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1 online resource (489 pages)
ISBN:
9780191522901
Inhalt:
The State of the European Union offers an insightful and up-to-date examination of the challenges facing the European Union. The Amsterdam treaty, monetary union, future enlargement, as well as global economic and political developments pose new risks and opportunities for EU institutions and policies. Chapters by leading scholars explore different conceptual approaches to the emerging European polity, needed reforms of European institutions, difficultiesawaiting monetary union, risks of enlargement, and the resulting implications for the development of European policies.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- The Editors -- List of Contributors -- I. Introduction -- 1. Risks, Reform, Resistance, and Revival -- II. Conceptualizing the European Union -- 2. The European Union after the 1990s: Explaining Continuity and Change -- 3. The European Union after Amsterdam: Towards a Theoretical Approach to (Differentiated) Integration -- 4. The Paradox of the 'European Polity' -- III. Monetary Union: Ideas, Interests, and Impact -- 5. Monetary Integration in Europe: Ideas and Evolution -- 6. The Battle between ECOFIN-11 and the European Central Bank: A Strategic Interaction Perspective -- 7. European Monetary Union and the New Political Economy of Adjustment -- IV. Enlargement: Understanding Past, Present, and Future -- 8. EU Enlargement: A Neglected Subject -- 9. Eastern Enlargement: Risk, Rationality, and Role-Compliance -- 10. Enlargement: A Complex Juggling Act -- V. Institutions and Identity: Capacities, Legitimacy, and Perception -- 11. The European Commission: Diminishing Returns to Entrepreneurship -- 12. Democracy, Legitimacy, and the European Parliament Roger Scully -- 13. Do You Hear What I Hear? Translation, Expansion, and Crisis in the European Court of Justice -- 14. Blairism in Brussels: The 'Third Way' in Europe since Amsterdam -- 15. On Being European: The Character and Consequences of European Identity -- VI. Policy-Making: Challenges in a Changing European Union -- 16. EU Trade Policy: The 'Exclusive' versus Shared Competence Debate -- 17. Flexibility or Renationalization: Effects of Enlargement on EC Environmental Policy -- 18. How Defense 'Spilled Over' into the CFSP: Western European Union (WEU) and the European Security and Defense Identity (ESDI) -- 19. Resisting Reform or Risking Revival? Renegotiating the Lomé Convention -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D.
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ISBN 9780198297529
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780198297529
Sprache:
Englisch
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