Publisher's Synopsis
In recent years different processes of integration and disintegration went on within European Economies. Western integration and Eastern disintegration (both at institutional, economic and monetary level) influenced each other. Now we are witnessing new integration attempts of (part of) Eastern Europe within Western integration. This introduces new challenges. The book attempts an analysis of the most relevant aspects of these developments in both Western and Eastern Europe. - - AUTHOR FLYERS: - The complexity of the processes triggered after 1989 by the onset of transition to democratic society and a market economy in the central and Eastern part of the continent and the time required for them to settle and stabilize means that the economic ? as well as political and strategic ? situation of the continent remains uncertain. - - However, the decisions already taken and implemented, and the manifest will of the protagonists already allow the observer and the scholar to analyse the new situation. The importance of the topic, the novelty and complexity of the processes involved, and their intellectual, scientific and professional interest have prompted the present book, which collects analyses by twelve scholars from various European countries on diverse aspects of the process of integration and disintegration under way in the European countries.
