The United States and the European Union: the end of hegemony? -- The European Union: Divisions and unity in European external policies. -- Russia' transition to capitalism: the rise of a world power? -- The implications of the rise of China. -- Divisions between elites. -- Divisions in Europe between elites and citizens. -- European elites and the Middle East. -- Euroepan deregulation and national re-regulation: national response strategies revisited. -- The primacy of domestic politics: neo-liberal reconstructuring, the EU's crisis of goverability and social imperialism. -- National or European social models? contesting European welfare futures. -- European economic policy: protectionism as an elite strategy. -- The European Union: a player in world energy politics? -- Euroepan elites on the European Union: what vision for the future? -- Towards a European identity?

1. European Union countries -- Foreign relations
2. European Union