The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367506568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 564 str.

Didier Bigo; Thomas Diez; Evangelos Fanoulis

Opis

This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of Critical European Union Studies, sets the research agenda and highlights emerging areas of study. Bringing together critical analyses of European Union politics, policies and processes with an expert range of contributors, it overcomes disciplinary borders and paradigms and addresses four main thematic areas pertaining to the study of the European Union and its policies:

• Critical approaches to European integration;

• Critical approaches to European political economy;

• Critical approaches to the EU’s internal security;

• Critical approaches to the EU’s external relations and foreign affairs.

In their contributions to this volume, the authors take a sympathetic yet critical approach to the European integration process and the present structures of the European Union. Furthermore, the book provides graduate students and faculty with ideas for future research activity and introduces critical analyses rooted in a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Union Studies will be an essential reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners interested and working in the fields of EU politics/studies, European integration, European political economy and public policy, EU foreign policy, EU freedom of movement and security practices, and more broadly in international relations, the wider social sciences and humanities.

Spis treści

Critical European Studies: An Introduction  PART I: Critical Theoretical Approaches to European Integration  Introduction: Towards a Critical Theorising of European Integration  1. Historical Materialism and European integration  2. Justifying Democracy in the European Union: Reasoning with Habermas against Habermas  3. Discursive Approaches  4. Governmentality Approaches  5. Postcolonialism  6. Critical Geopolitics  7. Practice Approaches  8. Gender Approaches  9. The European Union and Global Political Justice  10. Critical Social Theory Approaches to European Integration  PART II: Critical Approaches to European Political Economy  Introduction: Critical Political Economy and European Integration  11. Capitalist Diversity in Europe  12. European Economic Governance: A Feminist Perspective  13. The Market as Norm – the Governmentality of State Aid Regulation  14. Financialisation, Crisis and Austerity as the Distribution of Harm  15. Gendering the Political Economy of the European Social Model  16. Uneven Development in the EU: Processes of Core-Periphery Relations  17. Critical Political Economy and the Free Movement of People in the EU  18. Discourse Theory as a Novel Approach for Research on EU trade Policy  PART III: Critical Approaches to European Union’s Internal Security  Introduction: European Internal Security: A Pharmakon Producing Security, Unease, Insecurity and Violence?  19. The Genesis of Free Movement of Persons in the EU: Why and for Whom?  20. The EU’s So-Called Mediterranean Refugee Crisis: A Governmentality of Unease in a Teacup  21. Visa Policies and Their Effects: Preventing Mobility?  22. Inside-Out? Trajectories, Spaces and Politics of EU Internal (In)Security and its External Dimension  23. External Security Logics and the Pursuit of Internal Security in Europe  24. The European Security Industry: Technocratic Politics, Internal Security Cooperation, and the Emergence of Military R&D in the EU  25. The European Union and "Foreign Terrorist Fighters": Disciplining Irreformable Radicals?  26. Interoperability: A Political Technology for the Datafication of the Field of EU Internal Security?  27. Governance by arbitrariness at the EU Border: Trajectory Ethnographies of Illegalized Migrants  PART IV: Critical Approaches to European Union’s External Relations and Foreign Affairs  Introduction: The "Critical" in EU’s Foreign Policy and External Relations  28. Unravelling the Subjects and Objects of EU External Migration Law  29. Indispensable, Interdependent or Independent? A Critical Analysis of Transatlantic Relations  30. A Poulantzasian Perspective on EU Foreign Policy  31. EULEX Kosovo: A Status-Neutral and Technical Mission?  32. Rethinking EU Enlargement: Pastoral Power, Ambivalence and the Case of Turkey  33. The EU's Development Policy: Forging Relations of Dependence?  34. Critical Perspectives on Africa’s Relationship with the European Union  35. An Alternative Reading of EU Foreign Policy Administration  36. A Clash of Hybrid Exceptionalisms in EU-Russia Relations