European Integration and the Postmodern Condition

Peter van Ham is Professor of West European Politics at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. He recently co-edited Mapping European Security after Kosovo and co-authored A Critical Approach to European Security. He is the author of The EC, Eastern Europe and European Unity; Managing Non-Proliferation Regimes in the 1990s, and Western Doctrines on East—West Trade.

• Chapter 1 European integration and the challenge of postmodernity; Chapter 2 Globalization and Europeanization; Chapter 3 European identity beyond the state; Chapter 4 Sovereignty, territoriality and the representation of political space; Chapter 5 European governance and the pursuit of promiscuous policy-making; Chapter 6 Europe's essential vacuum; Chapter 7 Europe and/as the Other; Bibliography; Index;