The Rebirth of Europe

by Pond, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780815771593
• ISBN10: 0815771592
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-26
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

This revised and updated paperback edition covers the introduction of the euro, the fall of Milosevic, and the impact of September 11 in European integration.The rejuvenation of Europe as a totalitarian century ends and a global century begins is a remarkable story. This book brings together the three dynamics of Europe's position at this extraordinary moment: European monetary union, the deepening of intra-EU cooperation, and the widening of the EU and NATO to take in central European members. It looks at the broad political and policy implications of EMU and shows how the United States views this integration. Elizabeth Pond, a longtime observer of events in Europe and Russia, sees these developments as the beginning of a new postnational European system that is replacing the centuries-old nation-state system. She shows how belligerence and anarchy have faded away on the European continent as compulsory cold war cooperation becomes a habit and as French-German reconciliation becomes the pattern for reconciliation between other old enemies. She follows NATO's transformation into a reluctant peacemaker in Bosnia and the United States' decision to remain a European power. She describes the leap of faith needed to create European monetary union and charts the magnetic attraction of both NATO and the EU in shaping the democratic, economic, and social revolutions in central Europe. She warns about the strains that will face the transatlantic relationship when the euro is on a par with the dollar as a reserve currency. And she concludes by agreeing with former Polish foreign minister Wladyslaw Barteszewski that we are witnessing, after the original birth of European consciousness a millennium ago, the rebirth of Europe.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Pond is a journalist based in Germany. Currently a correspondent for the Washington Quarterly, she was a longtime European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms	p. xvii
Images of Europe	p. 1
Escape from History	p. 5
Europe's Miracles	p. 10
American Skepticism	p. 13
Birth Pangs and Birth	p. 15
Prologue I: The Fall of the Wall	p. 20
The French-German Tandem	p. 25
The EC and the Single Market	p. 27
Prologue II: Maastricht	p. 35
The Conference	p. 40
The Hangover, 1992-93	p. 46
Post-Cold War NATO	p. 51
The U.S. Engagement	p. 51
Bosnia	p. 55
Poland and Enlargement	p. 60
Ukraine and Other Neighbors	p. 67
NATO-EU Synergy	p. 72
Present at the Second Creation: European Monetary Union	p. 77
Crisis, 1994	p. 77
Multispeed Europe	p. 79
EMU as an Engine	p. 88
Present at the Rebirth: Poland and Central Europe	p. 105
Extraordinary Politics	p. 106
The Turnaround	p. 110
Ordinary Politics	p. 113
Catholics, Europe, and Jews	p. 118
NATO and the European Union	p. 125
Absent at the Rebirth: The Eastern Slavs	p. 135
Time of Troubles	p. 135
The Chasm between the Poles and the Eastern Slavs	p. 138
The Ukrainian Example	p. 141
The Death of Reform	p. 146
2001	p. 152
EU "Domestic" Policy	p. 158
EMU	p. 162
Germany, France, and Britain	p. 174
Deepening	p. 184
EU Foreign Policy	p. 193
The Kosovo Harbinger	p. 198
Common European Security and Defense Policy	p. 211
Russia	p. 217
Transatlantic Relations Today	p. 219
Epilogue	p. 227
Notes	p. 231
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 290
Interviewees	p. 306
Index	p. 321
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