European Union. An historical and political survey, 2nd ed.

Topics new to this edition are:

- the impact of the Euro and economic and monetary union
- analysis of post-9/11 splits in the EU over Afghanistan and Iraq, and debates on the new European security order and the threat posed by terrorism
- the enlargement of the EU to 27 members and discussions over further expansion
- the initial failure of the EU Constitutional Treaty
- the growth in Euroscepticism across the continent.

Contents:

Introduction: A Disputed Community
1. Birth, Childhood & Adolescence
2. The Community at the End of the 1960's
3. From the Hague to Paris: 1969–72
4. 1973: A Turbulent Year
5. The Mid 1970s: Locust Years
6. ‘Euro-sclerosis’: The Late 1970s and Early 1980s
7. The Mid 1980s: 'Single Market' and 'Single Act'
8. The Late 1980s and the Road to ‘1992’
9. Europe Transformed Again: 1989–93
10. Paradoxes of the New Europe 1994–2000
11. The New Millennium 2000–05
12. New Turbulence, 2005–08