Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Europe’s Malaise: Insights from Comparative and Historical Social Science; Francesco Duina and Frédéric MerandChapter 2. The Nature of the European Union; Brendan O’Leary  Chapter 3. The Habsburg Myth and the European Union; Helen Thompson  Chapter 4. National Identity and the Citizens’ Europe; Juan Díez Medrano  Chapter 5. In Search of a Cure? Far-right Youth Activism and the Making of a New Europe; Agnieska Pasieka Chapter 6. Crossing the Race Line:“No Polish, No Blacks, No Dogs” in Brexit Britain? or, The Great British Brexit Swindle; Adrian Favell  Chapter 7. An Economic Recipe for Backlash; Krzysztof Pelc Chapter 8. Sovereignty Matters: The Mainstreaming of Populist Politics in the European Union; Nicolas Jabko Chapter 9. Is the European Union´s role in the world in crisis too? A view from Latin America; Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann

About the Author

Francesco Duina is Professor of Sociology and European Studies at Bates College. His research focuses on comparative regionalism and the relevance of nation states worldwide. His books include The Social Construction of Free Trade: The EU, NAFTA, and Mercosur (Princeton, 2006) and Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country (Stanford, 2018).  
Frédéric Merand is Professor of Political Science and Director of CÉRIUM, the University of Montreal Centre for International Studies. During the past four years he conducted an ethnography of the European Commission. He recently edited Coping with Geopolitical Decline: The United States in European Perspective, forthcoming with McGill-Queen’s University Press.