Beschreibung:
Bringing together all of Stanley Hoffmann's significant essays on the development and difficulties of European integration, this collection highlights the intractability of the divisions that plagued the European Union from its very beginning. Just as the process of integration has displayed the same ambiguities, hesitations, and failings over the
Credits -- Introduction -- Europe's Identity -- Europe's Identity Crisis: Between the Past and America -- Europe's Identity Crisis Revisited -- European Unity in the Cold War -- Obstinate or Obsolete? France, European Integration, and the Fate of the Nation-State -- No Trumps, No Luck, No Will: Gloomy Thoughts on Europe's Plight -- Uneven Allies: An Overview -- Fragments Floating in the Here and Now -- Reflections on the Nation-State in Western Europe Today -- From Community to Union, From Cold War to New World (Dis)order -- The European Community and 1992 -- A Plan for the New Europe -- Reflections on the 'German Question' -- The Case for Leadership -- Balance, Concert, Anarchy, or None of the Above -- Goodbye to a United Europe?