Synopses & Reviews
An authoritative text that covers both EU theories and EU institutions,
European Union Politics, Third Edition, provides students with a solid introduction to the field.
FEATURES
* Presents carefully edited contributions from experts, providing students with comprehensive and stimulating content
* Assumes no background knowledge, making it accessible to students new to the subject
* Provides excellent learning features, including reader's guides, boxes of further information, key points, figures, questions, further reading, websites, and glossary
NEW TO THIS EDITION
* Additional editor Dr. Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan
* Two new chapters: Policy-Making in the European Union (Chapter 13) and Environmental Policy (Chapter 14)
* Coverage of differentiated European integration now incorporated within the new policy-making chapter
* The Lisbon Treaty incorporated within the text
* Updated Companion Website (www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199548637/) with resources for students--including interactive maps of Europe; interactive timeline of key events in the history of the EU; multiple choice questions; biographies of important figures in EU history; exam study guide; flashcard glossary; and links to OUP journal articles--and instructors (PowerPoint lecture slides; essay, seminar, and quiz questions; and boxes and figures from the textbook)
Table of Contents
1. Introduction,
Michelle Cini and Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan PART ONE: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
2. The European Community: From 1945 to 1985, Derek Urwin
3. Towards European Union, David Phinnemore
4. The Rise and Fall of the Constitutional Treaty, David Phinnemore and Clive Church
PART TWO: THEORIES AND CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES
5. Neo-Functionalism, Carsten Stroby-Jensen
6. Intergovernmentalism, Michelle Cini
7. New Theories of European Integration, Ben Rosamond
PART THREE: INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS
8. The European Commission, Morten Egeberg
9. The Council of the European Union, Jeffrey Lewis
10. The European Parliament, Roger Scully
11. The Courts of the European Union, Illias Kapsis
12. Interest Groups and the European Union, Rainer Eising
PART FOUR: POLICY AND POLICY-MAKING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
13. Policy-Making in the European Union, Alex Warleigh-Lack and Ralf Drachenberg
14. European Union External Relations, Mike Smith
15. The European Union's Foreign, Security, and Defense Policy, Robert Dover
16. The Single Market, Michelle Egan
17. The European Union's Social Dimension, Gerda Falkner
18. Regional Europe, Marco Brunazzo
19. Justice and Home Affairs, Emek Ucarer
20. Economic and Monetary Union, Amy Verdun
21. The Common Agricultural Policy, Eve Fouilleux
22. Environmental Policy, Andy Jordan and David Benson
PART FIVE: ISSUES AND DEBATES
23. Democracy and the European Union, Dimitris Chryssochoou
24. Public Opinion and the European Union, Lauren Mclaren
25. Europeanization, Tanja Boerzel and Diana Pancke
26. Enlargement, Ian Barnes and Pamela Barnes