Issue 12 | November 2017

A Special Feature on The Crises of European Integration

• Introduction by Erik Jones, Regine Paul, and Nicole Shea

Research

• “Why Europe Needs Political Economy” by Gregory W. Fuller

• “Political Economy on TARGET” by Waltraud Schelkle

• “EMU and Democracy in the Eurozone Crisis: A Political Economy Perspective” by Alexandros Kyriakidis

• “The Accidental Keynesian: How Refugee Spending in Sweden Challenged Austerity, Put the Local Fiscal Houses In Order and Proved Beneficial to All” by Peo Hansen

Commentary

• “The City is in Ruins” by Salvatore Settis

• “Towards a History of ‘Philosemitic’ Europe Since 1945” by G. Daniel Cohen

Fiction

• Excerpt from Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig Translated from German by Isabel Fargo Cole

• Excerpt from The Kites by Romain Gary, translated from the French by Miranda Richmond Mouillot

• Excerpt from Voices in the Dark by Ulli Lust

The Borders Project

• (Fiction) “Of Card Games and Kisses” by Daniela Valenta

• (Nonfiction) “Once Upon a Time in Ikea” by Kate Tuttle

• (Fiction) “Registration” by Naida Avdović, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić

Reviews

• Charlemagne, reviewed by Carey Fleiner

• From Convergence to Crisis: Labor Markets and the Instability of the Euro, reviewed by Ari Ray

• The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy Reforms Towards a Critical Realist Approach, reviewed by Alan Renwick

• The European Union’s Fight Against Terrorism: Discourses, Policies, Identity , reviewed by Alessandra Russo

• Berlin Rules: Europe and the German Way, reviewed by Kurt Huebner

Interviews

• “The Greek Crisis, Austerity, EU Integration, and a Disrupted Future: An Interview with Nikos Passas” by Sherman Teichman

Visual Art

• Managed Futures, an art series curated by Nicole Shea

Editor’s Pick

• The Doubles by Scott Esposito

• The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine

• The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921 by Eric Lee

• Les relations villes/campagne: Histoire d’une question politique et scientifique by Nicole Mathieu

• European Union Enlargement and Integration Capacity by Tanja Börzel, Antoaneta L. Dimitrova, Frank Schimmelfennig

Campus Spotlight: Boston University

• “Teaching Europe: An Interview with Cathie Jo Martin and Vivien Schmidt” by Briitta van Staalduinen

• Syllabus: Social Europe: Identity, Citizenship, and the Welfare State by Vivien Schmidt

• Syllabus: Globalization and Contemporary Capitalism in Advanced Industrialized Nations  by Vivien Schmidt