Publisher Description

This is the seventh volume in the highly influential State of the European Union series, produced under the auspices of the European Union Studies Association. This volume provides major new insights on both the recent evolution of the EU and its future developmental trajectory, and maps European trends against American policies and institutions.

Author Biography

Nicholas Jabko is FNSP Reserch Fellow with Sciences Po in Paris. Craig Parsons is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon.

Table of Contents

1: Nicolas Jabko and Craig Parsons: Why Another Book on Europe - and Why in Reference to the United States?Section 1: External foreign, security, and economic policies2: Jolyon Howorth: A European Union with Teeth?3: Brian Rathbun: Continental Divide? The Transience of Transatlantic Troubles4: C. Randall Henning and Sophie Meunier: United against the United States? The EU's Role in Global Trade and FinanceSection 2: Institutional evolutions5: Renaud Dehousse: 'We the States': Why the Anti-Federalists Won6: Michael Shackleton: Parliamentary Government or Division of Powers: Is the Destination Still Unknown?7: Jeffrey Lewis: Is the Council Becoming an Upper House?8: R. Daniel Kelemen: The Politics of Eurocracy: Building a New European State?Section 3: Europe's Political Economy9: Elliot Posner: Stock Exchange Competition and the Nasdaq Bargain in Europe10: Jonathan Story: Financial Restructuring in the Age of the Euro: Still a Battle of Systems?11: Bruno Palier and Philippe Pochet: Toward a European Social Policy - at Last?12: Justin Greenwood and Alasdair R. Young: EU Interest Representation or US-Style Lobbying?Section 4: Culture, Identity, and EU Decision-Making13: Paulette Kurzer: Transatlantic Risk Perceptions, Public Health, and Environmental Concerns: Coming Together or Drifting Apart?14: Virginie Guiraudon: Drawing the EU's Borders: Immigration Policy15: John A. Scherpereel: The Dynamics of EU Enlargement in American PerspectiveSection 5: The Shape of the EU Polity16: Martin Shapiro: Rights in the European Union: Convergent with the US?17: Chris Ansell and Rebecca Chen: What Lies Beyond a Confederal Europe?18: Vivien A. Schmidt: The EU 'Polity' and the Europeanization of National Polities19: Rogan Kersh and James Morone: The European Union through an American Prism

Review

Here we find 19 essays written by 25 scholars who examine the different aspects of the EU: its external policies, its institutions, its political economy, its culture and identity, and the effects of its activities on relations between Europe and the United States. The comparisons with the United States are thought provoking and point out not only the sharpened policy and cultural differences of the past few years but also how far the EU remains from being a true European Nation. This fine volume is like an MRI of a currently sleeping patient. * Foreign Affairs *
Here we find 19 essays written by 25 scholars who examine the different aspects of the EU: its external policies, its institutions, its political economy, its culture and identity, and the effects of its activities on relations between Europe and the United States. The comparisons with the United States are thought provoking and point out not only the sharpened policy and cultural differences of the past few years but also how far the EU remains from being "a true European Nation." This fine volume is like an MRI of a currently sleeping patient. * Foreign Affairs *

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Here we find 19 essays written by 25 scholars who examine the different aspects of the EU: its external policies, its institutions, its political economy, its culture and identity, and the effects of its activities on relations between Europe and the United States. The comparisons with the United States are thought provoking and point out not only the sharpened policy and cultural differences of the past few years but also how far the EU remains from being "a true European Nation." This fine volume is like an MRI of a currently sleeping patient. --Foreign Affairs

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New volume in the highly influential State of the European Union series, produced under the auspices of the European Union Studies AssociationMajor new analysis of the future of the EU, mapping European trends against American policies and institutionsKey consideration of the two pillars of postwar Europe - transatlantic partnership and European integration - as they each enter new phases

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