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This tightly organized collection locates the essence of European parliamentarism in four key aspects-deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty.

This volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides valuable insights into the current era of disenchantment with the European project.

Basic and Applied Research traces the conceptual history of the distinction between basic and applied research to its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, explores its role in different ideological contexts after World War II, and ultimately provides valuable insights into present-day EU research policy.

As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has reshaped not only the landscape of government, but also fundamental social and political thought on a global level. Democracy in Modern Europe covers the history of democracy in modern Europe.

Bringing together leading scholars from across Europe, this volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts.

Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined, uses a multidisciplinary approach to a long term and macro-level history of international projects since the eighteenth century to assess how spaces of politics have been debated and redefined in different European political cultures.

Forty years ago, German historian Reinhart Koselleck coined the notion of "asymmetrical concepts," pointing at the asymmetry between standard self-ascriptions, such as ''Hellenes'' or ''Christians,'' and pejorative otherizing-ascriptions, ''Barbarians'' or ''Pagans,'' as a powerful weapon of cultural and political domination. Advancing and refining Koselleck''s approach, Beyond "Hellenes" and "Barbarians", explores the use of significant conceptual asymmetries such ''civilization'' vs. ''barbarity,'' ''liberalism'' vs. ''servility,'' ''order'' vs. ''chaos'', or even ''masters'' vs. ''slaves,'' in political, scientific and fictional discourses from Greek to Dutch, Finnish to German, British to Portuguese, and many other societies from the Middle Ages to the present day. Using an interdisciplinary set of approaches, scholars across political science, literary criticism, and the history of science bolster and extend our understanding of this ever-growing conceptual history.

Since the Enlightenment, liberalism as a concept has been foundational for European identity and politics, even as it has been increasingly interrogated and contested. This comprehensive study takes a fresh look at the diverse understandings and interpretations of the idea of liberalism in Europe, encompassing not just the familiar movements, doctrines, and political parties that fall under the heading of "liberal" but also the intertwined historical currents of thought behind them. Here we find not an abstract, universalized liberalism, but a complex and overlapping configuration of liberalisms tied to diverse linguistic, temporal, and political contexts.