EUSA Review of Books
European Union Studies Association
Reviews Archive
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Why Noncompliance? The Politics of Law in the European Union
Reviewed by Daniel FinkeOverall, the book features an empirically rich and comprehensive study of compliance with EU law. It offers the essence of more than a decade of quantitative and qualitative empirical research by Tanja Börzel.
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Europe’s Future: Decoupling and Reforming
Reviewed by Matthias MatthijsThere is much to admire in Fabbrini’s Europe’s Future. His key contribution – to create a federal union of sovereign states – is both novel and imaginative, and is bound to stand the test of time. Fabbrini manages to compare the EU with the US in illuminating fashion as his knowledge of both unions is equally vast and detailed. Most of his predecessors have fallen short in their comparative exercise as they tend to grasp the intricacies of one but not the other.
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Globalization and Change in Higher Education: The Political Economy of Policy Reform in Europe
Reviewed by Marina Cino PagliarelloIn her book, Beverly Barrett asks what explains the institutional change within the implementation of the Bologna Process. By drawing from insights of historical institutionalism, the main hypothesis of the book is that the political economy context matters as it facilitates or impedes convergence on the Bologna goals.
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In the Red: The Politics of Public Debt Accumulation in Developed Countries
Reviewed by Charlotte RommerskirchenIn the Red tackles some of the biggest themes in political economy and public policy (labour, globalization, and inequality) and thus offers entry points for a diverse group of students and scholars.
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Banking on Markets. The Transformation of Bank-State Ties in Europe
Reviewed by Dorothee BohleAn important book, which offers a novel, rich and multi-faceted account of the transformation of the ties between states and banks in Europe.
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Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World
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Ruling Ideas. How Global Neoliberalism Goes Local
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An Ever More Powerful Court? The Political Constraints of Legal Integration in the European Union
Reviewed by Federica Bicchi, Nanette Neuwahl, Waltraud SchelkleBest Book in European Studies, published in 2015 or 2016
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In Place of Inter-State Retaliation. The European Union’s Rejection of WTO-style Trade Sanctions and Trade Remedies.
Reviewed by Federica Bicchi, Nanette Neuwahl, Waltraud SchelkleHonorable Mention in European Studies, published in 2015 or 2016
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From Convergence to Crisis. Labor Markets and the Instability of the Euro
Reviewed by Federica Bicchi, Nanette Neuwahl, Waltraud SchelkleHonorable Mention in European Studies, published in 2015 or 2016
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The Political Economy of Monetary Solidarity: Understanding the Euro Experiment
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Transformations in EU Gender Equality. From Emergence to Dismantling
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Varietals of Capitalism: a Political Economy of the Changing Wine Industry
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The New Intergovernmentalism: States and Supranational Actors in the Post-Maastricht Era
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The West and the Global Power Shift: Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance
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Extending Experimentalist Governance: The European Union and Transnational Regulation
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The Euro. How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe
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Which European Union? Europe after the Euro Crisis
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The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform. Governing Loose Women
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The European Union and the Rise of Regionalist Parties
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Religion and the Struggle for European Union: Confessional Culture and the Limits of Integration
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Resilient Liberalism in Europe’s Political Economy
Reviewed by Matthias MatthijsEdited by Vivien A. Schmidt and Mark Thatcher: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Transnational Law: Rethinking European Law and Legal Thinking
Reviewed by Jan KomárekMaduro, Miguel, Tuori, Kaarlo and Sankari, Suvi (eds.): Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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The Future of the Euro
Reviewed by Miguel Otero-IglesiasMatthias Matthijs and Mark Blyth (eds.): Oxford, UK: Oxford
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Rethinking the Union of Europe Post-crisis: Has Integration Gone Too Far?
Reviewed by Michael J. GearyGiandomenico Majone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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