The Handbook promotes the increasing diversity of perspectives employed in the study of contemporary Europe and EU integration is situated in the context of Europes transformations.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction: The Stuff of European Studies - Chris Rumford
• Contexts: History, Culture, Politics
• 2 Europe Transformed, 1945-2000 - Charles Tilly
• 3 The European Heritage: History, Memory, and Time - Gerard Delanty
• 4 Europe Beyond East and West - William Outhwaite
• 5 Postcolonial Europe, or Understanding Europe in Times of the Postcolonial - Gurminder K. Bhambra
• Polity-Building: Institutionalization, Governance, Europeanization
• 6 Supranational Governance - Ben Rosamond
• 7 National Interests - Jeffrey Lewis
• 8 Markets - Michelle Egan
• 9 Law and Justice - Lisa Conant
• 10 Institutionalizing Democracy: Facing up to a Common Future - Dimitris N. Chryssochoou
• 11 Competing Visions of European Union - Craig Parsons
• 12 Enlargement and the Meaning of Europe - John McCormick
• Themes and Issues
• 13 Uses and Abuses of the Concept of Integration - Philomena Murray
• 14 Economic Growth and Global Competitiveness: From Rome to Maastricht to Lisbon - Amy Verdun
• 15 Agricultural Policy and Protectionism - Wyn Grant
• 16 Europe and Global Governance - Jose M. Magone
• 17 The Geopolitics of European Freedom and Security - John Agnew
• 18 Nationalism and Transnationalism - Victor Roudometof
• 19 Migration, Minorities and Marginality: New Directions in Europe Migration Research - Franck Düvell
• 20 Citizenship, Democracy and the Public Sphere - John Erik Fossum
• 21 Social Movements - Donatella della Porta
• 22 Multiculturalism and Public Culture: A Historical Critique - Nick Stevenson
• 23 Religion: Towards a Postsecular Europe? - Effie Fokas
• 24 Welfare State Formation in the Enlarged European Union: Patterns of Reform in Postcommunist States - Susanne Fuchs and Claus Offe
• 25 Cities and Territorial Competitiveness - Neil Brenner
• 26 Regions and Regional Dynamics - Anssi Paasi
• 27 Europe's Borders - William Walters
• 28 An Intellectual Homeland: Governing Mobilities and Space in European Education - Martin Lawn
• 29 Network Europe and the Information Society - Barrie Axford
• Future Directions
• 30 The Contrasting Fortunes of European Studies and EU Studies: Grounds for Reconciliation? - Francis McGowan
• 31 Normative Power Europe: A Transdisciplinary Approach to European Studies - Ian Manners
• 32 Europe as a Postemotional Idea - or, ‘Upon Us All There Still Lies “the Curse of Cromwell”’ - Stjepan G. Mestrovic
• 33 Understanding the Real Europe: A Cosmopolitan Vision - Ulrich Beck
• 34 The Mountain Comes to Muhammad: Global Islam in Provincial Europe - Faisal Devji
• 35 Cosmopolitan Europe and European Studies - Craig Calhoun