Authors: Desmond Dinan
ISBN-13: 9781588266071, ISBN-10: 1588266079
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: July 2010
Edition: 4th Edition
Ever Closer Union clearly explains the complexities of European integration from the 1950s to the present. This new edition retains the familiar three-part structure - history, institutions, and policies - but incorporates expanded coverage of both enlargement issues and constitutional change. New policy and institutional developments are thoroughly explored, and an entirely new chapter examines the decisionmaking dynamics among the Commission, Council, and Parliament. The completely revised chapter on the complicated EU-U.S. relationship includes discussions of the Bush administration's worldview, the broad repercussions of the terrorist attacks in the United States and Spain, and the ongoing fallout from the war in Iraq.
1 | Reconstruction, reconciliation, and integration, 1945-1957 | 11 |
2 | Uncertain terrain, 1958-1972 | 39 |
3 | A community in flux, 1973-1984 | 69 |
4 | From European community to European Union, 1985-1993 | 97 |
5 | Enlargement, 1994-2005 | 133 |
6 | Constitutional change, 1994-2005 | 161 |
7 | The commission | 187 |
8 | The European council and the council of ministers | 225 |
9 | The European parliament | 259 |
10 | Other institutions and bodies | 289 |
11 | Decisionmaking and interinstitutional dynamics | 327 |
12 | Agriculture and cohesion | 353 |
13 | Economic integration : growth and competitiveness | 387 |
14 | Social policy, employment, and the environment | 447 |
15 | Economic and monetary union | 481 |
16 | External relations | 519 |
17 | Internal and external security | 559 |
18 | U.S.-EU relations | 609 |