Wissenschaftliche Literatur European Union

Bertrand Michel Pamfouet Kemtie

(Non-)Signature and Ratification of Multilateral Regional Agreements

An Explanation of States‘ Behavior in the African Union

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

(Non-)signature and ratification of multilateral treaties has become a major policy concern. Its relevance to the African Union is rising since the 66th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers.

Even though scholars have discussed how domestic factors and state’s openness shape treaty approval, the behavior of African states has been hitherto ignored. The author shows that Africa’s omission from international relations’ research is ill-informed,…

Anna Thaler

Values and Ethical Principles for AI and Robotics

A Qualitative Content Analysis of EU Soft Law Initiatives

Schriften zur Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie

The fast-paced developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics not only tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges, but also evoke a number of urgent and complex moral difficulties such as opaque decision-making, gender bias or other kinds of discrimination.

Against this background, the EuropeanUnion (EU) advocates to rely upon values and principles, enshrined in EU primary law, to approach moral and ethical encounters. [...]

Ilona Steiler

The EuropeanUnion and China in Africa

Explaining Conflict and Cooperation with International Relations Theory

Regensburger Studien zur Internationalen Politik

The Chinese quest for African resources, market opportunities, and political influence in African countries has caught the attention of Western media and analysts. The depiction of Beijing’s „safari“ into Africa mainly presents a negative image of the Chinese engagement: China is said to risk political stability on the continent by politically and economically supporting autocratic governments, to import its low environmental and labor standards when investing into…

Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat, Gerald G. Sander & Sanja Barić (Hrsg./eds.)

Die Offene Methode der Koordinierung in der Europäischen Union / Open Method of Coordination in the EuropeanUnion

Schriften zum Sozial-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht

Im März 2000 verankerte die Lissabon-Strategie die offene Methode der Koordinierung im Bereich der Beschäftigungs- und Sozialpolitik. Später wurde die OMK auf weitere Bereiche wie Bildung, Gesundheitswesen, Sozialwesen, Rentenversicherung, Verbraucherschutz etc. übertragen. Doch was ist die OMK? Ist sie ein politisches Instrument, eine Methode, ein Prozess oder eine Strategie? Die Beiträge behandeln die OMK aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln, sowohl aus öffentlich-rechtlicher…

Urška Štremfel

A Decade After the Lisbon Strategy: Decisive for the Development of the EU and National Educational Space

Schriften zur Europapolitik

For a long time, education had been a more or less neglected policy field in European integration. The Lisbon Strategy (2000) marked the turning point, when education was first recognised as important for the social and economic development of the EuropeanUnion (EU). Since then, EU cooperation in the field has significantly widened and deepened. Following the implementation of two strategic frameworks for European cooperation in education and training (2000–2010,…

Markus Tschersich

Privacy by Default in the EuropeanUnion Proposal for Data Protection Regulation

Studies on the Impact of Restrictive Default Privacy Settings on the Exchange of Personal Information on Social Network Sites

Schriften zum Mobile Commerce und zur Mobilkommunikation

Die Europäische Union plant Onlinedienste zur Implementierung von Privacy by Default zu verpflichten. Privacy by Default schreibt Anbietern von Diensten, die persönliche Informationen verarbeiten, vor die Privacy-Einstellungen maximal privatsphärenfreundlich voreinzustellen. Wo Gesetzgeber in Privacy by Default ein hohes Potenzial sehen Bürger vor der ungewollten Preisgabe von persönlichen Informationen zu schützen, befürchten insbesondere Anbieter von Social Network…

Xiaojun Wei

EU Foreign Direct Investments to China

Locational Determinants and Lessons from an Enlarged EuropeanUnion

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The main research question of this dissertation relates to the spatial characteristics and location choice of EU FDI to China in the context of an EU that has enlarged recently to incorporate ten new countries with levels of development comparable to some of the Chinese provinces. In the first place, a dataset of EU FDI inflows at provincial level is created based on the annual provincial statistical yearbooks, and a pioneering econometric study on the spatial…

Kizito Logan Elad

EuropeanUnion Democracy Promotion in North Africa from 1990 to 2010

Case Study on Morocco and Tunisia

Demokratie und Demokratisierungsprozesse

Bisherige Studien zur Demokratieförderung analysierten „erfolgreiche“ Beispiele. Das ist teilweise eine Reflektion der politischen Ökonomie von Demokratieförderung, in der sie Beispielen im Inland erzeugter demokratischer Durchbrüche folgt. Dennoch kann eine wissenschaftliche Analyse externer Einflüsse auf interne Veränderungen sich nicht nur auf Fälle erfolgreicher Demokratieentwicklung beziehen, sondern muss Beispiele von Regimeveränderungen, die nicht in einer…

Eike Albrecht / Dmitry Palekhov / Steven Kramm / Toni Mileski (Eds.)

Transposition of the Acquis Communautaire: Environment and Migration

Umweltrecht in Forschung und Praxis

This volume is the result of two conferences that have been organised by two departments of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), Cottbus, Germany – Department of Public Law, with Focus on Environmental and Planning Law at the Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences, and the Department of Environmental Planning at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Sciences.

The conferences were carried out in 2019 in the framework of two…

Ayanna Edwards

A Comparative Study of Electricity Interconnection in the North Sea and the Caribbean

Schriften zum Energierecht

This academic contribution offers a stimulating and thought-provoking outlook on transboundary electricity interconnection in the Caribbean. Energy law has become extremely complex in recent times, and many times one must take an interdisciplinary approach.

It is written in an easy- to- understand style, with clear end- of- chapter summaries which assist the reader to assimilate the information.

Key features include: [...]