This collection presents the results of a research agenda which examines how information plays a key role in policymaking. As a very dynamic environment characterized by many different modes of information gathering and processing, the EU forms a particularly interesting case to test the politics of information approach.

1. The Politics of Information: A New Research Agenda; Tannelie Blom and Sophie Vanhoonacker PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND HISTROICAL REFLECTIONS 2. The Politics of Information: An Organization Theoretical Perspective; Tannelie Blom 3 Information Processes and International Organisations (1910-1940); Michael Geary and Nico Randeraad 4 The Politics of Peer Reviewing: Comparing the OECD and the EU; Thomas Conzelmann PART II: INSTITUTIONS 5. COREPER: Linking Capitals and Brussels; Jeffrey Lewis 6. Who Selects What and How? How the European Parliament Obtains and Processes Information for Policy-Making; Mathias Dobbels and Christine Neuhold 7. The Politics of Information in the EU: The Case of European Agencies; Tannelie Blom, Loes van Suijlekom, Esther Versluis and Martin Wirtz PART III: INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE 8. The European Commission's Relations with Interest Organisations: Master of the Information Universe?; Justin Greenwood 9. The European Commission's Expert Groups as an Information System; Ase Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup 10. Informational Asymmetries in the EU: Fault Lines Running Through the Comitology System; Thomas Christiansen 11. Information, Expertise and the Common Agricultural Policy: The Role and Influence of European Farm Organizations in Historical Perspective; Carine Germond PART IV: INFORMING THE PUBLIC 12. The Commission, the Politics of Information and the European Public Sphere; Patrick Bijsmans 13. The European Parliament 'On Air'; Michael Shackleton PART V: INFORMATION IN THE FIELD OF FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY 14. EU Foreign Policy and the Politics of Information; Federica Bicchi 15. Information in EU Security and Defence; Hylke Dijkstra 16. Intelligence and EU External Relations: Operational to Constitutive Politics; Simon Duke 17. The Politics of Information in EU Internal Security: Information Sharing by European Agencies; Madalina Busuioc and Deirdre Curtin 18. Conclusion; Tannelie Blom and Sophie Vanhoonacker

Federica Bicchi, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Patrick BijsmansMaastricht University, the Netherlands
Madalina Busuioc, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Thomas Christiansen, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Thomas Conzelmann, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Deirdre Curtin,University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Hylke Dijkstra, Maastricht University, the Netherlands and University of Oxford, UK
Mathias Dobbels, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Simon Duke, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Michael J. Geary, Maastricht University, the Netherlnds and Wilson Center, USA
Carine Germond, University of Portsmouth, UK and Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Justin Greenwood is Professor of European Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University, UK
Åse Gornitzka, University of Oslo, Norway
Jeffrey Lewis, Cleveland State University, USA
Christine Neuhold Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Nico Randeraad,MaastrichtUniversity, the Netherlands
Michael Shackleton, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands
Loes van Suijlekom is a Junior Researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands
Ulf Sverdrup is Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
Esther Versluis, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Martin Wirtz, Otto-Friedrich University, Germany