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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Illustrations and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: EU-Japan Relations in a Fluid Global Order -- Part I: Japan, the EU and Civilian Power Relations -- 1 Japan as a 'Proactive Civilian Power'? Domestic Constraints and Competing Priorities -- 2 The EU in a Changing Global Order: Is Emergent German Hegemony Making the EU Even More of a Civilian Power? -- 3 The EU through the Eyes of Japan: Perceptions of the European Union as a Civilian Power -- Part II: Enhancing Trade Relations and Regulatory Standards -- 4 Three Balancing Acts: The EU's Trade Policy towards East Asia -- 5 The Political and Institutional Significance of an EU-Japan Trade and Partnership Agreement -- 6 Food Fights or a Recipe for Cooperation? EU-Japan Relations and the Development of Norms in Food Safety Policy -- Part III: Promoting Environmental, Economic and Energy Security -- 7 Environmental and Energy Policy: Learning and Cooperation between the European Union and Japan -- 8 Sympathy or Self-Interest? The Development Agendas of the European Union and Japan in the 2000s -- 9 Saving the Kyoto Protocol: What Can We Learn from the Experience of Japan-EU Cooperation? -- Part IV: Protecting Political, Food and Health Security -- 10 EU-Japan Relations: Civilian Power and the Domestication/Localization of Human Rights -- 11 The EU, Japan and the Balkans: Cooperation for Post-conflict Nation-building -- 12 Global Governance of Dual Use in Biomedical Research: Cooperation between the EU and Japan on How to Minimize or Prevent Misconduct and Misuse -- 13 Accountability and the Governance of Food Safety Policy in the EU and Japan -- Bibliography -- Index.

National law derives its validity from the fact that the State that enacts it is sovereign and is capable of enforcing it in its national territory. It is independent from any other national or international system. A sovereign country is free to sign international treaties. Treaty obligations must be respected but this merely means that the state could not invoke national law as an excuse for failing to perform its treaty obligations towards other contracting parties. States are left to their own devices for finding the most appropriate domestic arrangements for fulfilling their international obligations. So one can say there is internal supremacy as opposed to international supremacy of treaties and other aspects of their domestic status are a matter of national law. As a result, two theories evolved to demonstrate the relationship between domestic law and international treaties. The monist view - as expressed for instance, by Kelsen - is that national legal orders are 'creatures' of international law. The dualist views, as exposed by TriepeI and Anzilotti are rather more convincing where they show that national legal orders were separate legal orders, able to resist the penetration of international norms. ; peer-reviewed

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The context: The history of free movement in Europe -- 3 Conceptual framework and methodology -- 4 Agreement dimension: Emphasis on common duties -- 5 Community dimension: Reproducing the community of the European Union -- 6 Utility dimension: Optimizing concrete benefits -- 7 Solidarity dimension: Solidarity as the ultimate aim -- 8 Setting the scene: Migration policy histories of the analysed countries -- 9 Free movement discourses by country -- 10 Free movement discourses as practical reasoning -- Appendix -- Notes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The context: The history of free movement in Europe -- 3 Conceptual framework and methodology -- 4 Agreement dimension: Emphasis on common duties -- 5 Community dimension: Reproducing the community of the European Union -- 6 Utility dimension: Optimizing concrete benefits -- 7 Solidarity dimension: Solidarity as the ultimate aim -- 8 Setting the scene: Migration policy histories of the analysed countries -- 10 Free movement discourses as practical reasoning -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book focuses on the problems of, and prospects for, strengthening the global system of security governance in a manner consistent with the aspirations and practices of the EU.

Introduction : European integration and the transformation of masculine rule in the countryside -- Studying masculine rule in the decentered European state -- Masculine rules and their transformation at the European level : the cap and rural development policies -- Rural gender regimes and their transformation in West and East Germany -- Fighting for women's rights in the agricultural welfare state -- Rural development and gender mainstreaming -- Conclusion: transforming masculine rule agendas for future research

The article focuses on the Armenian vector in the foreign policy of Turkey, the Russian Federation, and the European Union countries. The main contradictions between Armenia and the mentioned actors of international relations in the South Caucasus are outlined. The issues of cooperation and competition among Turkey, Russia and the European Union concerning Armenia and the Nagorny Karabakh conflict are analysed as well. ; В статье анализируется армянский вектор внешней политики Турецкой Республики, Российской Федерации и государств Европейского Союза. Выявляются основные проблемы и противоречия, которые существуют между Арменией и этими акторами международных отношений на Южном Кавказе. Рассмотрены и вопросы сотрудничества и конкуренции между Турцией, РФ и ЕС на армянском направлении, в Нагорно-Карабахском конфликте.

