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This book examines the involvement of Portugal in the European integration process since the country signed the Accession Treaty in 1985. The volume elicits how Portugal has grasped opportunities and challenges emanating from its participation in the institutional, regulatory and political frameworks of the European Union (EU), as these have become more intricate as well as intrusive. It scrutinizes the adjustments and transformations that have taken place in Portuguese society, politics and economics as well as in the country's international relations, as engendered by its increasing enmeshme

"In 2010, 25 years will have elapsed since Portugal signed the Accession Treaty which allowed it to become a full-fledged member of the then European Community. The volume elicits how Portugal has grasped opportunities and challenges emanating from its participation in the institutional, regulatory and political frameworks of the European Union (EU) as these became more intricate as well as intrusive. It scrutinizes the adjustments and transformations that took place in the Portuguese society, politics and economics as well as in the country's international relations as engendered by its increasing enmeshment in the Community-building dynamics. Divided into three main parts: Part I focuses on the major changes within the domestic arena, notably on the political economical and social fronts. Part II addresses the adjustments that the Portuguese leadership had to introduce in order to participate in key common policies and strategies.Part III is centred on foreign policy and assesses and discusses the impact upon Portugal's international relations. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, EU studies, comparative politics and those with a strong interest in Portugal"--

"In 2010, 25 years will have elapsed since Portugal signed the Accession Treaty which allowed it to become a full-fledged member of the then European Community. The volume elicits how Portugal has grasped opportunities and challenges emanating from its participation in the institutional, regulatory and political frameworks of the European Union (EU) as these became more intricate as well as intrusive. It scrutinizes the adjustments and transformations that took place in the Portuguese society, politics and economics as well as in the country's international relations as engendered by its increasing enmeshment in the Community-building dynamics. Divided into three main parts: Part I focuses on the major changes within the domestic arena, notably on the political economical and social fronts. Part II addresses the adjustments that the Portuguese leadership had to introduce in order to participate in key common policies and strategies. Part III is centred on foreign policy and assesses and discusses the impact upon Portugal's international relations. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, EU studies, comparative politics and those with a strong interest in Portugal"--

This paper delves into the background of the formative dynamics of the 13th Constitutional Government led by the socialist Antnio Guterres and aims primarily at providing insight into the genuine criteria governing Guterres's selection of ministers and portfolio allocation. It will
also shed light upon the background causes leading to the six reshuffles that the cabinet went through in its lifetime. This work argues that Guterres's selection of ministers was a priori conditioned by the dynamics and success of the Estados Gerais. Eventually, however, it came to obey a
tripartite formula the formula of the three Ps: old pals, party allies and prominent independents. With the unfolding of the governmental mandate, as the meritocratic logic underlying that formula exhibited major limitations, the process of de-selection of ministers led to the retrenchment
of the distinguished independents in favour of the party allies within the cabinet.

Portugal has held the Presidency of the European Council three times since accession in 1986. In 1991, as in 2000 or in 2007 the challenge has always been how to reconcile the national interests of a small member state with the broader priorities, expectations & challenges that the EU has to address. Through this learning process, Portugal's commitment to European integration & the EU international relations has evolved significantly. Adapted from the source document.

The primary focus of this article is the foreign and security policies adopted by Austria, Finland and Sweden during the first post-Cold War decade. The main aim is to examine the policy responses of these three countries in the 1989–99 interval, to the developments that occurred within the principal European security institutions. From a foreign policy standpoint, the argument is that the militarily non-allied states altered their pattern of international involvement. They did so by shifting from a historical logic of exclusion to one of inclusion directed at securing a greater measure of influence on the design of post-Cold War European security. Particularly characteristic of the latter was fully-fledged membership of the European Union, observer status in the Western European Union and the establishment of cooperative security and military relations with NATO. Yet, such a new logic of inclusion did not lead to a radical change of their security policies, since it translated exclusively into an involvement in security and military frameworks not calling for the surrender of military non-alliance. Hence the major strand of the argument revolves around the metaphor 'inside the fence but outside the walls' used to portray the distinctive posture of the Alpine and Nordic countries in the post-1989 European security building dynamics.