Providing a systematic treatment of changing modes of European governance, Dynamics and Obstacles of European Governance will be of great interest to those in the fields of international politics and European studies, as well as European law and policy studies.

Contents: Preface Introduction: Yet it Moves: Overcoming Obstacles in European Governance PART I: THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGING MODES OF GOVERNANCE IN EUROPE 1. Variations on Soft EU Governance: The Open Method(s) of Coordination Elissaveta Radulova 2. The Emergence of the Bologna Process: Pan-European Instead of EU Governance Cornelia Racké 3. Governing Security in the European Union: Institutions as Dynamics and Obstacles Christopher Reynolds 4. The EU Regulatory Trade Agenda and the Quest for WTO Enforcement Dirk De Bièvre PART II: POLICY CHANGE IN EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS 5. Avoiding Deadlock in European Trade Policy Andreas Dür 6. Unwelcome Europeans: EU External Governance and Shallow Europeanisation in Ukraine Stephan Hofer 7. Liberty and Security in Anti-Terrorist Police Cooperation in the EU Simon Dalferth 8. Conflicting Expectations in Overlapping Systems of Multi-Level Governance Pat Lyons 9. Decision-Making by Antagonistic Representation: On the Path to Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management Mariano Barbato and Isabelle Tannous Index