European Integration and Disintegration : East and West

ISBN-13: 9780415137416 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 310 str.

Robert Bideleux; Robert Bideleux

Opis

This text deals with the principal problems and challenges confronting Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War and the collapse of European communism. Striking a balance between East, West, North and South, the volume is chiefly 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. 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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, RobertBideleux; Chapter 2 French Motives For European Integration, FrançoisDuchêne; Chapter 3 Churchill And Europe, ClivePouting; Chapter 4 European Security, PhilipLawrence; Chapter 5 The UK In Europe, JonathanBradbury; Chapter 6 In The Strategic Triangle, NikolajPetersen; Chapter 7 The Crisis Of The Italian State, BruceHaddock; Chapter 8 The Southern Enlargement Of The EC, RobertBideleux; Chapter 9 National Identity In A United And Divided Germany, GarethPritchard; Chapter 10 The Comecon experiment, RobertBideleux; Chapter 11 Poland's ‘return to Europe’, 1989–94, FrancesMillard; Chapter 12 Bringing The East Back In, RobertBideleux; Chapter 13 The Double-Headed Eagle: Russia – East Or West?, RichardTaylor; Chapter 14 In Lieu Of A Conclusion: East Meets West?, RobertBideleux;

O autorze

Robert Bideleux is Director of the Centre of Russian and East European Studies and Lecturer in Politics.,
Richard Taylor is Professor of Politics. Both are at the University of Wales, Swansea.