MARTIN HOLMES is Lecturer in Politics at St Hugh's College, Oxford and Director of the College of Business Administration (UNL) Oxford. He is the author of Beyond Europe and European Integration: Scope and Limits. He has been co-chairman of the Bruges Group since 1993, and edited the first publication of The Eurosceptical Reader in 1996.

'A serious book for specialists troubled about Britain's entrance into the EU.' - M. Curtis, Choice

• List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; M.Holmes PART I: ECONOMIC EUROSCEPTICISM British Influence and the Euro; J.Coles The Euro and Regional Divergence in Europe; T.Thirlwall British Trade and Europe since the 1960s; M.Holmes The UK and Euroland: Ships that Pass in the Night; G.Leach Euroland and NAFTA Compared; K.Marsden The Bank that Rules Europe; M.Baimbridge, B. Burkitt & P.Whyman Has the Euro Lived up to Expectations?; W.Nölling PART II: POLITICAL EUROSCEPTICISM The Myth of Europe; R.Lewis Britain, Europe and the United States; O.Wright Can Self-government Survive?; N.Johnson Separate Ways; Lord Shore of Stepney Nice and Beyond: the Parting of the Ways; C.Brooker Aiming for the Heart of Europe: A Misguided Venture; J.Bercow Index