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New books added to the Council library's collection - February 2022
- 25 February 2022
- New books
- gsclibrary
Eastern Europe and Central Asia EU member states Energy Foreign affairs & international relations Security & defence Research & technological development Social affairs Asia Migration Environment
Discover our selection of books recently added to the Council Library collection. For an overview of all the new and existing titles in the collection, please consult the online catalogue of the Council libraries, Eureka.
This book examines the interactions between trade policy and foreign and security policy in EU external action as a nexus of practices.
Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet empire, the West faces a new era of East–West tensions. Any vision of a modern Russia integrated into the world economy and aligned in peaceful partnership with a reunited Europe has abruptly vanished.
This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020.
30 ans après l’effondrement de l’URSS, comprendre où en est la Russie aujourd’hui permet également de mieux appréhender les transformations profondes qui affectent l’architecture des relations internationales contemporaines.
Quels sont les États qui protègent le mieux leurs citoyens dans le contexte international actuel? Face à des menaces devenues globales, telles les pandémies, les crises environnementales, économiques, migratoires ou alimentaires, quelles puissances ont su rompre avec un passé révolu et développer des stratégies adaptées?
The European Union is facing the worst existential crisis in its history. At the same time, it is confronted with old and new challenges in its environment that call for joint action. But how do matters stand with the EU's capacity to act?
There are few issues more contentious today than the nature and purpose of borders. Migration flows and the refugee crisis have propelled the issue of borders into the centre of political debate and revealed our moral unease more clearly than ever.
Why and how have contemporary alternative energy developments evolved into a 21st century global socio-political and techno-economic megatrend? What are the security implications of this megatrend? And what does the megatrend’s evolution reveal about upcoming geopolitical, energy, defense, environmental, and economic security challenges?
How are the polarised positions on climate change of different groups related to their moral outlook, world view, tradition, cultural norms and values? What is a good distribution of responsibilities between firms, households and the government relating to climate change?
Le climat n’est plus une simple question environnementale : il est désormais incontournable dans les relations internationales et est devenu un enjeu diplomatique majeur.
It all started in 1956 at the Dartmouth conference, when John McCarthy persuaded his colleagues to use the term "Artificial" Intelligence to describe what was then only a twenty-year-old discipline, which began when Alan Turing proposed his automata theory.
The coronavirus pandemic forced work back into the home on a massive scale. The long-held belief that work and home are separate spheres of economic life was turned on its head overnight.
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.
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