New books added to the Council library's collection

 

Library blog Friday 25 February 2022

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

• 25 February 2022
 
• New books
 
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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.

• The trade-security nexus in EU external action : a practice approach

This book examines the interactions between trade policy and foreign and security policy in EU external action as a nexus of practices.

• The bridge : natural gas in a redivided Europe

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.

• Memory crash : politics of history in and around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s

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.

• Russie : le retour de la puissance

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.

• Les puissances mondialisées : repenser la sécurité internationale

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?

• Global Europe : the external relations of the European Union

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?

• Freedom of the border

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.

• The prologue : the alternative energy megatrend in the age of great power competition

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?

• Climate of the middle : understanding climate change as a common challenge

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?

• Géopolitique du climat : les relations internationales dans un monde en surchauffe

Le climat n’est plus une simple question environnementale : il est désormais incontournable dans les relations internationales et est devenu un enjeu diplomatique majeur.

• There is no such thing as artificial intelligence

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.

• Remote working : a research overview

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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