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The European Union is a besieged institution. It is struggling in vain to overcome the eurozone crisis and faces an influx of refugees not seen since World War II. The Schengen Agreement is a dead letter, and Britain stands on the brink of leaving altogether. The EU is unfit for the challenges of the coming age of increased global competition and high tech. In sum, the drive for an "ever-closer union" has set Europe on the wrong course: plunged it into depression, fuelled national antagonisms, debilitated democracy, and accelerated decline. In this pithy, rigorously argued book, leading historian John Gillingham examines a once great notion that soured long ago. From its postwar origins, through the Single Market, to the troubles of the present, Gillingham explains how Europe's would-be government became a force for anti-democratic centralization and inept policy-making. Brussels has inspired a world of illusion that now threatens to undo the undoubted achievements of integration. The EU: An Obituary is an urgent call to the political Left, Right, and Centre to act before it is too late.
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• Introduction--
• 1. Governance--
• 2. Economics--
• 3. Innovation--
• 4. Democracy-- Conclusion.
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How did the process of European integration break down; how can it be repaired? In European Integration, 1950-2003, John Gillingham reviewed the history of the European project and predicted the rejection of the European constitution. Now the world's leading expert on the EU maps out a route to save the Union. The four chapters of this penetrating, fiercely-argued and often witty book subject today's dysfunctional European Union to critical scrutiny in an attempt to show how it is stunting economic growth, sapping the vitality of national governments, and undermining competitiveness. It explains how the attempt to revive the EU by turning it into a champion of research and development will backfire and demonstrates how Europe's great experiment in political and economic union can succeed only if the wave of liberal reform now under way in the historically downtrodden east is allowed to sweep away the prosperous and complacent west.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction--
• 1. Governance--
• 2. Economics--
• 3. Innovation--
• 4. Democracy-- Conclusion.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

How did the process of European integration break down; how can it be repaired? In European Integration, 1950-2003, John Gillingham reviewed the history of the European project and predicted the rejection of the European constitution. Now the world's leading expert on the EU maps out a route to save the Union. The four chapters of this penetrating, fiercely-argued and often witty book subject today's dysfunctional European Union to critical scrutiny in an attempt to show how it is stunting economic growth, sapping the vitality of national governments, and undermining competitiveness. It explains how the attempt to revive the EU by turning it into a champion of research and development will backfire and demonstrates how Europe's great experiment in political and economic union can succeed only if the wave of liberal reform now under way in the historically downtrodden east is allowed to sweep away the prosperous and complacent west.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction--
• 1. Governance--
• 2. Economics--
• 3. Innovation--
• 4. Democracy-- Conclusion.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

How did the process of European integration break down; how can it be repaired? In European Integration, 1950-2003, John Gillingham reviewed the history of the European project and predicted the rejection of the European constitution. Now the world's leading expert on the EU maps out a route to save the Union. The four chapters of this penetrating, fiercely-argued and often witty book subject today's dysfunctional European Union to critical scrutiny in an attempt to show how it is stunting economic growth, sapping the vitality of national governments, and undermining competitiveness. It explains how the attempt to revive the EU by turning it into a champion of research and development will backfire and demonstrates how Europe's great experiment in political and economic union can succeed only if the wave of liberal reform now under way in the historically downtrodden east is allowed to sweep away the prosperous and complacent west.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Part I. A German Solution to Europe's Problems? The Early History of European Communities, 1950-1965: Introduction to part one: a new global setting--
• 1. The liberal project for an integrated Europe--
• 2. The rise and decline of monetarism--
• 3. More or less liberal Europe: the institutional origins of integration--
• 4. All or nothing? The founding of the EEC and the ending of an era, 1958-1966-- Conclusion of part one: Needed: a new integration scenario-- Part II. From Embedded Liberalism to Liberalism - A Step Forward: European Integration and Regime Change in the 1970s: Introduction to part two: a new European situation--
• 5. Realm of theory to sphere of action--
• 6. Better than muddling through-- Conclusion of part two: needed: a new integration theory-- Part III. Seeking the New Horizon: European Integration from the Single European Act to the Maastricht Treaty: Introduction to part three: a new realm of possibility--
• 7. Forces of change, forces of resistance--
• 8. Thatcherism, and the reform of Britain--
• 9. The crisis of the welfare state and the challenge of modernization in Europe in the 1980s--
• 10. Maastricht ho! by air, land, or SEA?--
• 11. The Delorean agenda-- Conclusion of part three: Needed: a new integration direction-- Part IV: A False Dawn? Challenge and Promise in Europe of the 1990s: Introduction to part four: a new global framework--
• 12. Almost a road to nowhere--
• 13. No open and shut cases: member-states and the European community in the 1990s--
• 14. Shrinking enlargement: betrayal of a pledge or new opportunity?--
• 15. The new market economy and Europe's future-- Conclusion to part four: Needed: a new European Union?
