European Disunion

    Introduction;Jack Hayward and Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel     1. Union without Concensus; J.Hayward     Part I Enfeebled Democratic Legitimacy   2. The Difficult Emergence of a European People; Michael Bruter 3. A Nascent Transnational Civili Society; Elizabeth Monaghan 4. An Obdurately National Party Politics; Robert Ladrech   Part II Institutional Deadlock: A Surfeit of Would-be Leaders   5. National Governments, the European Council and Councils of Ministers: A Plurality of Sovereignties. Member State Soverreigns   without an EU Sovereign; Jack Hayward 6. The European Commission Bureaucracy: Handling Sovereingty throught the Back and Front Doors; Edward C. Page 7. The Empowerment of Parliaments in EU Interrogations: Victims or Victors?; Maja Kluger Rasmussen 8. National Courts and European Union Courts; Patrick Birkinshaw 9. Defending the Euro: Unity and Disunity among Europe's Central Bankers; David Howarth 10. Territorial Flexibility; Michael Keating   Part III Policy Divergences and Convergences   11. Foreign and Defence Policy: The Sovereignty Obsession and the Quest for Elusive Solidarity; Anand Menon 12. Economics and Monetary Disunion?; Kenneth Dyson 13. Social and Labour Market Policy: The (Re-)Emergence of Competitive Tension; Nick Parsons 14. From Environmental Disunion towards Envirnomental Union?: Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel   Part IV Adjusting to the REceding Sovereignty of Member States   15. A Contested Franco-German Duumvirate; William Paterson 16. Opt-out: Britain's Unsplendid Isolation; Philip Norton 17. The Nordic Countries: The Causes and Consequences of Variable Geometry; Nick Sitter 18. Southern European and the 'Trade-off': Architects of European Disunion?; Martin J. Bull 19. The Central and East European Countries: From Weak Latecomers to Good Citizens of the Union; Vesselin Dimitrov   Conclusion: European Disunion: Between Solidarity and Sovereignty; RüdigerK.W. Wurzel and Jack Hayward