Europe

Philomena Murray is Australia's foremost academic expert on the European Union and she holds the only European Union Jean Monnet Chair in Australia. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, where she is also Head of the Research Unit on the European Union. Leslie Holmes is Professor of Political Science and Deputy Director of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. He has researched communism and post-communism for almost forty years. He is the author of The Policy Process in Communist States, Politics in the Communist World, The End of Communist Power, Post-Communism, and Rotten States?

• 1. Introduction. Philomena Murray. 2. Europe’s Changing Boundaries and the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ Thesis. Leslie Holmes. 3. The European Transformation of the Nation State. Philomena Murray. 4. An Ever Closer Union? Rethinking European Peripheries. Rémy Davison. 5. The Mediterranean Boundaries of the European Union. F. Damaso Marengo. 6. Balkan Boundaries: Writing History and Identity into Territory. Glenda Sluga. 7. Europe and the ‘Islamic Threat’: Putting the Spectre into Perspective. Jeremy Salt. 8. German Foreign Policy and European Security. Christopher Barrett. 9. Reinventing Neutrality – the Case of Austria, Finland and Sweden and the European Union. Christine Agius.