This text explores the ways in which the European Union frames and conducts its international relations. Each chapter deals with the three key themes of the volume - the EU as a sub-system of international relations, the EU and the processes of international relations, and the EU as a power.

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments. By contributing a wide range of empirical evidence, practitioners' insights, and policy perspectives, this book carefully examines the role of...

Introduction : the European environmental conscience in EU politics / Thomas Hoerber and Gabriel Weber -- A linked emissions trading scheme under alternative scenarios : implications for Europe and Brazil / Thais Diniz Oliveira, Angelo Costa Gurgel and Steve Tonry -- Has the time now come for...