This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of Critical European Union Studies, sets the research agenda and highlights emerging areas of study. Bringing together critical analyses of European Union politics, policies and processes with an expert range of contributors, it overcomes disciplinary borders and paradigms.

Didier Bigo is Professor of International Political Sociology at Sciences-Po Paris-CERI, France, and part-time Professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, UK.

Thomas Diez is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Evangelos Fanoulis is Lecturer in International Relations at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.

Ben Rosamond is Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Yannis A. Stivachtis is Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair, and Director of the International Studies Program at Virginia Tech, USA.

Critical European Studies: An Introduction PART I: Critical Theoretical Approaches to European Integration Introduction: Towards a Critical Theorising of European Integration 1. Historical Materialism and European integration 2. Justifying Democracy in the European Union: Reasoning with Habermas against Habermas 3. Discursive Approaches 4. Governmentality Approaches 5. Postcolonialism 6. Critical Geopolitics 7. Practice Approaches 8. Gender Approaches 9. The European Union and Global Political Justice 10. Critical Social Theory Approaches to European Integration PART II: Critical Approaches to European Political Economy Introduction: Critical Political Economy and European Integration 11. Capitalist Diversity in Europe 12. European Economic Governance: A Feminist Perspective 13. The Market as Norm - the Governmentality of State Aid Regulation 14. Financialisation, Crisis and Austerity as the Distribution of Harm 15. Gendering the Political Economy of the European Social Model 16. Uneven Development in the EU: Processes of Core-Periphery Relations 17. Critical Political Economy and the Free Movement of People in the EU 18. Discourse Theory as a Novel Approach for Research on EU trade Policy PART III: Critical Approaches to European Union's Internal Security Introduction: European Internal Security: A Pharmakon Producing Security, Unease, Insecurity and Violence? 19. The Genesis of Free Movement of Persons in the EU: Why and for Whom? 20. The EU's So-Called Mediterranean Refugee Crisis: A Governmentality of Unease in a Teacup 21. Visa Policies and Their Effects: Preventing Mobility? 22. Inside-Out? Trajectories, Spaces and Politics of EU Internal (In)Security and its External Dimension 23. External Security Logics and the Pursuit of Internal Security in Europe 24. The European Security Industry: Technocratic Politics, Internal Security Cooperation, and the Emergence of Military R&D in the EU 25. The European Union and "Foreign Terrorist Fighters": Disciplining Irreformable Radicals? 26. Interoperability: A Political Technology for the Datafication of the Field of EU Internal Security? 27. Governance by arbitrariness at the EU Border: Trajectory Ethnographies of Illegalized Migrants PART IV: Critical Approaches to European Union's External Relations and Foreign Affairs Introduction: The "Critical" in EU's Foreign Policy and External Relations 28. Unravelling the Subjects and Objects of EU External Migration Law 29. Indispensable, Interdependent or Independent? A Critical Analysis of Transatlantic Relations 30. A Poulantzasian Perspective on EU Foreign Policy 31. EULEX Kosovo: A Status-Neutral and Technical Mission? 32. Rethinking EU Enlargement: Pastoral Power, Ambivalence and the Case of Turkey 33. The EU's Development Policy: Forging Relations of Dependence? 34. Critical Perspectives on Africa's Relationship with the European Union 35. An Alternative Reading of EU Foreign Policy Administration 36. A Clash of Hybrid Exceptionalisms in EU-Russia Relations