Critical European Studies
About the Book Series
European Studies as a field of academic inquiry is often conflated with European Union Studies. The result is that many significant trends, processes, and events pertaining to Europe as a whole are not given adequate critical analysis. The Critical European Studies Series aims at filling this gap. Critical European Studies will have a strong grounding in many fields of research in its effort to introduce critical analyses to the study of Europe and the EU that shall be rooted in a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives. Approaches based upon historiographical, sociological, linguistic, anthropological, post-colonial, ethnographic, philosophical, post-structuralist, feminist, etc. perspectives are particularly welcome, since these frameworks only receive sporadic attention. Without putting into question the value of specific policy approaches, although individual studies in the series might undertake this task, the Critical European Studies book series attempts to bring together alternative approaches to critical analyses of European politics (including European Union politics), while overcoming disciplinary borders and paradigms. Behind this scholarly enterprise stands an enthusiastic embrace of the project and accomplishments of the European Union, but we perceive the EU and European Union Studies in need to consider many different critical correctives of its political ideas and ideals.
The series is edited by Yannis Stivachtis, Virginia Tech, USA ([email protected]) and Evans Fanoulis, University of Galway, Ireland ([email protected])
Editorial Board
József BOROCZ (Rutgers University, USA) Thomas DIEZ (University of Tuebingen, Germany) Annica KRONSELL (Lund University, Sweden) Timothy W. LUKE (Virginia Tech, USA) Ian MANNERS (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) William OUTHWAITE (Newcastle University, UK) Robert PHILLIPSON (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Jo SHAW (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) Gerard TOAL (Virginia Tech, USA) Nathalie TOCCI (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, Italy) Wilhelm VOSSE (Christian International University, Tokyo, Japan) Mark WEBBER (University of Birmingham, UK) Richard G. WHITMAN (University of Kent, UK) Antje WIENER (University of Hamburg, Germany) Michael WINTLE (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Nikolaos ZAHARIADIS (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) Jan ZIELONKA (University of Oxford, UK).
Anti-Europeanism, Populism and European Integration in a Historical Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Guiso, Daniele Pasquinucci
October 27, 2025
This book explores the long-term origins of populist Euroscepticism. Taking a historical perspective to move beyond explaining present-day expressions of opposition to the European Union in isolation, this book reveals the historical sedimentation of the several ways and forms taken over decades by...
Citizenship and Democratic Innovations in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski, Carsten Herzberg
October 16, 2025
This book brings together scholarship and debates on citizenship and democratic innovation, and examines how democratic innovations might change, or even consolidate, the existing contours of citizenship. Arguing that the nexus between research on citizenship and democratic innovations can be found...
The Populism-Euroscepticism Nexus: A Discursive Comparative Analysis of Germany and Spain
1st Edition
By Juan Roch
May 06, 2025
This book explores the modes of European Union (EU) contestation which are mobilized by radical parties and seeks to unearth the relationship of such contestation with populist discourses. It looks specifically at how rightist and leftist parties articulate populist discourses with representations ...
Deconstructing Brexit Discourses: Embedded Euroscepticism, Fantasy Objects and the United Kingdom’s Vote to Leave the European Union
1st Edition
By Benjamin Hawkins
May 31, 2023
This book expands on and complements the burgeoning Brexit literature by placing the UK’s vote to leave the EU in its longer historical and discursive contexts. It examines the embedded Euroscepticism, which has dominated British political discourse on the European project and the role of the UK ...
Europeanization as Discursive Practice: Constructing Territoriality in Central Europe and the Western Balkans
1st Edition
By Senka Neuman Stanivuković
January 21, 2023
Europeanization as Discursive Practice adopts a poststructuralist reading of Europeanization to study the effects of EU accession in the light of political territoriality and consequent state-building processes in the EU and Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) and the Western Balkans, ...
Historic Power Europe: A Post-Hegelian Interpretation of European Integration
1st Edition
By Davide Barile
January 21, 2023
This book proposes a new theoretical framework to move beyond the traditional tenets of modern international relations theory to investigate European integration and shed light on current events.Based on contemporary analyses, Hegel’s political philosophy, and the fundamental role of historical ...
European Citizenship and Identity Outside of the European Union: Europe Outside Europe?
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Weinar
August 29, 2022
This book critically engages with the concept of European identity and citizenship, and the role of the European Union in diaspora, membership and emigration policies.It presents original research on European governance of emigration and citizenship and considers European integration in a global ...
Conditionality, the EU and Turkey: From Transformation to Retrenchment
1st Edition
By Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm
September 30, 2020
Turkey has been a critical case to study to assess the impact of EU conditionality on non-member states, but has lost its visibility following the debates on the detachment of Turkey from the EU gradually since 2005.This book studies Turkey–EU relations in the area of foreign policy from 1987 when ...
Perceptions of the European Union’s Identity in International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Skolimowska
September 30, 2020
This book examines the perception of European Union’s identity by the main actors in international relations. Analysing issues related to public discourse in third countries as demonstrated by, amongst others, their political elites, civil society, and think-tanks, the book highlights a ‘normative ...
The Criminalisation of Communism in the European Political Space after the Cold War
1st Edition
By Laure Neumayer
August 14, 2020
Memory has taken centre stage in European-level policies after the Cold War, as the Western historical narrative based on the uniqueness of the Holocaust was being challenged by calls for an equal condemnation of Communism and Nazism.This book retraces the anti-communist mobilisations carried out ...
Lobbyists and Bureaucrats in Brussels: Capitalism�s Brokers
1st Edition
By Sylvain Laurens
December 12, 2019
With over 30,000 lobbyists in town, Brussels is often called the European capital of lobbying. Despite this, little is known on how this political system works in practice. This book offers an unprecedented window into the everyday relationships between bureaucrats and interest representatives. ...
The Democratic Quality of European Security and Defence Policy: Between Practices of Governance and Practices of Freedom
1st Edition
By Evangelos Fanoulis
December 12, 2019
Due to the increase of security challenges in the proximity of Europe, the prominence of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has augmented. This book is a systematic effort to empirically approach the democratic deficit of CSDP, to understand its social construction and propose ways ...