The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations

509 Pages·2021·49.884 MB·English

by  Thomas Hoerber, Gabriel Weber, Ignazio Cabras

“Routledge Handbooks have proved to be invaluable resources for lecturers, students and
researchers, and an excellent way to engage the general public in the respective fields. This highly
significant and long overdue addition to the series perfectly showcases the diverse character of
European integration and very well complements the EU-centric mainstream literature. It is a
key reference for exploring the rich panoply of cross-border activities incorporated in the wider
process of European unification.”
Martin Dangerfield, University of Wolverhampton, UK
“This volume is a timely and refreshing take on the many different ways in which Europe
(including but not only the EU) has sought to, failed to or managed to integrate. Far from
limiting themselves to the usual suspects (referred to in the volume as the ‘tangibles’) such as
the single market, the authors tackle a breadth of subjects including AI, space and cyber. The
line-up of contributors is as diverse as the subject coverage is novel, making this a must-read for
those seeking out new ways of thinking about the likely futures of Europe.”
Helen Drake, Loughborough University, UK
“Inspired by Jean Monnet’s ideas and responding to the editors’ question of whether we are
ready for a United States of Europe, the contributors to this volume have provided an excellent
up-to-date analysis about the degree of European integration achieved in fields that have been
overlooked without, at the same time, neglecting to highlight the achievements and failures
in the more traditional fields of integration. Focusing on the cultural and technology sectors,
the book shows ways of European integration which were not expected and indicates areas of
concrete progress of European integration where no one would have dared to touch on national
prerogatives in Monnet’s time. The editors have done an outstanding job in putting together a
very comprehensive volume that would be of great value to scholars and analysts as well as to
graduate and undergraduate students interested in European integration.”
Yannis Stivachtis, Jean Monnet Chair, Virginia Tech, USA

The Routledge Handbook of
European Integrations
The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations fills a significant gap in European studies
literature by providing crucial and groundbreaking coverage of several key areas that are usually
neglected or excluded in European integration collections. Whilst still examining the largest and
most influential institutions, bodies and highly-funded policy areas as acknowledged dominant
topics in European studies, it crucially does so with much greater balance by devoting equal
billing to areas such as culture in European integration or new technologies and their impact
on the EU.
Organised around three main sections – culture, technology and ‘tangibles’ – the book:
• offers an authoritative ‘encyclopaedia’ to ‘alternative’ areas in European integration, from
media, football, Erasmus and tourism, to transport, space, AI and energy;
• retains coverage of the dominant topics in European studies, such as the Eurozone, the
Common Internal Market and European law, but in balance with other areas of interest; and
• provides an essential companion to existing scholarship in European studies.
The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations is essential reading and an authoritative reference
for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners involved in, and actively concerned about,
research in the study of European integration/studies.
Thomas Hoerber is Professor for European Studies and Director of the EU-Asia Institute at
ESSCA School of Management, France.
Gabriel Weber is Associate Professor for Sustainability and Ecological Economics at the
ESSCA, School of Management, Bordeaux, France.
Ignazio Cabras is Head of the Accounting and Financial Management Department and
Faculty Director for International Research Partnerships at the Newcastle Business School,
Northumbria University, UK.

The Routledge Handbook
of European Integrations
Edited by Thomas Hoerber,
Gabriel Weber and Ignazio Cabras
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Names: Hoerber, Thomas C., editor. | Weber, Gabriel, editor. | Cabras, Ignazio,
editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of European integrations / edited by Thomas Hoerber,
Gabriel Weber and Ignazio Cabras.
Other titles: Handbook of European integrations
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge
international handbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021036090 (print) | LCCN 2021036091 (ebook) | ISBN
9780367203078 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032182421 (paperback) | ISBN
9780429262081 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: European Union. | European federation. | European Union
countries—Social life and customs. | European Union countries—Economic policy. |
European Union countries—Politics and government.
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341.242/2—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021036090
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021036091
ISBN: 978-0-367-20307-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-18242-1 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-26208-1 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9780429262081
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Contents
List of figures xi
List of tables xiii
List of boxes xv
Notes on contributors xvi
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction: The United States of Europe and new horizons for
European integration 1
Thomas Hoerber
PART 1
Culture 11
Introduction: European integration and culture: four approaches 13
Antonios Vlassis
1 European citizenship 19
Michel Catala
2 The European Union, cultural diversity and the audio-visual industry:
the unexpected fate of a “certain idea” of culture 33
Alexandre Bohas
3 Football and European integration(s) 49
Arne Niemann, Regina Weber and Alexander Brand
4 Iconographies of European integrations 65
Oriane Calligaro
vii
Contents
5 Erasmus and the Bologna process: promoting shared values through
mobility, reform, and common instruments 86
John Reilly and Simon Sweeney
6 The curious case of social Europe 113
Konstantinos Alexandris Polomarkakis
7 Irregular migration management in the EU 129
Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos
8 European integration, audiovisual governance and global online
platforms: between market rationale, cultural logic and social
considerations 152
Antonios Vlassis
9 A cultural-shared risk community? Towards a cultural-historical
theory of European (Union) integration 166
Peter Pichler
10 Can tourism be considered an instrument of European integration? 181
Eric Stevens and Philippe Duhamel
PART 2
Technology 197
Introduction – technologies and European integrations 199
Inga Ulnicane
11 EU transport policy at a crossroads: the cost of liberalisation
for climate change and personal mobility 208
Helene Dyrhauge
12 European space policy and European integration 220
Sarah Lieberman
13 Defence-industrial consolidation as a precondition for EU military
integration 233
Nikolaos Karampekios and Iraklis Oikonomou
14 Artificial intelligence in the European Union: policy, ethics
and regulation 254
Inga Ulnicane
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Contents
15 Developing EU cybercrime and cybersecurity: on legal challenges
of EU institutionalisation of cyber law-making 270
Elaine Fahey
16 European integration, the European Research Area and European
research infrastructures 285
Lorna Ryan
PART 3
Tangibles 311
Introduction – the essentials of European integration 313
Thomas Hoerber
17 The European Union’s energy policy: from market liberalisation
to convergence with climate policy 315
Matúš Mišík, Veronika Oravcová and Peter Plenta
18 Sustainable development in the European Union 331
Pamela M. Barnes
19 European Union law 350
Antonella Forganni
20 European Monetary Union: European integration at its heart 362
Miguel Otero Iglesias
21 EU differentiated integration as a tangible: internal and external
dimensions 376
Maryna Rabinovych and Anne Pintsch
22 The long and winding road to greening the common agricultural
policy 394
Viviane Gravey, Ulrich Adam and Thomas Hoerber
23 Blue signs on the road: European Union funding and citizens’ feelings
towards membership 410
Alice Cunha
24 EU common security and defence policy 427
Simon Sweeney
ix