The fight against corruption emerged as one of the most significant issues during the 2004 enlargement of the EU and gained even more importance with the accession of Romania and Bulgaria in 2007. In order to prepare candidate countries for membership, the EU found it necessary to create new institutions and mechanisms to address corruption. Patrycja Szarek-Mason traces the development of the EU anti-corruption framework, showing how recent enlargements transformed EU policy and highlighting inequities between the treatment of candidate countries and existing Member States. The experience gained during the 2004 enlargement led to a more robust anti-corruption stance during the accession of Bulgaria and Romania and will have implications for future enlargements of the EU. However, the framework can still be strengthened to address corruption adequately and promote higher standards among Member States, especially through greater use of 'soft law' in the form of mutually agreed, non-legally binding policy recommendations

This book addresses a number of vital economic convergence issues in the European Union. These are both general and specific issues relating to financial and monetary matters as well as social and labour market concerns. The book opens with a discussion of problems of a general nature. Questions posed include: What is the convergence record in the EU so far? Is there a sign of Baumol and Quah's 'convergence clubs' and 'twin peaks'? Have the 'structural funds' of the European Commission made any difference? The authors then analyse questions of a fiscal and monetary nature: Can we expect the monetary policy of the ECB to have similar effects in the EMU member-states, or is it in itself a source of asymmetric shocks? Has EU membership made any difference, with respect to the initial differences in tax revenue structures? Finally the book focuses on questions regarding social and labour markets: Is global economic convergence compatible with sustainable differences in national social protection levels? Does European globalisation force labour markets to 'de-institutionalise' and do European labour markets converge to a 'Third Way' model? Academics and researchers of European studies and economic policy will find this up-to-date book of great interest, as will policymakers and business leaders both affected by and from within the EU

Banking union in Europe / Juan Castañeda, David G. Mayes and Geoffrey Wood -- Banking union : the way forward / Thomas F. Huertas -- Plausible recovery and resolution plans for cross-border financial institutions / Giannoula Karamichailidou and David G. Mayes -- The cyprus debacle : implications for the European banking union / Kate Phylaktis -- Euro area bank resolution and bail-in : intervention, triggers and writedowns / Thomas Conlon and John Cotter Comment Alessandro Roselli -- Lender of last resort and banking union / Rosa M. Lastra -- Resolution planning and structural reform within the banking union / Jens-Hinrich Binder -- Shadows and mirrors : the role of debt in the developing resolution strategies in the US, UK and European Union / Michael Krimminger -- Resolution of failing banks in the European banking union : finishing the job or going back to the drawing board? / Johan A Lybeck -- Monetary policy and long-term trends / Charles A.E. Goodhart and Philipp Erfurth

The aim of this article is to investigate the fiscal policy changes in six Central and Eastern European countries outside the Eurozone: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The analysis covers the period from 2004 to 2017. The study uses changes in the cyclically‑adjusted primary balance as a main indicator to assess the fiscal policy stance. The results indicate that, in general, over the period from 2004 to 2017, the fiscal stance in these countries was somewhat contractionary. ; Celem artykułu jest analiza zmian polityki fiskalnej w sześciu krajach Europy Środkowo‑Wschodnie spoza strefy euro: Bułgarii, Czechach, Chorwacji, Węgier, Polsce i Rumunii. Analiza obejmuje okres lat 2004-2017, czyli okres pomiędzy dotychczas największym rozszerzeniem Unii Europejskiej a najnowszymi dostępnymi danymi. W badaniu wykorzystano zmiany salda pierwotnego skorygowanego o wahania cykliczne, jako główny wskaźnik oceny kursu polityki fiskalnej. Wyniki wskazują, że polityka fiskalna w tych krajach była przeważnie restrykcyjna.

The aim of this article is to investigate the fiscal policy changes in six Central and Eastern European countries outside the Eurozone: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The analysis covers the period from 2004 to 2017. The study uses changes in the cyclically‑adjusted primary balance as a main indicator to assess the fiscal policy stance. The results indicate that, in general, over the period from 2004 to 2017, the fiscal stance in these countries was somewhat contractionary. ; Celem artykułu jest analiza zmian polityki fiskalnej w sześciu krajach Europy Środkowo‑Wschodnie spoza strefy euro: Bułgarii, Czechach, Chorwacji, Węgier, Polsce i Rumunii. Analiza obejmuje okres lat 2004-2017, czyli okres pomiędzy dotychczas największym rozszerzeniem Unii Europejskiej a najnowszymi dostępnymi danymi. W badaniu wykorzystano zmiany salda pierwotnego skorygowanego o wahania cykliczne, jako główny wskaźnik oceny kursu polityki fiskalnej. Wyniki wskazują, że polityka fiskalna w tych krajach była przeważnie restrykcyjna. ; This work was supported by the Polish National Science Center under grant number DEC-2014/15/B/HS4/01996.