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
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Helena Farrand Carrapico: [email protected]
Benjamin Martill: [email protected]
Monika Brusenbauch Meislová: [email protected]
Differentiated Integration in a Nordic Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Pintsch, Tor-Inge Harbo, Lars Oxelheim
February 06, 2025
This book analyses differentiation in European integration from a Nordic perspective. Following an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on the idea of the Nordics as a laboratory of differentiation, the book explores specific Nordic concerns in policy fields such as the labour market, security ...
Mechanisms of European Integration: The Force of Reasons
1st Edition
By Erik O. Eriksen
February 06, 2025
This book posits the possibility of a reasons-based account of the European integration process. The book pursues the force of public reason in getting to agreement beyond the nation state and spells out the fundamentals of the European integration process, theorizing the mechanisms that brought ...
Ideological Flexibility of Political Parties in the Era of Transnational Cleavage: A Comparative Study of Lega and Rassemblement National
1st Edition
By Alessio Scopelliti
February 04, 2025
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of how the parties of Lega and Rassemblement National have adjusted their ideologies over a four-decade period to adapt to the new transnational cleavage in Western Europe – the conflict between pro-EU and anti-EU sentiments. It sheds light on their ...
Debating Immigrants and Refugees in Central Europe: Politicising and Framing Newcomers in the Media and Political Arenas
1st Edition
By Jan Kovář
December 18, 2024
This book investigates the politicisation and framing of immigration in the media and political arena in Central Europe, examining two countries - Czechia and Slovakia - in the period surrounding the “European migrant crisis”. Following years of immigration being practically invisible as an issue ...
How European Citizens Understand the Economy: Knowledge, Politicization and Anchoring in the European Public Sphere
1st Edition
By Dorian Alt
November 28, 2024
This book argues that the European public sphere functions to help citizens understand complex economic issues and discuss them meaningfully across borders. Through original research conducted on citizens’ perceptions of European economic issues, it explores a mechanism that allows people to make ...
The Empowerment of EU Agencies in EU Border Management
1st Edition
By Yichen Zhong
October 14, 2024
This book examines the role of European Union (EU) agencies in the EU’s external border control policy, looking at how the empowerment of particular bodies has shaped the management of their external borders and influenced EU governance more broadly. Focusing on four key aspects of agency ...
The Choice for Banking Union: Power, Politics and the Trap of Credible Commitments
1st Edition
By Elena Ríos Camacho
January 29, 2024
This book explains why the European Union (EU) Member States – in response to the euro crisis – agreed to establish banking union, despite previous objections, and why they chose its hybrid institutional design. Analysing its establishment from 2012 to 2020, the book offers a comprehensive view of...
The Politics of Legitimation in the European Union: Legitimacy Recovered?
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Lord, Peter Bursens, Dirk De Bièvre, Jarle Trondal, Ramses A. Wessel
January 29, 2024
This book examines and investigates the legitimacy of the European Union by acknowledging the importance of variation across actors, institutions, audiences, and context. Case studies reveal how different actors have contributed to the politics of (re)legitimating the European Union in response to...
Financial Accountability in the European Union: Institutions, Policy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Stephenson, María-Luisa Sánchez-Barrueco, Hartmut Aden
May 31, 2023
This book offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of financial accountability around the EU budget – how it is spent via policies, how institutions engage in checking policy performance (what taxpayers’ money actually delivers), and therein, the issues of monitoring, controlling, auditing,...
Parliamentary Agency and Regional Integration in Europe and Beyond: The Logic of Regional Parliaments
1st Edition
By Bruno Theodoro Luciano
May 31, 2023
This comparative book analyses the development of regional integration parliaments in three different continents of the world. It assesses and compares the expansion and current stage of institutional development of three regional assemblies – the European Parliament, the Pan-African Parliament ...
European Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Power
1st Edition
By Bart M.J. Szewczyk
January 09, 2023
This book shows how the EU’s dual sovereignty–legitimacy problem can be resolved through the political concept of European citizenship, which can serve both to define the scope of European sovereignty and to justify EU power beyond national democracy. It reconceptualizes the EU’s legitimacy ...
Transnational Networks and EU International Cooperation: In Pursuit of Effectiveness
1st Edition
By Sebastian Steingass
January 09, 2023
This book provides a timely evaluation of the EU’s ability to act internationally and coordinate policy in a time when it also seeks to meet shifting demands of international cooperation. These include global sustainable development, the challenge of multilateralism and the changing geopolitical ...