Explaining Euro-Paralysis
Why Europe is Unable to Act in International Politics
Authors: Zielonka, J.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Reviews
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'...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
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction: Beyond Euro-optimism and skepticism
Pages 1-24
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Power politics, again
Pages 25-54
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Divergent traditions and conflicting interests
Pages 55-96
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Paradigm lost and conceptual confusion
Pages 97-135
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The crisis of modern democracy
Pages 137-176
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Explaining Euro-Paralysis
- Book Subtitle
- Why Europe is Unable to Act in International Politics
- Authors
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- J. Zielonka
- Series Title
- St Antony's Series
- Copyright
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Jan Zielonka
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-37284-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230372849
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-333-73040-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-40640-1
- Series ISSN
- 2633-5964
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 266
- Topics
