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Routledge-UACES Contemporary European Studies (CES) interdisciplinary book series
"Where Politics and Social Science meet Europe"
The Routledge-UACES Contemporary European Studies (CES) interdisciplinary book series brings together one of the world’s most active European Studies associations, UACES, in partnership with Routledge (part of the Taylor and Francis group), a leading UK publisher with strong overseas sales, excellent design and production values, and outstanding marketing capacity.
Who is on the Editorial Board?
How Do I Propose a Book for Inclusion in the CES Series?
What happens after you have submitted your Proposal?
What evaluation criteria do the Series Editors/Reviewers use?
What happens if your proposal is accepted?
The Contemporary European Studies Series is an outlet for publication of first-rate research in European Union Studies. The Series primarily publishes research monographs, but will also consider proposals for research-driven and thematic edited volumes. Although essentially a Politics/IR series, the Series Editors are keen to encourage that are interdisciplinary. In brief, we aim to a provide a new and important outlet for books on EU Studies, adopting perspectives and approaches that bring together political science and cognate disciplines.
CES seeks to publish excellent material from both established and new scholars.
The Series Editors are:
Dr Tanja Börzel (boerzel@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Dr Michelle Cini (michelle.cini@bristol.ac.uk)
Dr Roger
Scully (rgs@aber.ac.uk)
Prof Alex Warleigh-Lack is a founding editor of the series.
Tanja A. Börzel is professor of political science and holds the Chair of European Integration at the Free University of Berlin. She completed her Ph.D. at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, in 1999. Between 1999 and 2004, she held positions at the Max-Planck Institute for Common Goods, Bonn, at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and at the University of Heidelberg. Her teaching and research interests include international institutions, compliance, European politics, comparative federalism, and the implementation of EU policies. She has published several articles on these subjects. Her current research projects are on compliance with EU norms and rules in member states, accession countries, and neighbourhood countries. She published a book on States and Regions in the European Union with Cambridge University Press in 2002. Her second book Environmental Leaders and Laggards in Europe came out in March 2003.
Michelle Cini is Reader in European Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol. Her research interests include the institutional politics of the European Union, the internal administration of the European Commission, European competition and state aid policy, and EU-Malta relations. In recent years, she has written a number of journal articles covering these fields, as well as editing an acclaimed EU text book EU Politics (Oxford University Press, 2003), and a co-edited (with A. K. Bourne) book on the state of the art in EU studies, Palgrave Guide to European Union Studies (Palgrave, 2006). She is currently working on a second edition of the text book and is writing a research monograph on the management of ethics within the European institutions, focusing in particular on the European Commission after 1999. This is funded by a Nuffield Foundation small grant. Michelle’s teaching interests reflect her research interests. She has run courses on EU politics and the comparative politics of Europe. She has held visiting professorships at NYU and Columbia, New York, at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lille, France, as well as at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. She has also spent a year as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Michelle is currently (2005-6) on research leave, in receipt of a one-year University of Bristol Research Fellowship.
Roger Scully is Reader in Political science and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His research has focused on institutional politics in the EU, and political representation. He is the author of Becoming Europeans? Attitudes, Behaviour and Socialisation in the European Parliament (Oxford University Press 2005), co-editor (with Rinus van Schendelen) of The Unseen Hand: Unelected EU Legislators (Frank Cass, 2002), and is currently completing a co-authored volume on Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation in the European Union. He has also published articles in, inter alia, the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, Publius: the Journal of Federalism, and Regional and Federal Studies.
Alex Warleigh-Lack was a series editor until September 2006 when he stepped down to become Chair of UACES. He is professor at the Brunel Business School, Brunel University, and was formerly Professor of International Politics and Public Policy at the University of Limerick. He previously taught at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Reading, after working in the European Parliament. His research interests are in the politics of EU reform, European Union institutions, comparative regional integration and integration theory. He is the author of several articles on integration theory, institutions and decision-making in the EU, and EU citizenship and democracy, and has published seven books (four monographs, three edited or co-edited volumes). His most recent books are Democracy in the EU: Theory, Practice and Reform (Sage, 2003) and the acclaimed textbook European Union: The Basics (Routledge, 2004). He is currently working on a project developing a theoretical framework for the comparative study of regional integration.
