Is the process of European integration shifting the targets of social movements from the national arena to the European level? Addressing this and other key questions, this volume explores how European citizens are responding to the growing policymaking power of the EU.

Exploring how social movements have been influenced by growing Europeanization and globalization, this groundbreaking work analyzes the developing efforts of European citizens to make demands upon the supranational level of European government through social movements, protest politics, and contentious political action. The authors explore the conditions under which citizens are attempting to gain voice before the EU through protest politics, as well as the reasons why a truly transnational realm of collective action has proven so elusive.