The Informal Construction of Europe
Informal dimensions of European integration have received limited academic attention to date, despite their historical and contemporary importance. Particularly studies in European integration history, while frequently mentioning informal processes, have as yet rarely conceptualised the study of informality in European integration, and thus fail usually to systematically analyse conditions, impact and consequences of informal action.
Including case studies that discuss both successful and failed examples of informal action in European integration, this book assembles cutting-edge research by both early-career and more experienced scholars from all over Europe to fill this lacuna. The chapters of this volume offer a guide to the study of informality and show how informality has impacted European integration history and the functioning of the EC/EU as well as other European organisations in a variety of ways. Reflecting the diversity of studies within this burgeoning field of research, within and across several academic disciplines, the book approaches the informal dimensions of European integration from different disciplinary, methodological and thematic angles.
This book will be of key interest to students and scholars of European integration, EU politics/studies, European politics, European Union history, and more broadly to comparative politics and international relations.
Lennaert van Heumen is a PhD candidate and Lecturer at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Mechthild Roos is a visiting fellow of the Institute of Political Science, University of Luxembourg, and a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Augsburg University, Germany.
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The Informal Construction of Europe
Edited by Lennaert van Heumen and Mechthild Roos
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Contents
MECHTHILD ROOS AND LENNAERT VAN HEUMEN
MECHTHILD ROOS, WITH CHRISTINE NEUHOLD
N. PIERS LUDLOW
JORRIT STEEHOUDER AND CLEMENS VAN DEN BERG
LARS LEHMANN
LENNAERT VAN HEUMEN
CARLOS LPEZ GME
ILARIA ZAMBURLINI
ANDI SHEHU
LOLA AVRIL
SARA VENDITTI
DANIEL SCHADE
EMMANUEL MOURLON-DRUOL
Lola Avril, Universit Paris I Panthon Sorbonne.
Clemens van den Berg, Utrecht University.
Lennaert van Heumen, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Lars Lehmann, Humboldt University Berlin/Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Carlos Lpez Gmez, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija/Universidad Pontificia Comillas.
N. Piers Ludlow, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, University of Glasgow.
Christine Neuhold, Maastricht University.
Mechthild Roos, University of Luxembourg and Augsburg University.
Daniel Schade, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
Andi Shehu, European University Institute.
Jorrit Steehouder, Utrecht University.
Sara Venditti, LUISS Guido Carli.
Ilaria Zamburlini, University of Trieste-University of Udine.
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