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Phillips assesses prospects for post-national social coherence transcending the traditional nation-state, with a focus on events in Germany. European institutional integration has been seen as a stabilizing alternative to the nation-state system, a system that resulted in two devastating world wars. However, economic interests appear to have been more effective instruments of transnational integration in Europe. Further, until 1989, part of this alternative vision was a divided Germany.
He explicitly links a focus upon the Federal Republic, central to post-Cold War Europe's future, with a study of private business, perhaps the most indispensable agent of Germany's post-1945 rehabilitation. Business support has been imperative to European integration. Nonetheless, if the European Union is attractive to members or potential members only for economic reasons, then no matter how wealthy its constituent parts may be, potential harmful effects of interstate competition will continue to pose a threat to social coherence of the EU, the Continent, and the world beyond. With the aid of analysis of companies largely perceived as being German, but which are increasingly transnational, Phillips shows how interdependent business needs may overcome nationalist and institutional conceptions in the transnational integration processes. For scholars, researchers, and policy makers involved with European integration, international relations, and German Studies.
Sommario
Introduction: The Extraordinary End of the Cold War
Problems of Community: The European Inter-Community Perspective on Building Blocks for Social CoherenceThe Movement from Supranational Regulation to the Transnational Market
The Single European Act
Reactions to the Single European Act: The Western Path to Maastricht
EMU and the Establishment of Greater Interdependence
The Limits of EU Integration and Possibilities of Functionalism
Parameters and Limits of Democracy in Europe
Chances of Community: Transnational and Transinstitutional Parameters for the Extension of Social CoherenceCloser Cooperation and the Transnational Development of Social Coherence
The Global Location of Business Inside and Outside the EU: Possibilities for Community
DaimlerChrysler and the Transnational Extension of Social Coherence
Siemens BMW and the Transnational Challenge to Social Coherence
The Multilateral Practices of Lobbying and the Privatization of Democracy
Some Conclusions About Transnational Activity Transcending States
Bibliography
Index
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DONALD G. PHILLIPS is a researcher and writer specializing in German issues. He has variously worked as a lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin, as a research analyst with a political consultancy firm in London, and at two European intergovernmental space organizations in Darmstadt, Germany.
