Subject: Political Science Book Title: The State of the European Union Vol. 7
The State of the European Union Vol. 7
With US or Against US? European Trends in American Perspective
Jabko, Nicolas
(Editor), Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
Parsons, Craig
(Editor), FNSP Research Fellow, Sciences Po, Paris
Print publication date: 2005
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928395-8
doi:10.1093/0199283958.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928395-8
doi:10.1093/0199283958.001.0001
Abstract:
Since 1945, two major projects have dominated European worldviews: the transatlantic partnership and “integration” in the European Union. Neither is fundamentally at risk today, but both have entered uncharted territory. President Bush has asked bluntly if Europeans are “with us or against us,” and most lean toward the latter. The EU’s original road map for integration culminated in monetary union, and its future agenda is vague. This introduction and the book that follows chart the many trends of change that carried Europe to this crossroads. It aims for accessibility for European and American students, avoiding theoretical jargon and mapping European trends in comparison to American policies and institutions.
Keywords: integration theory, political change, transatlantic relations, European integration, George Bush
Keywords: integration theory, political change, transatlantic relations, European integration, George Bush
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Why Another Book on Europe—And Why In Reference To the United States?
2. A European Union with Teeth?
3. Continental Divide? The Transience of Transatlantic Troubles
4. United Against the United States? The EU's Role in Global Trade and Finance
5. ‘We the States’: Why the Anti-Federalists Won
6. Parliamentary Government or Division of Powers: Is the Destination Still Unknown?
7. Is the Council Becoming an Upper House?
8. The Politics of Eurocracy: Building a New European State?
9. Stock Exchange Competition and the Nasdaq Bargain in Europe
10. Financial Restructuring in the Age of the Euro: Still a Battle of Systems?
11. Toward a European Social Policy—At Last?
12. EU Interest Representation or US-Style Lobbying?
13. Transatlantic Risk Perceptions, Public Health, and Environmental Concerns: Coming Together or Drifting Apart?
14. Drawing the EU's Borders: Immigration Policy
15. The Dynamics of EU Enlargement in American Perspective
16. Rights in the European Union: Convergent with the USA?
17. What Lies Beyond a Confederal Europe?
18. The EU ‘Polity’ and the Europeanization of National Polities
19. The European Union through an American Prism
Index
doi:10.1093/0199283958.001.0001
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