This distinctive textbook combines comprehensive coverage of the key policyareas of the European Union with analysis of individual countries includingthe recent... » 

This distinctive textbook combines comprehensive coverage of the key policyareas of the European Union with analysis of individual countries includingthe recent accession countries and Turkey. Part I analyzes the economic basesfor the rise of the European Union from its origins in the postWorld War IIrecovery to its historic enlargement in 2004. Part II takes up the differentnationstate perspectives on the EUs economic policies by looking in turn atall European countries whether members of the EU or not. The book is unique inproviding both an EU perspective and European nationstate perspective on themajor policy issues which have arisen since the end of World War II as well asputting the economic analysis into an historical narrative which emphasizes theresponses of policymakers to external shocks such as the Cold War the oilshocks German reunification and the collapse of the Soviet Union. «