Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
About the Book Series
The Contemporary European Studies book series is an internationally renowned outlet for the publication of first-rate research in European Union Studies. It aims to reflect the fast moving and multifaceted character of the European Union as a political, economic, social, cultural, security, and technological actor and to represent novel and diverse approaches to European Union Studies.
The editors invite early career and experienced academics to submit initial expressions of interest, either directly to them or via Routledge. These should include a suggested title, book abstract, table of contents, and information about the author/ contributors. If your initial expression receives support from the editors, authors will then be invited to submit a full book proposal. The series publishes research monographs and research-driven edited volumes with a strong common framework. For an overview of recently published works, please see the series titles below.
The editors will consider and provide feedback on all expressions of interest. For further information about your project at any stage, or for for further information and guidance towards submitting a frmal proposal, please contact the editors or the publisher.
The series is fully committed to the promotion of academic diversity, both in terms of authorship and of theoretical and methodological approaches and would particularly encourage scholars working on Feminist perspectives, Post-colonial and Decolonising approaches, Non-European perspectives on the EU, Critical Security Studies, Practice Theory, and Critical International Political Economy, alongside those working on EU institutions, external relations, integration theory, and EU policies to get in touch.
Series Editors
Ben Farrand: [email protected]
Helena Farrand Carrapico: [email protected]
Benjamin Martill: [email protected]
Monika Brusenbauch Meislová: [email protected]
Euroscepticism and Illiberalism in Central Europe: Linked by Crisis
1st Edition
By Vít Hloušek, Vratislav Havlík, Veronika Velička Zapletalová, Pavlína Kutnarová
February 03, 2026
This book uses the V4 countries as an ideal political environment for testing shifts in Euroscepticism and illiberalism in the dynamic context of the “politicising moments” of multiple crises. It analyses what kind of Euroscepticism prevailed in East-Central Europe during the COVID-19 and Ukrainian...
How Europeans Understand Solidarity, Reciprocity and Fairness in the EU: Insights from Conversations Among Citizens
1st Edition
Edited
By Björn Egner, Hubert Heinelt, Jens Steffek
October 27, 2025
This edited book sheds new light on the understanding of solidarity, reciprocity and fairness from the perspective of European Union (EU) citizens and, with this, how cohesion in the EU can be achieved. Drawing on extensive focus group research across nine countries, the book presents the results ...
Public Opinion and Disunity over EU Integration: Conflict and Cleavage in the Age of Polycrisis
1st Edition
By Danilo Di Mauro, Vincenzo Memoli
September 02, 2025
This book explores the origins, characteristics, and impact of public support for the European Union (EU) on the process of EU integration. It examines core questions around the dynamics behind the (dis)integration processes, how multidimensional attitudes toward the EU are interrelated, the ...
The Political Role of the European Commission in Regulating State Aid Policy: In Search of Legitimacy
1st Edition
By Elena Escalante-Block
June 27, 2025
This book delves into questions of whether the European Commission is effectively regulating large corporations in Europe, and the public perceptions of the legitimacy of its decisions, by examining state aid cases and when and how actors choose to politicise or depoliticise them. The book analyses...
The Territorial Dimension of EU Knowledge Policies: Higher Education Institutions for Europe
1st Edition
By Alina J. Felder-Stindt
June 20, 2025
This book expands our understanding of the so-far-overlooked territorial dimension of the EU’s knowledge policies crossing policy area boundaries. It examines how EU regional policy, endowed with substantial financial resources, influences the comparatively weakly endowed EU higher education policy...
Rethinking EU Law-making Policy on Confiscation of the Proceeds of Crime
1st Edition
By Ariadna H. Ochnio
May 30, 2025
The book provides a critical analysis of EU law-making policy on the confiscation of the proceeds of crime, using a minimalist restorative approach to justice focused on the rights of victims and communities, and more proactive roles for all participants in confiscation procedures. This book shows ...
(In)visible European Government: Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Maarten Hillebrandt, Päivi Leino-Sandberg, Ida Koivisto
May 06, 2025
This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments. It scrutinizes transparency from three perspectives - methodologically, ...
EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China: The End of Naivety
1st Edition
By Joachim Schild, Dirk Schmidt
May 06, 2025
This book examines EU and US bilateral trade and investment relations with China, their attempts to level the economic playing field and to narrow the ‘reciprocity gap’ in market openness. It explores the extent of EU and US policy change, the underlying factors accounting for this change and ...
EU Trade Agreements and European Integration: Commission Autonomy or Council Control?
1st Edition
By Markus Gastinger
April 14, 2025
EU Trade Agreements and European Integration studies 50 bilateral trade agreements negotiated by the European Commission from 1970–2008 and how they shaped European integration. The book argues that the Commission used these trade agreements, signed primarily with countries in Asia and Latin ...
The Development of Energy Policy in the European Union: Continuity, Critical Junctures and Change
1st Edition
By Ingmar Versolmann
April 03, 2025
This book uniquely details the longer-term integration of energy policy in the EU, from its inception to the contemporary ‘Energy Union’, whilst also bringing it fully up to date regarding its place in current climate discussions, the European Green Deal, REPowerEU, the European Climate Law and the...
The European Universities Initiative and the ‘Euro-internationalisation’ of European Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Frame, Barbara Curyło
March 31, 2025
This book examines the European Universities Initiative from multiple angles and comparative studies. It outlines the scope and potential of this initiative, and the different epistemological and methodological approaches which can be adopted to investigate it in the light of previous research on ...
European Central Bank Reform After the Financial Crisis: Technocratic Empowerment
1st Edition
By Sebastian Heidebrecht
March 27, 2025
This book explores the European Central Bank’s (ECB) political role, and the politics of its increased empowerment, in the light of contemporary challenges for both central bank independence and European democratic stability. Analysing the central bank’s transparency, accountability, and democratic...