This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of Critical European Union Studies, sets the research agenda and highlights emerging areas of study. Bringing together critical analyses of European Union politics, policies and processes with an expert range of contributors, it overcomes disciplinary borders and paradigms and addresses four main thematic areas pertaining to the study of the European Union and its policies:

* Critical approaches to European integration;

* Critical approaches to European political economy;

* Critical approaches to the EU's internal security;

* Critical approaches to the EU's external relations and foreign affairs.

In their contributions to this volume, the authors take a sympathetic yet critical approach to the European integration process and the present structures of the European Union. Furthermore, the book provides graduate students and faculty with ideas for future research activity and introduces critical analyses rooted in a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Union Studies will be an essential reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners interested and working in the fields of EU politics/studies, European integration, European political economy and public policy, EU foreign policy, EU freedom of movement and security practices, and more broadly in international relations, the wider social sciences and humanities.

About the Author

Didier Bigo is Professor of International Political Sociology at Sciences-Po Paris-CERI, France, and part-time Professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, UK.

Thomas Diez is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Tubingen, Germany.

Evangelos Fanoulis is Lecturer in International Relations at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.

Ben Rosamond is Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Yannis A. Stivachtis is Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair, and Director of the International Studies Program at Virginia Tech, USA.

Reviews

"This handbook brings together an unprecedented number of experts in the emerging field of critical European Union studies. Their contributions collectively provide a masterful synthesis of critical theoretical approaches, as well as an insightful analysis of the most salient aspects of EU policies, politics and processes in varied issue areas. Employing rigorous research designs and comprehensive empirical evidence, the authors perfectly illustrate how critical studies can revamp EU studies and provide a novel, sophisticated understanding of European integration."

Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, Rutgers University, USA; Sciences Po Paris, France

"Masterly architectured, this volume invites readers to take on insightfully engaging journeys, navigating them into the critical 'pluriverse' of EU theorizing. A reflectively seminal offering; to use a Greek word, a 'sponde' - libation - to the field!"

Dimitris N. Chryssochoou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

"This is a most welcome and comprehensive book by a stellar team of editors and contributors. Acknowledging at a challenging juncture, normative concerns and impositions of power as well as a marginalising impact, the team offers analytical power and to marginalise both apologetic and toxic destructive theory and practice."

Knud Erik Jorgensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

"Call it analytical tough love or a paradoxical mainstreaming of critical European studies, this truly impressive handbook stands as an unprecedented achievement, a unique tapestry of critical threads. Lucky readers can at last weave these threads together thanks to a brilliant team of editors and contributors, committed to emancipation from the dark side of our modernity as the ultimate goal of the knowledge we produce."

Kalypso Nicolaidis, University of Oxford, UK

"This is an exceptional contribution to our understanding of contemporary Europe. Much more than a handbook, it shows how Europe's most creative analysts have tried to understand its most unpredictable dynamics. Both appreciative and sceptical, elegantly conceived and diagnostically incisive, it exposes a Europe that far exceeds the usual cliches of nationalism and integration."

R.B.J. Walker, University of Victoria, Canada

"With the process of European integration at a critical historical juncture, this Handbook of 'Critical' analyses could not come at a better time. A remarkably valuable and wide-ranging contribution, and an essential guide for understanding some of the key issues of our time."

Michael C. Williams, University of Ottawa, Canada

Book Information
ISBN 9780367506568
Author Didier Bigo
Format Paperback
Page Count 564
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 585g