Format:
1 online resource (294 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780415407625
,
9780203875698
Content:
The new edition of this best-selling text provides the most up-to-date single volume history of the European Union from its origins through to the present day. Fully updated and revised throughout, this is the ideal starting point for students and others wishing to read an accessible, readable and comprehensive account of the development of the EU. Topics new to this edition: The impact of the Euro and economic and monetary union. Analysis of post-9/11 splits in the EU over Afghanistan and Iraq, and debates on the New European security order and the threat posed by terrorism. The enlargement of the EU to 27 members and discussions over further expansion. The initial failure of the EU Constitutional Treaty. The growth in Euroscepticism across the continent. An engaging contribution to the understanding of the past, present and uncertain future of European integration, European Union is essential reading for all students of European history, European Union politics, and International Relations
Note:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction: A disputed community -- 1 Birth, childhood and adolescence -- 2 The Community at the end of the 1960s -- 3 From The Hague to Paris: 1969-1972 -- 4 Aturbulent year: 1973 -- 5 The mid-1970s: Locust years -- 6 'Euro-sclerosis': The late 1970s and early 1980s -- 7 The mid-1980s: 'Single market' and 'single act' -- 8 The late 1980s and the road to '1992' -- 9 Europe transformed again: 1989-1993 -- 10 Paradoxes of the New Europe: 1994-2000 -- 11 The new millennium: 2000-2005 -- 12 New turbulence: 2005-2008 -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version McAllister, Richard European Union London : Taylor & Francis Group,c2009 ISBN 9780415407625
Language:
English
Keywords:
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