Strengthening Cross-Border Cooperation in the Western Balkan Regarding Migration Management
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2008
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Cross-border Cooperation in the Western Balkans
Author : Heather A. Conley
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Peace-building
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Book Description
The vision of a Europe "whole, free, and at peace" has been a fundamental tenet of U.S. foreign policy. In its earlier manifestation, U.S. and EU policy concentrated on the political and economic liberalization and transformation of Central and Eastern Europe. However, for most Western Balkan countries, the goal of full European integration is yet to be achieved. Unfortunately, despite a significant amount of Western investment in the Western Balkans, there is no politically unifying vision among the elite and civil society to maintain sufficient reform momentum for rapid transformation. Moreover, traditional reform tools, even on a very large scale, such as the EU Rule of Law (EULEX) mission in Kosovo, were unable to achieve desired institutional and integration success. Transatlantic policy toward the Western Balkans appears to be a "perfect storm" of outdated policies that are out of sync with the region, ineffectual policy tools, and of waning policy interest. Therefore, it is time to examine potential new drivers of reform that emanate from within the region. One such driver is cross-border cooperation.
Atlas of Challenges and Opportunities in European Neighbourhoods
Author : Pierre BECKOUCHE
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319285211
Book Description
This atlas provides a macro-regional overview of the areas that surround the European Union, from the Sahara to the Middle East, Western Balkans to European Russia, Turkey to the Arctic. Detailing key socio-economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive territorial analysis at a local scale and explore the potential for regional integration and cooperation.These pioneering maps examine challenges that threaten this wide, yet inter-connected, region, including environmental concerns in the North, political unrest in the East, social factors in the Western Balkans, and the upheaval in the Mediterranean since the Arab spring. Coverage investigates such key countries and areas as Libya, Israel, Palestine, Syria, and the Ukraine as well as explores such essential issues as Europe’s energy procurement. In addition, it also presents a comparison with other world regions such as East Asia and North America.In the end, readers discover that territorial integration faces many shortcomings, but that deep regional cooperation would be a key driver for the EU’s sustainable future. This atlas features the main results of the “Integrated Territorial Analysis of the Neighbourhoods” research project undertaken by ESPON (The European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion). It provides scholars; local authorities and NGOs involved in cross-border cooperation; companies interested in energy, agriculture, water, transportation and communication; and interested readers with key insights into this important region.
Shaping South East Europe's Security Community for the Twenty-First Century
Author : S. Cross
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137010207
Book Description
In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe. They attempt to conceptualize and realize security as a cooperative endeavour for collective good, in contrast to security narratives driven by power and national egotism.
Return to Instability
Author : Francisco de Borja Lasheras
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 9781910118634
Book Description
"EU's weakness is prompting a new scramble for power for the Balkans with Russia, Turkey and other actors"--Publisher's description.
Life in Post-communist Eastern Europe After EU Membership
Author : Donnacha Ó Beacháin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415680840
Book Description
This book examines how membership of the European Union has affected life in the ten former communist countries of Eastern Europe that are now members of the European Union. For each country, political, economic and social changes are described and discussed, together with people's perceptions of the effects of EU membership. Overall, the book shows how the benefits of EU membership have differed between different countries, and how perceptions about the benefits also differ and have changed over time.
Border Management Modernization
Author : Gerard McLinden
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821385976
Book Description
Border clearance processes by customs and other agencies are among the most important and problematic links in the global supply chain. Delays and costs at the border undermine a country’s competitiveness, either by taxing imported inputs with deadweight inefficiencies or by adding costs and reducing the competitiveness of exports. This book provides a practical guide to assist policy makers, administrators, and border management professionals with information and advice on how to improve border management systems, procedures, and institutions.
Futures of the Western Balkans
Author : Marco Zoppi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030896285
Book Description
This Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region. Taking a two-pronged conceptual approach focusing on fragmentation and integration, the volume highlights commonalities and differences in a number of simultaneous dynamics currently characterizing the region: Europeanization and EU access, market integration, and migration and socio-demographic transformations. Stressing the interconnectedness of these issues, the volume synthesizes key questions for the future of the region, such as the relationship between socio-demographic trends and economic development, the effects of depopulation on further EU integration, and the economic and political repercussions of enhanced intra-regional trade. Explicitly interdisciplinary, this Brief will be useful for researchers and students specializing in the Balkans and Western Balkans, post-socialist countries, European affairs, enlargement, foreign policy, international relations, regional studies, economics, economic transition, and socio-demographics.
States, the Law and Access to Refugee Protection
Author : Maria O'Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509901299
Book Description
This timely volume seeks to examine two of the most pertinent current challenges faced by asylum seekers in gaining access to international refugee protection: first, the obstacles to physical access to territory and, second, the barriers to accessing a quality asylum procedure – which the editors have termed 'access to justice'. To address these aims, the book brings together leading commentators from a range of backgrounds, including law, sociology and political science. It also includes contributions from NGO practitioners. This allows the collection to offer interdisciplinary analysis and to incorporate both theoretical and practical perspectives on questions of immense contemporary significance. While the examination offers a strong focus on European legal and policy developments, the book also addresses the issues in different regions (Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and Australia). Given the currency of the questions under debate, this book will be essential reading for all scholars in the field of asylum law.
Sustainable Reintegration of Returning Migrants A Better Homecoming
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
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ISBN : 9264649913
Book Description
For many OECD countries, how to ensure the safe and dignified return to their origin countries of migrants who do not have grounds to remain is a key question. Sustainable Reintegration of Returning Migrants: A Better Homecoming reports the results of a multi-country peer review project carried out by the OECD, with support from the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
