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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2008
; xvi + 596pp., £85.00 hb. This volume is a most valuable contribution to the ever expanding list of textbooks on the politics of the European Union. The handbook is an enormously impressive and highly authoritative work in all aspects. It clearly distinguishes itself from competing books by the range of coverage and the clarity of analysis of the state of theory and research on EU institutions, politics and policies. The extensive and inclusive structure of the handbook is organized into four broad chapters: theorizing European integration; the EU as a polity; politics and policy-making in the EU; and the EU and the international system. It includes 28 essays, carefully chosen and meticulously researched by some of the foremost experts in the field. The book opens with a full section on theory, providing broader social scientific context of EU studies, supplemented by chapters on disciplinary history and the academic discourses on EU politics of other disciplines. The second part offers insights into the variety of approaches to the EU as a polity, ranging from traditional categories of empirical political analysis to some fundamental questions of normative political theory. The next section deals with the varied interpretations of the overall character of EU politics, providing a comprehensive picture of how the segmented policy processes in the EU have developed over time, and analyses the complex interaction between the supranational and domestic levels in contemporary European politics. The remaining chapter looks at the questions of the EU's interaction with world politics, dealing more specifically with issues such as development policy, trade policy and comparative regionalism in the context of globalization. Overall, the Handbook of European Union Politics is a most useful book that can be highly recommended. A strong analytical framework coupled with unparalleled coverage of the major issues of the political science research of the EU makes this volume a formidable tool for teaching and a significant input to new scholarly research. It is both relatively sophisticated and very accessible to graduate students and advanced researchers. The clear writing style and the richness of information presented will certainly make this book interesting for non-academic readers.
Politics of the European Union
This course will introduce to the history & main political features of European integration, the political system of the European Union, European parties & policies, and current issues of democracy in Europe. We will seek to understand and examine the political institutions, historical development, and philosophical foundations of the EU, and its relationship to the EU member states in comparative perspective. Students will become familiar with the history and the contemporary polity, politics, policy-making and policies of the European Union.
The College of Europe and the European University Institute are sister institutions; we work in postgraduate and post-doctorate education, with a specific mandate 'to foster the advancement of learning in fields which are of particular interest for the development of Europe, especially its culture, history, law, economics and institutions' and to 'develop interdisciplinary research programmes on the major issues confronting contemporary European society, including matters relating to the construction of Europe' (Convention establishing the EUI). We are engaged in educating the next generation of scholars and practitioners and in our research programmes we bring together scholars from all over Europe and the world in our unique international and cross-disciplinary environments. From this perspective, we aim to initiate and stimulate a debate among institutions of higher education over the current challenges facing the study of Europe, ranging from its place within university curricula to the funding drivers for research, from the risks and benefits of cross-disciplinarity to the historical turn in EU studies. By 'European' and 'EU studies' we intend to include not only 'European studies' in
In the past years there are an increasing number of attitudes and events that suggest a chronic need for a better communication between European Union and its citizens. One of the main issues concerns the perception, among citizens, of a lack of legitimacy and transparency of EU and its institutions. In order to identify and analyze some of the causes, we suggest that an important variable that should be considered is the communication strategy of the EU. In this article we explore some interpretations of legitimacy that can be associated to the perception of EU's institutions among the European citizens and the main points expressed by the European Commission with regard on the Communication Strategy. right to command its subordinates, as well as emphasizes the subordinates' right to disobey a particular authority. 6 The issue of legitimacy in the European Union arises in relation to new types of political formation, new centers of power and new policies, which represents both a united and divided society. Also, the EU represents both an intergovernmental organization and a supranational entity. The only certainty is that the EU is a continuously emerging supranational entity whose success in the future became more and more dependent on the citizens' support.
Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union
Cambridge University Press, 2020
The European Union of today cannot be studied as it once was. This original new textbook provides a much-needed update on how the EU's policies and institutions have changed in light of the multiple crises and transformations since 2010. An international team of leading scholars offer systematic accounts on the EU's institutional regime, policies, and its community of people and states. Each chapter is structured to explain the relevant historical developments and institutional framework, presenting the key actors, the current controversies and discussing a paradigmatic case study. Each chapter also provides ideas for group discussions and individual research topics. Moving away from the typical, neutral account of the functioning of the EU, this textbook will stimulate readers' critical thinking towards the EU as it is today. It will serve as a core text for undergraduate and graduate students of politics and European studies taking courses on the politics of the EU, and those taking courses in comparative politics and international organizations including the EU.
Analyzing European Union Politics
this book represents a unique attempt to map the state of the art of European integration studies in political science worldwide. In so doing, it addresses a little explored aspect in the existing literature and provides a comparative overview of the major contributions to the study of European integration in both EU and non-EU countries, ranging from Russia and Norway to Australia and the US. The use of the English language makes this endeavor accessible and, with contributions from native speakers of the various countries covered, it provides a pool of information that would otherwise be inaccessible to most readers.