Gráinne De Búrca, Fordham University (deburca@law.fordham.edu)
Andreas Føllesdal, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo (andreas.follesdal@filosofi.uio.no)
Peter Holmes, University of Sussex (p.holmes@sussex.ac.uk)
Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (hooghe@unc.edu and l.hooghe@fsw.vu.nl)
David Phinnemore, Queen’s University Belfast (d.phinnemore@qub.ac.uk)
Mark Pollack, Temple University (mark.pollack@temple.edu)
Ben Rosamond, University of Warwick (b.j.rosamond@warwick.ac.uk)
Vivien Ann Schmidt, University of Boston (vschmidt@bu.edu)
Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh (jo.shaw@ed.ac.uk)
Mike Smith, University of Loughborough (m.h.smith@lboro.ac.uk)
Loukas Tsoukalis, University of Athens and European University Institute (lts@synthesis.gr)
1: The EU and Conflict Resolution: Promoting Peace in the Backyard by Nathalie Tocci
2: New Security Issues in Northern Europe by Clive Archer (ed)
3: The End of European Integration: Anti-Europeanism Explained by Paul Taylor
4: The European Union and International Development: The Politics of Foreign Aid by Maurizio Carbone
5: Central Banking Governance in the European Union: A Comparative Analysis by Lucia Quaglia
Forthcoming Titles
Martin Holland and Natalia Chaban (eds) – The European Union and the Asia-Pacific
Karen Heard-Lauréote - European Union Governance: Efficiency and Legitimacy in European Commission Committees
The EU and Conflict Resolution: Promoting Peace in the Backyard
Author: Nathalie Tocci
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN13: 9780415413947
Publication Date: 29/05/2007
Through the study of five ethno-political conflicts lying on or just beyond Europe's borders, this book analyzes the impact and effectiveness of EU foreign policy on conflict resolution.
Conflict resolution features strongly as an objective of the European Union's foreign policy. In promoting this aim, the EU's geographical focus has rested primarily in its beleaguered backyard to the south and to the east. Taking a strong comparative approach, Nathalie Tocci explores the principal determinants of conflict dynamics in Cyprus, Turkey, Serbia-Montenegro, Israel-Palestine and Georgia in order to assess the impact of EU contractual ties on them. The volume includes topical analyzis based on first-hand experience, in-depth interviews with all the relevant actors and photography in ongoing conflict areas in the Middle East, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans and the Caucasus. This revealing study shows that the gap between EU potential and effectiveness often rests in the specific manner in which the EU collectively chooses to conduct its contractual relations.
The EU and Conflict Resolution will be of interest to all readers who wish to acquire an excellent understanding of the EU's impact on conflict contexts and will appeal to scholars of European politics, security studies and conflict resolution.
New Security Issues in Northern Europe
Author: Clive Archer (ed)
This volume analyzes the Nordic and Baltic states' relationship with the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
Clive Archer presents a general background to the European Union's ESDP, the strategic situation of Northern Europe, the main security and defence policy issues faced by the states there, as well as outlining the main theoretical considerations concerning security in the region. Key chapters cover the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and the four Nordic states of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The selected contributors provide an analysis of the region as seen from Brussels and of the practical and theoretical issues arising from the study. This new text tackles an aspect of the ESDP that has previously received little attention, and reinvigorates old ground, blending together analytical, theoretical and policy-relevant approaches.
New Security Issues in Northern Europe will be a welcome addition to all those with an interest in security studies, European politics and international relations.
The End of European Integration: Anti-Europeanism Explained
Author: Paul Taylor
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN13:
9780415431057 (HB),
9780415431064 (PB)
Publication Date:
29/11/2007
This book provides an innovative examination of the European Union as it departs from its path of integration. Indeed so far has it departed that it could be described as having entered a new reality. The original reality was that captured in the evocative phrase in its founding agreement, the Treaty of Rome, that it should be an ever-closer union of peoples. Largely that was the path followed until the 1990s, but by the early twenty-first century there have been signs that it is turning into an ordinary international organization in which there is little overriding sense of purpose.
This book discusses the indications of this development and explains why it happened only a decade or so after a peak of popular enthusiasm in the early 1990s. The question was whether the EU would become less important for the member states, as seemed to be the case for the British, or whether the German pattern, in which the EU remained important, would prevail. This book concludes that the former is more likely in part because of problems with the policies of the European Union and its conduct, but more specifically because of the current prevailing political culture in Western Europe. Paul Taylor warns that the current problems are underestimated and that there is the risk of casually throwing away the considerable achievements of the integration process.
The End of European Integration will be of interest to all those with an interest in European integration, whether for or against. It will also interest students of European studies, European politics, and politics and international relations in general.
