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THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good
M. :
Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009.
Under the general editorship: Larionova M. V.
The monograph reflects on the dynamics of the EU role in global governance processes, presents analysis of the methods and instruments the EU employs for achieving its objectives in the international arenas, models and options of multilateral partnerships. The EU’s evolving role and influence in the G7/G8 over the last ten years reflecting its growth in power and influence as well as the EU expanding community competencies and legal authority is specifically explored, as an area which so far has not been sufficiently investigated. The work is tracing the transformation of the EU identity as a global actor in the recent decade and looks into how these changes affect the EU – Russia relationship. The book adds value to the scholarly literature in the field of studying the EU as a global actor. The contributions aim to serve as a reference and analysis for academics and students in the fields of political science, economics, law and other disciplines. The work aspires to be helpful to government officials, financial institutions, research libraries, the news media, and to members of the interested public.
Chapters
Medvedev S. A., Tomashov I., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 13 P. 254–261.
The chapter explores international peace and security as the most important global public goods, given their role in creating conditions for sustainable development. The authors take stock of the key problems and contradictions of safeguarding international peace and security and examines the history and future prospects of the EU’s CFSP. ...
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Larionova M. V., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 1 P. 1–6.
The monograph reflects on the dynamics of the EU role in global governance processes, presents analysis of the methods and instruments the EU employs for achieving its objectives in the international arenas, models and options of multilateral partnerships. The EU’s evolving role and influence in the G7/G8 over the last ten years reflecting its growth ...
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Medvedev S. A., Tomashov I., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 2 P. 7–18.
The chapter analyzes the concept of global public goods and elaborates on recommendations on the international cooperation aimed at their production and preservation. ...
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Kirton J., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. P. 19–32.
In order to explore the present and future role of the EU in the G8, it is important to invoke, develop and apply several key contemporary concepts from International Relations Theory. This chapter focuses in turn on soft power and soft law, concerts, vulnerability and shocks, globalization and complex adaptive systems and multilateral governance and ...
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Barabanov O. N., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 4 P. 33–45.
The concept of “global governance” emerged as the focus of active scientific debates mainly after the studies of Willy Brandt and his colleagues from the UN Commission on global governance. This Commission was created to discuss possibilities for solution by joint efforts of such global problems as deterioration of environment, fight against poverty, infection diseases, ...
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Larionova M. V., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 5 P. 46–70.
The research aimed to study EU as a global player. This included the instruments the EU relies on to express its priorities and achieve its objectives, EU methods to engage international partners, European ways to creating global public good through partnerships and multilateral institutions. The analysis focused especially on the EU’s evolving role in the ...
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Kirton J., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 6 P. 71–95.
An assessment of the G8’s relevance to, and relationship with, the EU requires a careful charting of the G8 system’s development as an international institution since its 1975 start, in the context of the many recent moves toward and proposals for often far reaching G8 reform. Such calls are currently driven by an emerging consensus ...
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Hajnal P. I., Panova V., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 7 P. 96–114.
There is widespread and growing recognition of structural, procedural and other shortcomings of the present G8, and the need to reform or replace it. This sentiment has been expressed by the news media, academia and civil so- society, and, increasingly and significantly, by several present and former lead-, lead- leaders and other high officials of ...
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Entin M., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 7 P. 115–143.
The European Union is a new and unique player on the international scene. There is not and has never been anything like this in the history of mankind. Applying ordinary or traditional approaches to it does not make sense, nor does it really help to understand its role in international affairs and its conduct in ...
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Larionova M. V., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 9 P. 144–176.
If you build the present in the image of the past you will miss out entirely on challenges of the future. The first meeting of the G20 leaders originally set up as the finance ministers’ forum at the initiative of the G8 leaders2 more than a decade ago in 1999 after the Asian financial crisis, ...
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Kirton J., Panova V., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 10 P. 177–206.
The issue of energy has been one of the reasons behind the creation of the G7 mechanism and with later added climate change problem, it remains high on the G8 agenda. The major powers of the West needed to coordinate their efforts in order to confront the new challenges: the need to ensure security of ...
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Kirton J., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 11 P. 207–235.
The Group of Eight (G8) has had extensive and even existential experience with financial crises (Kirton 2007). The groups creation was driven by financial crises created by and in the US, in the form of the Nixon Administration’s unilateral destruction of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates on August 15, 1971 and the ...
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Kartamyshev V., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 12 P. 236–253.
The European Consensus on Development states the primary goal of the European development policy is the eradication of poverty in the context of sustainable development and universal achievement of Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The EU implements this objective through a multidimensional approach, which combines increasing volumes of aid, aid effectiveness and policy coherence for ...
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Medvedev S. A., Tomashov I., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 14 P. 262–269.
The chapter explores the growing role of knowledge as a factor for development of modern societies. It examines the problems of international cooperation in the field, paying particular attention to initiatives of both the G8 and the EU. ...
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Zuev V. N., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 15 P. 270–284.
