The Strategic Implications of European Union Enlargement
Esther Brimmer
Enlargement will change the nature of the European Union, but how will it affect international affairs? The EU and its member states command significant economic resources and have launched a Common Foreign and Security Policy. Yet the demands of taking on ten new countries, concluding a constitutional treaty to accommodate decisionmaking, and dissipating acrimony after the war in Iraq, all complicate efforts to develop and enhance the EU's international presence. This book considers the impact of enlargement with respect to the EU's perception of its international role in specific geographical regions. The contributors discuss a range of global issues, including the environment, food policies, development, terrorism, and the use of force. Contributors include Stefan Fröhlich (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Hanna Ojanen and Kristi Raik (Finnish Institute of International Affairs), Ulrike Guerot (German Marshall Fund Berlin Office), Stanislaw Tekieli (Center for Eastern Studies, Warsaw), Michael Leigh (European Commission Directorate General for External Affairs), Henri Barkey (Lehigh University), Anne-Marie LeGloannec (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques), Stanislav Tkachenko (St. Petersburg University), Nicolae Idu (European Institute of Romania), Ulrich Weisser, Esther Brimmer, Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, and David Michel, (Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins SAIS), Daniel Gros (CEPS), Angel Ubide (Tudor Investments), Patrick Cronin (CSIS), and Antonio Missoroli (EU Institute for Security Studies).
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780975332580
- Publication Date: Jul 2005
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Changing Identities and Evolving Values
Esther Brimmer
This book is part of CTR's Changing Societies series. The contributors offer perspectives on how underlying values affect government policiesfrom homeland security to religion and society. The book asks: are transatlantic relations affected not only by what governments and others are doing, but by what our societies are becoming? Contributors include Parvez Ahmad (Council on American-Islamic Relations), Michael Brenner (University of Pittsburgh), Esther Brimmer (Center for Transatlantic Relations), Alain Chouet (formerly of Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure), Jean François-Poncet (member of the French Senate),Tod Lindberg (Hoover Institution, Stanford University), Jean-Dominique Giuliani (Robert Schuman Foundation),Terri E. Givens (Center for European Studies, University of Texas), Daniel S. Hamilton (Center for Transatlantic Relations), Christopher Kojm (9/11 Discourse Project),Alain Lamassoure (member of European Parliament), Jean Claude Monod (Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique and Ecole Normale Superieure), Richard Pells (University of Texas), Tom Petri (U.S. House of Representatives), Omer Taspinar (Brookings Institution), Bruno Tertrais (Strategic Research Foundation), and Karen Volker (U.S. Department of State).
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780976643432
- Publication Date: Dec 2006
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Religion and Religiosity in the Philippines and Indonesia
Theodore Friend
This comparative exploration looks at religion and politics in the social dynamics of Southeast Asia's two most populous nations. The Philippines and Indonesia are treated as one vast "Phil-Indo" archipelago. Eight leading scholars contribute interwoven and contending essays. The authors find that while neither country promotes a state religion, both lack partitions between church and state. Social dynamics of faith in each elude constitutional restrictions. In the Philippines, a Spanish tradition of an ecclesiastical state exists in tension with a Jeffersonian notion of separation of realms. In Indonesia, pre-Islamic concepts of a god-king fuse state and society, as modern initiatives surge from the premise of a prevailing Islamic community. Official religiosity pervades Indonesian national life, while Filipinos act out their private religiosity en masse, trying to overcome deficiencies in state and church. The book includes 38 photographs, in color and black and white, with commentaries that further illustrate the themes of each chapter. Contributors include Azyumardi Azra (University Islam Negeri, Indonesia), Jose M. Cruz (Ateneo de Manila University,The Philippines), Donald K. Emmerson (Institute for International Studies, Stanford University) Theodore Friend (Foreign Policy Research Institute), Robert W. Hefner (Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University),Vicente Leuterio Rafael (University of Washington), Jose Eliseao Rocamora (Institute for Popular Democracy,The Philippines) and David Joel Steinberg (Long Island University).
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780977404209
- Publication Date: Feb 2006
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Due Diligence
David Roodman
The idea that small loans can help poor families build businesses and exit poverty has blossomed into a global movement. The concept has captured the public imagination, drawn in billions of dollars, reached millions of customers, and garnered a Nobel Prize. Radical in its suggestion that the poor are creditworthy and conservative in its insistence on individual accountability, the idea has expanded beyond credit into savings, insurance, and money transfers, earning the name microfinance. But is it the boon so many think it is?Readers of David Roodman's openbook blog will immediately recognize his thorough, straightforward, and trenchant analysis. Due Diligence, written entirely in public with input from readers, probes the truth about microfinance to guide governments, foundations, investors, and private citizens who support financial services for poor people. In particular, it explains the need to deemphasize microcredit in favor of other financial services for the poor.
