State-Building in Europe: The Revitalization of Western European Integration

ISBN-13: 9780521786195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 344 str.

Volker Bornschier

Opis

The relaunch of European integration in the 1980s and 1990s will affect profoundly the continent's course in the twenty-first century. The European Commission, bureaucratic cabinets, national diplomats, transnational companies, pressure groups and representatives of the regions have set in motion a process that is changing statehood in Europe dramatically. Based on more than thirty interviews with EU commissioners, managers of European transnational companies and national diplomats, this volume is a valuable contribution to the debate on the future of Europe in the world system.

Recenzje

'… the book will make an interesting reading to juxtapose mainstream research on European integration in graduate classes.' West European Politics

Spis treści

Part I. Statebuilding and Political Entrepreneurship: 1. Western Europe's move toward political union Volker Bornschier; 2. Tying up the Luxembourg package of 1985 Patrick Ziltener; Part II. The Core Elements in Recasting the European Bargain: 3. The origins of the single market Nicola Fielder; 4. Esprit and technology corporatism Simon Parker; 5. Regional policy - monetary lubricant for economic integration Patrick Ziltener; 6. Social policy - the defeat of the delorist project Patrick Ziltener; Part III. Conclusions beyond the Single European Act of 1986: 7. Lobbying for a Europe of big business Michael Nollert and Nicola Fielder; 8. Biotechnology in the European union Michael Nollert; 9. European integration after the single act Patrick Ziltener; 10. The state of the European union Volker Bornschier; Bibliography; List of interview partners.