The world’s financial crisis made worth an effort to rethink the existing model of global economic governance. One of the striking things among the others – is the insufficient level of global financial regulation. Experts do not share a common view on the functioning of the system. Some of them consider the system of global ...
Added: April 12, 2013
Larionova M. V., Rakhmangulov M., , in: THE EU IN THE G8. Promoting Consensus and Concerted Actions for Global Public Good.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2009. Ch. 16 P. 285–329.
The study aimed to analyze the EU contribution towards defining the G8 priorities and values as well as implementation within the G8 the main global governance functions: domestic political governance, deliberation, direction setting, decision making, delivery and global governance development. A specialized data base was formed, comprised of documents of both institutions. The programme allowed ...
Added: April 12, 2013
Romanova T. A., Полис. Политические исследования 2026 № 2 С. 141–156
Russia’s official representation of the EU became highly metaphorical as of 2022. The goal of this article is to demonstrate how metaphors explained fundamental changes in Moscow’s political course towards the EU. Theoretically the research is based on the critical metaphor analysis of J. Charteris-Black. Empirics consists of messages in the official telegram channel of ...
Added: July 1, 2026
Канихин Т. Н., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 6: Экономика 2026 Т. 61 № 1 С. 264–282
The article examines the attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) to the renewable energy sector (RES) of the EU. The research aims to identify the factors and evaluate possible strategies for attracting FDI to the EU renewable energy sector. The author assumes that, with rising costs of Chinese equipment imports and shifts in US energy ...
Added: June 28, 2026
Sidorenko T., Проблемы национальной стратегии 2025 № 3 С. 252–271
The article analyses the investment cooperation between the Europe an Union and Mexico, resulted in the former’s evolution into the se cond most important foreign investor in the Mexican economy after the United States. The author identifies main characteristics of the in vestment climate in Mexico, noting the great contribution of Spanish TNCs there. The ...
Added: June 18, 2026
Kravtsova M., Musaev A. U., Welzel C., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Elaborating on Welzel et al.'s "Cool Water Theory," our study zooms into the more limited (albeit still varied) framework conditions of Russia's huge territory. Within Russia's confines, we examine how the combination of moderately cool seasons with steady rain (i.e., Cool Water) affects sub-national areas' contemporary societal progress in two modernization indicators: material prosperity in ...
Added: June 3, 2026
Kudriavtseva E., / РЦИС. Серия № 0148-756-286. 2026.
The content of the work is the system is a system for identifying four types of written speech structures. A set of 11 calculated parameters, statistical standards, and semantic characteristics allows for the identification of a text's structure as the result of a specific cognitive schema (scene, event, story, evaluation). The method has been verified ...
Added: June 2, 2026
Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
Added: May 31, 2026
Будапешт всегда против: стратегия Венгрии в рамках китайского направления внешней политики Евросоюза
Shein S., Международная аналитика 2026 Т. 17 № 1 С. 161–174
Amidst the overarching imperative for a common foreign policy within the European Union, the long-term challenge to its implementation regarding the People’s Republic of China is the level of intra-Union unity. Special attention in this context is drawn to the case of Hungary, which not only contests the fundamental parameters of the EU foreign policy but also actively develops multifaceted relations with ...
Added: May 22, 2026
Sizov A., Rodionova M., Sedashov E. et al., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2026. No. 1.
Rapid development of surveillance technologies is one of the most socially important consequences of the digital age. This paper investigates the factors determining consent to surveillance of various types of personal data and contributes to rapidly growing research on citizens perceptions of surveillance practices. Relying on a comprehensive survey experiment, we study the effects of ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Карцева М. А., Peresetsky A., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP2 "Количественный анализ в экономике". 2026. № WP2/2026/01.
This study examines the association between health status among elderly individuals living alone and pet ownership (cats, dogs). We employ data from the “Time Use Survey” conducted by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2019, which contains information on more than 10,000 elderly individuals living alone aged 60 or older in Russia, including data ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Strizhkova D., / Институт русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) РАН. Серия B001 "Репозиторий открытых данных по русской литературе и фольклору". 2026.
В базе данных представлена роспись русскоязычных литературных произведений и отрывков, напечатанных в учебниках по словесности, хрестоматиях, книгах для чтения, сборниках стихотворений и рассказов, выходивших во Франции, Германии, Латвии, Эстонии, Болгарии, Сербии в период первой волны русской эмиграции с 1918 по 1939 гг. Датасет представляет интерес для исследователей школьного литературного канона, эмиграции и детского чтения ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Жигунов А. Ю., / Basic Research Programme. Серия HUM "Humanities". 2026. № 1.
The article attempts to describe the features of the educational potential of Russian animation programmes in aspect of the representation of traditional spiritual and moral values. Based on media and semiotic analysis, the method of cultural and historical interpretation, animated Russian projects created from 2000 to the 2025, which were translated on television channels or streaming ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Grigoryev L. M., Vasileva A., Современная мировая экономика 2025 Т. 3 № 1 С. 6–30
The article demonstrates the disparity of economic growth in the European Union from 2000 to 2023. Countries within the European Union are divided into three geographical and historical groups: the North, the South, and the East. The post-socialist East has considerably narrowed the gap in GDP per capita at PPP (in constant 2021 prices) with ...
