Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Jürgen Elvert is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne and Senior Fellow of the Center for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn.

• 1. 'What Alternative is open to us?': Britain Wolfram Kaiser2. A Kingdom Divided: Denmark Johnny Laursen3. From Isolation to Involvement: Ireland Edward Moxon-Browne4. State Interests, External Dependency Trajectories and 'Europe' : Greece Kostas Ifantis5. In Search of Lost Europe: Spain Ricardo Martin de la Guardia6. From Atlantic past to European Destiny: Portugal António Costa Pinto and Nuno Severiano Teixeira7. A Newcomer Experienced in European integration: Austria Michael Gehler8. If in 'Europe', then its Core?: Finland Hanna Ojanen9. Combining Dependence with Distance: Sweden Maria Gussarsson10. A Fool's Game or a comedy of Errors?: EU Enlargements in Comparative Perspective Jürgen Elvert