European Politics

This book analyses social movements and radical political parties’ strategies in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy from 2008 to today. Events in 2011 such as the Arab Spring and the indignados movement in Spain initiated a new cycle of social protest. This book explores how the economic crisis and p..

In this edited volume on urban citizenship, contributors from different Southern European countries discuss how crises and the urban intersect and affect citizenship rights and practices in different cities in Southern Europe. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Citizenship Studi..

This book examines the ways in which ethnic and national values and identities have been replaced as the overriding focus in the lives of the region’s young people...

This book intelligently weaves together China and the EU's policy in Africa and the impact of this interaction on Africa's future. A much needed insight into how the interaction between the three holds the key to solving one of the world's most challenging issues...

This book intelligently weaves together China and the EU's policy in Africa and the impact of this interaction on Africa's future. A much needed insight into how the interaction between the three holds the key to solving one of the world's most challenging issues...

The book explores the ability of citizens to participate in the making of borders, and the empowerment that can result from this bordering and debordering activity. ‘Borderwork’ is the name given to the ways in which ordinary people can make and unmake borders...

This book analyzes the relationship between citizens and the state from a primarily bottom up perspective via factor analysis of data from the eighteen country cross-national Asia-Europe survey including identity, confidence and satisfaction...

Published in 1999, the book focuses on the dilemmas of citizenship and identity in the uncertain atmosphere of Europe in the 1990s. The various chapters analyze citizenship and identity from a number of perspectives, including those of citizens themselves in both Eastern and Western Europe; of natio..

This book shines new light on the political system of the European Union (EU) by focusing on civic resources as a keystone of the EU’s ability to sustain. Less-tangible resources such as trust, solidarity, mutual recognition and citizens’ social and political participation have been, until now, larg..

This title was first published in 2002: The adoption of the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol within the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) and the 2001 EU National Emission Ceilings (NEC) directive has made for much stronger European air pollution policies. This volume offers the ..

This title was first published in 2002. This innovative text places cluster development policy in Europe within the national context of regional policy-making. While there has been a number of books on the theory of cluster development little research has been published on policy. By filling this ga..

Michael Longo demonstrates and substantiates the arguments for and against constitutionalization through the development of a theoretical framework drawing on theories and empirical research in both law and political science to understand this new process of European integration...