James A. Caporaso is professor of political science at the University of Washington. He is coauthor with David P. Levine of Theories of Political Economy and coeditor with Maria Green Cowles and Thomas Risse of Transforming Europe: Europeanization and Domestic Change. He is also a member of the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association.

• Introduction -- European Social Policy: National or Regional? -- Dilemmas of Democracy in the European Union -- Dilemmas of the External Relations of the European Union -- Conclusion