This book provides an overview of the role of the European Community (EC) in international affairs during the early 1970s. Richard Bailey examines the political, economic, and diplomatic activities of the EC, its relations with major world powers, and its influence on global trade and development. The work discusses how the EC emerged as a new actor in world politics and evaluates its challenge…
The focus of this book is on the interaction between the European Community and national policy-making. Traditionally policy- making has been analysed within a national or a comparative framework in which the EC has mainly been regarded as an external factor. Here the European political system itself becomes the unit of analysis.
Provides an introduction to the politics of five representative European states and of the European Community. The book considers the prospects of each system and covers such elements as geographical, socio-economic, historical and ideological backgrounds, interspersed with comparative data.
Brings together seventeen essays on the dynamics of social change published in a wide array of journals over the course of Amitai Etzioni's long and distinguished career. Applying sociological methods of study to seemingly disparate disciplines from ethics to economics, politics to genetics, Etzioni uncovers important interrelationships between these fields.
The period since 1945 has seen political events and socio-economic developments of enormous significance for the human race. This series explores these developments. The impact of the European Community upon governments and citizens, both in the EEC itself and in the world beyond, is growing. Moreover the concept of a wider Europe has become a significant political factor in the postwar world. …
The Single European Market marks the most profound and far-reaching development in British history this century. This guide examines in detail the impact this huge trading block will have on its own members and on the wider world.
The purpose of this book is to tell the story of contemporary Western Europe's slow, determined effort to become a more powerful and, above all, a united force in world affairs. It will attempt to explain how and why the Common Market, for the first time since its founding in 1958, is challenging the United States and Japan for dominance in world trade and high technology. The buildup of Europe…
The 1980s have been a decade of upheaval for the European Community and its member states. Internal and external factors have made rapid change imperative. The member states have seen themselves to be under threat from outside competition which has impelled them to seek closer cooperation over an ever-increasing range of issues. A deep-seated uneasiness persists, however, over both the EC's cap…
For much of the twentieth century, the main fault line of Western Europe's political landscape has run between left and right, between those wanting more planning, state control and redistribution of wealth, and those want- ing less. By the 1990s, however, the left had accepted much of the right's free-market philosophy. Only fine gradations separated their economic policies.