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Dewey Decimal Number: 338
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Label: Oxford University Press, USA
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Page Count: 256
Printing Date: July 08, 2003
Publishing house: Oxford University Press, USA
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As the European Union moves towards enlargement, What Kind of Europe? pinpoints the crucial issues which will shape its future as a regional, economic, and political entity. Loukas Tsoukalis is one of the world's leading scholars on European integration; in this book he writes for any reader interested in the key democratic choices facing Europe's citizens.
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It is a valiant effort by Dr. Tsoukalis to tackle the structural workings of the EU. The book reads more like a survey, identifying features and layers without delving in to them at much length. Of course, that would require a treatsie of encyclopaedic proportions - a caution the author fully embraces. But his overarching theme offers an engaging manner to absorb the intricacies of the EU, namely to politicize the otherwise technocratic and elitist activity by EU actors as the only viable means of making it work in the long run. Throny sovereignty issues and monetary measures have changed since the Marshall Plan - and Dr. Tsoukalis' assertion that Europe already shares a considerable amount of "federalism" from which it can build a more effective qualified federalism (with unimaginable difficult to orchestrate decentralized agencies opreating at regional and/or national levels and centralized supranational policies , ie. foreign, or "high politics", policies) for the subsequent decades seems, if anything, an intriguing theoretical proposition. The book is not a pleasant read and requires constant pause for reflection. It will however reveal the otherwise pigeon-holed complexity of the European Union and how it might develop.
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