Great Readings in European Studies
This bibliography curates field-defining monographs, seminal theoretical essays, and landmark papers across European Studies. These works represent intellectual milestones that formulated the paradigms, debates, and empirical foundations of the discipline.
The Idea of Europe & State Formation
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay | Immanuel Kant |
| The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950–1350 | Robert Bartlett |
| Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1992 | Charles Tilly |
| Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire | Peter H. Wilson |
| Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference | Dipesh Chakrabarty |
Totalitarianism, War & Democratic Rupture
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 | Christopher Clark |
| The Origins of Totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt |
| Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin | Timothy Snyder |
| Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century | Mark Mazower |
| Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 | Tony Judt |
Theories of European Integration & Supranational Governance
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| The Uniting of Europe: Political, Social, and Economic Forces, 1950–1957 | Ernst B. Haas |
| The European Rescue of the Nation-State | Alan S. Milward |
| "The Transformation of Europe" | J.H.H. Weiler |
| The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht | Andrew Moravcsik |
| The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union | Luuk van Middelaar |
Comparative European Political Economy & Social Models
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time | Karl Polanyi |
| The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism | Gøsta Esping-Andersen |
| Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage | Peter A. Hall & David Soskice (eds.) |
| The Euro and the Battle of Ideas | Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, & Jean-Pierre Landau |
Nationalism, Postnationalism & European Identity
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism | Benedict Anderson |
| The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays | Jürgen Habermas |
| Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment | Larry Wolff |
Central and Eastern Europe: Dissent, Division, and Transition
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| "The Tragedy of Central Europe" | Milan Kundera |
| "The Power of the Powerless" | Václav Havel |
| The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague | Timothy Garton Ash |