The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies

"This handbook brings together an unprecedented number of experts in the emerging field of critical European Union studies. Their contributions collectively provide a masterful synthesis of critical theoretical approaches, as well as an insightful analysis of the most salient aspects of EU policies, politics and processes in varied issue areas. Employing rigorous research designs and comprehensive empirical evidence, the authors perfectly illustrate how critical studies can revamp EU studies and provide a novel, sophisticated understanding of European integration."

Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, Rutgers University, USA; Sciences Po Paris, France

"Masterly architectured, this volume invites readers to take on insightfully engaging journeys, navigating them into the critical ‘pluriverse’ of EU theorizing. A reflectively seminal offering; to use a Greek word, a ‘spondȇ’ – libation – to the field!"

Dimitris N. Chryssochoou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

"This is a most welcome and comprehensive book by a stellar team of editors and contributors. Acknowledging at a challenging juncture, normative concerns and impositions of power as well as a marginalising impact, the team offers analytical power and to marginalise both apologetic and toxic destructive theory and practice."

Knud Erik Jørgensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

"Call it analytical tough love or a paradoxical mainstreaming of critical European studies, this truly impressive handbook stands as an unprecedented achievement, a unique tapestry of critical threads. Lucky readers can at last weave these threads together thanks to a brilliant team of editors and contributors, committed to emancipation from the dark side of our modernity as the ultimate goal of the knowledge we produce."

Kalypso Nicolaïdis, University of Oxford, UK

"This is an exceptional contribution to our understanding of contemporary Europe. Much more than a handbook, it shows how Europe’s most creative analysts have tried to understand its most unpredictable dynamics. Both appreciative and sceptical, elegantly conceived and diagnostically incisive, it exposes a Europe that far exceeds the usual clichés of nationalism and integration."

R.B.J. Walker, University of Victoria, Canada

"With the process of European integration at a critical historical juncture, this Handbook of 'Critical' analyses could not come at a better time. A remarkably valuable and wide-ranging contribution, and an essential guide for understanding some of the key issues of our time."

Michael C. Williams, University of Ottawa, Canada