Transnational Europe

JESSICA ALLINA-PISANO Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada DOROTHEE BOHLE Associate Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Hungary JAMES CASTEEL Assistant Professor in the Religion Program (College of Humanities) and in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada DIDIER CHABANET Research Fellow at the Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, France JOAN DEBARDELEBEN Chancellor's Professor in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and Director of the Centre for European Studies, Carleton University, Canada ROBERT GOULD Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies and in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada ACHIM HURRELMANN Associate Professor of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada KARIM H. KARIM Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, and Co-Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK NATHAN LILLIE Assistant Professor of International Business and Management, University of Groningen, the Netherlands CHRIS RUMFORD Professor in Political Sociology and Global Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK OLIVER SCHMIDTKE Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Political Science and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in European History and Politics, University of Victoria, Canada ANDRE SIMONYI PhD candidate in the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada PAUL STATHAM Director of the International Research Network on European Political Communications and Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol, UK KAROLINA SZMAGALSKA-Follis Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland

Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. They include cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration, and political activism. This volume probes their political and social significance and makes a case for incorporating transnationalism more systematically into the research agenda of European Studies.Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. They include cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration, and political activism. This volume probes their political and social significance and makes a case for incorporating transnationalism more systematically into the research agenda of European Studies.