Books published by Verlag Barbara Budrich

A simple introduction to the UN as an organization is not sufficient for the new generation. This primer aims to make readers understand the UN's historical, technological, political, and economic context in order to analyze its strengths and weaknesses in the light of proposals being made to create more workable global institutions.

The handbook introduces common European Competence Standards for the academic training of career practitioners in Europe. These shared standards, developed by more than 200 experts from all across Europe, are already being used in many countries for the development of degree programs.

The authors aim at initiating a dialogue between European integration theory and gender studies. The contributions illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. They are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and to stimulate

The Euro is it really the crowning achievement of half a century of European integration efforts? Quite the contrary: It seems that the Euro has now become a great threat to the European Union as such. This book explains the impact which the ongoing Eurocrisis has already had on the member states and their inhabitants; and it does so without

Should Turkey become a part of the European Union? This heated debate has been going on for many years now, always under the assumption that it is the membership candidate alone who needs to adjust to the EU's influence. The book's main argument is precisely that the Turkish accession needs to be analyzed not only by looking at the EU's impact

Research in Vocational Education is an international book series, dealing with challenges in VET, workplace learning, and professional learning from different perspectives.

How do we know when countries progress in controlling corruption so to adjust our policies? The authors show which instruments can be used to understand changes in institutional corruption and review some global success cases to see if what experts report is checked by facts on the ground. The book includes award winning new methodology as well as

The formation of governments without a majority in parliament is a counterintuitive, albeit empirically relevant, phenomenon: minority governments make up about one-third of all governments in Europe. The author offers an analysis of the conditions leading to the formation of minority governments in Central and Eastern Europe and provides the reade

As children grow up, they discover taboo areas in their environment and in life. They are in need of advice to prevent them from placing themselves in risky situations. The primary preventive approach to a life skills programme on HIV/AIDS and sex education, called "Child Mind Project", can be seen as such an initiative.