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- ISBN: 9781933286488
- Publication Date: Dec 2011
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Emerging Africa
Steven Radelet
Emerging Africa describes the too-often-overlooked positive changes that have taken place in much of Africa since the mid-1990s. In 17 countries, five fundamental and sustained breakthroughs are making old assumptions increasingly untenable: The rise of democracy brought on by the end of the Cold War and apartheid Stronger economic management The end of the debt crisis and a more constructive relationship with the international community The introduction of new technologies, especially mobile phones and the Internet The emergence of a new generation of leaders.With these significant changes, the countries of emerging Africa seem poised to lead the continent out of the conflict, stagnation, and dictatorships of the past. The countries discussed in the book are Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Mali Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
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- ISBN: 9781933286518
- Publication Date: Sep 2010
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Cash on Delivery
Nancy Birdsall
Foreign aid has no shortage of critics. Some argue that it undermines development and inherently does more harm than good; others insist that aid must be seriously reformed to work properly. Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what works.Public and private aid can improve lives in poor countries, but the willingness of taxpayers and private funders to finance aid programs depends more than ever on showing results. COD Aid is a funding mechanism that hinges on results. At its core is a contract between funders and recipients that stipulates a fixed payment for each unit of confirmed progress toward an agreed-upon goal. Once the contract is struck, the funder takes a hands-off approach, allowing the recipient the freedom and responsibility to achieve the goal on its own. Payment is made only after progress toward the goal is independently verified by a third party. At all steps, a COD Aid program is remarkably transparent: the contract, the amount of progress made, and the payment are disseminated publicly to highlight the credibility of the arrangement and improve accountability to the public. COD Aid is a new approach to foreign aid, but one that complements other aid programs and would ultimately encourage funders and recipients to use existing resources more efficiently.Cash On Delivery Aid: A New Approach to Foreign Aid explains the approach in detail and investigates its application in one sector: education. More specifically, the authors show how foreign aid agencies could use COD Aid to help developing countries achieve universal primary school education. The example illustrates how to deal with potential challenges of the approachchallenges that are no greater than those of traditional aidand includes model term sheets for contracts that could be used for any COD Aid agreement.
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- ISBN: 9781933286600
- Publication Date: Apr 2011
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Greenprint
Arvind Subramanian
Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. Given these three factorswhich Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya Mattoo call the "narrative," "adding up," and "new world" problemsthe wonder is not the current impasse; it is, rather, the belief that progress might be possible at all.In this book, the authors argue that any chance of progress must address each of these problems in a radically different way. First, the old narrative of recrimination must cede to a narrative based on recognition of common interests. Second, leaders must shift the focus away from emissions cuts to technology generation. Third, the old "cash-for-cuts" approach must be abandoned for one that requires contributions from all countries calibrated in magnitude and form to their current level of development and future prospects.
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- ISBN: 9781933286679
- Publication Date: Feb 2013
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Oil to Cash
Todd Moss
What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it spend the subsequent cash windfall? How can it protect against corruption? How can citizens truly benefit from national wealth? With many of the world's poorest and most fragile states suddenly joining the ranks of oil and gas producers, these are pressing policy questions. Oil to Cash explores one option that may help avoid the so-called resource curse: just give the money directly to citizens. A universal, transparent, and regular cash transfer would not only provide a concrete benefit to regular people, but would also create powerful incentives for citizens to hold their government accountable. Oil to Cash details how and where this idea could work and how policymakers can learn from the experiences with cash transfers in places like Mexico, Mongolia, and Alaska.
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- ISBN: 9781933286693
- Publication Date: Jun 2015
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Frederik III
Jens Gunni Busck
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9788793229389
- Publication Date: Jun 2016
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17 Big Bets for a Better World
Stig Tackmann
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9788793229549
- Publication Date: Sep 2016
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Frederik VII
Jens Gunni Busck
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9788793229792
- Publication Date: Jun 2017
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Frederik VIII and Queen Lovisa
Birgitte Louise Peiter Rosenhegn
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9788793229839
- Publication Date: Jun 2017
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Results Not Receipts
Charles Kenny
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286976
- Publication Date: Jun 2017
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Global Agriculture and the American Farmer
Kimberly Ann Elliot
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286983
- Publication Date: Jun 2017
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So You Want To Be A Principal
Paul Teys
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- ISBN: 9781922607249
- Publication Date: Jun 2022
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Paradigm Lost?
Daniel S. Hamilton
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781947661127
- Publication Date: Apr 2022
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The Thief
Ulrik Langen
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9788712075400
- Publication Date: Aug 2024
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Trading Places?
Andrew Rimmer
This book introduces the main concepts and trade facilitation reliefs that businesses must understand if they are to trade internationally with the least intervention and disruption from the Tax Authorities. It highlights the means of importing goods and arriving at the Customs value on which import duty and import VAT are computed. It also provides commentary on export procedures and the VAT treatment of intra-EC trading, including potential fiscal barriers to exploiting non-UK markets. Chapters on potential pitfalls and planning for international trade provide the reader with an overview of ‘Best-practice’ when looking to import or export goods.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781907444005
- Publication Date: Nov 2010
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ADR and Trusts
Grant Jones
Settling trust disputes without litigation can save all parties legal costs and maintain confidentiality (reducing the risk of unwelcome publicity). ADR and Trusts is a development from the authors' accredited mediation training course for the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). Part A introduces the reader to the different forms of dispute resolution, and examines the differences between arbitration and mediation of trust and fiduciary disputes. Part B examines 27 jurisdictions and how trust law and ADR operates in each of them. Each profile addresses: arbitration law and practice, trust law, the mandatory requirements for mediation and the enforcement of ADR awards. Mediators, arbitrators, trust and estate planning practitioners, trust managers and anyone involved in trust disputes should all benefit from reading this book.
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- ISBN: 9781907444586
- Publication Date: Jan 2015
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VAT and the NHS
Martin Kaney
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781907444715
- Publication Date: Sep 2016
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