Books in the Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies series

Offers a comprehensive analysis of long- and short-term EU conflict prevention and crisis management policies undertaken in various theatres and policy domains, featuring case studies on West Africa, Afghanistan, and Morocco.

This accessible book examines the ways in which the European community will have to adapt to cope with a potential influx of new members into the next millenium. It will be essential reading for students and practitioners of European politics.

Culture is one of the most complex and contested fields of European integration. This book analyzes EU cultural politics, both at the central as well as at local levels, since their emergence in the 1980s with a particular focus on the European Capital of Culture program, the flagship of EU cultural policy.

Analyzes the Nordic and Baltic states' relationship with the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). This work offers a general background to the EU's ESDP, the strategic situation of Northern Europe, the security and defence policy issues faced by the states, also outlining the theoretical considerations concerning security in the region.