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010 $a 2011456996
020 $a9781844677214
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aJN30$b.A645 2011
082 00 $a341.242/2$223
100 1 $aAnderson, Perry.
245 14 $aThe new old world /$cPerry Anderson.
250 $apbk. ed.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York ;$bVerso,$c2011.
300 $axvii, 561 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe Union. Origins ; Outcomes ; Theories -- The core. France ; Germany ; Italy -- The Eastern question. Cyprus ; Turkey -- Conclusion. Antecedents ; Prognoses.
520 $aThis book offers a magisterial analysis of Europe's development since the end of the Cold War. A major work of modern history and political analysis, "The New-Old World" punctures both domestic and American myths about continental Europe. Surveying the post-Cold War trajectory of European power and the halting progress towards social and economic integration, Perry Anderson draws out the connections between the EU's eastward expansion, a foreign policy largely subservient to America's, and the popular rejection of the European Constitution. As a neoliberal economic project, pushed forward by a succession of centrist governments, the European Union cannot afford to allow its peoples a free choice that might dash elite schemes of a post-national democracy. Anderson explores Hayek's suggestion that protecting a market economy might require exactly this kind of inter-state structure, out of reach of popular opposition. With landmark chapters on France, Germany, Italy and Turkey, and a wide-ranging survey of current theories of the Union, "The New-Old World" offers an iconoclastic portrait of a continent that is now being increasingly hailed as a moral and political exemplar for the world at large.
610 20 $aEuropean Union$xHistory.
650 0 $aEconomic development$zEuropean Union countries.
651 0 $aEuropean Union countries$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aEuropean Union countries$xEconomic integration.
651 0 $aEuropean Union countries$xForeign relations.
650 0 $aRegional disparities$zEuropean Union countries.