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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The European Union: Evolution, Institutional and Legislative Structure and Enlargement -- Introduction -- Historical Background: A Path of Increasing Economic Links -- EU Institutions and Organizational Structure of theEuropean Union -- EU Legislation and Law-making Process -- The Challenge of the Enlargement -- 2 Trade Flows and Economic Integration -- Introduction -- Equilibrium Under Free Trade and the Effects of Tariffs -- Customs Unions or Universally Free Trade? -- Static Reallocative Effects of Customs Unions -- Terms-of-Trade Effects of Customs Unions -- Dynamic Effects of Customs Unions -- Summary and Conclusions -- 3 Factor- and Product-Market Integration and Europe's Single Market -- Introduction -- Effects of Factor-Market Integration -- Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade -- Europe's Single Market and the 1992 Internal Market Programme -- Strengthening the European Internal Market: Recent Developments and Performance -- Summary and Conclusions -- 4 Macroeconomic Interdependence, Cooperation and Currency Unions -- Introduction -- Optimum Currency Areas and Similarity of Structures and Shocks -- Phillips-Curve Theory and the Effects of Monetary Integration -- The Game-Theoretic Approach to Monetary Integration: Macroeconomic and Strategic Interdependence, Nashand Cooperative Outcomes -- Seigniorage -- Summary and Conclusions -- 5 Performance of the EMS, the ERM-II and the New EU Member States -- Introduction -- Early Attempts at Monetary-Policy Cooperation in Europeand the EMS -- Growth, Employment and Inflation in the EMS Years -- The Game-Theoretic Approach to the EMS: Impact on Inflation Outcomes -- The Crisis in the Currency Markets of 1990-92 -- ERM-II and the New EU Member States -- Summary and Conclusions -- 6 EMU: Benefits, Costs and Real Convergence.

While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention. This volume, with original contributions by leading German scholars, suggests that crises of integration should be seen as engines of progress throughout the history of European integration rather than as expressions of failure and regression, a widely held assumption. It therefore throws new light on the current crises in European integration and provides a fascinating panorama of how challenges and responses were guiding the process during its first five decades.

'Free movement has become a defining feature of European society. This important study answers the question "who are these free movers?". Using both quantitative and qualitative research evidence, it brings new perspectives to the sociology of European migration and integration, broadening the analysis from traditional labour migrants to various new kinds of spatial and social mobility in the continent.' - Russell King, University of Sussex and Sussex Centre for Migration Research, UK Pioneers of European Integration offers the first systematic analysis of the small but symbolically potent number of Europeans who have chosen to live and work as foreigners in another member state of the EU. The free movement of EU citizens is the most visible sociological consequence of the remarkable process of European integration that has transformed the continent since the Second World War. Based on an original survey of 5000 people moving to and from the EU's five largest countries, the book documents the demographic profile, migration choices, cultural adaptation, social mobility, political participation and media use of these pioneers of a transnational Europe, as well as opening a window to the new waves of intra-EU East-West migrations.

'Free movement has become a defining feature of European society. This important study answers the question "who are these free movers?". Using both quantitative and qualitative research evidence, it brings new perspectives to the sociology of European migration and integration, broadening the analysis from traditional labour migrants to various new kinds of spatial and social mobility in the continent.' - Russell King, University of Sussex and Sussex Centre for Migration Research, UK Pioneers of European Integration offers the first systematic analysis of the small but symbolically potent number of Europeans who have chosen to live and work as foreigners in another member state of the EU. The free movement of EU citizens is the most visible sociological consequence of the remarkable process of European integration that has transformed the continent since the Second World War. Based on an original survey of 5000 people moving to and from the EU's five largest countries, the book documents the demographic profile, migration choices, cultural adaptation, social mobility, political participation and media use of these pioneers of a transnational Europe, as well as opening a window to the new waves of intra-EU East-West migrations.

Fully revised and updated throughout, Theorizing European Integration 2nd edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical study of European integration. Combining perspectives from international relations, comparative politics and social and political theory, Dimitris N. Chryssochoou offers a complete overview of the many competing approaches that have sought to capture and explain the evolving political nature of the European Union (EU) and its qualitative transition from a union of states to a polity in its own right

The only up-to-date overview of the major approaches to European integration, giving students insights on the most current debates and topical developments. With contributions from world-leading experts, the text is an authoritative guide to each theory. Considers the development, achievements, and problems of each theory alongside historical and current issues in European integration. Uses the multiple crises in the EU over the past decade as case studies to demonstrate the relevance of theory to practice. New to this Edition: Each chapter includes a referent case on recent crises in the EU: the financial crisis and the migration crisis. Each chapter now includes both study questions to help students test their understanding and discussion questions to promote critical thinking and class debate. Professor Tanja A. Börzel and Professor Thomas Risse join the editorial team, bringing fresh expertise and insights to the volume.

In the 1960s, the power plant at Elektrenai, Lithuania, fueled industrialization in the region, but it ceased operations in the 1970s & 1980s. Now as part of European Union development, the plant, under its director since the 1960s, Pranas Noreika, is being redeveloped. It promises to provide some jobs to Lithuanian workers in the short term & the influx of capitalism might also help rejuvenate the town's tourist industry, per the more optimistic residents of the town. However, Elektrenai residents do not appear to live very much differently than they did in the Soviet era & prosperity is a long way off. 8 Photos. M. Pflum