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.
Sustainable Development and Governance in Europe: The Evolution of the Discourse on Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela M. Barnes, Thomas C. Hoerber
July 16, 2015
This book analyses the evolution of the sustainability discourse in the European Union, exploring the conditions necessary for sustainable development to move from a conceptual model into a model for action for strategic decision makers at all levels of governance. This book questions the extent ...
National Perspectives on Russia: European Foreign Policy in the Making?
1st Edition
Edited
By Maxine David, Jackie Gower, Hiski Haukkala
May 21, 2015
This book presents a ground-breaking comparative study of the bilateral relations of all 27 EU member states with Russia and an assessment of their impact on the EU’s efforts to conduct a coherent and effective policy towards its most important neighbour. While there has been a lot of research on ...
Nationalism in Italian Politics: The Stories of the Northern League, 1980-2000
1st Edition
By Damian Tambini
May 07, 2015
This book is the first full-length study available in English to trace the extraordinary history of the Italian Northern Leagues during the 1980s and 1990s. At a time when the postwar First Republic entered a crisis amid corruption scandals, the Leagues acted as one of the main protest actors and ...
Sustainability in European Environmental Policy: Challenges of Governance and Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Rob Atkinson, Terizakis Georgios
April 09, 2015
This book examines sustainability in European environmental policy and explores the related challenges of governance and knowledge. It provides an assessment of the EU sustainability strategy and concentrates on three key directives: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Emissions Trading (ET) ...
The EU and Multilateral Security Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonia Lucarelli, Luk Van Langenhove, Jan Wouters
December 22, 2014
This book studies the role of the EU in peace and security as a regional actor with global aspirations, in the context of challenged and changing multilateralism. Multilateralism, governance and security are three concepts that have attracted a great deal of attention in the past decade and ...
Climate Change and European Security
1st Edition
By Richard Youngs
November 25, 2014
It is now commonly asserted that climate change will fundamentally change international relations. It has been predicted that global warming will increase conflict within and between states, intensify food insecurity, menace the global trading system and unleash waves of migration. As a result ...
Civic Resources and the Future of the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
By Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Viktoria Kaina
November 10, 2014
This book shines new light on the political system of the European Union (EU) by focusing on civic resources as a keystone of the EU’s ability to sustain. Less-tangible resources such as trust, solidarity, mutual recognition and citizens’ social and political participation have been, until now, ...
The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties: Beyond the Permissive Consensus
1st Edition
By Dimitri Almeida
November 10, 2014
This book traces the positions of national partisan actors towards the development of the European polity in an in-depth comparative analysis covering all member states of the European Union over a period of 60 years. The author examines the approach of the social democratic, radical left, liberal,...
Society and Democracy in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Silke Keil, Oscar W. Gabriel
September 11, 2014
This comparative study examines what kinds of societal forces shape European relationships towards democratic political life in contemporary Europe. Drawing on data from the European Social Survey (ESS), the book develops a theoretical perspective on the relationship between social structure and ...
The Europeanization of National Foreign Policies towards Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorena Ruano
September 11, 2014
Who shapes the European Union’s policy towards Latin America? How has this EU policy modified individual member states’ relations with the region? This book provides a comparative account of seven member states’ bilateral links with Latin America since 1945, in the context of their EU membership ...
Territory and Terror: Conflicting Nationalisms in the Basque Country
1st Edition
By Jan Mansvelt Beck
August 12, 2014
All Basque interpretations of national power have resulted in an uneasy mix of often fragmented and conflicting territorial identifications. Basques can identify themselves with France, Spain or an imagined Basque nation state. Territory and Terror confronts the imagined and actual territorial ...
Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy: The Cases of Ukraine and Egypt
1st Edition
By Rosa Balfour
July 03, 2014
This book investigates the disparity between rhetoric and performance in the European Union response to abuses of human rights and transgression of democracy. With the Arab spring putting the spotlight on the EU’s self-portrait as committed to promoting global human rights and democracy, this book ...