Politics in the European Union

Part One: Theory; 1 Theories of European Integration; 2 Theories of EU Governance; 3 Theorizing Consequences; 4 Critical Perspectives; Part Two: History; 5 From the End of the War to the Schuman Plan (the late 1940s to the early 1950s); 6 The 'Other' European Communities and the Origins of the EEC (the early 1950s to the 1960s); 7 The First Years of the EEC (the 1960s and into the 1970s); 8 The Revival of European Integration (the mid-1970s to the late 1980s); 9 Maastricht and Amsterdam (the later 1980s to the late 1990s); 10 From Amsterdam to Lisbon (2000-2009); 11 The EU in Crisis (2009-2019); Part Three: Institutions; 12 The Institutional Architecture; 13 The European Commission; 14 The European Council and the Council of the European Union; 15 The European Parliament; 16 The Court of Justice of the European Union; 17 Organized Interests; Part Four: Policies; 18 Policy Making and Policies in the European Union; 19 The Single Market; 20 Economic and Monetary Union; 21 Agriculture; 22 Environment and Climate; 23 Freedom, Security, and Justice; 24 Trade and Development Aid; 25 Common Foreign and Security Policy; 26 Enlargement

Ian Bache is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. His EU-related books include: Multi-level Governance (with Matthew Flinders, 2004); the Europeanization of British Politics (with Andrew Jordan, 2006); and Europeanization and Multi-level Governance (2008). His more recent research focuses on the politics of wellbeing. He was awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2014. ; Simon Bulmer is Professor of European Politics at the University of Sheffield. He has published numerous books, articles and book chapters on the EU. The most recent books are Germany and the European Union: Europe's Reluctant Hegemon? (with William Paterson, Macmillan 2019), and The Member States of the European Union (with Christian Lequesne, OUP 2020). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. ; Stephan George is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He has authored, co-authored, and edited many books on the politics of policy-making in the European Union, and on British policy towards the EU, as well as numerous articles in journals and chapters in edited books. He is a former Chair of UACES, the UK's academic association for Contemporary European Studies. ; Owen Parker is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Government in Europe: Citizens and Entrepreneurs in Postnational Politics (Routledge 2013), and co-editor of Crisis in the Eurozone Periphery: The Political Economies of Greece, Spain, Ireland and Portugal (with Dimitris Tsarouhas, Palgrave 2018) as well as numerous articles on the EU, European politics and political economy. He previously worked for the European Commission on englargement policy. ; Charlotte Burns is a Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. Her recent projects involve analysing the impacts of Brexit on UK and EU environmental policy and the impact of the global financial and economic crisis upon EU environmental policy. Her research has appeared in a range of leading journals including the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies and Environmental Politics.

This is simply the best introduction to the EU and European integration currently available - a wonderful entry point for students who seek both broad-ranging coverage and deep knowledge of the subject. Ben Rosamond, Professor of Politics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark