European Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Spanish Cinema in the Global Context

   Film on Film

   By Samuel Amago

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Across a broad spectrum of media, markets, and national contexts, self-reflexivity continues to be a favored narrative mode with wide ranging functions. In this book Amago argues that, in addition to making visible industry and production concerns within the film text, reflexive aesthetics have a...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Transatlantic Regulation

   Edited by Susanne Lütz

   The European and American economies are closely interlinked as mutually important investment and trading partners. The growing intensity of economic interdependence has spurred the transatlantic coordination of rules and standards that can lead to the formation of non-tariff barriers to...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. New Perspectives on Turkey-EU Relations

   Edited by Chris Rumford

   This book makes the case for looking afresh at Turkey-EU relations in order to appreciate the richness and complexity of a relationship which is now more than 50 years old and is still not close to reaching fulfilment. The contributors challenge conventional attempts to understand Turkey-EU...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

   Does EU Membership Matter?

   Edited by Tim Haughton

   What impact has EU membership had on party politics in Central and Eastern Europe? Although there is an emerging body of literature on the Europeanization of political parties, most of these accounts focus exclusively on Western Europe. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
5. Deconstructing Europe

   Postcolonial Perspectives

   Edited by Sandra Ponzanesi, Bolette Blaagaard

   This book engages with the question of what makes Europe postcolonial and how memory, whiteness and religion figure in representations and manifestations of European ‘identity’ and self-perception. To deconstruct Europe is necessary as its definition is now contested more than ever, both internally...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Political Economy of Europe's Incomplete Single Market

   Edited by David Howarth, Tal Sadeh

   Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

   Progress in European market integration over the past two decades has come at the expense of growing flexibility, or differentiation, in the laws that govern the Single Market (SM) as well as the way that these laws are implemented. This volume examines how the completion of the SM has been held...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Contested and Shared Places of Memory

   History and politics in North Eastern Europe

   Edited by Jorg Hackmann, Marko Lehti

   The Baltic–Russian debates on the past have become a hot spot of European memory politics. Violent protests and international tensions accompanying the removal of the "Bronze Soldier" monument, which commemorated the Soviet liberation of Tallinn in 1944, from the city centre in April 2007 have...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Civilization and Empire

   China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society

   By Shogo Suzuki

   Series: New International Relations

   This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Eastern Partnership: A New Opportunity for the Neighbours?

   Edited by Elena Korosteleva

   This volume offers a collective assessment of the development and impact of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership Initiative on its eastern neighbours - Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova in particular, with Russia’s added perspective. Founded on extensive empirical and conceptual...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film

    Cinema Year Zero

    By Giuliana Minghelli

    Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

    This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge