Policy Design in the European Union: An Empire of Shopkeepers in the Making?

1. The EU: A Deepening, Enlarging or Collapsing Union? 2. The Emergence of the European Union as a Very Incoherent Empire 3. An Extending Empire of Governance: The EU in Comparison to Empires Past and Present 4. A Promoter of Values or a Shopkeepers' Empire? Economy and Society in the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Trade Policy of the EU 5. Eurostat: Making Europe Commensurate and Comparable 6. The Power of Indicators in Making European States Governable in the Europe 2020 Strategy 7. Contradictory Fiscal Governance in the European Union: Towards a Consolidation Empire? 8. Social Innovation Policy in the European Union 9. Reproducing or Remaking the Social Contract with Young People in the Europe 2020 Strategy? 10. Is the EU a Great Power? The Case of Natural Gas 11. An Empire Without an Emperor? The EU and Its Eastern Neighbourhood 12. Imperial Worldmaking: Innovation and Security in the EU Compared to the USA and China 13. Future Challenges for the EU: Five Scenarios from Collapse and Marginalisation to the Emergence of a Federal Empire