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Ever Closer Union?: Europe in the West

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Ever Closer Union?: Europe in the West

SKU: 9781839764417 Category: Product ID: 370715

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Title: Ever Closer Union?: Europe in the West
Author: PERRY ANDERSON
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 05/01/2022
Imprint: VERSO
Price: $37.00
Publishing status: Active

How to theorise the European Union

The European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of its representatives. Sixty years after the founding treaty, what sort of structure has crystallised, and does the promise of ever closer union still obtain?

Against the self-image of the bloc, Perry Anderson poses the historical record of its assembly. He traces the wider arc of European history, from First World War to Eurozone crisis, the hegemony of Versailles to that of Maastricht, and casts the work of the EU’s leading contemporary analysts both independent critics and court philosophers in older traditions of political thought. Are there likenesses to the age of Metternich, lessons in statecraft from that of Machiavelli?

An excursus on the UK’s jarring departure from the Union considers the responses it has met with inside the country’s intelligentsia, from the contrite to the incandescent. How do Brussels and Westminster compare as constitutional forms? Differently put, which could be said to be worse?

ISBN: 9781839764417
Pages: 256