The EU's Lisbon Strategy ─ Evaluating Success, Understanding Failure

How successful was the EU's Lisbon Strategy? This volume provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Strategy and reflects on its key developments during its 10-year cycle. The volume contains both theoretical and empirical contributions by some of the leading scholars of EU studies across the social sciences.

DIMITRIS PAPADIMITRIOU is Reader in European Politics at the University of Manchester, UK and the Director of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. His research interests revolve around contemporary Greek politics and the European Union's relations with Eastern Europe. His previous publications include Negotiating the New Europe (2002), Romania and the European Union (2008, with D. Phinnemore), The Limits of Europeanisation (2008, with K. Featherstone) and The Last Ottomans (2011, with K. Featherstone, A. Mamarelis and G. Niarchos). PAUL COPELAND is Hallsworth Research Fellow of Political Economy at the University of Manchester, UK. His research analyses the impact of the 2004 and 2007 EU enlargements on the construction and sustainability of the European social dimension, as well as the integration capacity of new modes of governance. He is currently completing a book entitled EU Enlargement, the European Social Dimension and the Clash of Capitalisms.