Dr Chris Rumford, Lecturer in Political Sociology, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization
Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford (Routledge, 2005)

Contents:

1. Theorizing Europeanization: Towards a Theory of Society

2. History, Modernity, and the Multiple Conceptions of Europe: European Transformation in Historical Perspective

3. Is there a European Identity? European Self-Understanding Beyond Unity and Diversity

4. What does it mean to be a 'European'? The Possibility of Cosmopolitan Loyalties

5. The New Cultural Logic of Europeanization: Postnational Citizenship and Public Discourse

6. The European Social Model: from welfare state to learning society

7. Organizing European Space: borderlands in the new neighbourhood

8. The EU-as-state: Polycentricity and European governance

9. European Society: Europeanization and Transnational Civil Society

10. Towards a European Polity? Europe meets the world

11. Conclusion: Cosmopolitan Europe; Beyond East and West