Investigating the Changing Topography of the EU Administrative Space: From EU Governance to Its Administrative Terrain—An Introduction

The introduction describes in detail the main aim behind this project, namely the multidisciplinary elaboration of a topography of the EU administration aiming at better understanding the changes resulting from the numerous crises the EU has experienced in the past decade. In this introductory chapter, we argue that this ‘topographical’ research project is embedded in the literature that poses the administration at the centre of its analytical framework. Nonetheless, we want to go a step further, focusing on the analysis of the organisations in a trans-institutional and relational manner, encompassing the perspectives of both the actors and their instruments within the EU administrative space. In the final section of the chapter, we present the different contributions which are part of the overall project.