This well-respected text provides a lively, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the emergence and evolution of the European Union from the aftermath of the Second World War to the uncertainties of the present era. It explains the forces, events, and individuals that have shaped one of the
most unusual and controversial political entities in history. This second edition, which forms part of the successful New EU series, covers key issues including the antecedents of European integration in the years before the Second World War; the challenges of reconstruction and reconciliation in
the early post-war period; the ups and downs of European integration in 1960s and 1970s; the acceleration of European integration in the late 1980s and early 1990s; almost-continuous enlargement; the eurozone crisis; the constitutionalization of the EU; and Britain's troubled membership. The text is
updated throughout and includes new chapters focusing on Britain and European integration, and the constitutionalization of the EU.
Further reading guides encourage students to develop their interest and understanding, and this text is one of many OUP EU titles supported by an online
resource centre including:
* Maps of enlargement
* Journal articles
* Interactive map of Europe
* Interactive timeline
* Web links
Part I Continuity and Change
1. Peter Stirk: Integration and Disintegration before 1945
Part II The Postwar Context
2. David A. Messenger: Dividing Europe: The Cold War and European Integration
3. John R. Gillingham: The German Problem and European
Integration
Part III Shaping the European Community
4. Wendy Asbeek Brusse: Liberalization, Convertibility, and the Common Market
5. Craig Parsons: The Triumph of Community Europe
6. Jeffrey Vanke: Charles de Gaulle's Uncertain Idea of Europe
Part IV From European
Community to European Union
7. Richard T. Griffiths: Under the shadow of stagflation: European integration in the 1970s
8. Ann-Christina L. Knudsen: European Integration in the Image and the Shadow of Agriculture
9. N. Piers Ludlow: From Deadlock to Dynamism: The European Community
in the 1980s
10. Dorothee Heisenberg: From the Single Market to the Single Currency
11. Jeffrey J. Anderson: The European Union, the Soviet Union, and the End of the Cold War
12. Anna Michalski: The Enlarging European Union
Part V Abiding Issues
13. Desmond Dinan: A
Special Case: The United Kingdom and the European Union
14. Berthold Rittberger: The European Union: A Constitutional Order in the Making
Part VI Historiography
15. Desmond Dinan: The Historiography of European Integration
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Desmond Dinan is Professor of Public Policy and Ad personam Jean Monnet Professor and Director, International Commerce and Policy Program at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA.
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