Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. They include cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration, and political activism. This volume probes their political and social significance and makes a case for incorporating transnationalism more systematically into the research agenda of European Studies.

"Dissecting processes of transnationalization in significant realms of European politics and society, Joan DeBardeleben, Achim Hurrelmann and their co-authors claim a transnational perspective for European Studies.A timely and welcome contribution, the transnational approach enriches interdisciplinary dialogue and challenges established theories to ask new questions on European governance, social inequalities and collective identities."

Thomas Faist, Professor of Transnational and Development Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany

"This volume addresses the topical theme of transnationalism. Its original approach to this topic consists in studying 'transnational Europe' from different perspectives . As the editors summarise convincingly in the conclusion, the book most directly engages with neo-functionalist assumptions about spill-overs and unintended consequences. Carefully, however, the editors stress that transnational Europe does not promote a rival theory to Neofunctionalism, but offers a distinct, more detailed and more up-to date perspective on European integration studies and European studies more broadly speaking than the latter could have predicted in the last century. The book will make especially useful reading as a companion to European Integration theories on all academic levels and will offer important inspiration to practitioners as well.'

Antje Wiener, Professor, Hanse-Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany and University of Hamburg, Germany

Autorentext
JESSICA ALLINA-PISANO Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada DOROTHEE BOHLE Associate Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Hungary JAMES CASTEEL Assistant Professor in the Religion Program (College of Humanities) and in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada DIDIER CHABANET Research Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, France JOAN DEBARDELEBEN Chancellor's Professor in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and Director of the Centre for European Studies, Carleton University, Canada ROBERT GOULD Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies and in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada ACHIM HURRELMANN Associate Professor of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada KARIM H. KARIM Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, and Co-Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK NATHAN LILLIE Assistant Professor of International Business and Management, University of Groningen, the Netherlands CHRIS RUMFORD Professor in Political Sociology and Global Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK OLIVER SCHMIDTKE Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Political Science and holderof the Jean Monnet Chair in European History and Politics, University of Victoria, Canada ANDRÉ SIMONYI PhD candidate in the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada PAUL STATHAM Director of the International Research Network on European Political Communications and Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol, UK KAROLINA SZMAGALSKA-Follis Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland

Inhalt
Introduction; A.Hurrelmann & J.DeBardeleben PART I TRANSNATIONALISM IN EUROPEAN STUDIES: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES Transnationalism and the Theory of European Integration: Political Science Perspectives; A.Hurrelmann Transnationalism and the Political Sociology of European Transformation: Bringing People Back In; C.Rumford PART II TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE: POLICY MAKING AND INTEREST MOBILIZATION Transnationalism in European Governance and Policy Making; I.Tömmel The Emergence of a Public Sphere for the European Union: Prospects for Transnationalism through Mass Media Communication?; P.Statham Protest in the EU: a Path toward Democracy?; D.Chabanet European Integration and Transnational Labor Markets; N.Lillie East European Transformations and the Paradoxes of Transnationalization; D.Bohle PART III TRANSNATIONAL SPACES, COMMUNITIES, AND IDENTITIES Historicizing the Nation: Transnational Approaches to the Recent European Past; J.Casteel Integrating Migrants beyond the Nation-State? The Paradoxical Effects of Including Newcomers in a European Social and Cultural Community; O.Schmidtke Managing Ambivalence and Identity: Immigration Discourses and (Trans-)National Identities in the European Union; R.Gould Muslim Migration, Institutional Development, and the Geographic Imagination: the Aga Khan Development Network's Global Transnationalism; K.H.Karim The Social Lives of Borders: Political Economy at the Edge of the EU; A.Simonyi & J.Allina-Pisano The Awkward Divide: Paradoxes of Transnationality at the PolishUkrainian Border; K.Szmagalska-Follis Conclusion; J.DeBardeleben & A.Hurrelmann