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.
Reframing Europe's Future: Challenges and failures of the European construction
1st Edition
Edited
By Jody Jensen, Ferenc Miszlivetz
November 10, 2016
The global financial crisis which erupted in 2008 had an astounding yet varied impact on the European Union (EU), with some countries benefiting from the crisis while others suffered. Today many more and varied voices articulate increasing frustration, dissatisfaction, distrust and cynicism with ...
The Nordic Countries and the European Union: Still the other European community?
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline Grøn, Peter Nedergaard, Anders Wivel
November 10, 2016
In European policy-making, the Nordic countries are often viewed as a relatively coherent bloc; in international and European affairs the Nordic position has traditionally been conditioned on being different from and better than Europe. This book offers a coherent, original and systematic...
The New Member States and the European Union: Foreign Policy and Europeanization
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Baun, Dan Marek
September 16, 2016
This book examines the impact of EU membership on the foreign policies of the 12 new member states that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Among scholars of European politics there is a general consensus that membership in the European Union changes the countries that join. Yet considerable debate ...
EU Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Conflicts: Stealth Intervention
1st Edition
By Nicu Popescu
August 26, 2016
The European Union is still emerging as a fully fledged foreign policy actor. The vagaries of this process are clearly visible, yet insufficiently explained in the EU policies towards the post-Soviet space. EU Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Conflicts examines EU intervention and non-intervention ...
Popular Protest in East Germany
1st Edition
By Gareth Dale
July 08, 2016
An incisive new study of dissent and protest in the German Democratic Republic, focusing on the upheaval of 1989-1990. The author, an active participant both in the 'Citizens' Movement' and in the street protests of that year, draws upon a vast array of sources including interviews, documents from...
The EU’s Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours: Orientation, Ownership and Dialogue in Jordan and Turkey
1st Edition
By Ann-Kristin Jonasson
June 21, 2016
This book provides a systematic analysis of the EU’s extensive, but so far largely failed, efforts to promote democracy in the Mediterranean region, thoroughly assessing its democracy promotion in relation to two Mediterranean countries – Jordan and Turkey. By pinpointing essential prerequisites ...
Multilateralism, German Foreign Policy and Central Europe
1st Edition
By Claus Hofhansel
June 14, 2016
How does the foreign policy of reunified Germany differ from the West German strong commitment to multilateralism?Multilateralism, German Foreign Policy and Central Europe focuses on German relations with the Czech Republic and Poland in order to investigate the changes and continuities in German ...
Europeanization and Foreign Policy: State Identity in Finland and Britain
1st Edition
By Juha Jokela
May 13, 2016
This book examines the relationship between the European Union (EU) and its member states by analysing how the process of integration in the field of foreign policy is shaping member states' identities. Focusing on the mutually constitutive aspects of the relationship between the EU and its member...
Social Democracy and European Integration: The politics of preference formation
1st Edition
Edited
By Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos
May 13, 2016
What kind of Europe do social democratic parties prefer? What is the origin of their preferences? Are they shaped by interests, institutions or ideas? If so, how? Why do social democratic political parties respond differently to the crucial question of the future of the European Union? While many ...
New Approaches to EU Foreign Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Maciej Wilga, Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
May 11, 2016
EU foreign policy once existed in the form of the European Political Cooperation with only a limited political leverage and symbolic institutional underpinnings. In recent years rapid changes have occurred, including an expanding institutional apparatus, increased responsibility and growing demand ...
Political Representation in the European Union: Still democratic in times of crisis?
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Kröger
May 04, 2016
In recent years the financial and economic crisis of 2008–9 has progressed into an equally important political and democratic crisis of the EU. These troubled times have set the framework to re-assess a number of important questions in regard to representative democracy in the EU, such as the ...
European Union Public Health Policy: Regional and global trends
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott Greer, Paulette Kurzer
April 27, 2016
Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU’s public health policies are increasingly important, visible, expensive and effective. They also provide an invaluable case study for ...