The State of the European Union Vol. 7

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.

• 1. Why Another Book on Europe - and Why in Reference to the United States? ; SECTION 1: EXTERNAL FOREIGN, SECURITY, AND ECONOMIC POLICIES ; 2. A European Union with Teeth? ; 3. Continental Divide? The Transience of Transatlantic Troubles ; 4. United against the United States? The EU's Role in Global Trade and Finance ; SECTION 2: INSTITUTIONAL EVOLUTIONS ; 5. 'We the States': Why the Anti-Federalists Won ; 6. Parliamentary Government or Division of Powers: Is the Destination Still Unknown? ; 7. Is the Council Becoming an Upper House? ; 8. The Politics of Eurocracy: Building a New European State? ; SECTION 3: EUROPE'S POLITICAL ECONOMY ; 9. Stock Exchange Competition and the Nasdaq Bargain in Europe ; 10. Financial Restructuring in the Age of the Euro: Still a Battle of Systems? ; 11. Toward a European Social Policy - at Last? ; 12. EU Interest Representation or US-Style Lobbying? ; SECTION 4: CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND EU DECISION-MAKING ; 13. Transatlantic Risk Perceptions, Public Health, and Environmental Concerns: Coming Together or Drifting Apart? ; 14. Drawing the EU's Borders: Immigration Policy ; 15. The Dynamics of EU Enlargement in American Perspective ; SECTION 5: THE SHAPE OF THE EU POLITY ; 16. Rights in the European Union: Convergent with the US? ; 17. What Lies Beyond a Confederal Europe? ; 18. The EU 'Polity' and the Europeanization of National Polities ; 19. The European Union through an American Prism