Justine Lacroix is Associate Professor of Politics at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. She is the author of a number books and articles which have appeared in numerous journals including Political Studies, European Journal of Political Theory, Politics, European Political Science, Critique, and others.

Kalypso Nicolaidis is Director of the European Studies Centre at Oxford University and Fellow at St. Anthonys College. She is also a member of the EU reflection group on the Future of Europe (2020-2030) chaired by Felipe Gonzales, was Associate Professor at the Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University, and has also held Visiting Professorships around Europe. Her publications have appeared in numerous journals including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, and her books include The Federal Vision (OUP 2001), In the Long Shadow of Europe, and Mediterranean Frontiers.

Daniel Barbu, Professor of Political Science and Director, Graduate School of Political Science, University of Bucharest
Antonio Barroso, Graduate Student, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Muriel Blaive, Historian and Project Leader, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres
Francis Cheneval, Visiting Professor of Political Theory, Université libre de Bruxelles; Lecturer, University of Geneva
Carlos Closa, Professor, CSIC-Madrid
Juan Díez Medrano, Professor, University of Barcelona; Senior Researcher, IBEI
Nora Fisher Onar, Faculty Member, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bahçeehir University
John Erik Fossum, Professor of Political Science, ARENA, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
Michael Freeden, Professor of Politics, Director of the Centre for Political Ideologies, Oxford University; Professorial Fellow, Mansfield College, Oxford University
Magdalena Góra, MA and PhD in Political Science, Jagiellonian University
Katy Hayward, Lecturer in Sociology, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast
Cathrine Holst, Senior Researcher, ARENA, Centre for European Studies; Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
Ahmet Evin, Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Academy; Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
Ulrike Liebert, Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair and Director of Centre for European Studies, University of Bremen
Zdzislaw Mach, Professor of Sociology, Jagiellonian University
Nicolas Maslowski, Lecturer in Sociology, Charles University; Head of the Collegium Minor, Praha
Jan-Werner Müller, Politics Department, Princeton University
George Pagoulatos, Associate Professor of Politics, Athens University of Economics; Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges
Janie Pélabay, FNR-funded Researcher in Political Science and Philosophy, European Governance Program, University of Luxembourg
Mario Telò, Vice-President of the Institute of European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Georgios Varouxakis, Reader in History at Queen Mary, University of London
Xenophon Yataganas, PhD Degrees in European Law and Philosophy of Law, Universities of Athens and Paris

"This is a brilliant book. It's highly instructive chapters on how issues of European unification have been discussed from different aspects in different countries reveal in each case the strong dependence on national contexts -and the lack of mutual concern and coordination we observe in Europe even among intellectuals."--Jürgen Habermas

"Europe has completed the circle of its 'historical project', gradually healing the wounds and making amends for the errors of its past: Nazism and the Second World War, dictatorships in its Southern countries, Communist control of the East. Europe's great challenge now is to piece together a new identity, to arrive at a shared idea of Europe that is still missing. The volume edited by Justine Lacroix and Kalypso Nicolaïdis is an invaluable contribution to moving this process forward. I urge Europeans across the continent to read and debate it."--Pierre Rosanvallon, Chair of Early Modern and Modern Political History, Collège de France

"The European Union is one of the most mind-boggling political phenomena of our times. All over Europe, public intellectuals have slowly been rising to the challenge of assessing its significance and arguing about its future. But most of the time in their own impenetrable national bubbles. Thanks to an impressive pan-European team, this unusual volume enables us to peep through the opaque walls that separate national debates. Whether you are looking for similarities or for differences, be prepared for many suprises"--Philippe Van Parijs, Professor of Economic, Social, and Political Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, and Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

"This is a remarkable attempt to capture the full polyphony, not to say cacophony, of different national, sub-national and supra-national versions of the European story, and then to find some underlying tune. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in the intellectual and political future of the European project."--Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, Oxford University

"The trajectory of European integration is being decided not in Brussels but in 27 diverse nation-states. Their citizens view Europe in strikingly different ways. Brilliantly combining story-telling and social science, European Stories offers a path-breaking analysis of these disparate national visions. Indispensible for anyone who cares about Europe's future."--Andrew Moravcsik, Director, EU Program, Princeton University