The SAGE Handbook of European Union Politics

Mark A. Pollack is Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in the Department of Political Science at Temple University, where he teaches classes in international relations, international law, and European Union Politics. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995, and has previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His research agenda focuses on the promise and limits of international cooperation, with special attention to the European Union, the delegation of powers to supranational organizations, the politics of international law, and transatlantic relations between the United States and the European Union. Prof. Pollack is the author of two books: The Engines of European Integration: Delegation, Agency and Agenda Setting in the European Union (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), and, with Gregory C. Shaffer, When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). He is also the editor or co-editor of six books, including most recently The Handbook of European Union Politics (with Knud Erik Jorgensen and Ben Rosamond, New York: Sage Publications 2009), and Policy-Making in the European Union, 6th edition (with Helen and William Wallace, New York: Oxford University Press 2010), as well as several dozen journal articles and book chapters. Prof. Pollack was designated by the European Union as Jean Monnet Chair in 2009, and he serves as co-director of the Penn-Temple European Studies Colloquium. He is currently working, with Prof. Jeffrey Dunoff of Temple Law School, on an edited volume, International Law and International Relations, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.

PART ONE: PROCESS: THEORIZING EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Overview - Ben Rosamond An Intellectual History of EU Studies Rationalist Approaches to European Integration - Mark A Pollack Constructivist Approaches to European Integration - Jeffrey Checkel Critical Approaches - Ian Manners Historical, Legal, Economic and Sociological Perspectives on EU Politics - Alan S Milward, Ramses Wessel, Adrian Favell, Patrick Crowley and David Mayes PART TWO: THE EU AS POLITY Overview - Simon Hix The EU as a Polity (I) Overview - Markus Jachtenfuchs The EU as a Polity (II) Legislative Politics - Gail McElroy Executive Politics - Jonas Tallberg Judicial Politics - Lisa Conant Organized Interests in the European Union - Jeremy Richardson Political Parties in the European Union - Tapio Raunio Political Communication, Political Socialization, and Public Opinion - Leonard Ray Constitutional Politics - Dario Castiglione and Justus Schoenlau The EU and Comparative Federalism - Kalypso Nicolaidis and R. Daniel Kelemen Political Theory - Andreas Follesdal Philosophy and EU Politics PART THREE: POLITICS AND POLICY-MAKING IN THE EU Overview - Helen Wallace and William Wallace The European Union, Politics, and Policy-Making The Study of Fiscal and Monetary Policy - Mark Hallerberg The Politics of Regulation and the Internal Market - Alasdair Young The Politics of Redistribution - Ian Bache Green Politics and Environmental Policy - Andrea Lenschow Gender - Elizabeth Prugl The Politics of EU Domestic Order - Andrew Geddes (3rd Pillar business) New Forms of Governance in the European Union - Martin Rhodes and Manuele Citi The EU and Domestic Politics - Tanja Boerzel and Thomas Risse From Implementation to Europeanization PART FOUR: THE EU AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM Overview - Knud Erik Jorgensen The Union as a Global Actor The Union and International Political Economy - Michael Smith Trade, Aid, and Monetary Policy European Foreign Policy - Walter Carlsnaes The `European and Universal Process'? - Alex Warleigh The EU, Comparative Regionalism and Global Governance

Overall, the Handbook of European Union Politics is a most useful book that can be highly recommended. A strong analytical framework coupled with unparalleled coverage of the major issues of the political science research of the EU makes this volume a formidable tool for teaching and a significant input to new scholarly research. It is both relatively sophisticated and very accessible to graduate students and advanced researchers. The clear writing style and the richness of information presented will certainly make this book interesting for non-academic readers. IGOR VIDACAK Institute for International Relations, Zagreb