Europe today presents unrivaled coverage of developments in major European countries and across the region. Thoroughly revised and updated - with a new introduction and an added chapter on Spain, this is the only work that offers a sustained and unified set of both country case studies and thematic chapters on the European Union. -- From the publisher.

France : the Hollande presidency : promises and pitfalls /Gabriel Goodliffe -- Great Britain : from New Labour to new politics? / Kate Alexander Shaw and Jonathan Hopkin -- Germany : challenges and paradoxes / Helga A. Welsh -- Italy : still the age of Berlusconi? / Gianfranco Baldini -- Scandinavia : still the middle way? / Eric S. Einhorn -- Spain : after the fiesta / Sebastián Royo -- Russia : European or not? / Bruce Parrott and Serhiy Kudelia -- Poland : the long arm of transition / Ben Stanley -- European integration : an uncertain prospect / Jan Van Oudenaren -- Economic governance and varieties of capitalism / Benedicta Marzinotto -- Europe and the global economic crisis / Erik Jones and Gregory W. Fuller -- European law and politics / R. Daniel Kelemen -- Migration in Europe / Jonathon W. Moses -- A reassessment of transatlantic security : Europe, the United States, and NATO / Simon Duke and Roberta Haar.