What is the nature of the European Union? Does it have the characteristics of a state, and if so, which? We employ a single imagea poster that won a Marshall Plan competition in 1950to examine the various legal perspectives of the EU that have emerged over the past six decades. Created as a...

What alternative is open to us? : Britain / Wolfram Kaiser and Jürgen Elvert -- A kingdom divided : Denmark / Johnny Laursen -- From isolation to involvement : Ireland / Edward Moxon-Browne -- State interests, external dependency trajectories, and "Europe" : Greece / Kostas Ifantis -- In search...