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Informationen zum Autor Sergio Fabbrini is Director of the School of Government and Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, where he holds the Jean Monnet Chair. He is also Recurrent Visiting Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science and Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He has published fourteen books, two co-authored books and fourteen edited or co-edited books. His recent publications include Compound Democracies: Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar, 2nd edition (2010) and America and its Critics: Vices and Virtues of the Democratic Hyperpower (2008). Klappentext In this Companion, leading film scholars and critics of American culture and imagination trace Hitchcock's interplay with the Hollywood studio system, the Cold War, and new forms of sexuality, gender and desire over his thirty-year American career. Zusammenfassung What impact will the Euro crisis have on the future of the European Union? Sergio Fabbrini argues that a new European political order is necessary based on an institutional differentiation between the EU member states interested only in market co-operation and those advancing towards a genuine economic and monetary union. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: how many Unions?; Part I. Institutionalisation of Multiple Unions: 1. From Rome to the Lisbon Treaty; 2. The Lisbon Treaty and the Euro Crisis; 3. Institutionalisation and constitutional divisions; Part II. Main Perspectives on the European Union: 4. The perspective of the economic community; 5. The perspective of intergovernmental union; 6. The perspective of parliamentary union; Part III. Towards the Compound Union Perspective: 7. Comparing democratic models; 8. Compound unions and the EU; 9. A new political order in Europe.