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The State of the European Union Risks Reform Resistance and Revival 1st Edition by Maria Green Cowles, Michael Smith ISBN 0191522902 9780198297574

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Author(s): Maria Green Cowles, Michael Smith
ISBN(s): 9780198297574, 0191522902
Edition: First Edition
File Details: PDF, 3.51 MB
Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0191522902 
ISBN 13: 9780198297574
Author: Maria Green Cowles, Michael Smith

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)

The State of the European Union Risks Reform Resistance and Revival 1st Table of contents:

I. introduction
risks, reform, resistance, and revival

II. conceptualizing the european union
the european union after the 1990s: explaining continuity and change
the european union after amsterdam: towards a theoretical approach to (differentiated) integration
the paradox of the ‘european polity’

III. monetary union: ideas, interests, and impact
monetary integration in europe: ideas and evolution
the battle between ecofin-11 and the european central bank: a strategic interaction perspective
european monetary union and the new political economy of adjustment

IV. enlargement: understanding past, present, and future
eu enlargement: a neglected subject
eastern enlargement: risk, rationality, and role-compliance
enlargement: a complex juggling act

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

VI. policy-making: challenges in a changing european union
eu trade policy: the ‘exclusive’ versus shared competence debate
flexibility or renationalization: effects of enlargement on ec environmental policy
how defense ‘spilled over’ into the cfsp: western european union (weu) and the european security
resisting reform or risking revival? renegotiating the lomé convention

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