Hartmut Behr is Professor of International Politics at Newcastle University, UK.

Ioannis A. Stivachtis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.

This book unites leading scholars on Europe and Empire to revisit the view of the European Union as an 'imperial' power. It offers a re-appraisal of the EU as empire in response to geopolitical and economic developments since 2007 and asks if the policies, practices, and priorities of the Union exhibit characteristics of a modern empire.

Introduction European Union: An Empire in New Clothes? Hartmut Behr & Yannis A. Stivachtis 1. EU's Eastern 'Empire' Georgeta Pourchot 2. 'Empire', 'Governing from the Distance', and the Mitigation of Violence: Towards a Novel Policy Framework for the EU Politics Hartmut Behr 3. The Uses and Misuses of the Imperial Paradigm in the Study of European Integration Jan Zielonka 4. European Union: Imperial Geopolitics and Enforcement Chains József Böröcz 5. European Union, Conditionality and Empire Yannis A. Stivachtis 6. Imagining 'Europe as an Empire': Competing/Converging Geopolitical Imaginations and EU Enlargements Aylin Güney 7. Europe's Post-Imperial Condition Kalypso Nicolaidis & Nora Fisher Onar 8. Linguistic Imperialism of and in the European Union Robert Phillipson 9. Through a Glass, Darkly. The Symbols of European Empire Russell Foster