"Three trends have dominated the political economy of integration during the last two decades: globalization, economic nationalism, and regionalization. This book explores comparative regional integration, focusing on both intra-regional integration and relations among regions in the context of...

Reconstruction, reconciliation, and integration, 1945-1957 -- Uncertain terrain, 1958-1972 -- A community in flux, 1973-1984 -- From European Community to European Union, 1985-1992 -- The emergent European Union, 1993-1999 -- The unsettled European Union, 2000-2010 -- The commission -- The...

The tragedy of Europe / Winston S. Churchill -- The Schuman Declaration / Robert Schuman -- Preambles to the Treaties of Rome -- A ferment of change / Jean Monnet -- A concert of European states / Charles de Gaulle -- Preamble to the Single European Act -- A family of nations / Margaret Thatcher...