Leading scholars explore the complex questions arising from the ongoing transformation of Europe through the deepening and widening effects of European integration. Based on authoritative analyses, the book takes account of the many national, transnational and international processes and contexts in which European integration has become embedded.

Neill Nugent is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published widely on the European Union and in 2013 was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary European Studies by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), 2013.

Introduction: Researching the European Union; M.Egan, N.Nugent& W.E.Paterson Historical Aplenty: But Still Too Isolated; N.P.Ludlow Integration Theory; F.Schimmelfennig The EU's Institutions; N.Nugent& W.E.Paterson Leadership and Intergovernmental Negotiations in the EU; D.Beach Governance and European Integration; B.G.Peters& S.Borás Democracy and EU Governance; B.Rittberger EU Law: A Tale of Microscope and Telescope; A.Ar New Directions in Europeanization Research; C.Radaelli& T.Exadaktylos Political Economy; M.Egan Monetary Union; W.Schelkle Justice and Home Affairs; C.Boswell Feminist Approaches; J.Kantola The EU in the World: Future Research Agendas; K.Smith Europe and Globalization; W.Jacoby& S.Meunier The Future Shape of the EU; H.Grabbe& U.Sedelmeier Hastening Slowly; European Union Studies, Between Reinvention and Continuing Fragmentation; W.E.Paterson, N.Nugent& M.Egan