New books added to the Council library's collection - January 2022

 

Library blog Friday 28 January 2022

● General Secretariat of the Council   New books added to the Council library's collection - January 2022   Among the books recently added to the Council Library collection are works about Europe’s eastern neighbourhood, the process of convergence of the EU’s eastern member states, and Europe’s defence policy. New books added to the Council library's collection - January 2022 28 January 2022   New books   gsclibrary Foreign affairs & international relations Security & defence Energy Enlargement Terrorism Migration Eastern Europe and Central Asia United States Asia EU member states   Among the books recently added to the Council Library collection are works about Europe’s eastern neighbourhood, the process of convergence of the EU’s eastern member states, and Europe’s defence policy. Analyzing political tensions between Ukraine, Russia, and the EU ”With the annexation of Crimea, Russian forces have gained control over most of Eastern Ukraine, igniting a clash between the two governments and triggering the European Union, United States, and several Post-Soviet states to involve themselves in the situation.” Ukraine : contested nationhood in a European context ”This book challenges the common view that Ukraine is a country split between a pro-European West and a pro-Russian East. The volume navigates the complicated cultural history of Ukraine and highlights the importance of regional traditions for an understanding of the current political situation.” Ambiguities of Europe’s eastern neighbourhood : perspectives from Germany and Poland ”Based on the diverging interests of Germany and Poland as influential members of the European Union on the Eastern Partnership (EaP), the contributions in the anthology analyse specifics and current problems of the states in EU’s Eastern neighbourhood.” Does EU membership facilitate convergence? : the experience of the EU's eastern enlargement. Volume I, Overall trends and country experiences Does EU membership facilitate convergence? : the experience of the EU's eastern enlargement. Volume II, Channels of interaction ”These edited volumes analyse the ways in which EU membership contributed to the convergence process of member countries in the Baltics, Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, and also explores countries that are candidates for future EU membership.” No place for Russia : European security institutions since 1989 ”William H. Hill traces the development of the post–Cold War European security order to explain today’s tensions, showing how attempts to integrate Russia into a unified Euro-Atlantic security order were gradually overshadowed by the domination of NATO and the EU—at Russia’s expense.” European Union security and defence : policies, operations and transatlantic challenges ”The book closely examines the EU’s current strategic, organisational and defence capabilities regarding global, regional and domestic challenges such as terrorism, systemic instability, global order and a number of crucial hindrances to transatlantic cooperation.” The militarization of the European Union ”From the establishment of NATO in 1949, Western Europe has been under Anglo-American tutelage in military and security matters. Several countries, most notably France and (since reunification) Germany, have experienced this as a hindrance to the pursuit of their particular interests.” French defence policy since the end of the cold war ”For the past thirty years there have been significant changes to French defence policy as a result of several contextual evolutions. Changes include shifts in the global balance of power, new understandings of the notion of international security, economic downturns, and developments in European integration.” How to lose the information war : Russia, fake news, and the future of conflict ”This book takes the reader on a journey through five Western governments' responses to Russian information warfare tactics - all of which have failed.” European integration and space policy : a growing security discourse ”This volume seeks to address the developments in European space policy by examining several sensitive security questions linked in general with space activities, on the one hand, and the interplay between space policy and security policy in the European Union (EU) on the other.” The EU and crisis response ”The book considers the construction of crises and how some issues are deemed crises and others not. A major finding from this comparative study is that EU crisis response interventions have been placing increasing emphasis on security and stabilisation and less emphasis on human rights and democratisation.” Rethinking international relations ”Bertrand Badie argues that the traditional paradigms of international relations are no longer sustainable, and that ignorance of these shifting systems and of alternative models is a major source of contemporary international conflict and disorder.”   The publications mentioned in this post do not necessarily represent the positions, policies, or opinions of the Council of the European Union or the European Council. The Council Library reading room is open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 12.00 to 15.00. The Info Desk remains open online from Monday to Friday.