The Routledge Handbook of European Union Politics

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-78624-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 604 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

This handbook provides a comprehensive, state of the art account of politics of the European Union.

It pays particular attention to the profound challenges the EU faces which transform the foundation of its politics, such as internal (Brexit, democratic backsliding, growing nationalism and populism, and new protectionism) and external (the return of great-power competition, the war in Ukraine, reconfigurations of power, and the weakening of multilateral institutions reshaping the EU’s security) realities. The handbook examines how conflicts over values, authority, and governance now permeate the European project and how the EU’s political order adapts to crisis and contestation. With this, it analyses and systematically summarizes the institutional dynamics between integration and autonomy, patterns of participation, contestation and identity, and the EU’s external relations in a fragile world order, revealing core aspects and characteristics of EU politics.

The Routledge Handbook of European Union Politics is a uniquely comprehensive and core reference for all scholars, students and readers seeking to understand key, overarching trends in contemporary EU politics and the way it has evolved historically.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knodt, Michele

Knodt, Michèle

Chaban, Natalia

Costa, Oriol

Muller, Patrick

Müller, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: European Politics in Times of Global and Domestic Changes  Part 1: Characteristics of EU Politics  2.  Governance and Politics in the European Union: A Political System sui generis between Nation State and International Organisation  3. EU Politics in a Multi-Level Governance System  4. Democratic Governance in the European Union  5. Differentiated Integration  6. Europeanization  7. European Disintegration  8. (Harder) Soft Governance in the European Union  9. EU Responses to Democratic Backsliding  10. Polycrisis and Resilience in the European Union  11. BREXIT  12. European Politics in Crisis Management  Part 2: Institutions in EU Politics: Between Autonomy and Integration  13. The European Commission  14. Council of the European Union  15. European Council: The EU’s Lead Executive Institution  16. Regions in EU Politics  17. Cities and Urban Politics in the EU  18. The European Parliament: Dealing with Inter-institutional Gains, Political Pressure and Structural Deficits  19. Cleavages in the European Parliament  20. The Court of Justice of the European Union in EU Politics  21. Trilogues as a (Formal) Informal Tool of EU Decision-making  22. Agencification in the EU Multilevel Administrative System  23. The European Administrative Space: Policy-making in Multilevel Administration  Part 3: Participation, Attitudes and Perceptions in the EU  24. Citizens' Attitudes to the European Union in Times of Crisis  25. Changes in EU Voters’ Preferences and Policy Priorities  26. From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissensus: The Politicisation of the European Union in Domestic Public Opinion  27. EU Citizens’ Perceptions of the European Union’s Leadership Performance  28. Collaborative Journalism and Politics in Europe: Journalists as Opinion-Shapers and Members of the Public in the EU  29. Central European Populist Euroscepticism: Perceptions of the European Union  30. Participation in the EU  31. Democratic Resilience in the EU and the Role of Citizen Engagement Mechanisms  32. EU Interest Groups: Lobbying Strategies and Transparency Regulation  33. The Double Fragmentation of the European Public Sphere  34. Conference on the Future of Europe  35. Gender and Politics in the EU  Part 4: External Dimension of EU Politics  36. The EU and the Fragmentation of the Liberal International Order  37. External Differentiated Integration: Institutionalizing Third Country Participation in the EU  38. Hostage-taking in EU Foreign and Security Politics  39. The Geopolitical Commission  40. The Multiple-hatted Role of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy  41. The European Parliament in EU Foreign Policy: An ‘Evolving Diplomatic Actor’  42. Enlargement Politics: From Normative Transformation to Geostrategic Investment  43. The EU and Multilateral Negotiations  44. The Dynamics of Organizational Overlap in European Security: EU, NATO and the Politics of Interorganizational Cooperation  45. Hybrid Interference and EU Governance

Über Autor(innen)

Michèle Knodt is Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair, ad personam at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.

Natalia Chaban is a Professor at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Canterbury (UC), New Zealand, and a twice-awarded Jean Monnet Chair.

Oriol Costa is a Senior Research Associate at IBEI and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Patrick Müller is Professor of European Studies at the University of Vienna and the Vienna School of International Studies, Austria.