The Economic Emergence of a New Europe?: The Political Economy of Cooperation and Competition in the 1990s

Questions of European economic and political integration have been placed firmly on the policy agenda as we enter the late 1990s. "The Economic Emergence of a New Europe?" explores the arguments and forms of analysis deployed by those who have been pressing for closer integration since the early 1980s. Although the vote in the Danish referendum has thrown the future of the post-Maastricht European Community into some confusion, the agreements already reached will propel the Community along a path of ever closer economic cooperation. Casting a sceptical eye over much of the economic analysis used to explore the effects and implications of the integration process, this book critically examines the reasons behind the contemporary imperative for greater integration among the European states, and assesses the likely limits of this programme.