This book argues that European Union institutional mechanics and
the EU as a political unit cannot be properly understood without
taking into account the elites that make the policy decisions.
Spurred by globalisation, technological and economic development
has provided the backbone for social and political transformations
that have changed the social structures that unite and
differentiate individuals and groups in Europe and their interface
with extra-European actors. These developments are not only
exemplified by the rise of the EU, but also by the rise of a set of
transnational European power elites evolving in and around the
European construction.
This book maps out these EU and international interdependencies
and provides a comprehensive picture of the European transnational
power elites. Moving away from the majority of literature on
European integration dominated by economics, law, IR and political
science, the volume is written from a sociological perspective that
takes into account the individuals that make the policy decisions,
the formal and informal groups in which s/he is included, as well
as the social conventions that regulate political and
administrative activities in the EU.
This book will be of much interest to students of EU studies,
sociology, critical security studies, and IR in general.
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