《THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WITH US OR AGAINST US? EUROPEAN TRENDS IN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE VOL》

1.Why Another Book on Europe---and Why in Reference to the United States?1

I. External Foreign, Security, and Economic Policies29

2. A European Union with Teeth?31

3. Continental Divide? The Transience of Transatlantic Troubles53

4. United Against the United States? The EU's Role in Global Trade and Finance75

II. Institutional Evolutions103

5. 'We the States': Why the Anti-Federalists Won105

6. Parliamentary Government or Division of Powers: Is the Destination Still Unknown?123

7.Is the Council BecOming an Upper House?143

8.The Politics of Eurocracy: Building a New European State?173

III. Europe's Political Economy191

9. Stock Exchange Competition and the Nasdaq Bargain in Europe193

10. Financial Restructuring in the Age of the Euro: Still a Battle of Systems?219

11. Toward .a European Social Policy--At Last?253

12. EU Interest Representation or US-Style Lobbying?275

IV. Culture, Identity, and EU Decision-Making297

13. Transatlantic Risk Perceptions, Public Health, and Environmental Concerns: Coming Together or Drifting Apart?299

14. Drawing the EU's Borders: Immigration Policy325

15. The Dynamics of EU Enlargement in American Perspective345

V. The Shape of the EU Polity369

16. Rights in the European Union: Convergent with the USA?371

17. What Lies Beyond a Confederal Europe?391

18. The EU 'Polity' and the Europeanization of National Polities411

19. The European Union through an American Prism439

Index459