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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 | |