European Integration and Disintegration: East and West

by Taylor; Richard

• ISBN13: 9780415137409
• ISBN10: 0415137403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-05-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

European Integration and Disintegrationdeals with the principle problems and challenges confronting Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War and the collapse of European communism. While endeavouring to strike a balance between East, West, North and South, the volume is more 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. The contributors show that the study of European integration should be taken in the round, avoiding a narrow and self-centered concern with the development of the "lesser Europe" of the EC/EU. 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 somethng that proceeds in fits and starts and sometimes suffers reverses.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
French Motives for European Integration	p. 22
Churchill and Europe	p. 36
European Security	p. 46
Further Reading	p. 64
The Uk in Europe	p. 66
Further Reading	p. 89
In the Strategic Triangle	p. 93
Further Reading	p. 109
The Crisis of the Italian State	p. 111
Further Reading	p. 125
The Southern Enlargement of the Ec	p. 127
Further Reading	p. 151
National Identity in a United and Divided Germany	p. 154
The Comecon Experiment	p. 174
Further Reading	p. 202
Poland's 'return to Europe', 1989-94	p. 205
Further Reading	p. 222
Bringing the East Back In	p. 225
The Double-Headed Eagle: Russia-east or West?	p. 252
In Lieu of a Conclusion: East Meets West?	p. 281
Index	p. 296
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