Didier Georgakakis - Böcker

This book brings together diverse voices spanning multiple generations, nationalities, institutional affiliations, and geographical contexts to examine contemporary developments in the study of personnel and professionals engaged in the European integration process. Edited by two distinguished authorities in the discipline, this comprehensive volume represents a significant scholarly contribution to the emerging field of European integration personnel studies.The collection presents a methodologically diverse array of empirical investigations, each grounded in original datasets and employing varied analytical frameworks. The chapters illustrate in a unique manner the state of the art in this rich subfield of European studies. This book is distinctive in taking stock of and reviewing new developments in the flourishing field of EU personnel and professional studies. Comprising a broad range of case studies, data, and methodologies, it constitutes an essential resource for specialists in European issues as well as for students seeking to engage at various levels with the European Union or within its institutions and processes.This book will serve as an essential resource for advanced undergraduate students, researchers, and established scholars specializing in European Union studies, comparative politics, and public administration. Academics and practitioners engaged in research on European governance, institutional analysis, and integration theory will find the volume particularly valuable. The work also addresses the needs of policy professionals and civil servants working within or alongside EU institutions who seek deeper understanding of the human dimensions of European integration.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.

This book examines the ways in which the European Union’s administrative structures have changed over the last decade in response to several significant political events, including Brexit, the refugee crisis, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

In dying (2023), Jaques Delors, President of the European Commission 1985-1995, transitioned from being a dedicated servant of Europe to becoming one of its prophets—perhaps even a founding father. Today, he is viewed as a principal architect of the European Union. Yet is there truly a seamless continuity between the man, his vision for Europe, and the legacy to which so many now lay claim? Was Delors an extraordinary individual, or a product of the complex era that shaped his presidency, or is the truth to be found somewhere in between? Conversely, what imprint did he leave on the critical turning points of his time, and more broadly on European societies and the challenges of today? This book seeks to explore these questions by reflecting lucidly and critically on Delors’ relationship with Europe and on his many legacies.

This book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies. Breaking with the usual representations of ‘Eurocrats’, it sheds light on a hidden aspect of the current European crisis: a crisis of social reproduction which affects the European civil service in a heavy context of management reforms, enlargements, institutional changes and the euro crisis. This in turn has a number of consequences in terms of internal tensions, power, and more broadly, the capacity of EU institutions to create convergence between diverging national and economic interests, and to embody a European future.European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis will be of interest to students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines, including politics, sociology and public administration, to practitioners working in and with the EU institutions,as well as those wishing to know more about the EU.