Challenges established assumptions about how EU member states behave, what supranational institutions want, and where the dividing line between high and low politics is located. Develops and new theoretical framework and draws conclusions about the state of political disequilibr…
Challenges established assumptions about how EU member states behave, what supranational institutions want, and where the dividing line between high and low politics is located. Develops and new theoretical framework and draws conclusions about the state of political disequilibr…
This book elucidates in a lively and comprehensive way what the EU is, how it came about, how it works, and what it does. It aims to clarify and explain the origins and development of the European communitites and the conduct of the contemporary EU.
Does the European Union change the domestic politics and institutions of its member states? This study traces the effects of Europeanization and the impact of the EU on national court systems, territorial politics, societal networks, public discourse, identity and citizenship no…
'Eurafrica' was an intellectual endeavour and political project that from the 1920s saw Europe's future bound up with Europe's sucessful merger with Africa. In assessing this historical concept the authors shed light on the process of European integration, African decolonization…
"Europe's Utopias of Peace: 1815, 1919, 1951" explores attempts to create a lasting European peace in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and the two world wars. The book charts the 250 year cycle of violent European conflicts followed by new utopian formulations for peace. The…
As the EU enters an increasingly uncertain phase after the 2016 Brexit referendum, Euroscepticism continues to become an increasingly embedded phenomenon within party systems, non-party groups and within the media. Yet, academic literature has paid little attention to the emerge…
In the Community-building process, citizens are the most invoked and feared, but at the same time the least known subject. This lack of knowledge nourishes the citizens' detachment from the European Union and itself emerged in well known cases such as the French and Dutch refere…
