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Informationen zum Autor Ronald Tiersky is Eastman Professor of Politics at Amherst College. Erik Jones is Resident Professor of European Studies at the SAIS Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University. Klappentext This clearly written and comprehensive book is the only text that offers a sustained and unified set of both country case studies and analysis of the European Union. The contributors! an authoritative group of Americans and Europeans! explore the new Europe-west and east-using intertwining themes of domestic politics! European integration! and European security. Each chapter provides a foundation of basic political information and explanation! enhanced by distinctive and informed perspectives on current issues. Now thoroughly revised! Europe Today presents the most up-to-date and thoughtful treatment available on the war in Iraq! debates over NATO's evolving role! U.S.-European relations! enlargement issues! and the challenges of terrorism in a European context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 Part I: Country Studies Chapter 4 France: Hopes and Fears of a New Generation Chapter 5 Great Britain: New Labour! New Britain? Chapter 6 Germany: The Berlin Republic Still in Transition Chapter 7 Italy: A Troubled Democracy Chapter 8 Scandinavia: Still the Middle Way? Chapter 9 Russia: European or Not? Part 10 Part II: European Integration and the European Union Chapter 11 The European Union: From Community to Constitution? Chapter 12 The European Economy and European Economic Governance Chapter 13 EU Law Chapter 14 EU Enlargement: The Return to Europe Chapter 15 The New Central and Eastern Europe Member States in 2004 Chapter 16 Beyond European Security: Europe! the United States! and NATO Chapter 17 European and U.S. to Counterterrorism: Two Contrasting Cultures?
