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The role of the European Union in global politics has been of growing interest over the past decade. The EU is a key player in global institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and NATO. It continues to construct an emerging identity and project its values and interests throughout contemporary international relations. The capacity of the EU to both formulate and realise its goals, however, remains contested. Some scholars claim the EU's 'soft power' attitude rivals that of the USA's 'hard power' approach to international relations. Others view the EU as insufficiently able to produce a co-ordinated position to project upon global politics. Regardless of the position taken within this debate, the EU's relationship with its external partners has an increasingly important impact upon economic, political and security concerns on an international level. Trade negotiations, military interventions, democracy promotion, international development and responses to the global economic crisis have all witnessed the EU playing a central role. This has seen the EU become both a major force in contemporary institutions of global governance and a template for supranational governance that might influence other attempts to construct regional and global institutions.

About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Preparing for the worst?; 1 Myths of security; 2 Governance, technology and the state; 3 The security regime: state, governance and contingency; 4 The scenario: imagining events; 5 The security event: exercise, emergency and 'real world' crises; 6 The mediated event; 7 'Real world' security: neglect, incompetenceand the overproduction of force; 8 Pre-emption and perception management; Conclusion: Threat and social discipline; Notes; References; Index.

Sustainable and adequate old age pensions in ageing societies have become a major topic on the political agenda. This book describes the shift from public to private pensions and explains the differences across ten European countries.

This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but do not stop the public's role in the remaking of their city. What happens to a city where neo-liberalism has scaled back public services and encouraged the privatization of public goods, while the vast majority cannot afford the effects of such policies? Who wins and loses in the "march to the modern and the global" as the government transforms urban spaces and markets in the name of growth, security, tourism, and modernity? How do Cairenes struggle with an ambiguous and vulnerable legal and bureaucratic environment when legality is a privilege affordable only to the few or the connected? This companion volume to Cairo Cosmopolitan (AUC Press, 2006) further develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies.

Das neue Forschungsprogramm der Hessischen Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung hinterfragt die optimistische Intuition eines positiven Zusammenspiels von Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und politischem Steuerungshandeln. Im Zentrum stehen die Konsequenzen kulturell-normativer Heterogenität und divergierender Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen für die Friedenstauglichkeit und Problemlösungsfähigkeit globalen Regierens. Zum Auftakt des Forschungsprogramms stellt "Auf dem Weg zu Just Peace Governance" theoretische und empirische Annäherungen an dieses Thema vor. Die Beiträge setzen sich mit der Frage auseinander, welche Chancen und Risiken liberal-demokratisch geprägte Ordnungsvorstellungen für ein gerechtes und friedliches Regieren bergen. Exemplarische Studien diskutieren die Ambivalenzen demokratischer Weltordnungspolitik sowie die Problematik normativer Dissonanzen durch religiöse bzw. kulturelle Verschiedenheit und untersucht, ob ein empirischer Fokus auf Gerechtigkeitsforderungen neue Erkenntnisse über Gewalt- und Konfliktdynamiken erschließt.Mit Beiträgen von: Una Becker-Jakob, Lothar Brock, Christopher Daase, Nicole Deitelhoff, Rainer Forst, Anna Geis, Andreas Hasenclever, Peter Katzenstein, Harald Müller, Thomas Risse, Dieter Senghaas, Nina Tannenwald, Klaus Dieter Wolf u.a

Inhalt; Vorwort: Zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation in der EU auf dem Prüfstand - Beate Kohler-Koch; 1 Regieren mit der europäischen Zivilgesellschaft - Beate Kohler-Koch; 2 Die vielen Gesichter der europäischen Zivilgesellschaft - Beate Kohler-Koch; 3 Die Öffnung der europäischen Politik fürdie Zivilgesellschaft - das Konsultationsregime der Europäischen Kommission - Christine Quittkat und Beate Kohler-Koch; 4 Die Konsultationspolitik der Kommission in der Praxis: eine Tiefenanalyse - Christine Quittkat