Uniting Europe

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Uniting Europe
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In this timely and clearly written text, John Van Oudenaren traces how the original six-member common market evolved .into the fifteen-member European Union (EU) with its vast array of policy responsibilities. Providing an accessible overview of the institutions, laws, and policies of the Union, he chronicles its emergence as a global economic power. The author argues that the federalist aspiration to create a "United States of Europe" has died but that the drive to union persists in other forms. In the coming years, the EU will be challenged by a daunting agenda that includes completing EMU, enacting enlargement, implementing institutional reform, facing instability in Russia and the Balkans, and coping with more mundane but nonetheless serious problems such as unemployment and social inequities. Finding ways to cope with this agenda will force European governments and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

CURRENT AFFAIRS ¦ EUROPE
Praise for
Europe Today
Series Editor:
Ronald Tiersky
Uniting Europe
INTEGRAT!
In this timely and clearly written text, John Van Oudenaren traces how the original six-member common market evolved .into the fifteen-member European Union (EU) with its vast array of policy responsibilities. Providing an accessible overview of the institutions, laws, and policies of the Union, he chronicles its emergence as a global economic power. The author argues that the federalist aspiration to create a "United States of Europe" has died but that the drive to union persists in other forms. In the coming years, the EU will be challenged by a daunting agenda that includes completing EMU, enacting enlargement, implementing institutional reform, facing instability in Russia and the Balkans, and coping with more mundane but nonetheless serious problems such as unemployment and social inequities. Finding ways to cope with this agenda will force European governments and political leaders to reinvent the Union for the twenty-first century.
John Van Oudenaren is chief of the European Division of the Library of Congress and professorial lecturer at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University.
JOHN VAN OUDENAREN
"John Van Oudenaren's Uniting Europe surveys and analyzes the prospects and historical dynamics of European integration. The book is encyclopedic, well organized, readable, and judicious—rich with information and insight for understanding Europe's transformation."
— DAVID CALLEO, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
"This is an informed and informative assessment of the condition of European integration today. In the classroom, John Van Oudenaren's command and treatment of the decisions that shaped the rise of an ever closer and ever wider union of states in Europe will provide an invaluable tool for the study of the European Union. Outside the classroom, the author's sense and anticipation of the future will provide policymakers with invaluable insights at a crucial moment for the EU and its relations with the United States. I can think of no better book to read on the state of the European institutions in post-Cold War Europe."
— SIMON SERFATY, Old Dominion University Vissza