L’académie européenne. Savoirs, experts et savants dans le gouvernement de l’Union européenne

The article draws a general framework for a political sociology of “European studies” here defined as an array of academic undertakings simultaneously devoted to and built with EU political and bureaucratic actors. Studying the genesis of this transnational academic sub-field where the theories of European integration have been defined helps identify a field of Europe’s reform in which EU political agenda emerge and consolidate. We argue that these narrow connections between academic and political entrepreneurs of Europe are not a transitory phenomenon but a constitutive and perennial feature of the government of the EU