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.
The Changing Face of European Identity: A Seven-Nation Study of (Supra)National Attachments
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Robyn
June 21, 2012
Drawing upon systematic research using Q Methodology in seven countries - Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden - this volume presents the results of the most extensive effort yet at cross-cultural, subjective assessment of national and supranational identity. ...
The EU Presence in International Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Spyros Blavoukos, Dimitris Bourantonis
February 24, 2012
This study provides a comprehensive discussion of all aspects of the European Union presence in International Organisations (IOs). The editors seek to explore both the political and institutional implications of the EU’s interaction with IOs and the effect of the EU’s presence on the functioning of...
The Political History of European Integration: The Hypocrisy of Democracy-Through-Market
1st Edition
By Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Bo Stråth
January 06, 2012
The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a market-driven European economy and democracy, and continues to be seen as a step towards a new stage of unification: towards a more federal Europe based on market integration. The authors demonstrate that European integration as a...
Energy Security: Europe's New Foreign Policy Challenge
1st Edition
By Richard Youngs
June 10, 2011
The geopolitics of oil and gas have made a spectacular return to the international political agenda. The European Union (EU) has recognized the importance of incorporating energy security more systematically into foreign policy. It has committed itself to pursuing an energy security policy based on...
European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy: When and Why do they Work?
1st Edition
By Clara Portela
June 10, 2011
Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the general public. This book examines sanctions as a political tool of influence and evaluates the efficacy of sanctions imposed by the EU against third ...
The EU's Role in World Politics: A Retreat from Liberal Internationalism
1st Edition
By Richard Youngs
May 16, 2011
Debates on EU foreign policy have been dominated by two opposing schools of argument. One includes a broad range of work that extols the virtues of a European liberal concept of power and the other sees the EU’s commitment to cosmopolitan liberalism and soft power as a sign of weakness rather than ...
Citizenship and Collective Identity in Europe
1st Edition
By Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
May 10, 2011
This book is the first monograph to systematically explore the relationship between citizenship and collective identity in the European Union, integrating two fields of research – citizenship and collective identity. Karolewski argues that various types of citizenship correlate with differing ...
The Illusion of Accountability in the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
By Sverker Gustavsson, Christer Karlsson, Thomas Persson
April 10, 2011
This book examines accountability in the EU from different perspectives and considers whether EU citizens have real opportunities for holding decision-makers accountable. This book critically analyses five arguments which claim there are sufficient means for holding decision-makers to account in ...
The Struggle for the European Constitution: A Past and Future History
1st Edition
By Michael O'Neill
March 15, 2011
The European Union (EU) Constitution was one of the most important developments in the history of the EU, aiming to make the EU more transparent, relevant and accountable to the citizens of its member states. Current anxieties over the pace and direction of EU integration place this comprehensive ...
European Union and the Making of a Wider Northern Europe
1st Edition
By Pami Aalto
February 02, 2011
This book is the first comprehensive study of how and why the European Union has enlarged to become northern Europe’s leading power. Pami Aalto presents a new approach to the under-theorized field of EU foreign policy studies, showing how, since 1990, the EU has enlarged to include Finland, ...
The Spatialities of Europeanization: Power, Governance and Territory in Europe
1st Edition
By Alun Jones, Julian Clark
November 12, 2010
Europeanization is increasingly fashionable in the social sciences as a research focus as well as a backdrop for studies of the European Union and its relations with its member states. However, to date there is little consensus among the scholarly community over what Europeanization is or how it ...
Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland since 1980: The Totality of Relationships
1st Edition
By Eamonn O'Kane
October 12, 2010
This book is the first in-depth analysis of the interaction between the British and Irish governments and the role they have played in seeking to resolve the conflict in Northern Ireland since 1980. Eamonn O’Kane examines Britain and Ireland’s objectives in relation to the Northern Ireland ...