The SAGE Handbook of European Studies
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The SAGE Handbook of European Studies

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  2. English
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The SAGE Handbook of European Studies

About this book

"This volume brings together some of the biggest names in European Studies to analyse the most important trajectories of Europe?s development and the challenges faced by the continent today. No one interested in Europe will be able to ignore this extraordinary collection of scholarship."
- Professor Thomas Diez, University of Birmingham

"In its range and comprehensiveness it will be hard to beat; and it will certainly become an invaluable resource for sociologists, political scientists, historians and all others seeking the best information and most up-to-the-date approaches to the study of Europe today."
- Professor Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia

"An impressive account of the state of the art of the study of contemporary Europe... This is an outstanding work and a definite companion to all those interested in contemporary Europe."
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies

Europe is one of the world?s oldest civilizations. But what does it mean to be European today? What place does Europe have in global affairs? How should we analyze its key institutions, system of governance and broader cultural, social and political dynamics? This exhaustive and timely handbook:

  • Explores the transformations that characterize contemporary Europe
  • Investigates how we can best study Europe
  • Consolidates European studies and provides a platform for future study
  • Increases the profile of European studies.

The Handbookpromotes the increasing diversity of perspectives employed in the study of contemporary Europe and EU integration and is situated within the context of Europe?s transformations. It offers balanced coverage of political, social, economic, cultural and institutional dimensions of Europe, and includes chapters by leading authorities including Ulrich Beck, Craigh Calhoun, Donatella della Porta, Claus Offe, Anssi Paasi, Ben Rosamond, Gurminder Bhambra and Charles Tilly.

Multidisciplinary in organization, inclusive in coverage and cutting-edge in scope, The SAGE Handbook of European Studies is a landmark resource for anyone interested in Europe. 

 

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Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9781412933957
eBook ISBN
9781446206706
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Contributors
  5. 1 Introduction: The Stuff of European Studies
  6. SECTION I - Contexts: History, Culture, Politics
  7. 2 Europe Transformed, 1945–2000
  8. 3 The European Heritage: History, Memory, and Time
  9. 4 Europe Beyond East and West
  10. 5 Postcolonial Europe, or Understanding Europe in Times of the Postcolonial
  11. SECTION II - Polity-Building: Institutionalization, Governance, Europeanization
  12. 6 Supranational Governance
  13. 7 National Interests
  14. 8 Markets
  15. 9 Law and Justice
  16. 10 Institutionalizing Democracy: Facing up to a Common Future
  17. 11 Competing Visions of European Union
  18. 12 Enlargement and the Meaning of Europe
  19. SECTION III - Themes and Issues
  20. 13 Uses and Abuses of the Concept of Integration
  21. 14 Economic Growth and Global Competitiveness: From Rome to Maastricht to Lisbon
  22. 15 Agricultural Policy and Protectionism
  23. 16 Europe and Global Governance
  24. 17 The Geopolitics of European Freedom and Security
  25. 18 Nationalism and Transnationalism
  26. 19 Migration, Minorities and Marginality: New Directions in Europe Migration Research
  27. 20 Citizenship, Democracy and the Public Sphere
  28. 21 Social Movements
  29. 22 Multiculturalism and Public Culture: A Historical Critique
  30. 23 Religion: Towards a Postsecular Europe?
  31. 24 Welfare State Formation in the Enlarged European Union: Patterns of Reform in Postcommunist States
  32. 25 Cities and Territorial Competitiveness
  33. 26 Regions and Regional Dynamics
  34. 27 Europe’s Borders
  35. 28 An Intellectual Homeland: Governing Mobilities and Space in European Education
  36. 29 Network Europe and the Information Society
  37. SECTION IV - Future Directions
  38. 30 The Contrasting Fortunes of European Studies and EU Studies: Grounds for Reconciliation?
  39. 31 Normative Power Europe: A Transdisciplinary Approach to European Studies
  40. 32 Europe as a Postemotional Idea – or, ‘Upon Us All There Still Lies “the Curse of Cromwell” ’
  41. 33 Understanding the Real Europe: A Cosmopolitan Vision
  42. 34 The Mountain Comes to Muhammad: Global Islam in Provincial Europe
  43. 35 Cosmopolitan Europe and European Studies
  44. Index