ABSTRACT
This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of Critical European Union Studies, sets the research agenda and highlights emerging areas of study. Bringing together critical analyses of European Union politics, policies and processes with an expert range of contributors, it overcomes disciplinary borders and paradigms and addresses four main thematic areas pertaining to the study of the European Union and its policies:
• Critical approaches to European integration;
• Critical approaches to European political economy;
• Critical approaches to the EU’s internal security;
• Critical approaches to the EU’s external relations and foreign affairs.
In their contributions to this volume, the authors take a sympathetic yet critical approach to the European integration process and the present structures of the European Union. Furthermore, the book provides graduate students and faculty with ideas for future research activity and introduces critical analyses rooted in a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives.
The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Union Studies will be an essential reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners interested and working in the fields of EU politics/studies, European integration, European political economy and public policy, EU foreign policy, EU freedom of movement and security practices, and more broadly in international relations, the wider social sciences and humanities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|140 pages
Critical theoretical approaches to European integration
chapter 2|13 pages
Justifying democracy in the European Union
part II|114 pages
Critical approaches to European political economy
part III|166 pages
Critical approaches to European Union's internal security
chapter 20|13 pages
The EU's so-called Mediterranean refugee crisis
chapter 24|16 pages
The European security industry
chapter 25|19 pages
The European Union and “Foreign Terrorist Fighters”
part IV|117 pages
Critical approaches to European Union's external relations and foreign affairs