Peter Lang Series - Instytut Studiów Europejskich - Institute of European Studies - Faculty of International and Political Studies

Peter Lang series: Studies in European Integration, State and Society

Editors: Bożena Gierat-Bieroń, Zdzisław Mach

ISSN: 2193-2352

European integration is a profound phenomenon influencing our current understanding of political and social processes in Europe and beyond. The set of European institutions that have now functioned in the continent for over half a century have created new broadened frames of reference for a variety of social actors. The most comprehensive is the European Union, which can be characterised as a multilevel polity. The other organisations, such as the Council of Europe and OSCE, also contribute significantly to the new mode of relations in Europe. This has in turn influenced how social and political actors act and define their roles. European integration has changed the functioning of states, their sovereignty and the meaning and status of borders, as well as the nature of citizenship. It has also allowed social actors to be engaged in the increasingly transnationalised public sphere and therefore changed the analysis of the concept of civil society. In addition, it profoundly impacts the life of individuals, permitting spatial and social mobility along with reconstruction of collective identity and memory.

Call for book proposals

This series welcomes book proposals that look at the political and social aspects of human activities in the broadest terms but analysed from the perspective of how these processes are transformed as a result of European integration.
The series is open to work emerging from research cooperation between Polish and foreign scholars. Authors are welcome to submit manuscripts of monographs, collected volumes, and post-conference volumes. Outstanding dissertations will also be considered for publication.

Please send your book proposals to: bozena.gierat-bieron@uj.edu.pl.

Studies in European Integration, State and Society series has published:

European Political Parties in the EU Party Politics
Volume 18
Stefano Greco (Author)
©2024 Monographs

The Politicization of the European Union
From European Governance to EU Politics
Volume 17
by Stefano Greco (Author)
©2023 Monographs

Introduction to Immigrant Detention in Poland. Theory and Methodology
Volume 16
by Dariusz Niedźwiedzki (Author)
Jacek Schmidt (Author)
©2023 Monographs

The Heritage of Central and Eastern Europe
Volume 15
by Kinga Anna Gajda (Author)
©2023 Edited Collection

The System Reform of the Economic and Monetary Union (2010-2022)
Dynamics-Successes-Failures
Volume 14
by Janusz Józef Węc (Author)
©2023 Monographs

Religion in the Public Sphere in Central and Eastern Europe
Volume 13
by Zdzislaw Mach (Volume editor)
Emilia Moddelmog-Anweiler (Volume editor)
©2022 Edited Collection

Post-totalitarian Societies in Transformation
From Systemic Change into European Integration
Volume 12
by Elżbieta Mach (Volume editor)
Grzegorz Pożarlik (Volume editor)
Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas (Volume editor)
©2022 Edited Collection

Societies and Spaces in Contact
Between Convergence and Divergence
Volume 11
by Milan Bufon (Volume editor)
Tove H. Malloy (Volume editor)
Colin Williams (Volume editor)
©2021 Edited Collection

The Invisible Hand of Europe
The Museum as a Civilizing Tool
Volume 10
by Łucja Piekarska-Duraj (Author)
©2020 Monographs

The European Capital of Culture 2016 Effect
How the ECOC Competition Changed Polish Cities
Volume 9
by Bożena Gierat-Bieroń (Author)
Joanna Orzechowska-Wacławska (Author)
Paweł Kubicki (Author)
©2020 Monographs

Contemporary States and the Crisis of the Western Order
Volume 7
by Marek Cichocki (Volume editor)
©2020 Edited Collection

The Many Faces of Crisis
An Analysis of Crisis Management from an Economic and Political Perspective
Volume 6
by Marek A. Cichocki (Volume editor)
Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse (Volume editor)
©2019 Edited Collection

Narrating Otherness in Poland and Sweden
European Heritage as a Discourse of Inclusion and Exclusion
Volume 5
by Krzysztof Kowalski (Volume editor)
Łucja Piekarska-Duraj (Volume editor)
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Volume editor)
©2019 Edited Collection

Germany’s Position on the System Reform of the European Union in 2002–2016
Volume 4
by Janusz Józef Węc (Author)
©2018 Monographs