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]
Power Politics, Banking Union and EMU: Adjusting Europe to Germany
1st Edition
By Shawn Donnelly
August 14, 2020
This book examines the politics of Banking Union and EMU reform in the EU, and draws lessons for what it means for international politics, both in Europe, and for international relations more broadly. It demonstrates that most of the reforms in Europe to break free of the Eurozone and banking ...
The Contested Diplomacy of the European External Action Service: Inception, Establishment and Consolidation
1st Edition
By Jost-Henrik Morgenstern-Pomorski
August 14, 2020
The creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU’s new diplomatic body, was accompanied by high expectations for improving the way Europe would deal with foreign policy. However, observers of its first years of operation have come to the opposite conclusion.This book explains why...
The Democratisation of EU International Relations Through EU Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan Santos Vara, Soledad Rodríguez Sánchez-Tabernero
June 30, 2020
Since the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, key improvements have occurred in the democratisation of EU international relations through the increased powers of the European Parliament. Nevertheless, a comprehensive legal analysis of the new developments in democratic control of EU external ...
Changing Borders in Europe: Exploring the Dynamics of Integration, Differentiation and Self-Determination in the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacint Jordana, Michael Keating, Axel Marx, Jan Wouters
January 29, 2020
Changing Borders in Europe focuses on the territorial dimension of the European Union. It examines the transformation of state sovereignty within the EU, the emergence of varied self-determination claims, and the existence of a tailor-made architecture of functional borders, established by multiple...
Claiming Citizenship Rights in Europe: Emerging Challenges and Political Agents
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniele Archibugi, Ali Emre Benli
December 12, 2019
While the European integration project is facing new challenges, abandonments and criticism, it is often forgotten that there are powerful legal instruments that allow citizens to protect and extend their rights. These instruments and the actions taken to activate them are often overlooked and ...
The Dynamics of EU External Energy Relations: Fighting for Energy
1st Edition
By Francesca Batzella
December 12, 2019
The Dynamics of EU External Energy Relations examines the behaviour of the European Commission in EU external energy relations paying particular attention to the dynamics existing between the Commission and the member states. It examines the Commission as a constrained policy-entrepreneur trying to...
The EU in the Global Investment Regime: Commission Entrepreneurship, Incremental Institutional Change and Business Lethargy
1st Edition
By Johann Robert Basedow
December 12, 2019
The European Union (EU) has emerged as a key actor in the global investment regime since the 1980s. At the same time, international investment policy and agreements, which govern international investment liberalisation, treatment and protection through investor-to-state dispute settlement, have ...
Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union
1st Edition
By Birol A. Yeşilada, Jacek Kugler, Gaspare Genna, Osman Göktuğ Tanrıkulu
May 07, 2019
Today, the European Union faces challenges that threaten not only internal cohesion but also its position in the global system. This book is about the future of the EU in the light of global power transition taking place in the twenty-first century and demonstrates how its future rests on a ...
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, Nick 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 ...