The State of the European Union
Risks, Reform, Resistance, and Revival
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 December 2000
- ISBN 9780198297529
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages490 pages
- Size 241x164x30 mm
- Weight 822 g
- Language English
- Illustrations figures, tables 0
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Short description:
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, difficulties awaiting monetary union, risks of enlargement, and the resulting implications for the development of European policies.
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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 areas - trade, environment, common foreign and security policy, and development - given 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)
Following an introduction the papers are arranged in five sections dealing with conceptualising the EU; monetary union; enlargement; institutions and identities; and policy making. Each area is treated in considerable detail and the book should be of interest to a wide audience, particularly in the UK where joining the EMU is still a matter of considerable debate.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Introduction
Risks, Reforms, Resistance, and Revival
Part II. Conceptualizing the European Union
The EU after the 1990s: Explaining Continuity and Change
The EU after Amsterdam: Towards a Theoretical Approach to (Differentiated) Integration
The Paradox of the European Polity
Part III. Monetary Union: Ideas, Interests, and Impact
Prelim: Monetary Policy and the EU: Ideas and Evolution
ECOFIN-11 and the European Central Bank: A Rational Choice Perspective
EMU and the New Political Economy of Adjustment
Part IV. Enlargement: Understanding Past, Present, and Future
EU Enlargement: A Neglected Subject
Eastern Enlargement: Risk, Rationality, and Role-Compliance
The Enlargement: A Complex Juggling Act
Part V. Institutions and Identity: Capacities, Legitimacy, and Perception
The European Commission: Diminishing Returns to Entrepreneurship
Democracy, Legitimacy, and the European Parliament
Do You Hear What I Hear? Translation, Expansion, and Crisis in the European Court of Justice
Blairism in Brussels: The Third Way in Europe since Amsterdam
On Being European: The Character and Consequences of European Identity