Added: March 21, 2026
Likhacheva A., Shein S., Современная Европа 2026 № 1 С. 115–126
An intensive academic debate is constantly unfolding around the European Union’s sanctions policy. Although scholars have examined in considerable depth the institutional design, substance and effects of the EU’s sanctions regime, aspects related to the factors behind its dynamics and resilience have received far less attention. Against the backdrop of the rapid evolution of the ...
Added: March 20, 2026
Makarenko B., Политическая наука 2026 № 1 С. 85–111
The article deals with changes in the processes of formation of
government coalitions in 16 European countries during the two recent decades (4 most
recent cycles of parliamentary elections). The author states that these processes become
more complicated: many party systems get fragmented, the median size of the coalition
tends to decline, coalitions do not enjoy majority support in ...
Added: March 17, 2026
Vorchik A., / Social Science Research Network. Серия SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
This article is devoted to the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation, to understand which two models are proposed. We study how positive/negative intrinsic motivation to work (experienced utility) affects worker's individual labour supply (model I) and the amount of effort they exert (model II). In model I, we use intrinsic motivation to explain the positive/negative slope ...
Added: March 15, 2026
Kanaev E., Актуальные проблемы Европы 2026 № 1 С. 225–241
The article aims to specify how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) perceives the EU’s prospects for digital integration in the economic sphere stemming not so much from the statements of ASEAN officials, but from the objective factors pushing ASEAN towards cooperation with the EU. ...
Added: February 28, 2026
Bratersky M., Актуальные проблемы Европы 2026 № 1 С. 99–118
Since 2008, the European Union has faced serious economic difficulties. Some of the causes were external (the global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic), while others were generated internally (for example, the 2009 debt crisis and rising production costs since 2022). Typically, the EU’s economic problems are analyzed in isolation, as a series of unrelated events. ...
Added: February 14, 2026
Bratersky M., Актуальные проблемы Европы 2026 № 1 С. 9–20
This article introduces a thematic volume of the journal «Current problems of Europe» that examines perspectives on Europe’s development as perceived by both Europeans and external observers. The volume focuses on general issues of domestic and foreign policies of the European Union as a whole and of its key members, as well as on specific ...
Added: February 14, 2026
Musaev A. U., Vorchik A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This paper attempts to model the evolutionary theory of modernization and democratization. The model reflects the key provisions of R. Inglehart and C. Welzel's theory and provides a microfoundation for the adaptation of subjective values to the objective importances of the survival factors and the structure of the labour markets from the perspective of evolutionary ...
Added: February 10, 2026
Pivovarenko A., Международные процессы 2025 Т. 23 № 1 С. 102–125
Новые тенденции во внешней политике США дают основание обратиться к вопросу о роли европейских государств в процессе формирования милитаризующейся линии разграничения от Скандинавии до Чёрного моря. С февраля 2022 г. военно-политические процессы в Юго-Восточной Европе характеризуются умеренным сближением Франции и Италии, что можно рассматривать как следствие положений заключённого в 2021 г. Квиринальского договора. Анализ тенденций ...
Added: February 4, 2026
Смирнов В. А., Современная Европа 2026 № 1 С. 81–91
The article analyzes the transformation of relations between the European Union and the countries of Central Asia during the first quarter of the 21st century. Three key stages in the evolution of these relations are identified: the formulation of an approach (2000–2010), institutionalization (2011–2019), and the period of geopolitical challenges (2020–2025). The author concludes that ...
Added: February 3, 2026
Чихачев А. Ю., Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН 2021 № 2 С. 85–92
This article analyzes a new trend in the arms export policy of modern France - an increasing share of European countries in the geographical structure of sales. Based on statistics and examples, regional priorities of French export before Emmanuel Macron’s presidency are identified; the reasons for the turn towards Europe at present stage and its ...
Added: January 7, 2026
Alekseenkova E., Чихачев А. Ю., Современная Европа 2022 № 3 С. 33–48
The article examines the Treaty of Quirinal signed by Italy and France on November 26, 2021, exploring its significance for their bilateral relations and European integration. The authors analyze the arguments of both sides in favor of the Treaty, and also argue that the document contributes to the formation of the triangle of France, Germany ...
Added: January 7, 2026
Чихачев А. Ю., Гуляев Е. В., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2022 Т. 66 № 5 С. 59–67
На современном этапе страны Евросоюза уделяют все большее внимание Индо-Тихоокеанскому региону, что выражается в появлении у них соответствующих доктринальных документов. В статье изучаются подходы двух государств, опубликовавших свои стратегии ранее остальных, - Франции и Германии. Выявляются их основные приоритеты в Индо-Пацифике, способы регионального присутствия, ключевые партнеры и форматы сотрудничества. Приводятся перспективные направления военно-политического взаимодействия, которые ...
Added: January 7, 2026