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Preface and Acknowledgements | |
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List of Figures | |
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List of Boxes | |
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List of Tables | |
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Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
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List of Contributors | |
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Map: The European Union's Member States | |
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Guided Tour of the Textbook Features | |
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Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre | |
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Background | |
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Introduction | |
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Studying the EU | |
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Why bother? | |
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Understanding the EU: Theory and Conceptual Tools | |
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International relations approaches | |
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A comparative politics approach | |
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A public policy approach | |
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A sociological/cultural approach | |
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Themes | |
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Experimentation and change | |
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Power-sharing and consensus | |
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Scope and capacity | |
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Chapter Layout | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Further Reading | |
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Web Links | |
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How Did We Get Here? | |
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Introduction | |
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Post-war Settlement | |
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Schuman Plan | |
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European Defence Community | |
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European Community | |
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Consolidating the European Community | |
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Crisis and compromise | |
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The EC after De Gaulle | |
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Difficult decade | |
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The Emerging European Union | |
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Economic and Monetary Union | |
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Maastricht and beyond | |
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Post-Cold war enlargement and constitution building | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Further Reading | |
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Web Links | |
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Major Actors | |
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The EU's Institutions | |
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Institutions in Treaties and in Practice | |
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The European Commission | |
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Tasks and powers | |
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How the Commission is organized | |
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The Council (of Ministers) | |
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Vice President of the Commission/High Representative for Foreign & Security Policy | |
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The Council Presidency | |
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Voting in the Council | |
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Coreper | |
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European Council (of Heads of State or Government) | |
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The European Parliament | |
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The powers of the EP | |
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European Court of Justice | |
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Why Institutions Matter | |
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Experimentation and change | |
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Power-sharing and consensus | |
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Scope and capacity | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Further Reading | |
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Web Links | |
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Member States | |
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Introduction | |
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Six Determining Features | |
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Entry date | |
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Size | |
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Wealth | |
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State structure | |
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Economic ideology | |
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Integration preference | |
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Member States in Action | |
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Managing EU Business | |
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Explaining Member States' Engagement | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Further Reading | |
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Web Links | |
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Policies and Policy-making | |
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Key Policies | |
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Introduction | |
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Key Features of EU Policies | |
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Differences between national and EU policies | |
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The primacy of economic integration | |
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'Market-building' Policies | |
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Competition policy | |
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Commercial (trade) policy | |
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Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) | |
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'Market-correcting' and 'Cushioning' Policies | |
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Common Agricultural Policy | |
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Cohesion policy | |
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Environmental and social regulation | |
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Comparing EU Policy Types | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Further Reading | |
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Web Links | |
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How Policies Are Made | |
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Introduction | |
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The Basics | |
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Parliament | |
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Council | |
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How the EU Legislates | |
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Deciding, not legislating | |
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Preparing Commission Proposals | |
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Interest Representation and Lobbying | |
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Types of actor | |
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Organized Interests at Work | |
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European institutions' responses | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Further Reading | |
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Web Links | |
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Democracy in the European Union | |
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Democracy Beyond the State? | |
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Legislating through Representative Assemblies | |
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How representative are the Parliament and the Council? | |
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Involving national parliaments | |
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Separation of Powers | |
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Executive Accountability | |
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Respecting Fundamental Rights | |
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Political Parties | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Further Reading | |
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Web Links | |
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The EU and The Wider World | |
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EU Expansion and Wider Europe | |
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Introduction | |
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Widening versus deepening | |
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Enlargement as soft power | |
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An institutional paradox | |
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How the EU has Expanded | |
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Why countries want to join | |
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Recent enlargements | |
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Prospective Members | |
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Balkan countries | |
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Turkey | |
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Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland | |
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Wider Europe | |
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European Neighbourhood Policy | |
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What Limits for the EU? | |
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What is Europe? | |
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Evaluating Enlargement | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Further Reading | |
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Web Links | |
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The EU as a Security Actor | |
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Introducing European Security Policy | |
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How it developed | |
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The basics | |
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The EU and International Security | |
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The Common Security and Defence Policy | |
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Internal Security | |
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Theorizing the EU as a Security Actor | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Further Reading | |
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Web Links | |
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The EU as a Global Actor | |
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Introducing European Foreign Policy | |
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How it developed | |
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The basics | |
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A National 'System' of Foreign Policies | |
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The Community System | |
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Commercial (trade) policy | |
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Aid and development | |
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Externalizing internal policies | |
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The Common Foreign and Security Policy | |
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Theorizing the EU as a Global Actor | |
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Conclusion | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Further Reading | |
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Web Links | |
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Conclusion | |
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Introduction | |
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Three Themes | |
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Experimentation and change | |
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Sharing power and seeking consensus | |
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Scope and capacity | |
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Explaining the EU | |
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International relations approaches | |
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A comparative politics approach | |
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A public policy approach | |
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A sociological/cultural approach | |
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Where Do We Go From Here? | |
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Debating the future of Europe | |
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How will it work? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Appendix: Chronology of European Integration | |
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Glossary | |
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References | |
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Index | |