European Integration and Disintegration: East and WestRobert Bideleux, Professor Richard Taylor, Richard Taylor Routledge, 11 sept. 2002 - 312 pages Europe has changed radically since 1989 and continues to change at great speed. This book deals with the principle problems and challenges confronting Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War and the collapse of European communism. Whilst endeavouring to strike a balance between East, West, North and South, the volume is more concerned with the changing political, economic and cultural morphology of Europe, and of the relations within it, than with the formal institutional arrangements of the European Community and its successor, the European Union. There are already numerous books on the institutional development of the EU, but relatively few with a wider compass and institutional interpretations of European integration. The book shows that the study of European integration should be taken in the round, avoiding a narrow and self-centered concern with the development of the 'lesser Europe' of the EU. It demonstrates that integration should be seen as neither an inexorable predetermined process, nor as an automatic consequence of high levels of economic interdependence, but rather as something that proceeds in fits and starts and sometimes suffers reverses. |
Table des matières
European integration and disintegration | 1 |
2 French motives for European integration | 22 |
a revision | 36 |
a new era of crisis? | 46 |
an awkward or accommodating partner? | 66 |
Denmark and the European Union | 93 |
7 The crisis of the Italian state | 111 |
Greece Portugal and Spain | 127 |
9 National identity in a united and divided Germany | 154 |
10 The Comecon experiment | 174 |
11 Polands return to Europe 198994 | 205 |
12 Bringing the East back in | 225 |
Russia East or West? | 252 |
East meets West? | 281 |
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