Europe-The Global Challenges

Europe-The Global Challenges - Antoni (red.) Kukliński

Publication dedicated to promoting brainstorming reflection illuminating the global challenges and strategic choices emerging in the European intellectual and political landscape of the 21st century. PART 1 STRONG OR WEAK EUROPE Strong or Weak Europe; Theoretical Models for the Future of the EU; Futures of Europe; Global and The European Integration; 7 Mile Boots or Taking a Shortcut; Scenarios for Future Europe; Governance and Leadership in the EU PART 2 THE INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES and the Availability of Global Public Goods; European Governance: The Challenges Ahead; Cohesion and/or Growth Policy; Foreign and Security Policy: A Challenge and Strategic Choice for the EU of the 21 Century; and Democracy in CFSP/ESDP: The Institutional Set-up of the Constitutional Treaty; Threats and European Security Policy in the Transatlantic Perspective PART 3 THE CHALLENGES OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE Opportunities and Problems in a New European Research Area; and Civil Society in the 21 Century; European Strategic Planning in the 21 Century; The New Divide in and Threats of Market Society; The Future of the EU; Central-Eastern v. Western Europe; The Development of and Its Central-Eastern Periphery; Development and Divisions of Europe; At the Core or in the Margins?; The Information and Welfare State: The Finnish Model; The Ukrainian Strategic Choice as a Challenge for the EU: 3 Reflections and a Thesis; The Turkish Dilemma; Russia: On the Way to an Information Society?; Russia: Quo Vadis?; Values and in the EU-Russia Relations: Towards Cooperation or Conflict?; "New Europe" and the Atlantic PART 4 SUSTAINABLE EUROPE? Europe in the Perspectives of Global Change; Sustainable Development as the Major Challenge for 21 Century; The Lisbon and the Challenge of Sustainability; Analysing Sustainability in the Information Society; Does the Future Just Happen?; The 4 Megaspaces of the 21 Century; Post Scriptum.