The Emerging Euro-Mediterranean System (Europe in Change) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719060133 ISBN 13: 9780719060137

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This substantially updated and revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges confronting the political system as well as the international politics of the European Union. It draws from a spectrum of regional integration theories to determine what the Union actually is and how it is developing, examining the constitutional politics of the European Union, from the Single European Act to the Treaty of Nice and beyond. The ongoing debate on the future of Europe links together the questions of democracy and legitimacy, competences and rights, and the prospects for European polity-building. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the emerging European polity and the questions that further treaty reform generates for the future of the regional system. The authors also assess the evolving European security architecture; the limits and possibilities of a genuine European foreign, security and defence policy; and the role of the EU in the post-Cold War international system. Common themes involve debates about stability and instability, continuity and change, multipolarity and leadership, co-operation and discord, power capabilities and patterns of behaviour. The book traces the defining features of the ‘new order’ in Europe and incorporates an analysis of the post-September 11th context. -- .

About this title

About the Author

Dimitris Xenakis is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter Dimitris Chryssochoou is Reader in European Integration at the University of Exeter

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719060133
• ISBN 13: 9780719060137
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168