"Olsen critically examines claims about the supposed supranational or postnational nature of EU citizenship and concludes instead that it is transnational: despite increasingly complex multilevel and international configurations of rights and membership, citizenship in Europe remains tied to established political communities. A wonderful addition to the literature on the most significant and exciting transformation of citizenship and nationality in the contemporary world." - Willem Maas, York University

"Citizenship in the European Union has been much talked about, yet often misunderstood. Olsen convincingly argues that, if anything, it is transnational. This book is full of ideas and historical evidence and deserves close reading. A welcome contribution to the growing literature on European citizenship." -Maarten Peter Vink, Department of Political Science,  Maastricht University, The Netherlands

"A carefully constructed review of the critical junctures in the evolution of citizenship in the European integration from the 1950s to the present day leads Olsen to conclude that citizenship in the EU is a transnational, not a postnational phenomenon. This apparently modest conclusion nonetheless opens up new routes to understand the contested character of the EU's constitutionalisation processes in recent years, and provides a welcome antidote to those who see in EU citizenship a idealistic beacon for the future development of a single European demos." -Jo Shaw, Salvesen Chair of European Institutions and Deputy Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science, Edinburgh Law School