European Integration and the Global Financial Crisis

Chapter 1. Introduction (
Michele Di Donato
). - Part 1: The European Community and Late 20
^th
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
)