"Meticulously researched and engagingly written."---Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs "Isaac Stanley-Beckers excellent history of the emergence of the Schengen border-free zone, Europe without Borders, raises difficult questions about bordersespecially for the left. Stanley-Becker meticulously reconstructs the thinking of EU leaders in the 1980s, when the Schengen agreement was being negotiated, and the context in which it took place, capturing the mix of idealistic motives and blind spots that animated the project."---Hans Kundnani, Dissent "[ Europe Without Borders] not only functions as an engaging study of Europes past, but also as an explanation of its present condition"---Tim Brinkhoff, Jacobin "In melding rigorous scholarship with a keen eye for the human nature behind the events described, Stanley-Becker has created an authoritative, and readable, text. It is a text that both lays out the history of the Schengen area and highlights the inherent contradictions between borders as an internal crossing-point and external boundary."---Ed Bedford, The Indiependent "Europe without Borders is a concise, clearly compiled, very compelling and at times, enlightening book." * David Marx Book Reviews * "The book is rich in documentary detail, uncovering secret and often scandalous compromises that defined the treaty- making processes." * Foreword * "Beckers Europe Without Borders is key. The book aims to overcome a simplistic either-or understanding of Schengen, thanks to a comprehensive reconstruction of the phases leading to the Schengen Agreement and its aftermath." * Journal of European Integration * "A new, well-wrought scholarly history." * European Review of Books * "Europe Without Borders . . . vividly and meticulously recounts the origins and difficult negotiations to add a human rights element to the European Economic Community and lay the groundwork for a Citizens Europe" * Choice *
