Colleagues may find this special issue of European Urban and Regional Studies of interest, which has just been published. It contains a number of research papers plus a section of shorter reflections on the European and southern Mediterranean crises and struggles arising from them. Details below. http://eur.sagepub.com/content/20/1.toc Europe and an Inter-Dependent World: Uneven Geo-Economic and Geo-Political Developments A Special Issue of European Urban and Regional Studies Edited by Adrian Smith, Queen Mary, University of London (Editor in Chief, European Urban and Regional Studies) Adrian Smith, “Europe and an Inter-Dependent World: Uneven Geo-Economic and Geo-Political Developments” Michael Dunford, Kyoung H Lee, Weidong Liu and Godfrey Yeung, “Geographical Interdependence, International Trade and Economic Dynamics: The Chinese and German Solar Energy Industries” Maribel Casas-Cortes, Sebastian Cobarrubias and John Pickles, “Re-bordering the Neighbourhood: Europe’s Emerging Geographies of Non-Accession Integration” Luiza Bialasiewicz, Paulo Giaccaria, Alun Jones and Claudio Minca, “Re-Scaling ‘EU’rope: EU Macro-Regional Fantasies in the Mediterranean” Alun Jones and Julian Clark, “’A Modern Day Icelandic Saga’: Political Places and Negotiating Spaces at the ‘EU’rope’s Northern Frontier” Kathryn Cassidy, “Gender Relations and Cross-Border Small Trading in the Ukrainian-Romanian Borderlands” Euro-Commentary Special Collection: Mediterranean Geographies of Protest (Guest Editor: Sara Fregonese) Sara Fregonese, “Mediterranean Geographies of Protest” Lynn Staeheli and Caroline Nagel, “Whose Awakening Is It? Youth and the Geopolitis of Civic Engagement in the 'Arab Awakening'” Andrea Teti and Andrea Mura, “Convergent (Il)liberalism in the Mediterranean? Some Notes on Egyptian (Post-)Authoritarianism and Italian (Post-)Democracy” Jeremy Anderson, “Intersecting Arcs of Mobilisation: The Trans-National Trajectories of Egyptian Dockers’ Unions” Costas Douzinas, “Athens Rising” Lorenzo Trombetta, “More than Just a Battleground: Cairo Urban Space During the 2011 Protests” Adam Ramadan, “From Tahrir to the World: The Camp as a Political Public Space” Yair Wallach, “The Politics of Non-Iconic Space: Sushi, Shisha, and a Civic Promise in the 2011 Summer Protests in Israel” Carlos Taibo, “The Spanish Indignados: A Movement with Two Souls” -- Professor Adrian Smith School of Geography Queen Mary, University of London London E1 4NS United Kingdom t: 020 7882 8436 e: [log in to unmask] Editor in Chief, European Urban and Regional Studies http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal200838#tabview=title http://eur.sagepub.com/