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Transnational European Union: Towards a Common Political Space book cover

1st Edition

Transnational European Union Towards a Common Political Space

Edited By Wolfram Kaiser, Peter Starie Copyright 2005
256 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the European Union is an increasingly dense transnational social and political space. More and more non-governmental organisations develop transnational links, which are usually more intensive within the EU, even if they often extend beyond its borders to the wider world. This multi-disciplinary volume explores the importance of these structures,... Read more

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

The European Union as a transnational political space: Introduction

Wolfram Kaiser and Peter Starie

I. Conceptual Perspectives

1. Transnational Western Europe since 1945: Integration as political society formation

Wolfram Kaiser

2. Transnational networks: Informal governance in the European political space

Karen Heard-Lauréote

3. Transnational socialization: Community-building in an integrated Europe

Frank Schimmelfennig

4. Transnational business: Power structures in Europe’s political economy

Bastiaan van Apeldoorn

II. Transnationalism in Practice

5. Trade unions as a transnational movement in the European space 1955-1965: Falling short of ambitions?

Patrick Pasture

6. The alliance of European Christian democracy and conservatism: Convergence through networking

Karl Magnus Johansson

7. German political foundations: Transnational party go-betweens in the EU enlargement process

Dorota Dakowska

8. Transnational actors in the European Higher Education Area: European opportunities and institutional embeddedness

Erik Beerkens

9. Copweb Europe: Venues, virtues and vexations of transnational policing

Monica Den Boer

10. Transnational consensus building in EMU economic governance: Elite interaction and national preference formation

Daniela Schwarzer

Index

Biography

Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. His most recent books include (ed. with J. Elvert) European Union Enlargement. A Comparative History (2004); Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945 (2004); Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans. Britain and European Integration 1945-1963 (1999). He is currently writing a book on transnational Christian democracy in 20th century Europe.
Peter Starie is Principal Lecturer in Politics at the University of Portsmouth. He has mainly published on policy networks and European integration.

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