Dr Simon Sweeney is a Reader in International Political Economy in the School for Business and Society at the University of York (UK). He is an experienced writer, and author of Europe, the State and Globalisation (Pearson Education, 2005). He has an extensive knowledge of EU literature, comprising EU history and development, institutional characteristics, policymaking, including foreign and security interests and 20 years' experience of teaching EU and European politics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Preface and acknowledgements

PART I: European Union and nationalism

1 Europe's history - the background to European integration

2 The state, sovereignty, and nationalism

3 Nationalism in Europe

PART II: European Union: Theory, process, and implementation

4 Integration theory, the European Union, and the state

5 European Union institutions and the state

6 EU governance and policymaking

7 International relations theory, the state, and the EU

PART III:European Union and contemporary economic globalisation

8 Enlargement: History, achievements, and the EU neighbourhood

9 EU as a global actor: Foreign, security, and defence policy

10 Policing, justice, migration, and internal security

11 Globalisation, the single market, trade, and EU social policy

PART IV: European Union and perpetual crisis

12 Economic and Monetary Union: Power, unity, discord

13 Democratic deficit, Euroscepticism, populism, and contested values

14 Sustainability and environmental policy, agriculture, fisheries, energy

[...]ope, the state, and globalisation

Glossary

Index