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The NCRE is New Zealand's only research centre devoted to the study of Europe and the European Union. It fosters research on the EU that is regionally relevant, for example EU development policy in the Pacific, the EU's identity in the Asia-Pacific region (including EU external images and perceptions) and the external consequences of EU enlargement.
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European Union Interregionalism and the Capability-Expectations Gap
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2009)This article addresses interregionalism in EU external relations. It considers the nature of interregionalism centred on two functional varieties - an internally focused, capacity building interregionalism and an externally ... -
Patterns of Engagement: Europe-Asia Relations and Comparative Interregionalism
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2012)This paper explores the differing approaches to conceptualizing interregionalism that have stemmed from two distinct periods in the evolution of these group to group structures: the periods of the old and the new in ... -
New Zealand and the Asia-Europe Meeting: Three Years On
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2013)New Zealand, alongside Australia and Russia, formally acceded to the Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) in October 2010. This followed fifteen years of drift, a period during which initial strong interest, derailed by the ... -
New Zealand and the Asia-Europe Meeting
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2013)This article considers New Zealand?s accession to the Asia-Europe Meeting, considering both its formal path to membership and the evolving calculus by which its views of the process were structured, focusing on elements ... -
A Normative Power Paradox? Theory and Change in European Union Development Policy
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2014)One of the issues frequently raised when the EU's role as a normative actor is considered is that of consistency/variation in its approach. Much of this has centred around a norms–interests dichotomy, and the question as ... -
“Can the EU be a credible international security actor without the integration of the Member States’ militaries?”
(University of Canterbury. NCRE, 2015)Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Europe emerged from World War Two as something akin to a new creation. Gone were the days of aggressive militarism and war, in its place would be civilian power and democracy; or so ... -
Policy implementation in a transition economy : two decades of small and medium enterprise (SME) development in Ukraine.
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2015)Current theoretical frameworks for assessing policy implementation have been developed almost exclusively in the context of market-based, pluralist democracies. The lack of applicable implementation theory outside this ... -
International Student Mobility and Internationalisation of Universities - The role of serendipity, risk and uncertainty in student mobility and the development of cosmopolitan mind-sets through knowledge and intercultural competence. Employability, students’ future mobility aspirations and the EU’s support of international student mobility
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2014)The background to this study lies in the discrepancy between the perceptions of international student mobility in the context of the internationalisation of higher education by the EU and universities on one hand and ... -
Philosophical foundations for a constructivist and institutionalist relationship between the European Union and Australia.
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2014)The European Union (EU) and Australia share a significant volume of historical connections in languages, cultures, economic and trade relationships, political views and ideas. These associations have had different levels ... -
EU and the Asia Pacific: Measuring the effectiveness of disaster risk reduction programming in relation to child protection.
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2014)This thesis employs a rights-based approach to evaluate the effectiveness of European Union (EU) external action policy formation and subsequent measures to protect children in a disaster risk context, in the Asia Pacific. ... -
Inter-regionalism of nation-states: Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) as a case-study
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2012)Writing a thesis is like writing a story book, this book is a story of the 17-year-old Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). It serves as a case-study of inter-regionalism, one of the newest cooperative mechanism in today’s international ... -
Caught between 'Dublin' and the deep blue sea: 'small' Member States and European Union 'burden-sharing' responses to the unauthorized entry of seabourne asylum seekers in the Mediterranean from 2005-2010.
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2013)The Dublin Regulation determines the Member State responsible for accepting and making a decision on asylum claims lodged in the European Union (‘EU’), Norway and Iceland. It aims to ensure that each asylum claim is examined ... -
External Images of the EU: Comparative Analysis of EU Representations in Three Major South Korean Newspapers and Their Internet Editions
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2013)This thesis explores textual and visual images of the EU in South Korea's three prestigious popular newspapers - Chosun Ilbo, Dong A Ilbo and Joong Ang Ilbo - and compares them to the imagery created by the internet versions ... -
Wheying up the Options: How do Geographical Indications used in the European Union Influence New Zealand Speciality Cheese?
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2012)Global food production, supply chains, and food quality are coming under increasing scrutiny by consumers, environmentalists and governments. Particularly in developed countries, there is growing awareness among consumers ... -
Gateway Antarctica: A Route for the EU's Global Political Agenda
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2012)This thesis endeavours to address an identified gap in literature on the European Union’s (EU) scientific and political engagement in the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS). The examination of this engagement begins from the ... -
NZ and the EU in the Pacific: Renewable Energy as a Mechanism for Development
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2013)This thesis aims to undertake an evaluation of the potential for renewable energy to be used as a mechanism for the development of the Pacific region. Further to this, it examines whether NZ and the EU are well placed to ... -
Applying the analytical framework of cosmopolitanism as a model of democracy; how can civil society help further the democratic quality of European Union governance (the case of Spain 2012)?
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2013)As the European Year of Citizens (2013) dawns, the European Union (EU) finds itself at a crossroads. One of the largest international organisations in the world, it has built a reputation as an international community model ... -
Transparency, Accountability, Aid and the European Union
(University of Canterbury. National Centre of Research on Europe, 2013)In the midst of the international development agenda, two concepts have recently emerged, transparency and accountability. These concepts represent ideas, which have shaped the current direction in which development has ... -
EU Actorness with and within Southeast Asia in light of Non-traditional Security Challenges
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2013)Nearly four decades of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-European Union (EU) relationship have witnessed the importance of ideas and identity alongside the economic interests in shaping the behaviour of ... -
Prospect of the European Union to become a Defence Union: Analysis of the major nation-state actors’ perspectives on the European Security and Defence Policy
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2007)The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is a very young and innovative structure of the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Since its launch in 1999 at the Summit of Cologne it has developed ...
