This edited textbook covers a broad range of topics being taught in courses on the European Union. The 25 chapters are written by experts from around the world and provide extensive coverage of history, theories, institutions and actors, policies, and issues and debates. The bo…
It is commonly assumed that the rise of modern democracies put an end to the spectacular and ceremonial aspects of political rule that were so characteristic of monarchies and other earlier regimes. The medieval idea that the king had two bodies - a mortal physical body and an e…
Negotiating Statehood presents a new conceptual framework that reveals how state and non-state actors forge statehood in Africa, where these processes occur, and what configurations of state and political authority they produce. A collection of essays from a group of internation…
How does policy-making trigger the institutionalization of steering capacities? This book investigates this question by tackling why the European Commission expanded competences that were intentionally limited to the specific pre-accession context prior the 2004/07 EU enlargemen…
Providing an up-to-date history of the European Union from the end of the Second World War, this title discusses the impact of the Euro and economic monetary union, and provides an analysis of post-9/11 splits in the EU over Afghanistan and Iraq.