The European Union: Economy, Society, and Polity
Economy, Society and Polity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 January 2002
- ISBN 9780198742869
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 234x156x11 mm
- Weight 330 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables; figures and maps 0
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Short description:
This textbook is an introduction to some of the most important economic, social and political challenges that the EU currently faces. It covers the issues of competitiveness, cohesion, ageing, migration, employment and social polarization, enlargement, and the emergence of regionalism and nationalism. These structural challenges will in the medium-run determine the place of the EU in the world. Written by a single author, it has greater cohesion than many of the multi-contributor volumes available.
MoreLong description:
At the beginning of the 21st century the European Union faces twin challenges: the institutional challenge, linked to the processes of greater integration and expansion, and the structural challenge, which will in the medium-run determine the place of the EU in the world. This textbook deals with this latter set of challenges, focusing on economic aspects, such as competitiveness and cohesion, as well as on other important issues such as ageing, migration, social polarization, and the emergence of regionalism and nationalism.
'...an extraordinarily useful overview of the economic geography/macro-sociology of the EU, not least for its strongly pedagogic intentions (that include on-line maps, data, and overheads that can be used in the classroom to support the text).' Environment and Planning 2003
Table of Contents:
Part I: ECONOMY
Competitiveness
Introduction
The stages of economic integration
Economic integration as a means to achieve competitiveness
The impact of economic integration
Conclusion
Cohesion
Introduction
National and regional disparitites in the EU
European development policies
The efficiency of European development policies after the reform of the Structural Funds
Conclusion
Part II: SOCIETY
Ageing
Introduction
Demographic change in the EU
The factors behind ageing
Policies aimed at tackling demographic change
Conclusion
Migration and xenophobia
Introduction
Migration and its forms
Mass migration in post-war Europe
The renewal of migration in the 1990s
The European response to migration
Conclusion
Unemployment and social polarization
Introduction
Employment change in the post-industrial age
The roots of persistently high unemployment
The impact of labour market flexibility on unemployment
Conclusion
Part III: POLITY
Enlargement
Introduction
Change in central and eastern Europe
The different transitions in central and eastern Europe
Enlargement and European integration
Conclusion
Regionalism and regionalization
Introduction
Regional devolution in Europe
The transfer of power from the nation state to the regions
The roots of the regionalization process
Towards a 'Europe of the Regions'?
Conclusion
