European Union Institutions Books

New and Published Books

1. Post-identity?

   Culture and European Integration

   Edited by Richard McMahon

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations. However efforts since the 1990s to politically support European integration by using identity mechanisms borrowed from nationalism have had very limited success....

   Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Maastricht Treaty: Second Thoughts after 20 Years

   Edited by Thomas Christiansen, Simon Duke

   Series: Journal of European Integration Special Issues

   The Maastricht Treaty, signed in 1992 and ratified in the following year, is widely seen as a landmark in the evolution of the European Union. It introduced into the treaty framework revolutionary new elements such as the co-decision procedure between the Council and the European Parliament,...

   Published June 5th 2013 by Routledge
3. Europe, Strategy and Armed Forces

   The making of a distinctive power

   By Sven Biscop, Jo Coelmont

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers. At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size makes the EU a global power. However, the EU needs to take into account that many international actors...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Transatlantic Regulation

   Edited by Susanne Lütz

   The European and American economies are closely interlinked as mutually important investment and trading partners. The growing intensity of economic interdependence has spurred the transatlantic coordination of rules and standards that can lead to the formation of non-tariff barriers to...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
5. Understanding Transatlantic Relations

   Whither the West?

   By Serena Simoni

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   In light of the Arab Spring and after days of public quarreling that highlighted the divisions among NATO’s members on an agreement to give command of the "no-fly" zone in Libya to the Alliance, it is evident that the U.S. is having problems engaging with its European allies and partners. Why is...

   Published May 5th 2013 by Routledge
6. Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe

   Governing Change

   Edited by Catherine Moury, Luís de Sousa

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   This book discusses the future of the European Union following the failure of the Constitutional and reform treaties, examining the transformations, dynamics and major issues facing present-day Europe. Discussing key questions relating to the future of the European project, this book brings...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Transnational Power Elites

   The New Professionals of Governance, Law and Security

   Edited by Niilo Kauppi, Mikael Rask Madsen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security

   This book argues that European Union institutional mechanics and the EU as a political unit cannot be properly understood without taking into account the elites that make the policy decisions. Spurred by globalisation, technological and economic development has provided the backbone for social and...

   Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era

   Universality in Transition

   By James A. Sweeney

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition examines transitional justice from the perspective of its impact on the universality of human rights, taking the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights as its detailed case study. The problem is...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions

   Performance, Policy, Power

   Edited by Knud Erik Jørgensen, Katie Verlin Laatikainen

   While the EU has championed "effective multilateralism" and experienced a dramatic internal reform process to improve its performance in external relations, broader multilateral processes have also undergone dramatic change. This handbook addresses the increasingly contested issue of profound...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Democratic Decision-making in the EU

    Technocracy in Disguise?

    By Anne Elizabeth Stie

    Series: Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe

    This book examines the democratic legitimacy of the European Union (EU) and evaluates the democratic credentials of the EU’s main decision-making procedure. It finds that though there is potential for democratic decision-making in the EU, the actual process is dominated by technocrats and secret...

    Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge