This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and its historical development. This fully updated edition adds material on recent develo…
The papers in this proceedings volume were presented at the 9th international conference "The Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World" (EBEEC) held in Athens, Greece, in April 2017. They include the scientific results of research on current i…
The papers in this proceedings volume were presented at the 9th international conference "The Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World" (EBEEC) held in Athens, Greece, in April 2017. They include the scientific results of research on current i…
The papers in this proceedings volume were presented at the 9th international conference "The Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World" (EBEEC) held in Athens, Greece, in April 2017. They include the scientific results of research on current i…
The perfect storm of the European crisis
The most significant phenomenon occurring around us today is the European crisis. As well as being a "total social phenomenon" as classical French sociologist ́Emile Durkheim would have said, it also affects all the levels of our lives-be they political, economic, cultural or soc…
"In this book, Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formative process of a European identity situated between myth and memory"-- "In Imagining Europe, Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formation of modern European identity. Europe has not always been ther…
"This book re-examines the law governing the obligations of the Member States in the European Union from the perspective of the interests formulated and pursued by national governments in the EU. Member States' interests provide the source as well as the limitations of the oblig…
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"The book explores prospects for an autonomous Basque role in EU politics; institutional arrangements for autonomous community participation in EU decision making; Basque government alliances with other regions and the EU's supranational bodies; EU incentives for collaboration a…
This volume collects the work of Karen Alter analysing the ECJ's controversial influence on European politics. Together, the essays cover the entire history of the institution, from the early days of the Coal & Steel Community, through the activist transformation of the European…
"Peter Lindseth has written an important book, which has found its moment. Lindseth explains why the EU represents an international offshoot of the administrative state as established at national level. His original and persuasive account, grounded in European political history,…
Through a close study of social policy developments from 1957 to 2014, this book examines how judicial-legislative interactions determine the scope and limits of European integration in the daily EU decision making process.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has become famed - and often shamed - for its political power. In scholarly literature, this supranational court has been regarded as a 'master of integration' for its capacity to strengthen integration, sometimes against the wil…
"Bringing political theory together with debates in international relations and in citizenship studies, the author argues that citizenship should no longer be understood as a status of privilege and belonging. Instead, it is an institutional role, through which persons might exe…