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Disintegrating Europe The Twilight of the European Construction
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By Noriko Hama
ISBN: 0-275-95582-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95582-3
136 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/1996
List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £54.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • ""...Presents a clear and exhaustive picture of Europe at a turning-point in its history - the collapse of the post-War system.""
    —
    Nichi-ei Times
  • ""It is impossible to stop reading ....This book not only counters the conventional image of the European Union but presents a unique theory of Europe from the economic viewpoint.""
    —Tokyo Shimbun
Description: Since the Maastricht Treaty of December 1991, Europe has experienced rising nationalism and regionalism--both centrifugal effects working against union--and above all scepticism toward the Union concept itself. As certain of the member states fragment, or turn inward, a turning-point in history has been reached: it is the end of the post-War Europe. As such, is it even necessary for Europe to be united at all? Is the unification ideal too large a political concept? Is the ideal of European unification dying, and have the concepts enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty become museum pieces? These are among the incisive questions asked by writer-economist Noriko Hama, in Disintegrating Europe. This approach is dramatic, readable, and compelling, and represents the first time that so qualified an economic commentator has attempted a 'big picture' view of the future of the European unification project. Predicting that the crumbling cornerstone of unity makes the present course untenable, the author provides an alternative vision for 21st Century Europe resting on the market mechanism as seen in East Asia. This, she argues, would serve as an 'engine of growth' to replace the now-faltering engine of the newly-united Germany, which instead will continue to wrestle with its deflationary absorption of East Germany.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Prologue: Twilight of the Union
  • Turn-of-the-Century Europe
  • Britain: senior citizen tries to run too fast
  • Germany: which way out of the unification trap?
  • France: the franc fort straitjacket
  • Europe's Business: Business or Politics?
  • No economic gain, no way forward
  • Europe and the British yardstick
  • The Crumbling Cornerstone of Unity
  • On the brink of exchange-rate wars
  • Divided we stand: internal regionalism to the fore
  • Implosion or Explosion?
  • Can deepening bring competitiveness?
  • Widening without disintegration: a feasible option?
  • The Atlantic alliance adrift
  • In Search of New Heroes
  • References
  • Index
LC Card Number: 95-52583
LCC Class: HC240
Dewey Class: 330
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