Euroclash

The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-958085-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

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The European Union's market integration project has dramatically altered economic activity around Europe. This book presents extensive evidence on how trade has increased, jobs have been created, and European business has been reorganized. The changes in the economy have been accompanied by dramatic changes in how people from different societies interact. This book argues provocatively that these changes have produced a truly transnational-European-society. The book explores the nature of that society and its relationship to the creation of a European identity, popular culture, and politics. Much of the current political conflict around Europe can be attributed to who is and who is not involved in European society. Business owners, managers, professionals, white-collar workers, the educate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fligstein, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: The Dynamics of European Society

- 2: Constructing Markets and Politics: The Formation of the European Union, 1958-2004

- 3: Economic Transformation of Europe

- 4: The Creation of Markets: The Cases of the Defense, Telecommunications, and Football Industries

- 5: Who are the Europeans?

- 6: What is European Society?

- 7: The Structure of European Politics

- 8: Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California. He is the author of five books and over 50 papers. He has made scholarly contributions to the fields of organizational and economic sociology, political sociology, and the study of the European Union. His most recent books include The Architecture of Markets (Princeton University Press, 2001) and The Institutionalization of Europe (with Alec Stone Sweet and Wayne Sandholtz, Oxford University Press, 2001).