European Integration and the Europeanisation of Higher Education -- THE MANY FACES AND LEVELS OF HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY MAKING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION -- The Bologna Process as Alpha or Omega, or, on Interpreting History and Context as Inputs to Bologna, Prague, Berlin and Beyond -- Process, Persistence and Pragmatism: Reconstructing the Creation of the European University Institute and the Erasmus Programme, 1955–1989 -- Boomerangs and Trojan Horses: The Unintended Consequences of Internationalising Education Policy Through the EU and the OECD -- Networking Administration in Areas of National Sensitivity: The Commission and European Higher Education -- Policy Implementation Tools and European Governance -- The Mission Impossible of the European University: Institutional Confusion and Institutional Diversity -- BENEATH THE ARROW: THE RESPONSE OF HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL -- The Side Effects of the Bologna Process on National Institutional Settings: The Case of France -- The Implementation of the Bologna Process in Italy -- Parallel Universes and Common Themes: Reforms of Curricular Governance in The Bologna Context -- Europeanisation of Higher Education Governance in the Post-Communist Context: The Case of the Czech Republic -- CONCLUSIONS -- On Bologna, Weasels and Creeping Competence.

Given the overall ambitions and goals of the Lisbon agenda and the Bologna process, and other relevant supranational and intergovernmental European integration processes, it is obvious that these processes are intended to affect the university in all its basic structural features, including the way it performs its basic activities. However, the European Commission does not have formal authority with respect to the university, nor did the governments that signed the Bologna process develop an executive administrative capacity for implementing the Bologna Declaration. As a consequence, whether and how the supranational and intergovernmental European integration processes actually affect university governance and the university as a social institution is far from clear. The authors of this volume have dedicated considerable effort to the analysis of the Bologna process implementation. They offer a unique and critical view of the nature and possible effects of these very complex processes.