PALGRAVE STUDIES IN EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS

This book provides a critique of the way in which European citizenship is imagined SERIES EDITORS:
and practiced. Setting their analysis in its full historical context, the authors MICHELLE EGAN · NEILL NUGENT · WILLIAM E. PATERSON
challenge preconceived ideas about European citizenship on the basis of a
detailed reconstruction of political, social and economic practice. In particular,

Challenging European Citizenship

Agustín José Menéndez · Espen D. H. Olsen
they show the extent to which the elimination of formal internal borders within
Europe has come hand in glove with the emergence of new socio-economic
boundaries and the hardening of external borders. The book concludes with a
number of concrete proposals to forge a genuinely post-national form of
membership.

Agustín José Menéndez is Lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,

Spain, and Visiting Researcher, ARENA, University of Oslo, Norway. He is co-
author of The Constitution’s Gift (with J.E. Fossum, 2011). He was chief editor of
the European Law Journal (2013-2018).
Espen D. H. Olsen is Senior Researcher, ARENA – Centre for European Studies,
University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Transnational Citizenship in the
European Union: Past, Present and Future (2012).

Challenging European Citizenship

Ideas and Realities in Contrast

ISBN 978-3-030-22280-2

Agustín José Menéndez

9 783030 222802 Espen D. H. Olsen