Transnational Europe - Promise, Paradox, Limits

Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. They include cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration within or into the EU, and Europeanized forms of political debate or activism. How significant are such transnational connections for European integration, and how do they relate to broader societal transformations in the EU and its member states? This interdisciplinary volume examines the multifaceted contours of transnationalism in Europe, probing their importance for EU and member-state governance, political mobilization, social inclusion and exclusion and collective identities. It demonstrates that the concept of transnationalism provides a valuable analytical framework for studying European politics and societies, and makes a case for incorporating the concept more systematically into the research agenda of European Studies.

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 Polish–Ukrainian Border; K.Szmagalska-Follis Conclusion; J.DeBardeleben & A.Hurrelmann