Chapter 1 The EU: A Deepening, Enlarging or Collapsing Union?

Chapter 2 The Emergence of the European Union as a Very Incoherent Empire

Chapter 3 An Extending Empire of Governance: The EU in Comparison to Empires Past and Present

Chapter 4 A Promoter of Values or a Shopkeepers’ Empire? Economy and Society in the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Trade Policy of the EU

Chapter 5 Eurostat: Making Europe Commensurate and Comparable

Chapter 6 The Power of Indicators in Making European States Governable in the Europe 2020 Strategy

Chapter 7 Contradictory Fiscal Governance in the European Union: Towards a Consolidation Empire?

Chapter 8 Social Innovation Policy in the European Union

Chapter 9 Reproducing or Remaking the Social Contract with Young People in the Europe 2020 Strategy?

Chapter 10 Is the EU a Great Power? The Case of Natural Gas

Chapter 12 Imperial Worldmaking: Innovation and Security in the EU Compared to the USA and China

Chapter 13 Future Challenges for the EU: Five Scenarios from Collapse and Marginalisation to the Emergence of a Federal Empire