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Explaining Euro-Paralysis

Why Europe is Unable to Act in International Politics

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Jan Zielonka

    1. European University Institute, Florence, Italy

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Beyond Euro-optimism and skepticism

    • Jan Zielonka
    Pages 1-24

  3. Power politics, again

    • Jan Zielonka
    Pages 25-54

  4. Divergent traditions and conflicting interests

    • Jan Zielonka
    Pages 55-96

  5. Paradigm lost and conceptual confusion

    • Jan Zielonka
    Pages 97-135

  6. The crisis of modern democracy

    • Jan Zielonka
    Pages 137-176

  7. Weak institutions

    • Jan Zielonka
    Pages 177-218

  8. Conclusions: The choices to be made

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    Pages 219-238

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 239-266
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About this book

This book is about Europe's apparent inability to cope with the complex international environment. Why does the Union fail to create a workable (sound) Common Foreign and Security Policy? Five distinct explanations for Euro-paralysis are considered, focusing on power politics, the assertion of national interests, misguided institutional designs, a crisis of modern democracy, and the post-Cold War conceptual confusion.

Reviews

'...Zielonka's edited volume should be read and pondered.' - Government and Opposition

'This book offers stimulating insights and fresh ways of thinking about the EU and its foreign and security policy deficiencies.' - Uwe Schmalz, Institut für Europäische Politik

Authors and Affiliations

  • European University Institute, Florence, Italy

    Jan Zielonka

About the author

JAN ZIELONKA is Associate Professor at Leiden University since 1983, Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS, Wassenaar) in 1983-84 and 1989-90, Research Associate at the International Institute for strategic Studies, London (1990-91), Senior Associate Member at St. Antony's College, Oxford (1994), and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for International Studies at Oxford University (1994-95). He has published books and articles on political ideas in Poland, on human rights and security in Europe, on the problems of transition in Central and Eastern Europe, and on East-West trade and technology transfers.

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