Based on the thesis that the process of European integration is far more than just the building and further development of institutions. This book discusses the role and function of social policy, and the role and function of civil society, namely the NGOs.
This book explores the bilateral relationship between France and Germany and analyzes the broad diplomatic, security, and economic dimensions of their relationship in the new era.
This volume assesses the changing nature of the UK's bilateral relations within the EU. The authors argue that effective bilateral relations are vital to effective decisionmaking and that with repeated EU enlargement they are becoming increasingly important.
By the early 1990s, both the British Labour Party and the Danish Social Democrats had developed policies on the European Community advocating a strengthening of the EC. This book demonstrates that the two parties' positive attitude towards a strengthened EC constitutes a political result of the economic interconnectedness in Western Europe.
This is a thorough historical narrative of the evolution of Western European monetary policy since the end of World War II with emphasis on the analysis of European efforts to establish a monetary union for the countries of the European Common Market.
Most of the contemporary debates about the European Union - about its role, its institutional arrangements, its development dynamic, its expansion and possible futures - revolve around the issue of political legitimacy. Legitimacy and the European Union addresses the fundamental issues at the heart of the debates on Europe. Using a multi-dimensional conception of political legitimacy, the text analyses the character and problems of the European Union's authority in respect of democracy,...
This text explores the connections between the past and the present, looks at the very different routes that European countries have taken to democracy, explores the role of parties and elections, and examines major policy concerns of the European states.
The beginning of the 21st century witnessed an unprecedented expansion of the EU. Since the majority of new member countries are small, there is a conventional wisdom that the accession of these states has the potential to create challenges to the development of the enlarged EU. This book attempts to argue that this view may not be the case.
This is an examination of the debates surrounding the expansion of the five main European institutions since the end of the Cold War. All of these institutions were founded during the Cold War and now they face demands to enlarge their membership to admit states from Eastern Europe.