Forging an Integrated Europe

by Jeffry A. Frieden, Barry Eichengreen

Overview

As European integration has deepened and become more invasive, the tension between the authority of the European Union and the autonomy of member states has increased, while dissatisfaction with the political institutions of the European Union has increased dramatically. How fast and how far European integration will proceed are critical issues for scholars and policymakers in Europe and the United States. Barry Eichengreen and Jeffry Frieden have assembled a group of prominent economists and political scientists to discuss the most important—and most difficult—political and economic issues involved in European integration. The book focuses on three major issues: economic and monetary union, the reform and development of responsive political institutions for the Union, and the enlargement of the Union to include states to the east.
In examining these issues, the writers consider such prob-lems as the trade-off between the benefits of international economic cooperation and the ability to pursue domestic welfare policies; how to increase the political accountability of the institutions of the EU; and how the EU can both be enlarged in membership and deepened in terms of the powers given community institutions.
The contributors are Steven Arndt, Peter Bofinger, Christian de Boisseu, Michele Fratianni, Geoffrey Garrett, Jurgen von Hagen, Ander Todal Jenssen, Ken Kletzer, Lisa Martin, Jonathan Moses, Jean Pisani-Ferry, and Michael Wallerstein, in addition to the editors.
Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Jeffry Frieden is Professor of Government, Harvard University.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780472108404
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	03/20/1998
Series:	Michigan Studies In International Political Economy
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley.

Jeffry Frieden is Professor of Government, Harvard University.

Editorial Reviews

". . . a valuable contribution to our understanding of the political economy of European integration. The combination of formal and informal argumentation, quantitative and qualitative evidence, and political and economic perspectives make a good case that there is much to gain from interdisciplinary study of the European Union."
—Beth A. Simmons, University of California, Berkeley, American Political Science Review , March 2000

Beth A. Simmonsn Political Science Review

". . . a valuable contribution to our understanding of the political economy of European integration. The combination of formal and informal argumentation, quantitative and qualitative evidence, and political and economic perspectives make a good case that there is much to gain from interdisciplinary study of the European Union."
—Beth A. Simmons, University of California, Berkeley, American Political Science Review , March 2000

American Political Science Review - Beth A. Simmons