European Politics

First published in 2008 and based on an innovative framework for analysing the EU's external politics, this paperback edition provides a historical overview of and theoretical conclusions about the EU's global role. It examines Europe's international role in a range of external policy domains, focus..

This book explores the European Union’s hidden federal features and exposes the challenges of legitimacy, democracy and freedom facing an unfinished political community...

The European Union faces a set of inter-related crises that it struggles to contain and address. By exploring how the EU responds to crises and conflict, this volume addresses both its resilience and vulnerability. Despite the tension of hard times, this volume points to patterns of continuity and c..

In this new book, American and European experts assess transatlantic relations on matters of foreign and security policy, economic diplomacy, justice and internal security cooperation, environmental policy and relations with Russia...

The authors in this volume attempt to shed light on the sustainability and legitimacy of Europe’s boundaries as they are called into question by a range of factors, including Brexit, populism, terrorism, the refugee crisis and the euro-crisis. The chapters originally published as a special issue in ..

This book is to understand the European political debate about contentious issues framed in terms of religious values by religious and/or secular actors in 21st century, focusing specifically on the Italian case, which, due to its peculiar history and contemporary political landscape, is a paradigma..

By providing a comparative study of policy and practice in the countries of western Europe, this book offers vital insights into how governments and firms can search for European-wide solutions to the technological defence dilemmas they face...

European Democracies is an introduction to the politics and governments of Western, Central, and Eastern Europe. Organized thematically rather than country-by-country, this fully revised edition analyzes European countries from the level of the European Union and from the level of regions and includ..

This book advances research on European diplomacy, security and foreign policy, using insights from practice approaches in social science and especially IR. The chapters originally published as a special issue in European Security...

Confronting sophisticated theoretical reasoning with the actual realities of policy-making, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the risks and opportunities of a comparative-interdisciplinary approach to European governance...

Europe has changed radically since 1989 and continues to change at great speed. This book deals with the principle problems and challenges confronting Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War and the collapse of European communism...

European Integration and the Communist Dilemma assesses the response of communist parties to European integration using three contrasting and comparatively significant case studies from Greece, Cyprus and Italy. These parties, in common with other radical parties in Europe, face a continuing strateg..