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Integration is the most significant European historical development in the past fifty years, eclipsing in importance even the collapse of the USSR. Yet, until now, no satisfactory explanation is to be found in any single book as to why integration is significant, how it originated, how it has changed Europe, and where it is headed. Professor Gillingham's work corrects the inadequacies of the existing literature by cutting through the genuine confusion that surrounds the activities of the European Union, and by looking at his subject from a truly historical perspective. The late-twentieth century has been an era of great, though insufficiently appreciated, accomplishment that intellectually and morally is still emerging from the shadow of an earlier one of depression, and modern despotism. This is a work, then, that captures the historical distinctiveness of Europe in a way that transcends current party political debate.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Part I. A German Solution to Europe's Problems? The Early History of European Communities, 1950-1965: Introduction to part one: a new global setting--
• 1. The liberal project for an integrated Europe--
• 2. The rise and decline of monetarism--
• 3. More or less liberal Europe: the institutional origins of integration--
• 4. All or nothing? The founding of the EEC and the ending of an era, 1958-1966-- Conclusion of part one: Needed: a new integration scenario-- Part II. From Embedded Liberalism to Liberalism - A Step Forward: European Integration and Regime Change in the 1970s: Introduction to part two: a new European situation--
• 5. Realm of theory to sphere of action--
• 6. Better than muddling through-- Conclusion of part two: needed: a new integration theory-- Part III. Seeking the New Horizon: European Integration from the Single European Act to the Maastricht Treaty: Introduction to part three: a new realm of possibility--
• 7. Forces of change, forces of resistance--
• 8. Thatcherism, and the reform of Britain--
• 9. The crisis of the welfare state and the challenge of modernization in Europe in the 1980s--
• 10. Maastricht ho! by air, land, or SEA?--
• 11. The Delorean agenda-- Conclusion of part three: Needed: a new integration direction-- Part IV: A False Dawn? Challenge and Promise in Europe of the 1990s: Introduction to part four: a new global framework--
• 12. Almost a road to nowhere--
• 13. No open and shut cases: member-states and the European community in the 1990s--
• 14. Shrinking enlargement: betrayal of a pledge or new opportunity?--
• 15. The new market economy and Europe's future-- Conclusion to part four: Needed: a new European Union?
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Integration is the most significant European historical development in the past fifty years, eclipsing in importance even the collapse of the USSR. Yet, until now, no satisfactory explanation is to be found in any single book as to why integration is significant, how it originated, how it has changed Europe, and where it is headed. Professor Gillingham's work corrects the inadequacies of the existing literature by cutting through the genuine confusion that surrounds the activities of the European Union, and by looking at his subject from a truly historical perspective. The late-twentieth century has been an era of great, though insufficiently appreciated, accomplishment that intellectually and morally is still emerging from the shadow of an earlier one of depression, and modern despotism. This is a work, then, that captures the historical distinctiveness of Europe in a way that transcends current party political debate.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Part I. A German Solution to Europe's Problems? The Early History of European Communities, 1950-1965: Introduction to part one: a new global setting--
• 1. The liberal project for an integrated Europe--
• 2. The rise and decline of monetarism--
• 3. More or less liberal Europe: the institutional origins of integration--
• 4. All or nothing? The founding of the EEC and the ending of an era, 1958-1966-- Conclusion of part one: Needed: a new integration scenario-- Part II. From Embedded Liberalism to Liberalism - A Step Forward: European Integration and Regime Change in the 1970s: Introduction to part two: a new European situation--
• 5. Realm of theory to sphere of action--
• 6. Better than muddling through-- Conclusion of part two: needed: a new integration theory-- Part III. Seeking the New Horizon: European Integration from the Single European Act to the Maastricht Treaty: Introduction to part three: a new realm of possibility--
• 7. Forces of change, forces of resistance--
• 8. Thatcherism, and the reform of Britain--
• 9. The crisis of the welfare state and the challenge of modernization in Europe in the 1980s--
• 10. Maastricht ho! by air, land, or SEA?--
• 11. The Delorean agenda-- Conclusion of part three: Needed: a new integration direction-- Part IV: A False Dawn? Challenge and Promise in Europe of the 1990s: Introduction to part four: a new global framework--
• 12. Almost a road to nowhere--
• 13. No open and shut cases: member-states and the European community in the 1990s--
• 14. Shrinking enlargement: betrayal of a pledge or new opportunity?--
• 15. The new market economy and Europe's future-- Conclusion to part four: Needed: a new European Union?
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Integration is the most significant European historical development in the past fifty years, eclipsing in importance even the collapse of the USSR. Yet, until now, no satisfactory explanation is to be found in any single book as to why integration is significant, how it originated, how it has changed Europe, and where it is headed. Professor Gillingham's work corrects the inadequacies of the existing literature by cutting through the genuine confusion that surrounds the activities of the European Union, and by looking at his subject from a truly historical perspective. The late-twentieth century has been an era of great, though insufficiently appreciated, accomplishment that intellectually and morally is still emerging from the shadow of an earlier one of depression, and modern despotism. This is a work, then, that captures the historical distinctiveness of Europe in a way that transcends current party political debate.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)