Summer Reading: LSE Reviews of Recent European Politics Books

What could be more relaxing than whiling away those long summer days with a selection of the most recent research on European politics to hand? In this spirit we have gathered together a selection of reviews we think will be of particular interest to our readers from our colleagues at EUROPP and LSE Review of Books. Enjoy!

Ulrich Beck, German Europe. (Polity, 2013). Reviewed by William Outhwaite.

Ivan T. Berend, Europe in Crisis: Bolt From the Blue? (Routledge, 2012). Reviewed by Miguel Otero-Iglesias.

Costas Douzinas, Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe (Polity, 2013). Reviewed by Jia Hui Lee.

Erik Jones, Anand Menon, and Stephen Weatherill (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the European Union. (Oxford University Press, 2012). Reviewed by Giulia Pastorella.

Heike Klüver, Lobbying in the European Union: Interest Groups, Lobbying Coalitions, and Policy Change (Oxford University Press, 2013). Reviewed by Benedetta Voltolini.

Petr Kopecky, Peter Mair and Maria Spirova (eds.), Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies (Oxford University Press, 2012). Reviewed by Sofia Vasilopoulou.

Çigdem Nas and Yonca Özer (eds.), Turkey and the European Union: Processes of Europeanisation (Ashgate, 2012). Reviewed by Markus Ketola.

Richard Rose, Representing Europeans: A Pragmatic Approach (Oxford University Press, 2013). Reviewed by Nathalie Brack.

Luuk van Middelaar, The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union (Yale University Press, 2013). Reviewed by Renaud Thillaye.