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Council of the European Union
General Secretariat
NEW BOOKS JULY 2019
Council Library
Dear Readers,
Welcome to the July 2019 selection of books recently added to the Council Library collections.
We publish this list on a monthly basis (sign up by e-mail to: library@consilium.europa.eu). The
current and the past lists can also be downloaded from our blog.
You can access the selected publications via Eureka - the gateway to the Council Library
resources. The titles in the list are hyperlinks to the bibliographical records. Access to resources
might be restricted to Council Library registered users and subscribing institutions or to on-site
consultation. Books presented in this review do not necessarily represent the positions, policies, or
opinions of the Council of the European Union or the European Council..
EU external migration policies in an era of global
mobilities : intersecting policy unverses
Sergio Carrera ; Leonhard den Hertog ; Marion Panizzon ;
Theodora Kostakopoulou
Leiden : Brill , 2019
Available at Council Library Main Collection (105568 )
"This collective volume draws on the themes of
intersectionality and overlapping policy universes to
examine and evaluate the shifting functions, frames and
multiple actors and instruments of an ongoing and
revitalized cooperation in EU external migration and
asylum policies with third states. The contributions are
based on problem-driven research and seek to develop
bottom-up, policy-oriented solutions, while taking into
account global, EU-based and local perspectives, and the
shifting universes of EU migration, border and asylum
policies".
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The laws of transparency in action : a European
perspective
Dacian C Dragos ; Polonca Kovač ; A. T Marseille
Cham : Palgrave MacMillan , 2019
Available at Council Library Main Collection (105328 )
"This book examines the issue of free access to
information as part of the openness and transparency
principles. The free access to public information has
become one of the most hotly contested aspects of
contemporary government and public administration. Many
countries in Europe have well-established Freedom of
Information laws (FOIAs), while others have adopted them
more recently. The problems that occur in the
implementation of FOIAs are different due to the legal and
institutional context; nevertheless, patterns of best
practices and malfunctioning are comparable. The book
analyses in comparative and empirical perspective the
respective main challenges. Whilst the existing literature
focusses on the legal provisions, this book offers practical
insights through 13 national profiles and the EU level".
New Technology, Big Data and the Law
Marcelo Corrales editor. ; Mark Fenwick editor. ; Nikolaus
Forgó editor.
Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer , 2017
Online access
"This edited collection brings together a series of
interdisciplinary contributions in the field of Information
Technology Law. The topics addressed in this book cover
a wide range of theoretical and practical legal issues that
have been created by cutting-edge Internet technologies,
primarily Big Data, the Internet of Things, and Cloud
computing. Consideration is also given to more recent
technological breakthroughs that are now used to assist,
and - at times - substitute for, human work, such as
automation, robots, sensors, and algorithms. The chapters
presented in this edition address these issues from the
perspective of different legal backgrounds".
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The uninhabitable earth : life after warming
David Wallace-Wells
New York : Tim Duggan Books , 2019
Available at Council Library Main Collection (105664 )
"If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears
of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of
what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage
year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Without a
revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives,
parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable,
and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end
of this century.In his travelogue of our near future, David
Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles
that await".
Public sector communication : closing gaps between
citizens and public organizations
María José Canel author. ; Vilma Luoma-aho author.
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell , 2019
Online access
"How to communicate with the citizens of the future? Why
does public sector communication often fail? Public Sector
Communication combines practical examples from around
the world with the latest theoretical insights to show how
communication can help bridge gaps that exist between
public sector organizations and the individual citizens they
serve. The book examines how the recent digitalization
has increased citizen expectations and why one-way
communication leaves public sector organizations fragile".
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Sortir
du chaos : les crises en Méditerranée et au
Moyen-Orient
Gilles Kepel
Paris : Gallimard , 2018
Available at Council Library Main Collection (105398 )
"L’horreur du «califat » de Daesh au Levant entre 2014 et
2017 et son terrorisme planétaire ont été une conséquence
paradoxale des «printemps arabes» de 2011. Pourtant
ceux-ci avaient été célébrés dans l’enthousiasme des
slogans démocratiques universels et de la «révolution
2.0». Comment s’est installé ce chaos, et peut-on en sortir
pour de bon après l’élimination militaire de l’«État
islamique»? Ce livre replace les événements en contexte,
depuis la guerre d’octobre 1973 (du «Kippour» ou du
«Ramadan»), suivie de l’explosion des prix du pétrole et
de la prolifération du jihad, à travers ses trois grandes
phases depuis l’Afghanistan et Al-Qaïda. Puis il propose le
premier récit complet rétrospectif des six principaux
soulèvements arabes, de la Tunisie à la Syrie".
New dark age : technology and the end of the future
James Bridle
London : Verso , 2018
Available at Council Library Main Collection (105688 )
"As the world around us increases in technological
complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying
this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is
understandable through computation, and more data is
enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are
lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by
fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories,
and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use
our lack of understanding to further their own interests.
Despite the apparent accessibility of information, we’re
living in a new Dark Age. From rogue financial systems to
shopping algorithms, from artificial intelligence to state
secrecy, we no longer understand how our world is
governed or presented to us. The media is filled with
unverifiable speculation, much of it generated by
anonymous software, while companies dominate their
employees through surveillance and the threat of
automation".
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IA, robots et droit
Alain Bensoussan ; Jérémy Bensoussan
Bruxelles : Larcier , 2019
Online access
"L'essor des projets notamment dans la robotique de
service rend aujourd’hui incontournable la question du
cadre juridique applicable. L’activité robotique peut-elle
s’autoréguler ou faut-il créer un cadre juridique
spécifique? Cet ouvrage complète le Minilex Droit des
robots publié en 2015 en passant en revue toutes les
disciplines : droit de la personne, droit de la
consommation, contrat, responsabilité, assurance,
propriété intellectuelle, droit pénal, données personnelles,
sécurité, éthique, droit à la transparence des algorithmes,
neurodroit, etc., mais également des technologies
(chatbots, blockchain, bionique, neurosciences, etc.) et
des secteurs d’activité (usine 4.0, armement, banque et
finance, justice, santé, etc.)".
Redesigning the global seed commons : law and
policy for agrobiodiversity and food security
Christine Frison author.
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , 2018
"Redesigning the Global Seed Commons provides a
significant contribution to the current political and academic
debates on agrobiodiversity law and governance, and on
food security and food sovereignty, by analysing key
issues under the Treaty that affect the design and
implementation of regulatory instruments managing seeds
as a commons. It also examines the practical, legal,
political and economic problems encountered in the
attempt to implement these obligations in contemporary
settings. In particular, it considers how to improve the
Treaty implementation by proposing ways for Contracting
Parties to better reach the Treaty’s objectives taking a
holistic view of the human-seed ecosystem. Following the
tenth anniversary of the functioning the Treaty’s multilateral
system of access and benefit-sharing, which is currently
under review by its Contracting Parties, this book is well-
timed to examine recent developments in the field and
guide the current review process to design a truly Global
Seed Common".
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