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.
European Union Council Presidencies: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Ole Elgström
September 09, 2003
This book describes, analyses, explains and compares the role performance of different presidencies. The expert and international authors ask why member states have different approaches and play the role differently, prioritising different functions and using a variety of strategies to realise ...
European Governance and Supranational Institutions: Making States Comply
1st Edition
By Jonas Talberg
July 29, 2003
This book examines the influence of the European Commission and the European Court of Justice in the political and legal enforcement of member state compliance in the EU. The authors show how the EU's supranational institutions have played an independent role in the creation of a European ...
Private Sector Involvement in the Euro: The Power of Ideas
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Collignon, Daniela Schwarzer
January 16, 2003
This book looks at the role of the Association for Monetary Union in Europe's role in the construction of the Euro. It argues that the AMUE played a prominent role in the adoption of a number of proposals related to the single currency and had a guiding influence on the transition from a market-let...
Democracy and Enlargement in Post-Communist Europe: The Democratisation of the General Public in 15 Central and Eastern European Countries, 1991-1998
1st Edition
By Christian W. Haerpfer
October 28, 2002
Democracy and Enlargement in Post-Communist Europe presents the principal findings of a unique in-depth study of the birth of democracy and the market economy in fifteen post-Communist countries. Haerpfer analyses and compares the information collected by the New Democracies Barometer public ...
Institutional Challenges in the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
By Madeleine O. Hosli, Mika Widgrén, Adrian M. A. van Deemen
October 28, 2002
The European Union (EU) is a continuously evolving entity. Starting with six member states in the late 1950s, the EU currently encompasses fifteen states of Western Europe. It is expected to almost double in size in the near future, however, taking in a number of states located in Central and ...
Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Nationalism and the Destruction of Tradition
1st Edition
By Cathie Carmichael
October 18, 2002
Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans looks at the phenomenon of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans over the last two hundred years. It argues that the events that occurred during this time can be demystified, that the South East of Europe was not destined to become violent and that constructions of the ...
Widening the European Union: Politics of Institutional Change and Reform
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernard Steunenberg
October 18, 2002
The proposed enlargement of the European Union to include countries from Central and Eastern Europe has become an important political issue. Widening the European Union focuses on those institutional reforms of the Union that may be necessary to make the enlargement possible. The institutional ...
European Integration and the Postmodern Condition: Governance, Democracy, Identity
1st Edition
By Peter Van Ham
February 05, 2001
This is the first book to look at the process of European integration by drawing on both established and new trends in postmodern thinking and analysis. The book asks how we can study the process of European integration in the current climate, and maps out the central elements of the academic ...