TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,Perry
TI  - New old world
SN  - 9781844677214
U1  - 341.2422 AND 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - European Union
KW  - History
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Regional disparities
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Economic integration
KW  - European Union countries
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Gratis; Includes bibliographical references and index; The Union. Origins ; Outcomes ; Theories -- The core. France ; Germany ; Italy -- The Eastern question. Cyprus ; Turkey -- Conclusion. Antecedents ; Prognoses
N2  - This 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
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