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]
Russia’s Impact on EU Policy Transfer to the Post-Soviet Space: The Contested Neighborhood
1st Edition
By Esther Ademmer
August 14, 2018
Russia's impact on EU policy transfer to the post-Soviet space has not been as negative as often perceived. EU policies have traveled to countries and issue areas, in which the dependence on Russia is high and Russian foreign policy is increasingly assertive. This book explores Russia's impact on ...
Euroscepticism as a Transnational and Pan-European Phenomenon: The Emergence of a New Sphere of Opposition
1st Edition
Edited
By John FitzGibbon, Benjamin Leruth, Nicholas Startin
April 25, 2018
As the EU enters an increasingly uncertain phase after the 2016 Brexit referendum, Euroscepticism continues to become an increasingly embedded phenomenon within party systems, non-party groups and within the media. Yet, academic literature has paid little attention to the emergence of, and ...
Core-periphery Relations in the European Union: Power and Conflict in a Dualist Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By José Magone, Brigid Laffan, Christian Schweiger
February 05, 2018
Successive Enlargements to the European Union membership have transformed it into an economically, politically and culturally heterogeneous body with distinct vulnerabilities in its multi-level governance. This book analyses core-periphery relations to highlight the growing cleavage, and potential...
Domestic Politics and Norm Diffusion in International Relations: Ideas do not float freely
1st Edition
By Thomas Risse
January 03, 2018
This book collects Thomas Risse's most important articles together in a single volume. Covering a wide range of issues – the end of the Cold War, transatlantic relations, the "democratic peace," human rights, governance in areas of limited statehood, Europeanization, European identity and public ...
The Formulation of EU Foreign Policy: Socialization, negotiations and disaggregation of the state
1st Edition
By Nicola Chelotti
October 23, 2017
EU foreign and defence policy is largely formulated in the working parties and committees of the Council of the EU and the vast majority of decisions in this field are made by the national diplomats working in the around 35 groups of the CFSP/CSDP. Although the importance of these committees and ...
The European Union's Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Beyond the “Actorness and Power” Debate
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingo Peters
July 13, 2017
This ground-breaking volume provides a new perspective on the EU’s foreign policy and offers a reconstruction of EU research that extends beyond narrow-minded concepts of ‘power’ and ‘actorness’. Focusing on two intertwined research questions, it presents a more sustainable base for studying EU ...
Transnationalization and Regulatory Change in the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood: Ukraine between Brussels and Moscow
1st Edition
By Julia Langbein
July 13, 2017
Regulatory reforms in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood countries are not as sluggish as often perceived. Rule enforcement is happening despite the presence of domestic veto players who favour the status quo, the lack of EU membership perspective and the presence of Russia as an alternative governance...
War and Intervention in the Transnational Public Sphere: Problem-solving and European identity-formation
1st Edition
By Cathleen Kantner
June 16, 2017
The post-Cold War era saw an unexpected increase in intra-state violence against ethnic and religious groups, brutal civil wars and asymmetric conflicts. Those crises posed fundamental questions for the European Union and its member states, to which Europe has so far proven unable to develop ...
Lobbying in EU Foreign Policy-making: The case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
1st Edition
By Benedetta Voltolini
March 02, 2017
This book examines lobbying in EU foreign policy-making and the activities of non-state actors (NSAs), focusing on EU foreign policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It sheds light on the interactions between the EU and NSAs as well as the ways in which NSAs attempt to shape EU foreign policies...
European Union Constitutionalism in Crisis
1st Edition
By Nicole Scicluna
November 10, 2016
Several years after the first Greek bailout, the integration project of the European Union faces an interlocking set of political, economic, legal and social challenges that go to the very core of its existence. Austerity is the order of the day, and citizens in both debtor and creditor states ...
European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession: Conditionality, legitimacy and compliance
1st Edition
By Gergana Noutcheva
September 16, 2016
The Balkan countries have responded differently to the EU’s conditional offer of membership. This book examines the diverging compliance patterns of the Balkan accession states and asks why some of them have complied substantially, some only partially and others have defied the EU. The book ...
New Security Issues in Northern Europe: The Nordic and Baltic States and the ESDP
1st Edition
Edited
By Clive Archer
May 26, 2016
This volume analyzes the Nordic and Baltic states' relationship with the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). Clive Archer presents a general background to the European Union's ESDP, the strategic situation of Northern Europe, the main security and defence policy issues faced by the states ...