How the EU Really Works

Institutions, History and Policy-Making of the European Union

AvNathalie Brack,Olivier Costa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This fully updated textbook provides a concise yet comprehensive textbook on the EU’s polity and politics, offering an ideal balance between its history, institutions and decision-making processes, while drawing connections between these dimensions throughout.It helps students and scholars understand the EU’s evolution and organization, as well as its interactions with various global actors, presenting a highly readable analysis of how the EU works while recognizing the complexity of the European project.Key features:Explores core questions of European integration such as democratic deficit, politicization, the role of member states, institutional crisis and citizen involvement.Engages with fundamental and pressing issues in EU policy-making such as its evolutions, the EU’s legitimization, Brexit, COVID-19, the challenges of democratic backsliding, populism and Euroscepticism, as well as the EU’s role in the world.Presents new in-text boxes focusing on major debates or evolutions such as the European Semester, and reflective end-of-chapter questions for further study.At a time of multiple and continued challenges to the European Union and its legitimacy, this textbook is essential reading for students, scholars and anyone seeking to understand EU politics today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-16
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:424
Upplaga:3
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032517841

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Nathalie Brack is Associate Professor of Political Science at CEVIPOL, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.Olivier Costa is Research Professor at the CNRS, CEVIPOF, Sciences Po, France.

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“The new edition of this excellent textbook is timely and valuable. Against the background of a quickly shifting context, Brack and Costa manage to communicate the complexities of the European Union in an accessible, succinct and yet encompassing manner. Highly recommended as the go-to textbook on all aspects of EU governance!”Thomas Christiansen, Professor, Luiss University, Rome, Italy“This impressive book tells it like is, with all the EU’s paradoxes eloquently described, along with the accomplishments and shortcomings of European integration, the challenges for democracy and legitimacy, and the many crises, not the least of which is the rise of populist Euroskepticism. A must read for anyone who wants to know how the EU really works.”Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University, USA

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1. A political system forged by history 2. The main theoretical approaches in EU integration studies 3. Executive power 4. The legislative power 5. Oversight bodies 6. Other institutions, organs and actors in EU policy-making 7. Decision-making in the European Union 8. The foreign policy of the European Union 9. EU decision-making models 10. The EU decision-making process from a public policy network perspective. Conclusion