing a Christian vision of European identity

This paper analyzes the process of industrial diversification in the countries that were part of the European Union (EU-27) and those that were the target of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in the period 1995–2010 by means of world trade data derived from the BACI database (elaborated UN Comtrade data). Our results show that in both the EU-27 and the ENP countries, the evolution of the productive structure—as proxied by the export mix—is strongly path-dependent: countries tend to keep a comparative advantage in products that are strongly related to their current productive structure, and they also diversify in nearby products. However, this effect is much stronger for ENP countries, signalling their lower resources and capabilities to diversify in products that are not very related to their productive structure. We also show that the future export structures of countries are affected by their imports: both the EU-27 and ENP countries keep a comparative advantage in products that are strongly related to their imports, but only EU countries show a strong capability to diversify in new products from related import sectors. Our results also hold when controlling for geographical and institutional proximity.

1. Introduction / Romuald Normand and Jean-Louis Derouet -- 2. Standards and standardisation in European politics of education / Paolo Landri -- 3. Policy transfers in Europe : the European Union and beyond / Magdalena Hadjiisky -- 4. The praise of mutual surveillance in Europe / Luis Miguel Carvalho and Estela Costa -- 5. Policy learning and expertise in European education / Romuald Normand -- 6. Ranking and the structuration of a transnational field of higher education / Niilo Kauppi -- 7. Higher education : from unclear technologies to human resources management techniques / Jean-Emile Charlier and Sarah Croche -- 8. Universities, the risk industry and capitalism : a political economy critique / Susan L. Robertson and Chris Muellerleile -- 9. 'Silencing the disbelievers' : games of truth and power struggles around fact-based management / Isabelle Bruno -- 10. Compliance and contestation in the neoliberal university : reflecting on the identities of UK social scientists / Alan Cribb, Sharon Gewirtz and Aniko Horvath -- 11. Losing the plot, plotting the lost : politics, Europe, and the rediscovery of lifelong learning / John Holford -- 12. How are European lifelong learning systems changing? An approach in terms of public policy regimes / Eric Verdier.

Intro -- THE EUROPEAN UNION'S EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME: CLIMATE AND AVIATION CONSIDERATIONS -- THE EUROPEAN UNION'S EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME: CLIMATE AND AVIATION CONSIDERATIONS -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE EU EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME (ETS): LOOKING TO 2020 -- SUMMARY -- OVERVIEW -- RESULTS FROM PHASE 1 AND 2 -- PHASE 3 -- Auctions -- New Entrant Reserves -- EC Phase 3 Decision on Eligible Industries -- Flexibility Mechanisms and Price Volatility Control -- Expanding Coverage -- SUMMARY AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR US CAP-AND-TRADE PROPOSALS -- Emission Inventories and Target Setting -- Coverage -- Allocation Schemes -- Flexibility and Price Volatility -- End Notes -- Chapter 2: AVIATION AND THE EUROPEAN UNION'S EMISSION TRADING SCHEME -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- A Two-Decade Process to Address Aviation Emissions -- WHY ADDRESS AVIATION EMISSIONS? -- Aviation: Relatively Large Among Many Small Emission Categories -- One of the Fastest Growing Sources of Emissions -- Counteracting Influences: Demand Growth and Efficiency Gains -- Expansion of Air Transport Demand -- Past Improvements in Fuel Efficiency and Emissions per Passenger-Mile -- Further Improvements May Help Suppress Emissions -- Aviation Emissions Projected to Grow Rapidly -- EU'S LEGAL OBLIGATIONS TO REDUCE GHG EMISSIONS -- HOW THE EU'S EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME WORKS -- AVIATION IN THE EU ETS -- Aviation Provisions in the EU ETS -- Disposition of Revenues -- Potential EU Exemptions with Equivalent Measures by Other States -- ESTIMATED IMPACTS ON US AIRLINES -- Emission Reduction Potential of Technical Improvements -- Different Assumptions about Allowance Prices -- Alleged Effects on R&D and Investment in New Equipment -- Potential for Profit Opportunities and Windfalls -- Competitive Dynamics

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Key Features of the Structural Constructivist Approach -- On Political Action -- Bibliography -- Part I: The Politics of Transnational Integration -- 1: Toward a Sociology of EU Politics -- Power and Resources -- A Sociology of EU Politics -- An Analysis of Political Practices in the European Parliament -- In Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 2: Exploring the Political Ontology of European Integration -- Ontology -- An Exclusive Ontological Framework -- An Inclusive Ontological Framework -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3: Analyzing Integration -- Problems with Integration in IR and European Studies -- Integration in Bourdieu's Work -- Countering European Official Rhetoric -- Rethinking the European Parliament -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 4: Constructing Transnational Fields -- Transnationalism -- Field Analysis -- The European Parliament as a Transnational Field -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5: Political Legitimation and European Public Spaces: Communication as Practice and Resource -- Structures of European Public Spaces -- Communicating Europe: Toward a 'Policy of the European Public Space'? -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 6: Processes of Differentiation of Political Power in the EU -- The Difficulty of Talking About the EU -- The Differentiation and Stratification of the European Parliament as an Example -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Reflexive Action and Knowledge Production -- 7: Intellectual Power in Europe -- Two Intellectual Cultures -- European Public Spheres -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 8: European Academic Identity -- Tensions in French Academe -- Primary and Secondary Worlds -- Mobility and Europe as Unfinished Adventures -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 9: European Political Science and Global Knowledge -- University Ranking as Symbolic Machine-Tool

This paper addresses the issue of how the stability of the Greek economy will be affected by Greece's accession to the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The theoretical basis for most of the discussion of this issue to date is found in the theory of optimum currency areas (OCA), which identifies the nature of economic disturbances as key to whether currency unions provide a net benefit. We use vector autoregression to identify the nature of the disturbances that the Greek economy has experienced in the past, and add such disturbances to stochastic simulations of a structural macroeconomic model of the Greek economy, part of a larger model of the European economy known as QUEST II. The main conclusion is that the EMU will make output slightly more stable in the Greek economy. Therefore, the Greek economy will reap the efficiency gains of the common currency without suffering significantly from the elimination of its monetary sovereignty. ; peer-reviewed