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.
Europeanization and New Member States: A Comparative Social Network Analysis
1st Edition
By Flavia Jurje
February 12, 2018
This book examines the Europeanization of the polity and politics of a new EU Member State. Using social network analysis in a comparative research design, it provides a systematic analysis of the effects of Europeanization on the institutions, policy processes, power constellation and conflict ...
The Politics of Ratification of EU Treaties
1st Edition
By Carlos Closa
February 12, 2018
Since its inception, the European Union (EU) has revised its foundational treaties several times, resulting in national ratification processes involving different actors, with varying success. This book focuses on the politics of ratification of EU Treaties and reviews the processes of ratification...
Challenges to Democracies in East Central Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Holzer, Miroslav Mareš
February 05, 2018
Democratic development in Central and Eastern Europe is not a finished project, nor is its progress immune to internal and external threats. The current social, economic, ethnic and political situation within the region presents new dangers. This text identifies and analyses challenges to current ...
Clientelism and Economic Policy: Greece and the Crisis
1st Edition
By Aris Trantidis
February 05, 2018
With its deep economic crisis and dramatic political developments Greece has puzzled Europe and the world. What explains its long-standing problems and its incapacity to reform its economy? Using an analytic narrative and a comparative approach, the book studies the pattern of economic reforms in...
Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Political Economy, Security, and Society in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Evangelista
December 05, 2017
Italy from Crisis to Crisis seeks to understand Italy’s approach to crises by studying the country in regional, international, and comparative context. Without assuming that the country is abnormal or unusually crisis-prone, the authors treat Italy as an example from which other countries might ...
Eurozone Politics: Perception and reality in Italy, the UK, and Germany
1st Edition
By Philip Giurlando
October 23, 2017
The crisis of the Eurozone has had a significant impact on the politics of Europe. In many countries, the euro was largely interpreted by elites as a development that would ameliorate their nations’ problems. However, recent events have proven the contrary, with the rise of radical right-wing ...
Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe: What is happening in Provinces, Counties, Départements and Landkreise in the on-going re-scaling of statehood?
1st Edition
Edited
By Xavier Bertrana, Björn Egner, Hubert Heinelt
October 23, 2017
Debates about multi-level governance have led to a profound restructuring of regional and local government. The second level of local government is under review in most European countries, with the aim to strengthen the institutional capacity of municipalities or to develop appropriate ...
The Moral Economy of EU Association with Africa
1st Edition
By Mark Langan
October 23, 2017
Africa’s association with the European Union has long been hailed as a progressive model of North-South relations. European officials, in particular, have represented the Africa-EU ‘partnership’ as a pro-poor enterprise in which trade interests are married to development prerogatives. Applying a ...
The Politics of Trauma and Peace-Building: Lessons from Northern Ireland
1st Edition
By Cillian McGrattan
October 23, 2017
In marked contrast to literary, historical and cultural studies, there has been a limited engagement with the concepts and politics of trauma by political science and peacebuilding research. This book explores the debate on trauma and peacebuilding and presents the challenges for democratization ...
Unequal Europe: Social Divisions and Social Cohesion in an Old Continent
1st Edition
By James Wickham
October 23, 2017
This wide-ranging and comparative text reviews the major theoretical and substantive debates on social inequality in Europe. It provides a valuable dual focus on European society and individual societies while placing Europe in its wider global context. Demonstrating the continued importance of ...
Politics of Identity in Post-Conflict States: The Bosnian and Irish experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Éamonn Ó Ciardha, Gabriela Vojvoda
October 13, 2017
Ireland and the Balkans have come to represent divided and (re)united communities. They both provide effective microcosms of national, ethnic, political, military, religious, ideological and cultural conflicts in their respective regions and, as a result, they demonstrate real and imaginary ...
Italy's Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century: A Contested Nature?
1st Edition
Edited
By Ludovica Marchi, Richard Whitman, Geoffrey Edwards
July 13, 2017
Italy’s foreign policy has often been dismissed as too idiosyncratic, inconsistent and lacking ambition. This book offers new insights into the position Italy has attained in the international community in the 21st century. It explores how the country has sought to take advantage of its passage ...