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| Tables and Illustrations | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Acronyms and Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| History | |
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| What Is the European Union? | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| The Role of the State | |
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| How Did the EU Evolve? | |
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| What Has the EU Become? | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Origins: The Road from Paris | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| The Taming of Europe | |
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| Economic Reconstruction and the Marshall Plan | |
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| Security and the Cold War | |
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| Opening Moves: Coal and Steel (1950-53) | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Emergence: To the Single Market and Beyond | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| From Paris to Rome (1955-58) | |
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| Integration Takes Root (1958-68) | |
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| The Role of the United States | |
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| Enlargement: Looking North and South (1960-86) | |
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| Toward Economic and Monetary Union (1969-93) | |
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| Completing the Single Market (1983-93) | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Consolidation and Crisis: Maastricht, Lisbon, and the Eurozone | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| From Community to Union (1970-93) | |
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| The Euro Arrives (1995-2002) | |
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| Changes to the Treaties: Amsterdam and Nice (1997-2001) | |
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| Shock Waves from Iraq (2003-05) | |
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| More Enlargement: Looking East (1994-2013) | |
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| From Lisbon to the Eurozone Crisis (2001-) | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Institutions | |
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| The European Commission | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Evolution | |
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| Structure | |
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| How the Commission Works | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Council of the European Union | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Evolution | |
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| Structure | |
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| How the Council Works | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The European Parliament | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Evolution | |
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| Structure | |
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| How Parliament Works | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The European Court of Justice | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Evolution | |
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| Structure | |
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| Sources of European Union Law | |
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| How the Court Works | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The European Council and Other Institutions | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Evolution | |
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| Structure | |
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| How the Council Works | |
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| Specialized Agencies | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Representing Public Opinion | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| An Emerging European Identity | |
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| Referendums | |
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| European Elections | |
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| Political Groups | |
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| Interest Groups | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Policies | |
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| Public Policy in the EU | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| The Policy Cycle | |
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| Features of the Policy Process | |
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| The Budget | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Economic and Monetary Policy | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| The Single Market and Europe 2020 | |
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| Justice and Home Affairs | |
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| The Euro | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Cohesion and Other Internal Policies | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Building a Level Playing Field | |
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| Social Policy | |
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| Education and Languages | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Agricultural and Environmental Policy | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Agricultural Policy | |
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| Environmental Policy | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| External Relations | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Toward a Common Foreign Policy | |
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| Toward a Common Security Policy | |
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| Trade Policy | |
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| Developments in the Neighborhood: Eastern Europe and Russia | |
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| Relations with a Rising Power: EU-China Relations | |
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| Development Cooperation | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The EU and the United States | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| The Changing International System | |
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| The Transatlantic Relationship | |
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| A Litany of Disputes | |
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| Explaining the Differences | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Chronology of European Integration | |
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| Sources of Information | |
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| Index | |