Hans-Jörg Trenzis professor in the Media, Cognition, and Communication Department at the University of Copenhagen and research professor at ARENA, Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo.

Trenz’s sociology of European integration opens new avenues for studying Europe and invites us to rethink standard academic paradigms. The book traces the unfounded hopes and premature fears of the European Union. It analyses both the arguments of those who tried to build an integrated continent and of those who tried to resist this. While he does not want us to read his book as a history of decay, he has the courage of imagining the unthinkable: the collapse of the European Union and the subsequent disintegration. The EU may well be in crisis, but Trenz’s book demonstrates that European studies are thriving.

• Introduction: The Uniqueness that BindsChapter 1: Integration of What?: Towards a European Society or the Europeanization of National Societies?Chapter 2: The Triumph of Europe: Europeanization as a Success StoryChapter 3: Banal EuropeanizationChapter 4: From Triumph to Trauma: Resistance to EuropeanizationChapter 5: The Crisis of EuropeanizationConclusion: An Overview of the Discursive Field of Europeanization: Unified, Fragmented, or Complementary?

Hans-Jörg Trenzis professor in the Media, Cognition, and Communication Department at the University of Copenhagen and research professor at ARENA, Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo.

Trenz’s sociology of European integration opens new avenues for studying Europe and invites us to rethink standard academic paradigms. The book traces the unfounded hopes and premature fears of the European Union. It analyses both the arguments of those who tried to build an integrated continent and of those who tried to resist this. While he does not want us to read his book as a history of decay, he has the courage of imagining the unthinkable: the collapse of the European Union and the subsequent disintegration. The EU may well be in crisis, but Trenz’s book demonstrates that European studies are thriving.

• Introduction: The Uniqueness that BindsChapter 1: Integration of What?: Towards a European Society or the Europeanization of National Societies?Chapter 2: The Triumph of Europe: Europeanization as a Success StoryChapter 3: Banal EuropeanizationChapter 4: From Triumph to Trauma: Resistance to EuropeanizationChapter 5: The Crisis of EuropeanizationConclusion: An Overview of the Discursive Field of Europeanization: Unified, Fragmented, or Complementary?

Hans-Jörg Trenzis professor in the Media, Cognition, and Communication Department at the University of Copenhagen and research professor at ARENA, Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo.

Trenz’s sociology of European integration opens new avenues for studying Europe and invites us to rethink standard academic paradigms. The book traces the unfounded hopes and premature fears of the European Union. It analyses both the arguments of those who tried to build an integrated continent and of those who tried to resist this. While he does not want us to read his book as a history of decay, he has the courage of imagining the unthinkable: the collapse of the European Union and the subsequent disintegration. The EU may well be in crisis, but Trenz’s book demonstrates that European studies are thriving.

• Introduction: The Uniqueness that BindsChapter 1: Integration of What?: Towards a European Society or the Europeanization of National Societies?Chapter 2: The Triumph of Europe: Europeanization as a Success StoryChapter 3: Banal EuropeanizationChapter 4: From Triumph to Trauma: Resistance to EuropeanizationChapter 5: The Crisis of EuropeanizationConclusion: An Overview of the Discursive Field of Europeanization: Unified, Fragmented, or Complementary?