Introduction
Chapter 1: Introducing European Rights
Chapter 2: From Rights to Citizenship
Chapter 3: Maastricht's Constitutional Moment
Chapter 4: Europe's Homogeneous Space
Chapter 5: Toward a Constitution
Chapter 6: The Limits of European Citizenship
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Willem Maas is Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and associate professor of political science at Glendon College, York University, Toronto.
Skillfully guiding the reader through a complex history, the author
illustrates how the EU has multiplied the sources of rights and
political identity available to individuals, thereby challenging
orthodox notions of citizenship based on a mutually exclusive set
of relations between state and citizen. . . . An important
contribution towards understanding the contemporary condition of,
and future challenges to, the European polity.
*Perspectives on Politics*
Maas has written an excellent analysis and review of the evolution
of European citizenship thus far. It is a welcome addition to EU
literature and recommended for political scientists, historians,
and scholars of the EU. The book is clearly written with extensive
footnotes and references that are especially useful and valuable.
There are meticulous details of negotiations and contentious
debates among member states and EU institutions that bring a deeper
understanding of EU workings behind closed doors. . . . Highly
recommended.
*CHOICE*
In this short but very detailed work, Willem Maas seeks to outline
the history of citizenship as it applies to the European Union and
its antecedent organizations. The focus is both on 'the "high
politics" of intergovernmental conferences'—and their
behind-the-scenes compromises—and 'the "low politics" of
interpretation by the Court and implementation by the Commission.'
Developments in both of these areas are clearly outlined and
analyzed. . . . What comes through in Maas’s work is the sense that
European Union citizenship is a clear illustration of both the
achievements and limitations of European integration.
*Canadian Journal of Political Science*
Rather than focusing narrowly on the economic ramifications of
integration, the author explores the drive to create a wider
community of people. . . . Well written, with the argument set out
in a chronological and straightforward fashion. . . . This book
will appeal to theorists and practitioners alike, as well as
undergraduates and those with a more specialist interest in issues
of integration, citizenship, and nationalism.
*Political Studies Review*
Maas's book provides a clear description and thoughtful analysis of
the history of European citizenship from the Treaties of Paris and
Rome in the 1950s until the present phase of European integration
marked by the debate on the EU constitution. An examination of the
rise of European citizenship enables a better understanding of the
political nature of the European project. Contrary to the majority
of works on European integration. . . . Maas argues that European
political development is a manifestation of the drive to create not
only a free trade zone but also a community of people.
*Journal of Common Market Studies*
[The book] has many strengths. . . . The organization of the book
is masterly. All these issues are woven together in a mere 120
pages of text in such a way that none of their complexity is lost,
while, at the same time, the book could easily be read by an
interested member of the public as well as the student or
scholar.
*Race Relations Abstracts*
Willem Maas's study is a definitive political history of European
citizenship rights and the free movement of persons, from the
Treaties of Paris and Rome in the 1950s to the struggles over the
EU constitution. It combines careful empirical documentation with
incisive political theory, on a subject insufficiently studied by
mainstream political science. While offering an upbeat account of
the steady expansion and deepening of the remarkable legal
construction of European citizenship, he wisely reminds us of its
limitations and reversibility.
*Adrian Favell, Centre d’études européennes de Sciences Po*
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