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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- ONE: The Size of States -- TWO: The Rise of the East -- THREE: The Decline and Resurgence of the West -- FOUR: The Unification of the United States and the Integration of the West -- FIVE: The Trauma of Power Transition -- SIX: Market Clusters Augment Size -- SEVEN: The Problem of China -- EIGHT: Alternatives -- NINE: How the West Attracts China and the World -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

This book examines the link between political identity and legitimacy in the European Union. Stimulated by the crisis of legitimacy and identity suffered by the EU after the referenda on the Constitutional Treaty, the editors have developed a theoretical framework to examine the interplay between these two items in the problematic development of the EU into a fully-fledged political actor. The contributors to the volume seek to:Redefine the key notions in the rigorous way of political philosophy, thus avoiding the generic or imprecise language usage found in a large part o.

Introduction : on the peripheries of the EU and of whiteness -- Margins of the EU project : the East in rhetoric and accession policies -- Inequalities in the experience of East-to-West mobility : the rights to free movement and equality -- Case study : CEE movers in pre-Brexit Britain -- Conclusions : fractures and peripheries, past, and future.

The political economy of the European social dimension -- Governance in advanced European integration -- EU economic governance and Europe -- Analysing the politics of the European semester -- Explaining outcomes of the European semester -- The European social deficit.

Pre-Accession Transition Countries (PATCs) aim at early admittance to the monetary club. Their fiscal indicators - deficit and debt - do not show any serious symptoms. Closer scrutiny reveals, however, that the interest burden of their public debt might be underestimated, and that restructuring and unavoidable fiscal transparency may increase their debt significantly. All in all about 1 per cent primary surplus might be sufficient to remain on the safe side of their debt in the medium run. According to the estimated model the fiscal adjustment is driven by the external imbalance, the monetary conditions are determined by the fiscal stress and their growth is affected by fiscal and monetary stimuli.

"This book contains an in-depth examination of the Islamic headscarf cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and places these against the background of the Islamophobia existing across Europe. It assesses how EU law can best protect women who want to wear headscarves at work for religious reasons and why this protection is important not only for the women themselves but also for the EU, taking into account its values as laid down in the Treaties, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and in the anti-discrimination Directives. It puts forward arguments for a finding that workplace neutrality bans constitute direct religion or belief discrimination and examines the way that the justification test for indirect discrimination has been applied by the CJEU. The work suggests that such bans could be more successfully challenged as gender and/or racial or ethnic origin discrimination, because the protection against these forms of discrimination is stronger. It also suggests that a claim for intersectional discrimination - on the grounds of gender, racial and ethnic origin, and religion or belief - should be possible in EU anti-discrimination law. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of equality and non-discrimination law, EU law and law and religion"--

Introduction -- Theories of sovereignty and legitimacy -- Insufficient solutions to the EU's sovereignty-legitimacy problem -- Internal sources of EU principles -- External sources of EU principles -- European citizenship and national democracy -- Conclusion.

Introduction -- Theories of sovereignty and legitimacy -- Insufficient solutions to the EU's sovereignty-legitimacy problem -- Internal sources of EU principles -- External sources of EU principles -- European citizenship and national democracy -- Conclusion.