The European Sisyphus : essays on Europe, 1964-1994

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The European Sisyphus : essays on Europe, 1964-1994

Stanley Hoffmann

(The new Europe : interdisciplinary perspectives)

Westview Press, c1995

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Exploring the development and difficulties of European integration, Stanley Hoffmanns essays demonstrate that many of the divisions that trouble the European Union have plagued it from its very beginning. Hoffmann provides a view of evolution and change as well as an examination of the crises and turning points in the history of European integration. Scholars will welcome the opportunity to have these worksmost long unavailablewithin one volume; students will find Hoffmanns consistent and cohesive vision an invaluable guide to understanding the evolution of European union. }Bringing together all of Stanley Hoffmanns significant essays on the development and difficulties of European integration, this collection highlights the intractability of the divisions that plagued the European Union from its very beginning. Just as the process of integration has displayed the same ambiguities, hesitations, and failings over the years, so have Hoffmanns general preoccupations and emphases remained constant. These essays provide a view of evolution and change as well as an examination of the crises and turning points in the history of European integration. Hoffmann chronicles the ebb and flow of the process from the time of Charles de Gaulles challenge to Jean Monnets conception of supranational integration through the 1970s period of stagnation and on to the 1992 single-market program and the Maastricht Treaty.Scholars will welcome the opportunity to have Hoffmanns analysesmost long unavailablewithin one volume. Students will find Hoffmanns consistent and cohesive vision an invaluable guide to understanding the evolution of European union. }

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Europes Identity
  • Europes Identity Crisis: Between the Past and America
  • Europes Identity Crisis Revisited
  • European Unity In The Cold War
  • Obstinate or Obsolete? France, European Integration, and the Fate of the Nation-State
  • No Trumps, No Luck, No Will: Gloomy Thoughts on Europes Plight
  • Uneven Allies: An Overview
  • Fragments
  • Floating in the Here and Now
  • Reflections on the Nation-State in Western Europe Today
  • From Community To Union, From Cold War To
  • New World (Dis)Order
  • The European Community
  • and 1992
  • A Plan for the New Europe
  • Reflections on the German Question
  • The Case for Leadership
  • Balance, Concert, Anarchy, or None of the Above
  • Goodbye to a United Europe?.

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