The SAGE Handbook of European Studies

Professor Chris Rumford arrived at Royal Holloway on 1 September 2003 following a period as Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Istanbul Kultur University, and Visiting Fellow, City University, London. Chris has held a variety of positions including Senior Researcher at the Economic Development Foundation in Istanbul (IKV), and British Studies Consultant at the British Council.

Introduction: The Shifting Terrain of European Studies - Chris Rumford PART ONE: CONTEXTS: HISTORY, CULTURE, POLITICS Europe Transformed, 1945 - 2000 - Charles Tilly The European Heritage: History, Memory and Time - Gerard Delanty Europe beyond East and West - William Outhwaite Postcolonial Europe: Or, Understanding Europe in Times of the Post-Colonial - Gurminder K Bhambra PART TWO: POLITY-BUILDING: INSTITUTIONALIZATION, GOVERNANCE, EUROPEANIZATION Supranational Governance - Ben Rosamond National Interests - Jeffrey Lewis Markets - Michelle Egan Law and Justice - Lisa Conant A Question of Democracy, or, Facing up to the Future of Europe - Dimitris N Chryssochoou Competing Visions of European Union - Craig Parsons Enlargement and the Meaning of Europe - John McCormick PART THREE: THEMES AND ISSUES Uses and Abuses of the Concept of Integration - Philomena Murray Economic Growth and Global Competitiveness - Amy Verdun Agricultural Policy and Protectionism - Wyn Grant Europe and Global Governance - Jose Magone The Geopolitics of European Freedom and Security - John Agnew Nationalism and Transnationalism - Victor Roudometof Migration, Minorities, Marginality: New Directions in European Research - Franck Duvell Citizenship, Deomocracy and the Public Sphere - John Erik Fossum Social Movements - Donatella della Porta Multiculturalism and Public Culture: A Historical Critique - Nick Stevenson Religion: Towards a Post-Secular Europe? - Effie Fokas The Welfare State in an Enlarged European Union - Susanne Fuchs and Claus Offe Cities and Territorial Competitiveness - Neil Brenner Regions and Regional Dynamics - Anssi Paasi Borders - William Walters An Intellectual Homeland: Governing Mobilities and Space in European Education - Martin Lawn Network Europe and Information Society - Barrie Axford PART FOUR: FUTURE DIRECTIONS Reconciling EU and European Studies: Historical Perspectives on Regional Integration - Francis McGowan Normative Power Europe: A trans-Disciplinary Approach to European Studies - Ian Manners Europe as a Post-Emotional Idea - Stjepan Mestrovic Understanding the Real Europe: A Cosmopolitanism Vision - Ulrich Beck The Mountain Comes to Muhammad: Global Islam in Provincial Europe - Faisal Devji Cosmopolitan Europe and European Studies - Craig Calhoun

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 Chris Rumford has established himself as one of the most informed and incisive commentators on contemporary Europe. In this Handbook he has drawn upon this expertise to bring together some of the best scholars currently writing about Europe. Here are to be found both the best-known names and some of the younger and rising stars. 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 Chris Rumford's edited SAGE Handbook of European Studies offers an impressive account of the state of the art of the study of contemporary Europe... Overall, this is an outstanding work and a definite companion to all those interested in contemporary Europe. -- Journal of Contemporary European Studies