Following an introduction the papers are arranged in five sections dealing with conceptualising the EU; monetary union; enlargement; institutions and identities; and policy making. Each area is treated in considerable detail and the book should be of interest to a wide audience, particularly in the UK where joining the EMU is still a matter of considerable debate.

• PART I. INTRODUCTION ; Risks, Reforms, Resistance, and Revival ; PART II. CONCEPTUALIZING THE EUROPEAN UNION ; The EU after the 1990s: Explaining Continuity and Change ; The EU after Amsterdam: Towards a Theoretical Approach to (Differentiated) Integration ; The Paradox of the European Polity ; PART III. MONETARY UNION: IDEAS, INTERESTS, AND IMPACT ; Prelim: Monetary Policy and the EU: Ideas and Evolution ; ECOFIN-11 and the European Central Bank: A Rational Choice Perspective ; EMU and the New Political Economy of Adjustment ; PART IV. ENLARGEMENT: UNDERSTANDING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE ; EU Enlargement: A Neglected Subject ; Eastern Enlargement: Risk, Rationality, and Role-Compliance ; The Enlargement: A Complex Juggling Act ; PART V. INSTITUTIONS AND IDENTITY: CAPACITIES, LEGITIMACY, AND PERCEPTION ; The European Commission: Diminishing Returns to Entrepreneurship ; Democracy, Legitimacy, and the European Parliament ; Do You Hear What I Hear? Translation, Expansion, and Crisis in the European Court of Justice ; Blairism in Brussels: The Third Way in Europe since Amsterdam ; On Being European: The Character and Consequences of European Identity

Following an introduction the papers are arranged in five sections dealing with conceptualising the EU; monetary union; enlargement; institutions and identities; and policy making. Each area is treated in considerable detail and the book should be of interest to a wide audience, particularly in the UK where joining the EMU is still a matter of considerable debate.

• PART I. INTRODUCTION ; Risks, Reforms, Resistance, and Revival ; PART II. CONCEPTUALIZING THE EUROPEAN UNION ; The EU after the 1990s: Explaining Continuity and Change ; The EU after Amsterdam: Towards a Theoretical Approach to (Differentiated) Integration ; The Paradox of the European Polity ; PART III. MONETARY UNION: IDEAS, INTERESTS, AND IMPACT ; Prelim: Monetary Policy and the EU: Ideas and Evolution ; ECOFIN-11 and the European Central Bank: A Rational Choice Perspective ; EMU and the New Political Economy of Adjustment ; PART IV. ENLARGEMENT: UNDERSTANDING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE ; EU Enlargement: A Neglected Subject ; Eastern Enlargement: Risk, Rationality, and Role-Compliance ; The Enlargement: A Complex Juggling Act ; PART V. INSTITUTIONS AND IDENTITY: CAPACITIES, LEGITIMACY, AND PERCEPTION ; The European Commission: Diminishing Returns to Entrepreneurship ; Democracy, Legitimacy, and the European Parliament ; Do You Hear What I Hear? Translation, Expansion, and Crisis in the European Court of Justice ; Blairism in Brussels: The Third Way in Europe since Amsterdam ; On Being European: The Character and Consequences of European Identity

Following an introduction the papers are arranged in five sections dealing with conceptualising the EU; monetary union; enlargement; institutions and identities; and policy making. Each area is treated in considerable detail and the book should be of interest to a wide audience, particularly in the UK where joining the EMU is still a matter of considerable debate.

• PART I. INTRODUCTION ; Risks, Reforms, Resistance, and Revival ; PART II. CONCEPTUALIZING THE EUROPEAN UNION ; The EU after the 1990s: Explaining Continuity and Change ; The EU after Amsterdam: Towards a Theoretical Approach to (Differentiated) Integration ; The Paradox of the European Polity ; PART III. MONETARY UNION: IDEAS, INTERESTS, AND IMPACT ; Prelim: Monetary Policy and the EU: Ideas and Evolution ; ECOFIN-11 and the European Central Bank: A Rational Choice Perspective ; EMU and the New Political Economy of Adjustment ; PART IV. ENLARGEMENT: UNDERSTANDING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE ; EU Enlargement: A Neglected Subject ; Eastern Enlargement: Risk, Rationality, and Role-Compliance ; The Enlargement: A Complex Juggling Act ; PART V. INSTITUTIONS AND IDENTITY: CAPACITIES, LEGITIMACY, AND PERCEPTION ; The European Commission: Diminishing Returns to Entrepreneurship ; Democracy, Legitimacy, and the European Parliament ; Do You Hear What I Hear? Translation, Expansion, and Crisis in the European Court of Justice ; Blairism in Brussels: The Third Way in Europe since Amsterdam ; On Being European: The Character and Consequences of European Identity