{"title":"Whole, Free and Integrated? A Transatlantic Perspective on the European Neighbourhood","authors":"F. Tassinari","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1338003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1338003","url":null,"abstract":"Since the end of the cold war until 2004, the United States and the European Union held largely complementary views towards the European neighbourhood. Washington’s foreign policy mantra was that of a Europe ‘whole and free’, where the dividing lines inherited from the cold war were to dissolve through the gradual inclusion of Central and Eastern Europe in the Euro-Atlantic family of nations. The EU concomitantly focused on its enlargement strategy, which ensured that the transition of the former communist countries would be benchmarked and monitored, in order to attain the ultimate goal of their full integration into the EU. Is this transatlantic goal of making Europe whole, free and integrated still valid in the post-2004 European context, and to what extent is it applicable to the new European neighbourhood? This study sets to provide answers to these questions by offering a transatlantic perspective on the security and integration challenges characterising the enlarging Europe and its periphery. After providing a conceptual outlook of the US and the EU approaches to the wider European context, the article maps out transatlantic convergence and divergence in the countries and regions concerned. On the basis of this assessment, it ponders a set of recommendations at the normative, methodological and geopolitical levels to inspire a transatlantic agenda that accounts for the emergence of a wider European neighbourhood.","PeriodicalId":166057,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Global & Regional Governance (Topic)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121153934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wto's Appellate Body: Legal Formalism as a Legitimation of Global Governance","authors":"Salomone Picciotto","doi":"10.1111/J.1468-0491.2005.00285.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1468-0491.2005.00285.X","url":null,"abstract":"The creation of the Appellate Body (AB) of the WTO entails an unprecedented delegation of power to an international adjudicator, since the WTO requires states to ensure compliance of their domestic regulations with the sweeping obligations in WTO agreements. This is legitimized in some academic analysis and much political rhetoric in terms of the rule of law, suggesting that the role of the adjudicator is merely to apply the precise words of the texts agreed by states, according to their natural meaning. The AB has supported this, by adopting a formalist approach which combines an objectivist view of meaning with a legalistic style of judgement. However, both the general structure and many of the specific provisions of the WTO agreements are indeterminate and raise issues of interpretation which were known to be highly contestable. Although the delegation of adjudication in its early phase was considered to be of a narrow technical function, in the current phase interpretation is more clearly seen to involve a flexible application of principles to cases in the light of the policies involved. The AB's role would be better legitimized by adopting a more open epistemology and reasoning which could be accessible to a wider constituency. However, it is constrained by fear of usurping the political legitimacy of the governments to which it is primarily accountable, and they in turn are motivated by a reluctance to admit to their domestic constituencies how much power has been transferred to supranational instances such as the AB.","PeriodicalId":166057,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Global & Regional Governance (Topic)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132625174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building Governance Institutions Across European Borders","authors":"M. Perkmann","doi":"10.1080/00343409950078693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00343409950078693","url":null,"abstract":"PERKMANN M. (1999) Building governance institutions across European Borders, Reg. Studies 33 , 657-667. This paper examines cross-border co-operation (CBC) and associated cross-border regions (CBRs) emerging within the European Union (EU). It analyses both as processes of institution building utilizing recent theories of governance and networks. The discussion is organized in four parts: (1) an overview of CBC in the EU to date and a suggested theoretical framework for understanding it; (2) a specification of CBC governance institutions as an articulation of horizontal and vertical networks; (3) an outline of the interests and agendas of the main actors involved in CBC, including the EU Commission as well as local, regional and central state authorities; and (4) an assessment of CBC governance as the outcome of the aggregate effects of the institutions and actors involved. The concluding section locates CBC within the emerging EU polity, arguing that it represents an example of the building of multi-level...","PeriodicalId":166057,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Global & Regional Governance (Topic)","volume":"219 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114684460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vietnam's Membership in ASEAN: Economic, Political and Security Implications","authors":"H. Tuan","doi":"10.1355/CS16-3B","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1355/CS16-3B","url":null,"abstract":"Southeast Asia faces tremendous challenges in the last years of the twentieth century. A shift in the balance of forces among the major powers along with the revival of past suspicions and rivalries and the emergence of new ambitions by states constitute potential threats to the region's peace and stability. Economic issues are no less challenging. One of the region's responses has been to contemplate expanding ASEAN's membership to incorporate other countries in Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam. Recent improvements in Vietnam-ASEAN relations give cause to believe that Vietnam will soon become a member of the Association. Starting from the premise of Vietnam as a member of ASEAN, this article seeks to explore the economic, political, and security implications for Vietnam and other ASEAN countries as well as their relations with outside powers in the context of a changing regional and international environment.","PeriodicalId":166057,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Global & Regional Governance (Topic)","volume":"143 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133878792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Market and Public Governance in Europe","authors":"L. Bisio","doi":"10.4468/2004.1.07BISIO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4468/2004.1.07BISIO","url":null,"abstract":"The relationships between the governance of public bodies and stakeholders is of essential importance, independently of the different administration systems existing in Europe. Therefore the Nation-States are: losing power while maintaining considerable influence; trying to govern the complex dynamic balance between global network pressure and the growing press on local identities. In this scenario, answers coming from Nation-States on governance models go in the dual direction of: developing supra-national institutions to retake their role with respect to global networks; decentralising administrative power to a regional and local level, so to reaffirm their internal legitimacy.","PeriodicalId":166057,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Global & Regional Governance (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131228056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"10 Years ‘Equator Principles’: A Critical Economic-Ethical Analysis","authors":"Manuel Wörsdörfer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2359573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2359573","url":null,"abstract":"June 4th, 2013 marks the formal launch of the third generation of the Equator Principles (EP III) and the tenth anniversary of the EPs – enough reasons for evaluating the EPs initiative from an economic ethics and business ethics perspectives. In particular, this essay deals with the following questions: What are the EPs and where are they going? What has been achieved so far by the EPs? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the EPs? Which necessary reform steps need to be adopted in order to further strengthen the EPs framework? Can the EPs be regarded as a role-model in the field of sustainable finance and CSR? The paper is structured as follows: The first chapter defines the term EPs and introduces the keywords related to the EPs framework. The second chapter gives a brief overview of the history of the EPs. The third chapter discusses the Equator Principles Association, the governing, administering, and managing institution behind the EPs. The fourth chapter summarizes the main features and characteristics of the newly released third generation of the EPs. The fifth chapter critically evaluates the EP III from an economic ethics and business ethics perspectives. The paper concludes with a summary of the main findings.","PeriodicalId":166057,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Global & Regional Governance (Topic)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116299665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}