Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 304
Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-7425-1883-4 • Hardback • March 2002 • $167.00 • (£129.00)
978-0-7425-1884-1 • Paperback • March 2002 • $60.00 • (£46.00)
Amy Verdun holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration Studies and is director of the European Studies Programme at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
Chapter 1 Introduction: European Integration, Theories and Global Change
Part 2 The Explanatory Power of Intergration Theories: Examining Economic and Monetary Union
Chapter 3 Merging Neofunctionalism and Intergovernmentalism: Lessons from EMU
Chapter 4 Neofunctionalism and Intergovernmentalism Amalgamated: The Case of EMU
Chapter 5 Why States Want EMU: Developing a Theory on National Preferences
Part 6 Theorising Monetary Integration: Ideas and Identities
Chapter 7 EMU: A Neoliberal Construction
Chapter 8 EMU as Europeanisation: Convergence, Diversity, and Contingency
Chapter 9 The Gendered Limitations of European Citizenship and Monetary Integration
Part 10 Institutions and Accountability
Chapter 11 Multilevel Governance and the Independence of the European Central Bank
Chapter 12 Macroeconomic Preferences and Europe's Democratic Deficit
Chapter 13 The Shape of Things to Come: The EU's Post-EMU Institutional Architechture
Part 14 Country Studies
Chapter 15 EMU, Integration Theories, and the Annoying Complexities of French Policy-making
Chapter 16 German Influence in Shaping EMU: Still a Tamed Power?
Chapter 17 European Monetary Integration and Integration Theory: Insights from the Italian Case
Part 18 Conclusion: Lessons from Economic and Monetary Union for Theorising European Integration
An accomplished set of papers that span a range of theoretical perspectives and together provide a novel and useful commentary on one of the most intriguing developments in the international political economy—European monetary union.
— Kathleen R. McNamara, Princeton University
A worthy contribution to the understanding of European integration in general and EMU in particular.
— German Politics
A broad and accessible introduction to the EMU maze that guides us through contending theories and evaluates their relevance. The authors give expert, often iconoclastic, critiques to inspire us on our journey. Policy experts and academic analysts alike will benefit from reading this volume, while students and the lay reader will find it readily opens up the maze to them as well.
— Kevin Featherstone, University of Bradford