millennium: the rollout of the euro and the building of new transnational regions such as the Oresund Region, envisioned as a … inseparable from the drive to create a pan-national currency. He studies the practices and rhetoric surrounding the national …

common currency increased divergences rather than smoothing them, as many analysts warned at the time. The economic …, financial, and political pathologies of the euro were there from the beginning, even if the global economic boom hid them. With … -- Chapter 1: Three Leaps in the Dark, 1950-1982 -- Chapter 2: Kohl's Euro, 1982-1998 -- Chapter 3: Schröder Asserts the German …