Table of Contents
Contents, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, The European Union as a transnational political space: Introduction, Wolfram Kaiser and Peter Starie, Part 1. Conceptual Perspectives Chapter 1. Transnational Western Europe since 1945: Integration as political society formation, Wolfram Kaiser, Chapter 2. Transnational networks: Informal governance in the European political space, Karen Heard-Lauréote, Chapter 3. Transnational socialization: Community-building in an integrated Europe, Frank Schimmelfennig, Chapter 4. Transnational business: Power structures in Europe’s political economy, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Part 2. Transnationalism in Practice, Chapter 5. Trade unions as a transnational movement in the European space 1955-1965: Falling short of ambitions?, Patrick Pasture Chapter 6. The alliance of European Christian democracy and conservatism: Convergence through networking, Karl Magnus Johansson Chapter 7. German political foundations: Transnational party go-betweens in the EU enlargement process, Dorota Dakowska, Chapter 8. Transnational actors in the European Higher Education Area: European opportunities and institutional embeddedness, Erik Beerkens Chapter 9. Copweb Europe: Venues, virtues and vexations of transnational policing, Monica Den Boer Chapter 10. Transnational consensus building in EMU economic governance: Elite interaction and national preference formation, Daniela Schwarzer, Index.