This working paper written by Dr Evangelia Psychogiopoulou focuses on the use of the open method of coordination (OMC) in the field of culture as one of the new cultural policy instruments of the EU following the publication of the European Commission’s Communication on a European Agenda for Culture in a Globalizing World. The analysis […]
The IRMA project is informed by the wider theoretical framework of globalization studies which point to the erosion of the sovereignty and independence of the nation state. Globalization is a multi-faceted and multi-level phenomenon: economically it involves the elimination of countries’ trade boundaries and the development of global multinational corporations. At the cultural level it signifies to […]
In the era of the European Union and globalization, where -like Rubik’s cube- every movement has consequences for all sides, the nation-states of the European Union are called to review ways of defining their national interests and conducting their foreign policies. In his book, From “I” to “We”: Foreign policy in the era of the […]
In ELIAMEP Thesis 2/2009 Jens Bastian, Senior Economic Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, argues that the economic outlook for the region of southeast Europe darkens as the global crisis deepens. The crisis resistance of countries in the region has not been tested before on such a scale. Furthermore, their institutional arrangements remain distinctly fragile. According to […]
This collection of policy papers deals with the impacts of climate change to human security with specific reference to vulnerable groups in developing regions. In particular, the paper examined the impacts of climate change to children, women and environmentally induced immigrants with reference to the societal instability and the human insecurity in a global level. […]