Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. They include cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration, and political activism. This volume probes their political and social significance and makes a case for incorporating transnationalism more systematically into the research agenda of European Studies.

Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. They include cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration, and political activism. This volume probes their political and social significance and makes a case for incorporating transnationalism more systematically into the research agenda of European Studies.

Introduction; A.Hurrelmann & J.DeBardeleben PART I TRANSNATIONALISM IN EUROPEAN STUDIES: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES Transnationalism and the Theory of European Integration: Political Science Perspectives; A.Hurrelmann Transnationalism and the Political Sociology of European Transformation: Bringing People Back In; C.Rumford PART II TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE: POLICY MAKING AND INTEREST MOBILIZATION Transnationalism in European Governance and Policy Making; I.Tömmel The Emergence of a Public Sphere for the European Union: Prospects for Transnationalism through Mass Media Communication?; P.Statham Protest in the EU: a Path toward Democracy?; D.Chabanet European Integration and Transnational Labor Markets; N.Lillie East European Transformations and the Paradoxes of Transnationalization; D.Bohle PART III TRANSNATIONAL SPACES, COMMUNITIES, AND IDENTITIES Historicizing the Nation: Transnational Approaches to the Recent European Past; J.Casteel Integrating Migrants beyond the Nation-State? The Paradoxical Effects of Including Newcomers in a European Social and Cultural Community; O.Schmidtke Managing Ambivalence and Identity: Immigration Discourses and (Trans-)National Identities in the European Union; R.Gould Muslim Migration, Institutional Development, and the Geographic Imagination: the Aga Khan Development Network's Global Transnationalism; K.H.Karim The Social Lives of Borders: Political Economy at the Edge of the EU; A.Simonyi & J.Allina-Pisano The Awkward Divide: Paradoxes of Transnationality at the Polish–Ukrainian Border; K.Szmagalska-Follis Conclusion; J.DeBardeleben & A.Hurrelmann