Prelims

Europe's Malaise

ISBN: 978-1-83909-042-4, eISBN: 978-1-83909-041-7

ISSN: 0895-9935

Publication date: 7 October 2020

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(2020), "Prelims", Duina, F. and Merand, F. (Ed.) Europe's Malaise (Research in Political Sociology, Vol. 27), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xv. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0895-993520200000027020

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Europe's Malaise

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Research in Political Sociology

Series Editor: Barbara Wejnert

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Kansas State University, USA
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University of Pittsburgh, USA
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University of California Merced, USA
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California State University Chico, USA
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University of Kansas, USA
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Stanford University, USA
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Research in Political Sociology Volume 27

Europe's Malaise: The Long View

Edited by

Francesco Duina

Bates College, USA

Frédéric Merand

Université de Montréal, Canada

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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List of Figures

Figure 1. Trends in Support of Membership in the European Union.
Figure 2. Trends in Identification as National and in Identification as European.
Figure 1. Import Exposure in the United Kingdom and Leave Vote Share.

About the Contributors

Francesco Duina is Professor of Sociology and European Studies at Bates College. His research focuses on comparative regionalism and the relevance of nation states worldwide. His articles have appeared in journal such as the Journal of European Public Policy, Review of International Political Economy, and Economy and Society. His books include The Social Construction of Free Trade: The EU, NAFTA, and Mercosur (Princeton, 2006) and Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country (Stanford, 2018).

Adrian Favell is Chair in Sociology and Social Theory at the University of Leeds and an associate of the Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE), Sciences Po, Paris. He is the author of various works on multiculturalism, migration, cosmopolitanism, and cities, including Philosophies of Integration (Palgrave, 1998), The Human Face of Global Mobility (Taylor & Francis, 2006), and Eurostars and Eurocities (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008). A collection of his essays, Immigration, Integration, and Mobility, was published in 2015 (Rowman & Littlefield).

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has published in the areas of comparative regionalism, Latin American regionalism, interregionalism, legitimacy, and democracy at the global level. Recent publications include “Democratic Theory Questions Informal Global Governance” (International Studies Review, 2019) and “Negotiating Normative Premises in Democracy Promotion: Venezuela and the Inter-American Democratic Charter” (Democratization, 2019).

Nicolas Jabko is an Associate Professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Playing the Market: A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 19852005 (Cornell, 2006), co-editor of the eighth volume of the State of the European Union series (Oxford), and author of journal articles on European politics and political economy. His current research interests include neoliberalism, sovereignty, crisis politics, and constructivist and pragmatist approaches in political science.

Juan Díez Medrano is Professor of Sociology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He writes on nationalism and European integration. His publications include Framing Europe (Princeton, 2003) and “Multilingualism and European Identity” (Sociological Inquiry, 2018). He just published Europe, in Love: Binational Couples and Cosmopolitan Society (Routledge, 2020).

Frédéric Merand is Professor of Political Science and Director of CÉRIUM at the University of Montreal Center for International Studies. His work focuses on European politics and the sociology of international relations. His articles have come out in such journals as International Studies Quarterly, West European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Journal of Political Research and Security Studies. For the past four years, he conducted an ethnography of the European Commission. He recently edited Coping with Geopolitical Decline: The United States in European Perspective (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020)

Brendan O'Leary is the Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and World Leading Researcher Visiting Professor of Political Science at Queen's University Belfast. His most recent book, A Treatise on Northern Ireland (three volumes), was published by Oxford University Press in 2019, and It won the 2020 James S. Donnelly Sr Prize for the best book in History and Social Science of the American Conference on Irish Studies.

Agnieszka Pasieka is sociologist and anthropologist. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Vienna where she is working on a book project on youth far-right movements. Her recent publications include “Anthropology of the Far Right, or: What if We Like the Unlikeable Others?” (Anthropology Today, 2019), “Taking Far-Right Claims Seriously and Literally: Anthropology and the Study of Right-Wing Radicalism” (Slavic Review, 2017), and Hierarchy and Pluralism. Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland (Palgrave, 2015).

Krzysztof J. Pelc is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Political Science department at McGill University. His research examines the international political economy, with a focus on international rules. He is the author of Making and Bending International Rules: The Design of Exceptions and Escape Clauses in Trade Law (Cambridge, 2016) and numerous articles in journals such as Political Analysis, Journal of Politics, and International Organization.

Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University. She has published on the Eurozone crisis in New Political Economy, the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and Foreign Affairs.

List of Contributors

Francesco Duina is Professor of Sociology and European Studies at Bates College.

Adrian Favell is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds.

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann is Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Nicolas Jabko is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.

Juan Díez Medrano is Professor of Sociology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Frédéric Merand is Director of CÉRIUM, the Montréal Center for International Studies, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Montréal.

Brendan O'Leary is the Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and World Leading Researcher Visiting Professor of Political Science at Queen's University Belfast.

Agnieszka Pasieka is research fellow at the University of Vienna.

Krzysztof J. Pelc is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Political Science Department at McGill University.

Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University.

Acknowledgments

We thank Barbara Wejnert, the general series editor of Research in Political Sociology, for expressing interest in the idea at the core of this particular volume. We also thank Alice Ford and Helen Beddow at Emerald and Alice Chessé at McGill University for their help in the production process.

Each article in this volume underwent peer review. We are therefore grateful to the scholars who took the time to offer their invaluable insights and recommendations. Every article benefited significantly from their feedback. We are happy to acknowledge them here:

Chris Ansell (University of California, Berkeley)

Vincent Arel-Bundock (University of Montreal)

Stefan Auer (University of Hong Kong)

John Garry (Queen's University, Belfast)

John Hall (McGill University)

Dan Kelemen (Rutgers University)

Paulette Kurzer (University of Arizona)

Tobias Lenz (University of Göttingen)

John McGarry (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario)

Kathleen McNamara (Georgetown University)

Virag Molnar (New School for Social Research)

Craig Parsons (University of Oregon)

Several of the articles were presented as papers at a workshop held in March 2019 at McGill University and the University of Montreal, funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec—Société et Culture (FRQSC), “International Security Institutions in the Globalization Era.”