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• Cover
• Series-page
• Titlepage
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Abbreviations
• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Key Controversies in European Integration
• 1 The European Union: Success or Failure?
• 1.1 Why Europe works
• 1.2 The rise and fall of the EU
• 2 More Powers for Brussels or Renationalization?
• 2.1 A stronger, more supranational Union
• 2.2 The new intergovernmentalism and European integration
• 3 How Democratic Is the EU?
• 3.1 The inevitability of a democratic deficit
• 3.2 A democratic achievement, not just a democratic deficit
• 4 Too Much Power for the Judges?
• 4.1 Understanding the European Court’s political power
• 4.2 A strange institution
• 5 Can There Be a Common European Identity?
• 5.1 European identity formation in (the) crisis
• 5.2 A common European identity is an illusion
• 6 Lobbying in the EU: How Much Power for Big Business?
• 6.1 Still influential after all these years – corporate interests in the EU
• 6.2 The diminishing power of big business
• 7 The Future of the Euro: Union or Disintegration?
• 7.1 Why the euro is a functional necessity in the process of European integration
• 7.2 For a plurality of economic and social models! Against a monolithic euro state!
• 8 Can the EU Tame Big Finance?
• 8.1 The merits of adaptive governance: the regulation of financial services in the European Union
• 8.2 The pitfalls of EU governance in financial markets
• 9 The Big Waste? The Common Agricultural Policy
• 9.1 The CAP: dilemmas and facts
• 9.2 The Common Agricultural Policy: an environmental, social and sanitary failure
• 10 Does the EU Act as Normative Power?
• 10.1 The EU is a normative power in world politics
• 10.2 Living in a material world: a critique of ‘Normative Power Europe’
• 11 Has EU Enlargement Gone Too Far?
• 11.1 The case for European Union enlargement
• 11.2 EU enlargement: a critique
• 12 Towards a Common European Army?
• 12.1 The European Union’s CSDP: the great illusion
• 12.2 Defence integration in the EU: from vision to business-as-usual
• 13 Britain’s Decision to Leave the EU: Good or Bad?
• 13.1 In defence of Brexit
• 13.2 Brexit – a political and economic disaster for Britain
• 14 Promise and Peril of a New German Hegemony
• 14.1 The failure of German leadership
• 14.2 A Benign Hegemon: Germany’s European vocation
• 15 What Future for the Transatlantic Partnership?
• 15.1 Dis-Atlanticism: the West in an era of global fragmentation
• 15.2 A transatlantic strategy for the liberal order
• Bibliography
• Index