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The State of the European Union Vol. 7: With US or Against US? European Trends in American Perspective

Nicolas Jabko and Craig Parsons

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 America ... More

Keywords: integration theory, political change, transatlantic relations, European integration, George Bush

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2005 Print ISBN-13: 9780199283958
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006 DOI:10.1093/0199283958.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Nicolas Jabko, editor
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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Craig Parsons, editor
FNSP Research Fellow, Sciences Po, Paris
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Front Matter

Title Pages

The State of the European Union

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF BOXES

Abbreviations

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

1 Why Another Book on Europe—And Why In Reference To the United States?

NICOLAS JABKO AND CRAIG PARSONS

I External Foreign, Security, and Economic Policies

2 A European Union with Teeth?

JOLYON HOWORTH

3 Continental Divide? The Transience of Transatlantic Troubles

BRIAN RATHBUN*

4 United Against the United States? The EU's Role in Global Trade and Finance*

C. RANDALL HENNING AND SOPHIE MEUNIER

II Institutional Evolutions

5 ‘We the States’: Why the Anti‐Federalists Won

RENAUD DEHOUSSE

6 Parliamentary Government or Division of Powers: Is the Destination Still Unknown?

MICHAEL SHACKLETON1

7 Is the Council Becoming an Upper House?

JEFFREY LEWIS

8 The Politics of Eurocracy: Building a New European State?

R. DANIEL KELEMEN1

III Europe's Political Economy

9 Stock Exchange Competition and the Nasdaq Bargain in Europe

ELLIOT POSNER*

10 Financial Restructuring in the Age of the Euro: Still a Battle of Systems?

JONATHAN STORY

11 Toward a European Social Policy—At Last?

BRUNO PALIER AND PHILIPPE POCHET

12 EU Interest Representation or US‐Style Lobbying?

JUSTIN GREENWOOD AND ALASDAIR R. YOUNG

IV Culture, Identity, and EU Decision‐Making

13 Transatlantic Risk Perceptions, Public Health, and Environmental Concerns: Coming Together or Drifting Apart?

PAULETTE KURZER

14 Drawing the EU's Borders: Immigration Policy

VIRGINIE GUIRAUDON

15 The Dynamics of EU Enlargement in American Perspective

JOHN A. SCHERPEREEL

V The Shape of the EU Polity

16 Rights in the European Union: Convergent with the USA?

MARTIN SHAPIRO

17 What Lies Beyond a Confederal Europe?

CHRISTOPHER ANSELL AND REBECCA CHEN

18 The EU ‘Polity’ and the Europeanization of National Polities

VIVIEN A. SCHMIDT

19 The European Union through an American Prism

ROGAN KERSH AND JAMES MORONE

End Matter

References

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