Bøger i Routledge Advances in European Politics serien

A monograph to systematically explore the relationship between citizenship and collective identity in the European Union, integrating two fields of research - citizenship and collective identity.

Presents a framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states. This work identifies four basic types of EU policy transfer and learning such as: 'uploading'; 'downloading'; 'socialization'; and 'information exchange'. It is of interest to students and scholars of European Union politics and policy, and political economy.

Examines the Eastern expansion of the EU through a tripartite structure, developing an empirical, conceptual and institutional analysis to provide an account of EU enlargement, with theoretical insights. This volume is of interest to students and scholars of European politics and European Union studies.

Provides an analysis of the projects of improvement carried out by the civilian peacebuilding missions in Bosnia and Macedonia. This work explores the double-sided nature of peacebuilding missions. It also discusses generic problems in the implementation of EU police reforms, suggesting ways to overcome these challenges.

This book provides an up-to-date critical assessment of gender in Spain with reference to the key social and political fields.

A comprehensive study of how and why the European Union has enlarged to become northern Europe's leading power. This book presents a fresh approach to the under-theorized field of EU foreign policy studies, showing how, since 1990, the EU has enlarged to include Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

Using a strong historical framework, this volume provides a rational choice institutional analysis on European Union decision-making. The author pays particular attention to conflict within EU budgetary politics.

Offers an analysis of Britain's decision-making role in the Yugoslavian conflict of the 1990s and in the formation of its successor states. Tracing the evolution of British policy from the onset of war in Croatia and Bosnia to the NATO action in Kosovo, and beyond, this work examines the factors governing that policy.

Provides a theoretical defence of situated agency located in the historical context of British political science; compares their approach to British political science with others including, post-structural and institutional analysis; and more. This book is useful to those in political theory, public policy, British politics, and British history.

Presenting an examination of aspects of twentieth century history this book explores how the events of the twentieth century still cast a shadow over relations between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.

Examines the characteristics of womenOCOs participation at the mass and (r)lite level in contemporary British politics and explores what this means for ideas about, and the practice of, descriptive, substantive and symbolic representation.

This volume brings together contributions that conceptualise and measure EU perceptions in the strategic regions around the world in the aftermath of the UK referendum.

The book provides the first systematic overview of Swiss political economy in comparative perspective. It provides an analysis of major socio-economic institutions, economic actors, economic and social policies, and political institutions and their recent changes.

This book explores the positions of small EU member in the area of energy security, using Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as case studies. It examines when small EU members support and when they oppose further development of cooperation at the Community level in external energy security.

This book analyses the evolution of the sustainability discourse in the European Union, exploring the conditions necessary for sustainable development to move from a conceptual model into a model for action for strategic decision makers at all levels of governance.

This book examines the views of national parties towards the European Union and the different facets of a supranational citizenship. It provides an in-depth investigation into the variations to the cross-national patterns in eleven countries, including old and new member states and different EU regions.

This book examines sustainability in European environmental policy and explores the related challenges of governance and knowledge, featuring cross-national and comparative case studies on nine European countries.

Brings together leading experts in the field to explore how the European Union's institutional structure, rules and processes should be shaped, in order to respond to the old and new challenges it is facing.

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, largely ignored in the research on European integration.

Examines the values and principles that inform EU Foreign Policy, conveying an understanding of the EU as an international actor. This volume explores the implications of these values and principles on the process of the construction of the European Union identity. It is intended for students and scholars of European studies and politics.

This edited volume offers the most wide-ranging treatment of the Icelandic financial crisis and its political, economic, social, and constitutional consequences. Interdisciplinary, with contributions from historians, economists, sociologists, legal scholars, political scientists and philosophers, it also compares and contrasts the Icelandic experience with other national and global crises. While the Icelandic economic recovery has been much quicker than expected; it shows that public faith in political elites has not been restored.

Building on a comprehensive theoretical framework that draws on discursive and ideational approaches to populism, this volume offers a comparative mapping of the Populist Radical Left in contemporary Europe.

Lobbying Success in the European Union effectively bridges research from interest mediation and framing studies and offers a new model about how to measure stakeholders' success. This new and pragmatic approach to study lobbying success can be used and adapted to any policy analysis and issue.

This book specifically focuses on the history, politics and literature of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Ireland, while making comparative reference to some of Europe's other disputed and divided regions.

This book investigates the politics of the euro, with a primary focus on Italy, but also with additional chapters on the UK and Germany. Using a range of original and secondary data, it reconstructs how the euro was interpreted by both elites and non-elites from the late nineties to 2010.

This book explores the debate on trauma and peacebuilding and presents the challenges for democratization that the politics of trauma present in transitional periods. It demonstrates how ideas about reconciliation are filtered through ideological lenses and become new ways of articulating communal and ethno-nationalist sentiments.