The present paper aims to provide the reasons for this failure and contends that EU and Russian interests and aspirations in ESDP, some common security threat perceptions notwithstanding, do not coincide. At first sight, Russian and EU interests connected to ESDP seem to coincide in the main,...

The European Union’s center-piece of economic policy making is the Lisbon process, which tries to make Europe the most competitive economic region in the world economy by 2010. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso recently presented a Centre for European Reform (CER) study that...

The European Union is a compound polity and as such is a constitutionally open regime. A compound polity is a system of multiple separations of powers, organized around anti-hierarchical relations, structured by governance (rather than) government relations. This anti-hierarchical structure is...

El tema central del trabajo es el rol de las organizaciones internacionales (OI) en la post-guerra fría. Apoyados en la teoría de la demanda de regímenes internacionales nuestra hipótesis plantea entender la existencia de la Unión Europea, no como una organización obsoleta e irrelevante a...

The Republic of Belarus has been an independent state on the European continent in its modern dimension for about sixteen years as a result of the collapse of one of the most powerful empires in the history of mankind – the former Soviet Union. Due to its favourable geographical position,...

The idea of the EU as a global actor is a myth, and it is not likely to be a reality unless the European Union undertakes a series of radical structural reforms. The EU’s ability to project power as a global actor in the international realm is directly related to its internal decision making...

La Constitución representa el punto más elevado de esta nueva etapa de la "construcción" europea. Ha sido redactada con el fin de responder a los desafíos que plantea la Europa del mañana: una Europa de 25 Estados miembros y 450 millones de habitantes; un ámbito común democrático,...