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Partial contents: The economic integration of the EEC member states; Sociopolitical and economic profile of the EEC; Political integration and foreign affairs; Convergences and divergences: discussion and analysis; The situation as of 1985; The Single European Act and Final Act.

The economic & political integration of the European Economic Community (EEC) is assessed. A sociopolitical & economic profile of the EEC is presented, & its major concepts of economic & political integration are analyzed. The various issues of convergence & divergence among EEC member states are elucidated, & its future prospects are discussed. 26 References. AA

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures and Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Current Issues in EU Integration -- Part I: Agriculture, Competition and Industry -- 2 Common Agricultural Policy: Evolution and Economic Costs -- 3 Competition Policy in the Single European Market -- 4 Industrial Policy: The Changing Agenda -- Part II: Economic and Monetary Union -- 5 Central Bank Independence and Monetary Policy -- 6 EMU Convergence and Fiscal Policy -- Part III: Regional Convergence and Enlargement -- 7 The New Role and Resurgence of Regions in the EU -- 8 EU Enlargement: EMU and Agriculture -- Part IV: Alternative Futures for the UK -- 9 Alternatives to Further Integration -- 10 Is NAFTA Membership Really a 'Barmy' Idea? -- Notes -- References -- Index.

European Integration outlines in empirical detail the mysteries and paradoxes of European integration. It challenges the convention of studying individual aspects of EU policymaking in isolation from the wider whole and situates the EU within the broader conceptual universe of the changing nature of the state in Europe.

Different starting conditions and decision-making mechanisms of European and East Asian economic integration are identified. They have led to different paths of integration. The EU process had a major impact on political stability in Europe; it has increased economic stability, at the expense of dynamism and possible over-extension, though. East Asia still has rather liquid mechanisms. This allowed it to exploit its economic potentials flexibly, relying on open world markets. With new problems on the multilateral level, East Asia reacts with various moves, increasing intransparency. Both regions have in the past played out their respective advantages well. Both face limits now. The former paths cannot simply be extended, and doubts remain whether convincing regional strategies have already been found. ; Unterschiedliche Startbedingungen und Entscheidungsmechanismen regionaler Integration in Europa und Ostasien werden identifiziert. Sie hatten unterschiedliche Pfade wirtschaftlicher Integration zur Folge. Der Prozess der europäischen Einigung hat maßgeblich die politische Stabilität gestärkt; auch die ökonomische Stabilität wurde befördert, auf Kosten allerdings von Dynamik und mit der Gefahr einer Überexpansion. Ostasien besitzt noch liquidere Mechanismen. Damit konnte es sein ökonomisches Potenzial unter der Rahmenbedingung offener Weltmärkte hervorragend entfalten. Angesichts neuer Probleme auf multilateraler Ebene reagiert Ostasien auf verschiedene Weise, erhöht aber die Intransparenz. Beide Regionen haben bisher ihre potenziellen Stärken gut nutzen können. Sie können ihre früheren Pfade aber nicht einfach verlängern. Es bleiben Zweifel, ob überzeugende regionale Strategien bereits gefunden sind.

Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free movement of goods and factors of production and a common currency linked much of Europe. Meanwhile, effective economic integration agreements were absent from Asia, although countries in East and Southeast Asia were becoming linked in global value chains (GVCs). Since 2000, Asian governments have been more active in negotiating deep trade agreements, of which the distinctive feature is open regionalism. Although the political difference between the European Union and the Asian system of nation states will remain, the EU's external trade policy and many Asian countries' policies are converging toward a model of liberal trade regimes plus collaboration in establishing common norms in other areas that are important to GVC operation (so-called WTO+ issues). The outcome will be greater economic integration in Europe and Asia of countries seeking to benefit from globalization, and, while Asia and Europe will lead the process, it will be open to any willing partners.