Henry Carey is associate professor of political science at Georgia State University.

• 1. The European Union: Does it Make a Difference?2. EU Enlargement Model: Problems and Challenges3. Revisiting EU Eastward Enlargement from a Consociational Approach: Refining Concepts and Redesigning Tasks4. Managing the European Union Humanitarian Aid Policy: The Expediency of a Flexible Institutional Arrangement5. From Cold War Instrument to Supreme European Court: The European Court of Human Rights at the Crossroads of International and National Law and Politics6. Adopting the Acquis Politique: The Foreign/Security Policy Implications of EU Membership7. Competing Visions for the European Union Grand Strategy8. Balancing Foreign Policy Decisions: Why do EU Policy-Makers Differ in Their Refugee Policy Commitments?9. Biotechnology Governance and Risk Regulation in the European Union10. The European Union: Consumer, Producer or Co-producer of Global Regulatory Authority? 11. An ever weaker Union? The European Union in Global Governance Institution12. The EU’s Success in Mediating an Agreement during the Russia-Georgia War of 200813. The European Union and Climate Change Cooperation14. EU Accession and Disability Rights in Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, and Macedonia15. A collective complaint mechanism before the European Court of Human Rights? Moving from mass actions to group actions16. From Human Rights to Good Governance and Back: The Institutionalization of the European Ombudsman17. Inter(b)locking Institutions: The European Union, the Council of Europe, and Human Rights Protection in Europe18. Europeanization of Romanian Foreign Policy19. Dirigism and Déjà Vu Logic: The Gender Politics And Perils Of EU Enlargement20. The Litmus Test of European Democracy: The EU and the Protection of the Roma Minority21. Free Movement for All? Restrictive Practices, Human Rights Violations, and European Governance22. The EU’s ‘Peace-as-Governance’ Model: More than pacification? 23. The March Eastward: The Role of EU Expansion in Democratic Transition and Consolidation24. US and European Assistance to Democracy NGOs in Transitional Elections: The Cases of Georgia and Mexico25. The EU and Democratization in Cyprus26. The Role of Discursive Consistency in EU Foreign Policy: An analysis of EU Enlargement Policy towards the Western Balkans27. Donor Support for Civil Society Advocacy in Bosnia & Herzegovina28. Challenges and Double-Standards in the EU’s Peacebuilding Project in Kosovo29. Where to Observe Elections? The EU’s Election Observation Missions around the World

This very substantial book, locating the internal and external politics of the EU in the broader context of multilevel governance in Europe, will be an invaluable resource for students of contemporary Europe.