European integration continues to deepen despite major crises and attempts to take back
sovereignty. A growing number of member states are reacting to a more constraining EU by …

How do political authorities build support for themselves and their rule? Doing so is key to
accruing power, but it can be a complicated affair. The European Union, as a novel political …

In a context of economic and budgetary crisis, this book presents a long-term analysis of the
transformations of EU gender equality. It analyses the mechanisms of construction …

This article analyzes how Member States have used the opportunities and avoided the
constraints of the EU's multilevel governance architecture to return unwanted migrants …

Have European citizens become increasingly Eurosceptic over the last two decades, turning
their backs on European integration? Though many journalists, politicians and academics …

When taking stock of the now vast literature on Euroscepticism, one cannot but notice the
often deeply normative character of much of the academic research on this topic. This article …

This article seeks to discuss the emergence of transnational groups coming from the core of
state bureaucracies and what has sometimes been called the “deep” or “right hand” of the …

Parliaments risk becoming the main losers of internationalisation; a process that privileges
executives and experts. Still, parliamentarians have developed a range of responses to …

This was the response from President of the European Commission, Jose´ Manuel Barroso,
in 2007 when he was interviewed by Professor in International Politics, John Peterson …

This contribution aims at questioning the explanatory capacity of sociological approaches to
European integration in times of crisis. Its main argument is that in times of turmoil …