An exploration of the European Union with sections on conflict, intelligence and security, immigration and human rights, world economic development and environmental sustainability, high technologies and their growing impact.

Part I Conflict and foreign and security approachesIntroduction to part I1. Interdependence and fragmentation: The articulations of political space in the discourses of integration and ethnic conflict - Tarja Väyrynen2. The Kosovo intervention and European security: NATO's pyrrhic victory - James H. Wyllie3. European Union Intelligence Agency: A necessary institution for Common Intelligence Policy? - John M. Nomikos4. Recent developments in EU migration and asylum policies - Barbara Marshall5. Enforcing human rights in Europe and beyond: International law and human rights in a changing world - Caroline NolanPART II Issues of Economic DevelopmentIntroduction to part II6. EU economic governance in the present world system - Jonathan Luckhurst and Vassiliki N. Koutrakou7. New directions in the EU's Third World policy: From aid to trade under the watchful eye of the WTO - Vassiliki N. Koutrakou8. Transboundary cooperation and regional networks in Sweden and the Baltic States; integration on the new European frontier at the turn of the century - Geoffrey Gooch9. An ever more sustainable union? Integrating economy, society and environment in a rapidly enlarging Europe - Andrew Jordan and Timothy O'Riordan10. Cooperation or competition? Nuclear energy and the Ostpolitik of the European Union - Sabine Saurugger11. Cross border transport: The EU policy agenda - Steve Dawe12. The Europeanisation of firms and the role of Euro-groups in European integration - Jenny FairbrassPART III: The high technology factorIntroduction to part III13. Euratom: The toothless treaty? - Hazel Dawe14. Interest groups, institutions, and expertise: The new politics of EU biotechnology regulation - Michael E. Smith15. Deregulation and coordination in european telecommunications strategies - Nicola Murrell16. J(EU)nesse sans frontières: Information age governance, youth and the EU - Paul G. Nixon