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UACES members enjoy a variety of publishing opportunities. We invite everyone to write resource articles, that help others to advance their research and their academic profession. Our bookshop includes recently published books by our members and the Journal of Contemporary European Research is an open-access journal published by UACES in association with the UACES Graduate Forum.
The Performance of Regionalism in the Global South
The book provides readily accessible, important, and novel information to students and scholars of political science, international relations, EU and European studies, peace and conflict studies, comparative regionalism, interregional and inter-organizational studies, and area studies, and persons interested in specific policy fields such as trade, security, or development policy.
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Working for the EU: How to Get In, 2nd Edition 2024
This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to know about the many ways to start and then go on to build a career in the EU public administration. The new edition has been fully updated to take account of major developments such as the new 2024 format of EPSO competitions, the increased availability of internal competitions, and important trends in the types of jobs and career pathways available.
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The Normative Foundations for EU Criminal Justice: Powers, Limits and Justifications
Should the European Union regulate criminal justice? This open access book explores the question forensically, establishing whether a compelling normative justification for EU action in the field exists. It develops an integrated standard based on the perspectives of the effective allocation of regulatory authority between the EU and the Member States, representation-based political theories, and harm-based theories of criminal law. This is a work that will be welcomed not only by EU criminal law scholars, but also by practitioners, judges and policymakers.
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The Routledge-UACES Contemporary European Studies book series (CES) publishes first-rate research in European Union Studies. The Series Editors are particularly keen to encourage approaches that are interdisciplinary. CES seeks to publish excellent material from both established and new scholars.
(In)visible European Government
This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments.
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EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China
This book examines EU and US bilateral trade and investment relations with China, their attempts to level the economic playing field and to narrow the ‘reciprocity gap’ in market openness.
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EU Trade Agreements and European Integration
The book argues that the Commission used these trade agreements, signed primarily with countries in Asia and Latin America, to advance European integration by ensuring that they became wider in scope and institutionally deeper by establishing ‘joint bodies’ – even in the face of resistance from member states in the Council of the European Union.
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Our Online Journal JCER
JCER is an open-access, online journal published by UACES in association with the Graduate Forum. We publish articles in the subject area of contemporary European studies. The Journal enables PhD students and early career researchers to disseminate their work alongside established scholars.