European Politics

Building on the earlier Ashgate publication EU Labour Migration Since Enlargement, the editors have assembled a team of experts from across Europe to shed light on the critical issues raised by internal labour mobility within the EU in the context of economic crisis and labour market pressures. The ..

The debate about the opening-up of labour markets in the enlarged European Union is crucial for the ongoing process of European integration. The contributions to this book shed light on the dimensions, characteristics and impacts of labour migration between selected sending (Hungary, Latvia and Pola..

This book offers an empirical and theoretical assessment of the European Semester, examining its implications along three critical axes, running respectively between the economic and the social, the supranational and the intergovernmental, and the technocratic and democratic poles of EU governance. ..

The ’Arab Spring’ triggered paradigmatic shifts but, despite these changes, much in the Euro-Mediterranean region remains the same. Utilising ’Logics of Action’, an innovative theoretical framework designed to capture the complexity of political interaction in one of the fastest changing regions in ..

This is a major new book on the question of Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West. The contributors show, from a variety of different perspectives, that the conventional equation of Europe with the West must be questioned...

First published in 1998, this volume asked what is Europe, what is Finland’s position in Europe and tries to give an answer to these questions by defining first Europe in terms of its key political traditions and then locating Finland into this map of historical ideas...

This volume is a broad-ranging, European-focused examination of the end of the Cold War...

Charting the path from intervention to integration Europe and the Post-Yugoslav Space examines the role of Europeanization on the development of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo may have a shared history but t..

Examines the concept of Europe in relation to the USA, the developing world and the former Soviet Union, drawing on the perspectives of international history, politics and economics...

For the last two decades the number of political organizations on the far right, neo-populist right and neo-conservative right has been growing in number. This book measures the effects of neo-populist groups on the current political establishment and illustrates how much political appeal neo-populi..

A study of illiberal practices of liberal regimes in the field of security. The work explores the relationship between the internal and external effects of these practices in an increasingly interconnected world order, as well as the effects in relation to the place of the EU in world 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..