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Exploring undereported and often mischaracterized ""Euro-sceptic"" arguments over the goals and methods of European intergration, this collection brings together ""Euro-sceptic"", ""Euro-pessimistic"" and ""Euro-phobic"" speeches, essays and other documents that illustrate the range of opposition to the European Union. The balancing against the integrationalist goal of federalism, the guide gives a full airing to the various arguements against ""ever-closer union"". The reader offers classic statements of the ""Europe of the Nations"" views of Charles de Gaulle and Margaret Thatcher as well as French ""sovereignists"" such as Charels Pasqua and Jean-Pierre Chevenement, and includes more recent arguments by Michael Portillo and Noel Malcom. There are interviews with and analyses of far-right or ""national right"" movements and their leaders Jorg Haider and the Austria Freedom party and Jean-Marie Le Pen and the French National front. The special case of Norway - the only country that has said ""no"" (twice) to EU membership - is analyzed by a Norwegian scholar, and two historians argue that European integration overall is in some sense a great illusion or a misguided ""division of the West"".

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Author:   Ronald Tiersky, Amherst College ,  Charles de Gaulle ,  Stanley Hoffmann ,  Margaret Thatcher
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9780742510531

ISBN 10:   0742510530
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   30 July 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1 Introduction: Euro-skepticism and ""Europe"" Chapter 2 Europe Chapter 3 Obstinate or Obsolete?: France, European Integration, and the Fate of the Nation-State Chapter 4 The Babel Express: Relations with the European Community, 1987-1990 Chapter 5 Speech at the College of Europe, Bruges, 20 September 1988 Chapter 6 Why the Norwegians Said No Chapter 7 Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War Chapter 8 The Case against ""Europe"" Chapter 9 Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French National Front, and ""Europe"" Chapter 10 Europe: Escaping the Trap Chapter 11 Which France for Which Europe? Chapter 12 EU Ostracism of Austria Chapter 13 The Haider Phenomenon Chapter 14 Diary of a Trip to Vienna: Jorg Haider's Austria Chapter 15 The Euro: The Engine that Couldn't Chapter 16 Democratic Values and the Currency Chapter 17 The Degeneration of EMU Chapter 18 Europe: The Grand Illusion Chapter 19 ""Europe"" and the ""Anglosphere"" Chapter 20 Conclusion: Expansive, Fractious, but Not Yet Fearsome"

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Ronald Tiersky is Eastman Professor of Politics at Amherst College and the author of Fran_ois Mitterrand: The Last French President

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