Thorvaldur Gylfason; Wijkman, Per Magnus - 2012
the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer … economic integration encourages governments to take steps to resolve conflicts and vice versa, creating a virtuous circle of … prosperity and detente. The EU has a strong motive in this, since conflicts in its neighbourhood spill-over into the EU itself …