Bringing together specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities and rigorously edited for coherence and accessibility, this all-new replacement for Developments in the European Union provides state-of-the-art coverage of the EU as it expands and reconstitutes itself in the early Twenty-first-century.

Introduction; M.Green Cowles & D.Dinan.- The Road to Enlargement; D.Dinan.- Reconstituting Europe; D.Dinan.- Europeanization and the Member States; R.Ladrech.- Supporting the Union? Euroskepticism and the Politics of European Integration; P.Taggart & A.Szczerbiak.- The Euro and the European Central Bank; A.Verdun.- Completing the Single Market: The Lisbon Strategy; A.Wallace.- Agriculture and Cohesion: Facing up to Enlargement; D.Dinan & M.Camhis.- Environmental Policy: At a Crossroads?; A.Lenschow.- Immigration and Asylum: A High Politics Agenda; V.Guiraudon.- Police and Judicial Cooperation; J.D.Occhipinti.- The EU and World Trade: Doha and Beyond; A.Young.- Developments in European Security and Defense Policy; A.Menon.- The European Union, the United States and Asia-Pacific: A New Trilateralism?; M.Smith.- Policy Toward the Extended Frontier: The Balkans and the Newly Independent States; J.Van Oudenaren.- Development Policy: Paradigm Shifts and the 'Normalization' of a Privileged Partnership; M.Holland.- Developments in European Integration Theory: The EU as 'Other'; M.Green Cowles & S.Curtis.

'[A]n excellent introduction to current trajectories in the EU. As with all books in the Palgrave Developments...series, the quality of editing is superb. The individual articles are comprehensive, though not to the extent that they impede liveliness or the development of an argument...It vies with Neill Nugent's Government and Politics of the European Union for the title of must buy book on the EU.' - Chris Hanretty, Journal of European Affairs

'[A]n excellent introduction to current trajectories in the EU. As with all books in the Palgrave Developments...series, the quality of editing is superb. The individual articles are comprehensive, though not to the extent that they impede liveliness or the development of an argument...It vies with Neill Nugent's Government and Politics of the European Union for the title of must buy book on the EU.' - Chris Hanretty, Journal of European Affairs

An all new replacement for the highly successful Developments in the European UnionVery broadranging coverage of key issues and developments in the EU as it enlarges EastwardsSpecially commissioned chapters by leading authorities rigorously edited in a common framework