Routledge Advances in European Politics
About the Book Series
This series features innovative and groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research on the latest transformations within European politics. Subjects covered will be wide-ranging and include:
- both the EU and non-member states
- developments in European political institutions
- economic and monetary union
- European political cultures and identities.
Europeanizing Social Democracy?: The Rise of the Party of European Socialists
1st Edition
By Simon Lightfoot
March 10, 2009
Presenting a detailed explanation of party politics in the European Union, this new book uses the Party of European Socialists (PES) as a key case study, and tests the relevance of existing theoretical work on the meaning, significance, and prospects for realising other ‘Europarties’. This ...
Germany's Foreign Policy Towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik Revisited
1st Edition
By Karl Cordell, Stefan Wolff
March 10, 2009
This is a new exploration of how the events of the twentieth century still cast a shadow over relations between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.Using social constructivism theory, it provides a comparative assessment of Germany's post-reunification relations with the Czech ...
The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union
1st Edition
By John O'Brennan
February 27, 2009
In May 2004, eight former communist states in Central and Eastern Europe acceded to the European Union. This new book examines the Eastern expansion of the EU through a tripartite structure, developing an empirical, conceptual and institutional analysis to provide a rounded and substantive ...
Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States: Dynamics of Choice, Duties and Participation In a Changing Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Bjørn Hvinden, Håkan Johansson
June 10, 2008
This book offers an innovative analysis of the ways in which the relationship between citizens and welfare states - social citizenship - becomes more dynamic and multifaceted as a result of Europeanization and individualization. Written by interdisciplinary contributors from politics, sociology, ...
European Union Peacebuilding and Policing: Governance and the European Security and Defence Policy
1st Edition
By Michael Merlingen, Rasa Ostrauskaite
June 10, 2008
This new book provides an in-depth analysis of the projects of improvement carried out by the civilian peacebuilding missions in Bosnia and Macedonia, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault to make the case that the EU’s (self-) image as a model peacebuilder conceals another side of the European ...
The EU and the European Security Strategy: Forging a Global Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sven Biscop, Jan Joel Andersson
June 10, 2008
The European Security Strategy (ESS) has become an important reference framework for the EU since its inception in 2003. Without strategy an actor can only really be a ‘reactor’ to events and developments. In the ESS the EU now has a strategy, with which it has the potential of shifting boundaries ...
The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Poguntke, Nicholas Aylott, Elisabeth Carter, Robert Ladrech, Kurt Richard Luther
June 10, 2008
This is a detailed exploration of how national political parties have responded to the increasing relevance of European governance. The Europeanization of National Political Parties is the first empirical study to examine the effects of the European Union on the internal organizational dynamics of ...
Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonia Lucarelli, Ian Manners
December 06, 2007
This book presents a fresh examination of the values and principles that inform EU foreign policy, exploring the implications of these values and principles on the construction of European Union identity today. The authors show how current debates on European Union foreign policy and on ...
Governance Stories
1st Edition
By Mark Bevir, Rod Rhodes
December 03, 2007
An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks from traditional studies, and takes a new approach to account for massive changes in the make-up of the nation. Over the last twenty years Britain has changed from being governed as a unitary state to a country ruled by the interplay of various...
European Union Enlargement: A Comparative History
1st Edition
Edited
By JURGEN ELVERT, Wolfram Kaiser
November 22, 2006
European Union Enlargement provides a comparative analysis of the post-war European policies of those states that joined the European Union between 1973 and 1995.The volume draws upon new empirical research in order to investigate the policies that these 'newcomer' states have had towards Europe ...
Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration
1st Edition
By William Walters, Jens Henrik Haahr
November 22, 2006
Governing Europe is the first book to systematically link Michel Foucault's hypotheses on power and 'governmentality' with the study of European integration. Through a series of empirical encounters that spans the fifty-year history of European integration, it explores both the diverse political ...
International Intervention in the Balkans since 1995
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Siani-Davies
November 10, 2003
This volume offers an analysis of the activities of the international community in the Balkans since the 1995 Dayton Agreement. There has been substantial investment in the region but so far the gains have been limited and doubts remain as to the extent that sustainable security has been enhanced. ...