Transnational Europe: promise, paradox, limits

Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. Theyinclude cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration, and politicalactivism. This volume probes their political and social significance and makes a case for incorporating transnationalism more systematically into the research agenda of European Studies. JOAN DEBARDELEBEN Chancellor's Professor in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University, Canada. . ACHIM HURRELMANN Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, Canada. INDICE: Introduction;' A.Hurrelmann' & 'J.DeBardeleben' - PART I TRANSNATIONALISM IN EUROPEAN STUDIES: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES - Transnationalism and the Theory of European Integration: Political Science Perspectives; 'A.Hurrelmann' - Transnationalism and the Political Sociology of European Transformation: Bringing People Back In; 'C.Rumford' - PART II TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE: POLICY MAKING AND INTEREST MOBILIZATION - Transnationalism in European Governance and Policy Making; 'I.Tömmel' - The Emergence of a Public Sphere for the European Union: Prospects for - Transnationalism through Mass Media Communication?; 'P.Statham' - Protest in the EU: a Path toward Democracy?; 'D.Chabanet - 'European Integration and Transnational Labor Markets; 'N.Lillie' - East European Transformations and the Paradoxes of Transnationalization; 'D.Bohle' - PART IIITRANSNATIONAL SPACES, COMMUNITIES, AND IDENTITIES - Historicizing the Nation:Transnational Approaches to the Recent European Past; 'J.Casteel' - Integrating Migrants beyond the Nation-State? The Paradoxical Effects of Including - Newcomers in a European Social and Cultural Community;' O.Schmidtke' - Managing Ambivalence and Identity: Immigration Discourses and (Trans-)National - Identities in the European Union; 'R.Gould' - Muslim Migration, Institutional Development, and the Geographic Imagination: - the Aga Khan Development Network's Global Transnationalism; 'K.H.Karim' - The Social Lives of Borders: Political Economy at the Edge of the EU; 'A.Simonyi' & 'J.Allina-Pisano' - The Awkward Divide: Paradoxes of Transnationality at the PolishbUkrainian Border; 'K.Szmagalska-Follis' - Conclusion; 'J.DeBardeleben' & 'A.Hurrelmann'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24168-8
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés