Böcker i Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies-serien

Sets out to re-conceptualize the history of the European Union (EU) as the gradual emergence over time of a European-level polity: a supranational political system with a complex institutional set-up and policy-making structures.

Including case studies that discuss both successful and failed examples of informal action in European integration, this book assembles cutting-edge research by both early-career and more experienced scholars from all over Europe to fill this lacuna.

Culture is one of the most complex and contested fields of European integration. This book analyzes EU cultural politics, both at the central as well as at local levels, since their emergence in the 1980s with a particular focus on the European Capital of Culture program, the flagship of EU cultural policy.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of long- and short-term EU conflict prevention and crisis management policies undertaken in various theatres and policy domains, featuring case studies on West Africa, Afghanistan, and Morocco.

Explores the EU's relations with civil society organizations in an effort to improve the effectiveness and relevance of its conflict and peace policies.

This edited book carries out a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and innovative analysis of the relationship between competitiveness and solidarity in the contemporary European Union.

Explores how European institutions address the issues of the plurality of religious faiths and ethical beliefs in a multicultural society and assesses how this impacts on political integration. This book focuses on the issues of differential treatment across Europe.

Examines the governance of - and politics of regulating - financial services in the EU. This title provides an analysis since the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union and the Financial Services Action Plan, and assesses the EU response to the global financial crisis.

Analyzes the development of the European Parliament's (EP) committees and their relationship with political parties in the light of the EP's increased legislative role.

Investigates the existence of a dichotomy between the capacity of European Commission committee governance to improve system effectiveness and provide efficiency gains as well as sustain democratic credentials. This book asks whether legitimacy and efficiency may be reconciled or become partially compatible in European Commission committees.

Using fresh theoretical insights and empirical data, this title develops a model to analyze the transitional processes of Romania, Turkey, Serbia and Ukraine. Offering a different stance from most of the literature on the subject, this book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the international dimensions of democratization.

Offers an analysis of the ways in which minority nationalist party attitudes towards European integration have evolved from 1979 to 2005. This book is suitable for students and scholars interested in minority nationalism, the Europeanisation of political parties and comparative research on regional politics.

The delegation of policy-competencies to the European Union has changed the context in which national actors form their interests and represent them. Shaping European markets and societies, EU regulation has important effects in the member states. This book analyses how business interest organizations respond to this challenge.

Informed by and against the backdrop of the 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections, this innovative book provides a critical assessment of where Europe stands in terms of the quest for achieving democratic legitimacy.

Examines the complex negotiation processes surrounding intergovernmental conferences in the European Union. By presenting a quantitative study of the Intergovernmental Conference of 1996/7 prior to the Treaty of Amsterdam, this book argues that these negotiations reveal the major challenges of European integration.

The European Union is a leading actor in international development, providing more than half of the world's foreign aid. Using development policy, this book provides analysis of the interaction between the European Commission and Member States by exploring the conditions in which European Commission influences outcomes in EU decision making.

Identifies measures and compares public awareness and perceptions of the EU within the Asia-Pacific region. This book deals with the under-researched issue of the public perception of the EU outside the Union and the role of the media in shaping such perceptions.

Offers a sociologically grounded explanation of the changing features of governance and democracy within Europe in an era that empowers new actors, and in the context of broader changes in society.

An examination of the European Union, as it departs from its path of integration, this book discusses the indications of the development and explains why it happened only a decade after an enthusiasm in the early 1990s. The question was whether the EU would become less important for the member states or whether the German pattern would prevail.

This book presents an up-to-date, scholarly analysis of the foreign and development policy dilemmas facing Europe today. It will be essential reading for students of development policy, external relations and international affairs.

An ideal introductory text for students studying the EU. The evolution and extent of European integration in areas ranging from industrial development to international relations is explained.

Explaining the origins and key institutions, this book provides an assessment of the European Union's leadership role in international climate change politics, with case studies on Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, businesses and environmental NGOs.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of financial accountability around the EU budget - how it is spent via policies, how institutions engage in checking policy performance, and therein, the issues of monitoring, controlling, auditing, scrutinising and communicating budgetary expenditure.