Explores in detail the formation of EU policies in a variety of policy sectorsProposes a sociological approach to European integrationDeals comprehensively with several empirical manifestations of the emerging empire structure of the EU

Explores in detail the formation of EU policies in a variety of policy sectors Proposes a sociological approach to European integration Deals comprehensively with several empirical manifestations of the emerging empire structure of the EU

Autorentext

Risto Heiskala is Professor and Director of the Institute for Advanced Social Research at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Jari Aro is University Researcher at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Inhalt

1. The EU: A Deepening, Enlarging or Collapsing Union?.- 2. The Emergence of the European Union as a Very Incoherent Empire.- 3. An Extending Empire of Governance: The EU in Comparison to Empires Past and Present.- 4. A Promoter of Values or a Shopkeepers' Empire? Economy and Society in the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Trade Policy of the EU.- 5. Eurostat: Making Europe Commensurate and Comparable.- 6. The Power of Indicators in Making European States Governable in the Europe 2020 Strategy.- 7. Contradictory Fiscal Governance in the European Union: Towards a Consolidation Empire?.- 8. Social Innovation Policy in the European Union.- 9. Reproducing or Remaking the Social Contract with Young People in the Europe 2020 Strategy?.- 10. Is the EU a Great Power? The Case of Natural Gas.- 11. An Empire Without an Emperor? The EU and Its Eastern Neighbourhood.- 12. Imperial Worldmaking: Innovation and Security in the EU Compared to the USA and China.- 13. Future Challenges for the EU: Five Scenarios from Collapse and Marginalisation to the Emergence of a Federal Empire