Crossing the Atlantic: Comparing the European Union and Canada, Patrick M. Crowley, ed., Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, Vt., Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004, pp. vi, 231.

Edited volumes are notoriously difficult to organize around a well-focused theme. This is particularly so when chapters originate from a conference exploring a number of topics with participants from different academic backgrounds. Further complexity arises when chapters are subsequently added, as they were in Crossing the Atlantic. Reviewing such a volume and suggesting an audience for it, in turn, is a challenge because of the inevitable variability in topics, theoretical assumptions and writing styles found in such a collective work.