From the inaugural issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies, a special issue on the European Union. From Economic Sociology, a special issue on the euro and the global financial crisis. From The Guardian, getting to know our neighbours better: An in-depth look at four European countries. Frank Jacobs looks at the United Diagrams of Europe. Diogo De Sousa e Alvim (Macau): Secessionist Movements in Western Europe: Is It a Case of Self-Determination? Conundrums of geopolitical classification: Martin W. Lewis on how the Netherlands is no longer a low country. Liana Giorgi (ICCR): Tariq Ramadan vs. Daniel Cohn-Bendit or Why a European Model of Society Based on Weak Citizenship is Not Such a Good Idea. A review of The Nordic Way: Shared Norms for the New Reality. Research suggests Denmark, Finland and Belgium have best democracies. Unified Italy reaches its 150th anniversary — but Italians still lack a national identity. A review of The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour (and more and more). Cooperate or Fail! Ulrich Beck on the way out of the Euro crisis. From e-flux, Peio Aguirre on the state of Spain: Nationalism, critical regionalism, and biennialization; Sven Lutticken on heteronomous hobby: Report from the Netherlands; and Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen on the turn towards liberal state racism in Denmark. The multiculturalism the European right fears so much is a fiction — it never existed. Scared of instability and waves of immigration, European governments have wrongly privileged their own national interests over democracy in the Middle East. Michael Schuman on Europe's other “Germany problem”. From Reuters, a special report on how lobbyists rewrite Europe's laws. What is left of the promise that was Europe? A review of Perry Anderson’s The New Old World.
