For a full list of publications from the staff of the Centre for the Study of Europe, please download the list below. The centre also publishes the journal series "Publications of the Centre for the Study of Europe". The first two volumes are listed below as well as a resume of Michael Herslund's latest book.

 

CEF publications

Publications of the Centre for the Study of Europe

The first two texts discuss somewhat similar problems in very dfferent contexts, i.e. the public opinion towards the EU in Denmark, an EU member since 1973, and Estonia, one of the newcomers in 2004, respectively. The third essay dicusses, in predominantly economic terms, the consequences of accession to the EU by the largest of the new member states, Poland. The fourth text examines the problems of the judicial system in Bulgaria - a state that is not yet a member of the union - and what they are doing about it. The final essay in the collection gives an overall view and assessment of the global role of the European Union today.

The lectures discuss the constitutional treaty, which, although its ratifacation, has experienced some difficulties lately, still constitutes a kind of comprehensive political and legal basis for the European cooperation. While the lecture by Poul Skytte Christoffersen examines the background and beginnings of the treaty, Lykke Friis starts at the other end and sketches some possibilities for the continuation after the foreseen and now actually existing difficulties with the ratifacation.

 

New publications from the Centre for the Study of Europe:

Michael Herslund and Ramona Samson, eds. Unity in Diversity. Europe and the European Union: Enlargement and Constitutional Treay. CBS Press, 2005.The overall themes of this book are past and present changes in European cooperation.

Two such changes mere at the top of the agenda in the summer of 2004: the Eastern enlargement and the constitutional treaty. A way to interpret these changes is to look at them as manifestations of the two core concepts, "diversity" and "unity". The combination of the concept of unity with the apparently contrasting notion of diversity seems to amount to a contradtiction. But this is exactly the nature of European cooperation. How to overcome this contradiction and make it fruitful is the challange faced by the nations of Europe in the 21st Century. The different chapters address different aspects of this challange: from the problems faced by new member states of Central Europe, via the long and tortuous road towards a common European constitution and popular Euro scepticism, to the role of Europe in the world as mirrored by its relations with the United States:

These chapters are the written versions of six of the lectures, which were given at the international summer school "Europe and the European Union - a Scenario for the Future", held at Copenhagen Business School, 6 to 20 August 2004, as a cooperation between the Centre for the Study of Europe, CBS, and the European Studies Programme, Malmö University, under the auspices of the Øresund University. The authors are researchers affíliated with CBS, Lund University, Sweden, Danish Institute for International Studies and University of Copenhagen.

 

The publications are available at the Centre for the Study of Europe. Please contact Merete Borch for more information: mb.iadh@cbs.dk