Euro-skepticism A Reader

by Tiersky, Ronald; Gaulle, Charles de; Hoffmann, Stanley; Thatcher, Margaret; Bundt, Kate Hansen; Mearsheimer, John J.; Malcolm, Noel; Le Figaro, Interview by; the National-Hebdo, Interview by; Chevenement, Jean-Pierre; Pasqua, Charles; Review, EU; MelanieS

• ISBN13: 9780742510531
• ISBN10: 0742510530
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

An anthology of skeptical viewpoints of European integration has long been missing, yet the need for students to have a spectrum of opinion on the EU has never been greater. As the new European currency's exchange rate plunged throughout the first two yea

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Euro-skepticism and ``Europe''	1	(6)
Ronald Tiersky
Europe	7	(28)
Charles de Gaulle
Obstinate or Obsolete?: France, European Integration, and the Fate of the Nation-State	35	(38)
Stanley Hoffmann
The Babel Express: Relations with the European Community, 1987--1990	73	(30)
Margaret Thatcher
Speech at the College of Europe, Bruges, 20 September 1988	103	(10)
Margaret Thatcher
Why the Norwegians Said No	113	(14)
Kate Hansen Bundt
Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War	127	(50)
John J. Mearsheimer
The Case against ``Europe''	177	(14)
Noel Malcolm
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French National Front, and ``Europe''	191	(4)
Le Figaro
Europe: Escaping the Trap	195	(8)
Jean-Pierre Chevenement
Which France for Which Europe?	203	(10)
Charles Pasqua
EU Ostracism of Austria	213	(14)
EU Review
The Haider Phenomenon	227	(8)
Melanie Sully
Diary of a Trip to Vienna: Jorg Haider's Austria	235	(10)
Jacques Le Rider
The Euro: The Engine That Couldn't	245	(12)
Josef Joffe
Democratic Values and the Currency	257	(18)
Michael Portillo
The Degeneration of EMU	275	(10)
Niall Ferguson
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Europe: The Grand Illusion	285	(14)
Tony R. Judt
``Europe'' and the ``Anglosphere''	299	(2)
Robert Conquest
Conclusion: Expansive, Fractious, but Not Yet Fearsome	301	(6)
Ronald Tiersky
Index	307	(10)
About the Author	317