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The State of the European Union
Risks, Reform, Resistance, and Revival
Edited by Maria Green Cowles and Michael Smith
490 pages
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figures, tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-829757-4
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Paperback
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21 December 2000
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- Contributions for leading academics in the field
- Contemporary and contentious discussion of European monetary union, EU enlargement, EU and institutional reform
- Relevant and accessible debate
With the introduction of a single currency in 1999 and the negotiations for the fifth enlargement in 2000, the European Union is at a major crossroads in its history. While the adoption of EMU and the entrance of new member states hold the promise of creating an 'ever close union', they must take place in a rather turbulent environment. Exogenous shocks such as the Asian financial crisis, the Russian upheaval, and new Balkan problems threaten to derail advances in monetary affairs and common foreign and security policy. Endogenous resistance to further European policy reform in areas such as the budget, CAP, and structural funds has strengthened, as suggested by the meagre advances
in the Amsterdam Treaty. Indeed, domestic developments, including changes in the political composition of leading governments and growing unemployment, pose further challenges to EU reforms.
With contributions from leading scholars, the book examines the European Union in a theoretically informed, empirically-grounded manner. The book begins by exploring the evolving nature of the European polity and its capacity for change. The second section on monetary union examines the conditions under which EMU will challenge integration, the viability of the European Central Bank, as well as the ability of European citizens to adjust to the single currency. The third section investigates why member states agreed to the Eastern enlargement and what internal and external
challenges face the Union as a result. The fourth section highlights the institutional upheavals underway in the major European institutions, as well as Europeans support of and identify with the European polity. The final section of the book highlights the extent to which the European Union is able to govern in key policy areasDStrade, environment, common foreign and security policy, and developmentDSgiven the state of the European Union today.
This is the fifth volume in the biannual series State of the European Union produced under the auspices of the American European Community Studies Association (ECSA)Readership: Scholars and students of European Union, political science, comparative
European politics, international relations, economics, law, policy makers and advisors
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Edited by Maria Green Cowles, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University, and Michael Smith, Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, Department of European Studies, Loughborough University
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"Competent selection of highly original pieces" - Political Studies
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Part I. Introduction
Maria Green Cowles and Michael Smith: Risks, Reform, Resistance, and Revival
Part II. Conceptualizing the European Union
John Peterson and Elizabeth Bomberg: The EU after the 1990s: Explaining Continuity and Change
Sieglinde Gstöhl: The EU after Amsterdam: Towards a Theoretical Approach to (Differentiated) Integration
Jo Shaw and Antje Wiener: The Paradox of the European Polity
Part III. Monetary Union: Ideas, Interests, and Impact
Amy Verdun: Monetary Policy and the EU: Ideas and Evolution
Miriam Campanella: ECOFIN-11 and the European Central Bank: Game Theoretic Perspective
Erik Jones: EMU and the New Political Economy of Adjustment
Part IV. Enlargement: Understanding Past, Present, and Future
Helen Wallace: EU Enlargement: A Neglected Subject
Ulrich Sedelmeier: Eastern Enlargement: Risk, Rationality, and Role-Compliance
Lykke Friis and Anna Murphy: The Enlargement: A Complex Juggling Act
Part V. Institutions and Identity: Capacities, Legitimacy, and Perception
Mitchell Smith: The European Commission: Diminishing Returns to Entrepreneurship
Roger M. Scully: Democracy, Legitimacy, and the European Parliament
Paul Mullen: Do You Hear What I Hear? Translation, Expansion, and Crisis in the European Court of Justice
Mark Pollack: Blairism in Brussels: The Third Way in Europe since Amsterdam
David Michael Green: On Being European: The Character and Consequences of European Identity
Sophie Meunier and Kalypso Nicolaidis: EU Trade Policy: The Exclusive versus Shared Competence Debate
Flexibility or Renationalization: Effects of Enlargement on Environmental PolicyIngmar von Homeyer, Alexander Carius, and Stefani Bar:
How Defense 'Spilled Over' into the CFSP: Western European Union and the European Security and Defense IndentityJ. Bryan Collester:
Resisting Reform or Risking Revival? Renegotiating the Lome ConventionMartin Holland:
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