An Even Closer Union. European Integration and Its Implications for the Future of U.S. - European Relations
An Even Closer Union. European Integration and Its Implications for the Future of U.S. - European Relations

Author: James B. Steinberg

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Published: 1993

Total Pages: 196

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Spurred on by the Single European Act of 1987 and by the plan to complete the Single Market by January 1, 1993, European integration has grown in scope and ambition with the profound changes in Europe's political and security landscape over the past several years. The Maastricht Treaty, agreed to at a meeting of the European heads of state and government on December 9-10, 1991, was a further step in the evolution of the European Community that in turn triggered a far-reaching debate on the future of European integration. This report examines how the process of European integration has has shaped and will shape the future European economic, political, and security environment and assesses the implications of these developments for U.S. policy. It covers developments up to the European Community summit in Edinburgh on December 11-12, 1992. It contributes to a larger project on the future U.S. role in Europe and implications for the United States Army. The broader project examines Europe's evolution since the end of the bloc-to-bloc system and the future U.S. and U.S. Army role in and contribution to European security.

An Ever Closer Union: European Integration and Its Implications for the Future of U.S.-European Relations
An Ever Closer Union: European Integration and Its Implications for the Future of U.S.-European Relations

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Published: 1993

Total Pages: 185

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This report examines the process of European integration and assesses its implications for U.S. policy. The study finds that changes in the European Community (EC) will be evolutionary, with the economic and financial dimension moving more quickly and the foreign policy and defense dimension moving more slowly. It also concludes that U.S. influence over European policy will diminish as Europeans become more preoccupied with developing intra-EC consensus, that conflicts in the economic realm will continue and could worsen if the United States and the EC move away from an open trading and financial system to a bloc economic approach, and that NATO will play a diminished role in the European security structure. The document recommends that the United States adopt a policy of supporting the general thrust of the integrative process, develop more extensive bilateral working relationships with EC institutions on both economic and security policy, support NATO reform to enhance the complementarity of the EC and NATO, and advocate broadening the EC to include Central European and East European countries.

"An Ever Closer Union"

Author: James Steinberg

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 9780833013170

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This report examines the process of European integration and assesses its implications for U.S. policy.

Ever Closer Union
Ever Closer Union

Author: Desmond Dinan

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 9781588262349

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"Ever Closer Union clearly explains the complexities of European integration from the 1950s to the present. This new edition retains the familiar three-part structure - history, institutions, and policies - but incorporates expanded coverage of both enlargement issues and constitutional change. New policy and institutional developments are thoroughly explored, and an entirely new chapter examines the decisionmaking dynamics among the Commission, Council, and Parliament. The completely revised chapter on the complicated EU-U.S. relationship includes discussions of the Bush administration's worldview, the broad repercussions of the terrorist attacks in the United States and Spain, and the ongoing fallout from the war in Iraq."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

European Integration Revisited
European Integration Revisited

Author: Michael Calingaert

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-12

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0429969244

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In this fresh and timely account, Michael Calingaert explores the successes and failures of European economic and political integration, analyzes the factors that will determine its future course, and outlines the directions the European Union is moving in as it approaches the 21st century. Assessing U.S. interests affected by European integration, Calingaert recommends policies for the United States to consider in the face of an increasingly consolidated Europe. With its broad coverage and readable synthesis of a wealth of detailed information, this book will be of interest to students, scholars, and policymakers alike.

The Future of Europe
The Future of Europe

Author: Fraser Cameron

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-07-31

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1134344643

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In 2004, the European Union's Intergovernmental Conference finalized the historic process of enlarging the EU from fifteen to twenty-five members. This book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the state of the European Union's biggest enlargement so far, and also considers its future prospects in several key areas. It explains why the ten applicant countries wanted to join the EU and how they succeeded after lengthy negotiations. Each chapter is a cutting-edge overview by a leading figure in the field and subjects covered include: * the enlargement-integration debate * the politics of the EU's new member states * the role of the European Convention * the political economy of an enlarged Europe * the challenges of developing common European foreign and security policy * the EU's relations with its neighbours * EU-American relations.

Europe Recast
Europe Recast

Author: Desmond Dinan

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 9781588262301

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Tells the story of European integration from its modern origins in the 1940s to the challenges of the new century. The author captures the dynamics of the evolving debates about European unity and examines the factors that led to today's union.

Europe's Experimental Union
Europe's Experimental Union

Author: Brigid Laffan

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780415102612

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The dynamics of European integration is increasingly topical as Europe's political leaders grapple with the nature and purpose of the EU in the light of major developments. This book provides an analysis of an unsettled Europe and the unsettled nature of scholarly analysis of the EU.

European Integration and Disintegration
European Integration and Disintegration

Author: Robert Bideleux

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1134775210

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Europe has changed radically since 1989 and continues to change at great speed. This book deals with the principle problems and challenges confronting Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War and the collapse of European communism. Whilst endeavouring to strike a balance between East, West, North and South, the volume is more concerned with the changing political, economic and cultural morphology of Europe, and of the relations within it, than with the formal institutional arrangements of the European Community and its successor, the European Union. There are already numerous books on the institutional development of the EU, but relatively few with a wider compass and institutional interpretations of European integration. The book shows that the study of European integration should be taken in the round, avoiding a narrow and self-centered concern with the development of the 'lesser Europe' of the EU. It demonstrates that integration should be seen as neither an inexorable predetermined process, nor as an automatic consequence of high levels of economic interdependence, but rather as something that proceeds in fits and starts and sometimes suffers reverses.