The European Union and International Development: The Politics of Foreign Aid
Author: Maurizio Carbone
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN13:
9780415414142
Publication Date: 6/12/2007
The European Union is a leading actor in international development, providing more than half of the world’s foreign aid, but also a unique case, combining the characteristics of a bilateral and a multilateral donor. Despite the general acknowledgment that policy coordination substantially improves both the effectiveness of foreign aid and the visibility of the EU in the international arena, Member States have consistently resisted any intrusion into what they consider a key area of their national sovereignty. The increases in volume of aid, the ambitious agenda on aid effectiveness, and the adoption of the European Consensus on Development indicate a change of direction.
Using development policy as a starting point, this book provides a systematic analysis of the interaction between the European Commission and Member States. It explores the conditions in which the European Commission influences outcomes in the EU decision making process. It ultimately argues that the European Commission plays a leadership role, but this leadership is contingent upon the presence of an institutional entrepreneur, its internal cohesiveness, and the astute use of a repertoire of tactics.
Demonstrating that development policy may provide fresh insights into EU integration theory, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of European Politics and International Development.
Central Banking Governance in the European Union: A Comparative Analysis
Author: Lucia Quaglia
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN13:
9780415427517
Publication Date: 20/12/2007
This book fills a gap in academic literature on the politics and public policy aspects of central banking in Europe, by conducting a theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded analysis of central banking governance before and after the establishment of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).
The main framework for analysis is a ‘multi-level institutionalist approach’, articulated on three interconnected levels: the ‘systemic-level’, which encompasses the European, transnational and international arenas; the ‘national-level’, which considers the configuration of the domestic socio-economic and political environment in which each central bank operates; and the ‘micro-institutional level’, which deals with the specific features of each central bank.
Methodologically, the research engages in a structure-focused comparison, using qualitative methods. In order to do so, it conceptually develops and empirically applies the notion of ‘mode’ of central banking governance, operationalised through four main components:
the legal framework
central bank ‘autonomy’ (or de facto independence) from the political authorities
central bank ‘policy capacity’ in three policy areas that are crucial for central banking governance, namely monetary and exchange rate policies, financial regulation and supervision
central bank legitimacy.
Empirically, this monograph focuses on the Bank of England, the Bundesbank, the Banca d'Italia and the ECB over the period 1979 to present, with particular attention paid to the last decade. It is grounded in in-depth and extensive primary research, enriched by interviews with policy-makers.
Central Banking Governance in the European Union will be of interest to students and researchers of Politics, Economics and Political Economy.
Book proposals must include the following material:
Proposals should be sent to one or more of the Series Editors and/or to Heidi Bagtazo (heidi.bagtazo@tandf.co.uk) at Routledge.
Download the CES proposal form [53kb PDF document]
What happens after you have submitted your Proposal?
Once your proposal has been received, it will be circulated to the three Series Editors and the Routlege editor for evaluation. Before accepting a proposal, we may at this point invite you to rework and resubmit the proposal before sending it out for review.
If the Series Editors believe that the book fits the Series’ mission, we then ask respected academic specialists in the field, including members of our own Series Editorial Board, to give us independent advice on the content, quality and potential market for a finished book based on your proposal or manuscript. We normally solicit two or three reports at this stage. This process should take 8-12 weeks but can take longer as it is sometimes difficult to find suitable reviewers, and reviewers sometimes interpret deadlines rather loosely. If the reviews are positive and the project is endorsed by the Series Editors, the proposal is then sent to Routledge for final approval.
What evaluation criteria do the Series Editors/Reviewers use?
The Series Editors, UACES-Routledge Contemporary European Studies Editorial Board and the Routledge Editor will consider several questions: Does the proposal meet a high academic standard? Is the proposal for a research monograph (rather than for a text book)? Is there a market for a book on this subject? What kind of competition is there in books on this subject? If there is a gap in the market, is this the right book to fill it? Is there evidence that the author has the skills necessary to complete the project? If the editors are satisfied at this stage, the proposal will then be evaluated by independent academic experts.
If your proposal is accepted you will receive a draft contract, which you sign and return to Routledge. The contract includes an agreed date for the delivery of the manuscript. Once the book has been written and delivered, you will liaise with a desk-editor at Routledge over the copy-editing and production process. Routledge will then publish, market and sell the book as part of the CES series.
Most of the books are published in hardback and normally cost £65.00. There is a discount on the hardbacks (for UACES Individual and Student Members only) until 31 March 2008. The discount price is £25.00. To order your copies please complete and return the Order Form.
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