The growing interaction between local cultures and international organisations suggests the need for peacebuilders to act strategically when trying overcome cultural differences build trust in societies long divided by bloody conflicts. This task is more difficult because mental barriers that divide people are exacerbated borders walls. Through an analysis of evolving role European Union (EU) p...

This paper presents the existing state of cooperation issues among European manufacturing firms. We have conducted a survey within several European countries and asked their manufacturing firms with at least 20 employees if they are keen to cooperate with other firms and other institutions in the field of R&D with universities and other research institutions, R&D with other firms (customers and...

The more important governmental cooperation and bureaucratic involvement become in ESDP, the more pressing becomes the issue of democratic control of executive cooperation. This article starts from the argument that parliamentary involvement in decisionmaking is of central importance for ensuring the democratic quality of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). It uses the notion of a mult...

One of the main tasks of the European Digital Mathematics Library project was to define a cooperation model with a variety of stakeholders that would allow building a reliable and durable global reference library, aiming to be eventually exhaustive. In this paper we present the EuDML external cooperation model and the business plan as the basis for its sustainability and further development.

The EU and China launched the first EU-China flagship initiative for research and innovation at the EUChina summit on 21 November 2013 (16th EU-China Summit Press Release [1] ), with the signature of a Letter of Intent on Research and Innovation Cooperation in Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology (FAB) between the European Commission and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). This ...

For a club such as the European Union, an important question is whether a subset of the members should be allowed to form “inner clubs” and enhance cooperation. Flexible cooperation allows members to participate if and only if they benefit, but it leads to free-riding when externalities are positive. I show that flexible cooperation is better if the heterogeneity is large and the externality sm...

The paper investigates the relationship between pro-social norms and its implications for improved environmental outcomes. This is an area, which has been neglected in the environmental economics literature. We provide empirical evidence to demonstrate a robust link between perceived environmental cooperation (reduced public littering) and increased voluntary environmental morale. For this purp...

on behalf of the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry. INNO makers in adopting appropriate responses to emerging innovation needs, trends and phenomena. It is part of the European Commission's PRO INNO Eur focal point for innovation policy analysis and cooperation. The INNO monitoring (Lot 2) is carried out by empirica GmbH and ICEG European Cent Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köl...