Comparative Regional Integration: Theoretical Perspectives, F. Laursen (ed.) Sovereignty in Transition, N. Walker (ed.) Europe Without Borders: Remapping Territory, Citizenship, and Identity in a Transnational Age, M. Berezin and M. Schain (eds.) Europeaniser les interets? Les groupes...

Superterrorism: Policy Responses, edited by L. Freedman The European Union: How Does it Work?, edited by E. Bomberg and A. Stubb European Union Foreign Policy: What it Is and What it Does, by H. Smith Foreign Ministries in the European Union: Integrating Diplomats, edited by B. Hocking and D....

Books reviewed: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, The European Union' Trade Policies and Their Economic Effects K. Dyson, The Politics of the Euro-Zone N. Vanhove, Regional Policy: A European Approach K. Cordell, Poland and the European Union R. Hall, A. Smith and...

Twenty years ago, in the pages of the Journal of Common Market Studies, Hedley Bull launched a searing critique of the European Community's 'civilian power' in international affairs. Since that time the increasing role of the European Union (EU) in areas of security and defence policy has led to...

Item banks (sometimes known as question banks) have been around for many years but are not yet widely used in the UK. There are clear benefits such as economies of scale when items are built across a subject area or sector. When this is coordinated centrally items are more likely to be peer...

The scale of the ambition to decouple emissions growth from energy consumption in the economy runs counter to several decades of debates and literatures on the limits of government. Transport biofuels are an early and influential case of the policy capacity challenge in the transition to...

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) raises important questions about policy context and design within member states. As EMU membership rises, so it embraces an increasingly diverse range of countries notwithstanding, the qualifying convergence criteria. Given the importance of convergent inflation...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an increasingly pervasive phenomenon on the European and North American economic and political landscape. In this paper, we extend neo-institutional and stakeholder theory to show how differences in the institutional environments of Europe and the United...