Routledge Library Editions: Politics of the European Union
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Politics of the European Union brings together in a 35-volume collection some standout titles from the Routledge backlist. Books examine the immediate postwar period in Europe, and the first moves towards European political cooperation, and the challenges faced in building the European political community. Inter-European national politics are analysed as the continent moved towards integration, as well as internal politics – devolution and regionalism within member states. European foreign policy is examined, as is the thorny issue of European security and a European defence policy and Nato.
A Framework for Development: The EEC and the ACP
1st Edition
By Carol Cosgrove Twitchett
September 12, 2025
A Framework for Development (1981) focusses on the link between the European Economic Community and the 60 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. It reviews the experience of EEC–ACP cooperation in the 1970s and comments on the provisions of the second Lomé Convention which was signed in ...
After 1992: The United States of Europe
1st Edition
By Ernest Wistrich
September 12, 2025
After 1992 (1989) argues that the changes of 1992 will precipitate the transformation of the European Community into a full political and economic union, organized according to federal principles. In a thorough examination of its responsibilities in the monetary, economic, social and cultural ...
Britain into Europe: Public Opinion and the EEC 1961–75
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Jowell, Gerald Hoinville
September 12, 2025
Britain into Europe (1976) examines how the debate in Britain about EEC membership was conducted between 1961 and 1975. Using survey research data from Social and Community Planning Research it shows how public opinion on this critical issue developed over fifteen years. Roger Jowell and Gerald ...
Britain's Bilateral Links Within Western Europe
1st Edition
By William Wallace
September 12, 2025
Britain's Bilateral Links Within Western Europe (1984) examines the questions of Britain’s bilateral relations with its major West European partners – how did the British government adapt to the development of a network of intensive bilateral and multilateral collaboration? This entailed daily ...
Devolution in Context: Regional, Federal and Devolved Government in the EU
1st Edition
By W. John Hopkins
September 12, 2025
Devolution in Context (2002) is a work of comparative law that studies Western Europe’s revolution in regional governance. It weaves history, politics and law into a coherent examination of the various structures of regional government, as well as examining the theory and practice that underpin ...
Eastern Europe: Political Crisis and Legitimation
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul G. Lewis
September 12, 2025
Eastern Europe (1984) discusses the major questions that arise in the study of legitimation in post-Stalin Eastern Europe and relates them to the politics of the individual states. The problematic relationship between legitimacy and power in Eastern Europe is examined in detail, as is the relation ...
Eastern Europe in the Post-War World
1st Edition
By Hubert Ripka
September 12, 2025
Eastern Europe in the Post-War World (1961) examines the conditions in the ‘satellites’ of Eastern Europe before as well as after the Second World War. Its analysis of the effects of Soviet intervention in the satellites, not only on the satellites themselves but also on the Soviet empire as a ...
Educating European Citizens: Citizenship Values and the European Dimension
1st Edition
Edited
By Gordon H. Bell
September 12, 2025
Educating European Citizens (1995) explores problems and issues in citizenship education in the context of the move towards European cultural, economic and political union. An international group of educators address questions such as: the contribution of schools to the maintenance of peace and ...
Europe: The Challenge of Diversity
1st Edition
By Helen Wallace, Adam Ridley
September 12, 2025
Europe: The Challenge of Diversity (1985) examines the various proposals for making a diverse European Community more effective, and for extending cooperation to political and security issues as well as economic. The obstacles to agreeing a collective economic programme are discussed in the light ...
Europe is my Country: The Story of West European Co-operation since 1945
1st Edition
By Peter Wales
September 12, 2025
Europe is my Country (1963) is a survey of the movement towards uniting Europe into a single state, introducing Europe geographically and considering the East–West split. It describes how the European economy recovered after the Second World War through the transfusion of Marshall Aid and how ...
European Defence Cooperation
1st Edition
By Trevor Taylor
September 12, 2025
European Defence Cooperation (1984) considers the varied elements of European defence cooperation and the obstacles to further development of a European pillar within NATO. It argues that closer cooperation would alleviate several problems, including differences between the US and Europe; public ...
European Movement and the Council of Europe
1st Edition
By European Movement
September 12, 2025
European Movement and the Council of Europe (1949) begins with a Foreword by Winston Churchill, in which he states that his ‘counsel to Europe can be given in a single word: “Unite!”’ The book goes on to examine the history of European unity, and traces the story of the European movement, the ...