Introduction; 1 What is the European Union? International Cooperation; Explaining European Integration; Understanding the European Union; Further Reading,; Notes; 2 Origins: The Postwar World; Pre-War Thinking, Building the Peace, Economic Reconstruction and the Marshall Plan, Security and the Cold War, Further Reading, Notes; 3 Emergence: The Road from Paris; The Council of Europe, Opening Moves: Coal and Steel (1950-1953), From Paris to Rome (1955-1958), Integration Takes Root (1958-1968), Enlargement: Looking North and South (1960-1986), Further Reading, Notes; 4 Consolidation: From the Single Market to the Euro; Toward Economic and Monetary Union (1969-1993), Completing the Single Market (1983-1993), Social and Regional Integration (1960s-1997), Toward Political Union (1961-2003), The Euro Arrives (1995-2002), More Enlargement: Looking North and East (1990-2004), Further Reading, Notes; 5 The European Commission; Evolution, Structure, How the Commission Works, Further Reading, Notes; 6 The Council of Ministers; Evolution, Structure, How the Council Works, Further Reading, Notes; 7 The European Parliament; Evolution, Structure, How Parliament Works, Strengthening the Role of Parliament, Further Reading, Notes; 8 The European Court of Justice; Evolution, Structure, Sources of European Union Law, How the Court Works, Further Reading, Notes; 9 The European Council and Other Institutions; Evolution, Structure, How the Council Works, Other EU Institutions, Further Reading, Notes; 10 Representing Interests; An Emerging European Identity, European Elections, Political Parties, Interest Group, Further Reading, Notes; 11 The Policy Process; The Policy Cycle, Features of the Policy Process, The Budget, Further Reading, Notes; 12 Economic Policy; The Single Market, Effects of the Single European Act, The Euro, Further Reading, Notes; 13 Agricultural and Regional Policy; Agricultural Policy, Reforming Agricultural Policy, Regional Policy, Further Reading, Notes; 14 Environmental and Social Policy; Environmental Policy, Social Policy, Improving Worker Mobility, Further Reading, Notes; 15 Foreign and Security Policy; Toward a Common Foreign Policy, he European Economic Superpower, Relations with Eastern Europe and Russia, Development Cooperation, Further Reading, Notes; 16 The EU and the United States; The Changing Transatlantic Balance, A Litany of Disputes, Understanding the Differences, Further Reading, Notes; Conclusions, Index, Appendices: I Glossary; II Chronology of European Integration, III Other; Regional Integration Organizations, IV Sources of Information
John McCormick is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Indiana University, and a former visiting professor at the Centre for European Studies at Exeter University. He is the author of Understanding the European Union, 2/e, and Environmental Policy in the European Union.
"'This is the best introductory text on the policies and politics of the EU that I have come across...It deserves to be widely adopted as essential course reading'. Political Studies"
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