2nd Edition

European Union An Historical and Political Survey

By Richard McAllister Copyright 2009
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

The new edition of this best-selling text provides the most up-to-date single volume history of the European Union from its origins through to the present day. Fully updated and revised throughout, this is the ideal starting point for students and others wishing to read an accessible, readable and comprehensive account of the development of the EU. Topics new to this edition: The impact of... Read more

Introduction: A Disputed Community  1. Birth, Childhood & Adolescence  2. The Community at the End of the 1960's  3. From the Hague to Paris: 1969-72  4. 1973: A Turbulent Year  5. The Mid 1970s: Locust Years  6. ‘Euro-sclerosis’: The Late 1970s and Early 1980s  7. The Mid 1980s: 'Single Market' and 'Single Act'  8. The Late 1980s and the Road to ‘1992’  9. Europe Transformed Again: 1989–93  10. Paradoxes of the New Europe 1994-2000  11. The New Millennium 2000-05  12. New Turbulence, 2005-08

Biography

Richard McAllister is Honorary Fellow, and former Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh.