Rethinking Europe's Future / / David P. Calleo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Calleo, David P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: With a New afterword by the author
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 9 tables

Rethinking Europe's Future is a major reevaluation of Europe's prospects as it enters the twenty-first century. David Calleo has written a book worthy of the complexity and grandeur of the challenges Europe now faces. Summoning the insights of history, political economy, and philosophy, he explains why Europe was for a long time the world's greatest problem and how the Cold War's bipolar partition brought stability of a sort. Without the Cold War, Europe risks revisiting its more traditional history. With so many contingent factors--in particular Russia and Europe's Muslim neighbors--no one, Calleo believes, can pretend to predict the future with assurance. Calleo's book ponders how to think about this future. The book begins by considering the rival ''lessons'' and trends that emerge from Europe's deeper past. It goes on to discuss the theories for managing the traditional state system, the transition from autocratic states to communitarian nation states, the enduring strength of nation states, and their uneasy relationship with capitalism. Calleo next focuses on the Cold War's dynamic legacies for Europe--an Atlantic Alliance, a European Union, and a global economy. These three systems now compete to define the future. The book's third and major section examines how Europe has tried to meet the present challenges of Russian weakness and German reunification. Succeeding chapters focus on Maastricht and the Euro, on the impact of globalization on Europeanization, and on the EU's unfinished business--expanding into ''Pan Europe,'' adapting a hybrid constitution, and creating a new security system. Calleo presents three models of a new Europe--each proposing a different relationship with the U.S. and Russia. A final chapter probes how a strong European Union might affect the world and the prospects for American hegemony. This is a beautifully written book that offers rich insight into a critical moment in our history, whose outcome will shape the world long after our time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Chapter One. Old Europe and New Europe -- Part One. Europe's Living History -- Chapter Two. Competing Lessons of World War I -- Chapter Three. Europe's States and State System -- Chapter Four. From States to Nation States -- Chapter Five. The Nation State and Capitalism -- Part Two. Legacies of the Cold War -- Chapter Six. The Three Postwar Systems: An Overview -- Chapter Seven. Bipolar Europe -- Chapter Eight. Confederal Europe: From Rome to Maastricht -- Chapter Nine. Europe in the Global Economy -- Chapter Ten. Cold War Lessons, Old and New -- Part Three. The New Europe -- Chapter Eleven. Europe after the Soviet Shock: Maastricht and the EMU -- Chapter Twelve. Globalism and the Case for a European Bloc -- Chapter Thirteen. Unfinished Business I: Constitutional Projects -- Chapter Fourteen. Unfinished Business II: Security after the Cold War -- Chapter Fifteen. Unfinished Business III: Organizing Pan-Europe -- Chapter Sixteen. Europe in the New World Order -- Index