Publisher's Synopsis
Chapter 1. Introduction (Michele Di Donato).- Part 1: The European Community and Late 20th Century Globalization.- Chapter 2. The Single Market: A Race to the Bottom or Convergence towards High Standards? (1985-1997) (Laurent Warlouzet).- Chapter 3. Economic and Monetary Union (Lucia Quaglia).- Chapter 4. Global Europe at the End of the Cold War. The Demise of the North-South Dimension? (Sara Lorenzini).- Chapter 5. The Accession of the Neutrals: (Re)assessing the First Post-Cold War Enlargement of the EU (Maximilian Graf).- Part 2: Political Cultures and Societal Actors.- Chapter 6. The End of European History? The European People's Party and the Transformation of Europe from Cold War to post-Cold War (Wolfram Kaiser).- Chapter 7. The European Social Democrats: Neoliberalism or Internationalism? (Michele Di Donato) .- Chapter 8. The European Trade Union Confederation: A Labor Movement among EU Institutions and their Constraints (Paolo Borioni).- Part 3: Negotiating the New Europe: National Perspectives.- Chapter 9. Flawed Designs? France and the Maastricht treaty (Frédéric Bozo) .- Chapter 10. Negotiating the New Europe: Germany (Guido Thiemeyer) .- Chapter 11. The High Point of British Europeanism? John Major, Britain and the Maastricht Negotiations (N. Piers Ludlow) .- Chapter 12. Italy and the Maastricht Treaty: An Unpredictable Fateful Choice? (Antonio Varsori) .- Chapter 13. Greece and the Maastricht Treaty: The Fortress That Wasn't, (Nicos Christodoulakis) .- Chapter 14. The Iberian Peninsula and the Challenge of European integration (Maria Elena Cavallaro).- Part 4: Conclusion.- Chapter 15. Europe beyond the Cold War (Federico Romero)
