European Disunion

1. Introduction
Jack Hayward, Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel

2. Union without Consensus
Jack Hayward

Part I. Enfeebled Democratic Legitimacy

3. The Difficult Emergence of a European People
Michael Bruter

4. A Nascent Transnational Civil Society
Elizabeth Monaghan

5. An Obdurately National Party Politics
Robert Ladrech

Part II. Institutional Deadlock: A Surfeit of Would-be Leaders

6. National Governments, the European Council and Councils of Ministers: A Plurality of Sovereignties. Member State Sovereigns without an EU Sovereign
Jack Hayward

7. The European Commission Bureaucracy: Handling Sovereignty through the Back and Front Doors
Edward C. Page

8. The Empowerment of Parliaments in EU Integration: Victims or Victors?
Maja Kluger Rasmussen

9. National Courts and European Union Courts
Patrick Birkinshaw

10. Defending the Euro: Unity and Disunity among Europe’s Central Bankers
David Howarth

11. Territorial Flexibility
Michael Keating

Part III. Policy Divergences and Convergences

12. Foreign and Defence Policy: The Sovereignty Obsession and The Quest for Elusive Solidarity
Anand Menon

13. Economic and Monetary Disunion?
Kenneth Dyson

14. Social and Labour Market Policy: The (Re-)Emergence of Competitive Tensions
Nick Parsons

15. From Environmental Disunion towards Environmental Union?
Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel

Part IV. Adjusting to the Receding Sovereignty of Member States

16. A Contested Franco-German Duumvirate
William Paterson

17. Opt-Out: Britain’s Unsplendid Isolation
Philip Norton

18. The Nordic Countries: The Causes and Consequences of Variable Geometry
Nick Sitter

19. Southern Europe and the ‘Trade Off’: Architects of European Disunion?
Martin J. Bull

20. The Central and East European Countries: From Weak Latecomers to Good Citizens of the Union
Vesselin Dimitrov

21. Conclusion: European Disunion: Between Sovereignty and Solidarity
Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel, Jack Hayward

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, Political Science, European Union Politics, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, US Politics