This paper is about the scholarly imagination of Europe. It addresses scholars who are involved in the analysis of contemporary politics within Europe and is concerned with the way in which they imagine their object of study because it is this imagination that preconfigures, which problems are...

Recent years have seen a striking proliferation of the term quot;globalquot; in public and political discourse. The popularity of the term is a manifestation of the fact that there is a widespread notion that contemporary social reality is quot;globalquot;. The acknowledgment of this notion has...