The accelerated pace of European integration since the  early 1990s has been accompanied by the emergence of increasingly  prominent and multiform oppositions to the process.  The term  Euroscepticism has appeared with growing frequency in a range of  political, media, and academic discourses.  Yet, the label is applied  to a wide range of different, and occasionally contradictory,  phenomena.  Although originally associated with an English  exceptionalism relative to a Continental project of political and  economic integration, the term Euroscepticism is now also identified  with a more general questioning of European Union institutions and  policies which finds diverse expressions across the entire continent.  This volume of European Studies brings together an interdisciplinary  team of contributors to provide one of the first major, multinational  surveys of the growth of these Eurosceptic tendencies.  Individual  chapters provide detailed examinations of developments in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Switzerland.  Overall, the volume draws a distinctive portrait of contemporary Euroscepticism, situating the phenomenon not only relative to the progress of European integration, but also in relation to broader questions concerned with the evolution of party politics and the reshaping of national identities.Contents:     Authors in this volume  Robert HARMSEN and Menno SPIERING: Introduction: Euroscepticism and the Evolution of European Political Debate  Paul HAINSWORTH, Carolyn O’BRIEN and Paul MITCHELL: Defending the Nation: The Politics of Eurosceptisicm on the French Right  Susan MILNER: For an Alternative Europe: Euroscepticism and the French Left Since the Maastricht Treaty  Klaus BUSCH and Wilhelm KNELANGEN: German Euroscepticism  Robert HARMSEN: Euroscepticism in the Netherlands: Stirrings of Dissent  Menno SPIERING: British Euroscepticism  Peter J. ANDERSON: A Flag of Convenience? Discourse and Motivations of the London-based Eurosceptic Press  Karin GILLAND: Irish Euroscepticism  Milena SUNNUS: Swedish Euroscepticism: Democracy, Sovereignty and Welfare  Anton PELINKA: Austrian Euroscepticism: The Shift From the Left to the Right  Petr KOPECK?: An Awkward Newcomer? EU Enlargement and Euroscepticism in the Czech Republic  Aleks SZCZERBIAK: Polish Euroscepticism in the Run-up to EU Accession  Clive H. CHURCH: Swiss Euroscepticism: Local Variations on Wider Themes

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