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Viola (London School of Economics and Political Science) attempts to unravel whether joint policies and supranational solutions can be forged within the unique laboratory of the European Parliament. Research on the voting behavior of European Parliament members exposes the dynamics of defining a common position relative to two major events in the 1990s the Gulf and Yugoslav crises and shows that political groups constitute embryonic transnational political parties playing an increasingly important role at the European level. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This title was first published in 2000: This book investigates the European Parliament’s stance vis-a-vis the 1990-1991 Gulf and 1991-1992 Yugoslav crises. In unveiling the parliamentary multi-faceted view of these events, reference has been made to the positions taken by constituent political groups and their voting behaviour. In particular, the following questions have been addressed: has the European Parliament sought to define and shape a common foreign policy with respect to the above crises? What specific functions have the European Parliament political groups performed? Have political groups succeeded in achieving an internal cohesion? Has the European Parliament overcome divisions among its members through the formation of party coalitions? despite the considerable flow of published material on external relations of the European Union and the European Parliament, virtually no study has explored in-depth the links between these two areas. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap in the existing literature, breaking new ground by combining a qualitative and qualitative analysis of parliamentary behaviour with foreign policy.
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