The State of the European Union Volume 7: With US or Against US? European Trends in American Perspective

by Jabko, Nicolas; Parsons, Craig

• ISBN13: 9780199283965
• ISBN10: 0199283966
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Twenty-first-century Europeans are suddenly confronting new choices about their place in the world. The most immediate challenges reflect tensions in the transatlantic partnership - long the keystone of European worldviews. In the Iraqi conflict President Bush posed a blunt general question tothe world: 'Are you with us or against us?', and much of Europe chose the latter. More than at any time since 1945, Europeans are uncertain about the future of transatlantic cooperation. Internal European developments combine with this external shift to create the impression of a continental turningpoint. The fifty-year project of the European Union is entering a new phase. The Single Market program and monetary union realized the most ambitious visions of the EU's founding fathers. Most thinking about further integration is exceedingly vague. Simultaneous EU enlargement to the east (andbeyond to Turkey) may create opportunities to reopen the Union's basic bargains. This book proposes to help students and scholars understand the many trends of change that have brought Europe to these crossroads. Its approach is novel in two ways. First, most similar scholarship either seeks asingle grand theory of European change or implies that European politics is too complex to map change broadly. This book takes a middle-ground position, positing several distinct mechanisms of change and tracing them across policies and institutional settings. Second, it uses the United States as areference point to chart European change. The aim is not comparative - the focus remains on Europe - but the volume maps out EU trends against American policy positions and institutional patterns, thus providing a useful comparative anchor for complex patterns. This is the seventh volume in thebiennial series State of the European Union, launched in 1991, and produced under the auspices of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA).

Table of Contents

Why Another Book on Europe--and Why in Reference to the United States?

External Foreign, Security, and Economic Policies

A European Union with Teeth?

Continental Divide? The Transience of Transatlantic Troubles

United against the United States? The EU's Role in Global Trade and Finance

Institutional Evolutions

'We the States': Why the Anti-Federalists Won

Parliamentary Government or Division of Powers: Is the Destination Still Unknown?

Is the Council Becoming an Upper House?

The Politics of Eurocracy: Building a New European State?

Europe's Political Economy

Stock Exchange Competition and the Nasdaq Bargain in Europe

Financial Restructuring in the Age of the Euro: Still a Battle of Systems?

Toward a European Social Policy--at Last?

EU Interest Representation or US-Style Lobbying?

Culture, Identity, and EU Decision-Making

Transatlantic Risk Perceptions, Public Health, and Environmental Concerns: Coming Together or Drifting Apart?

Drawing the EU's Borders: Immigration Policy

The Dynamics of EU Enlargement in American Perspective

The Shape of the EU Polity

Rights in the European Union: Convergent with the US?

What Lies Beyond a Confederal Europe?

The EU `Polity' and the Europeanization of National Polities

The European Union through an American Prism

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