Europeans on Europe : Transnational Visions of a New Continent

Europeans on Europe offers an assessment of the hopes, fears, expectations and preparedness of Britain, France and Germany at the approach of the 1992 deadline. It examines both at the national and European level the three key areas of business and economics, foreign and defence policy, and politics and political culture, both country by country and in a comparative mode. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Introduction: the ‘Old Continent’ in Turmoil, a New One in the Making....Pages 1-17 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 The Unfinished Chrysalis: Market Forces and Protectionist Reflexes in France....Pages 21-39 Germany: the Ambivalent Insider....Pages 40-56 Britain: Financial Sophistication and Industrial Wastelands....Pages 57-73 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 France and the Defence of Europe: Redefining Continental Security....Pages 77-97 German Foreign and Security Policy and the European Regional System in the 1990s....Pages 98-120 British Security Policy: Between the Special Relationship and European Cooperation....Pages 121-137 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 The Two Souls of Marianne: National Sovereignty versus Supranationality in Europe....Pages 141-159 The Euro-Germans: National Identity and European Integration in Germany....Pages 160-183 Westminster versus Brussels — the Last Crusade?....Pages 184-212 Back Matter....Pages 213-226