Disintegrating Europe: The Twilight of the European Construction

Disintegrating Europe: The Twilight of the European Construction

by Noriko Hama
Disintegrating Europe: The Twilight of the European Construction

Disintegrating Europe: The Twilight of the European Construction

by Noriko Hama

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Overview

Since the Maastricht Treaty of December 1991, Europe has experienced rising nationalism and regionalism—both centrifugal effects working against union—and above all scepticism toward the Union concept itself. As certain of the member states fragment, or turban inward, a turbaning-point in history has been reached: it is the end of the post-War Europe. As such, is it even necessary for Europe to be united at all? Is the unification ideal too large a political concept? Is the ideal of European unification dying, and have the concepts enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty become museum pieces? These are among the incisive questions asked by writer-economist Noriko Hama, in Disintegrating Europe. This approach is dramatic, readable, and compelling, and represents the first time that so qualified an economic commentator has attempted a 'big picture' view of the future of the European unification project.

Predicting that the crumbling cornerstone of unity makes the present course untenable, the author provides an alternative vision for 21st Century Europe resting on the market mechanism as seen in East Asia. This, she argues, would serve as an 'engine of growth' to replace the now-faltering engine of the newly-united Germany, which instead will continue to wrestle with its deflationary absorption of East Germany.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780275955816
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/11/1996
Series: Praeger Studies on the 21st Century Series
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

NORIKO HAMA is Mitsubishi Research Institute's first resident economist and chief representative in London. In this capacity she covers macroeconomic developments in Europe, as well as commenting on events in Japan. Hama writes regularly on current issues in newspapers and economic jourbanals. She is a frequent commentator for the BBC's World Service Radio and Television broadcasts, as well as other current affairs programmes such as the CNN's World Business News and BBC's Newsnight.

Table of Contents

Preface
Prologue: Twilight of the Union
Turban-of-the-Century Europe
Britain: senior citizen tries to run too fast
Germany: which way out of the unification trap?
France: the franc fort straitjacket
Europe's Business: Business or Politics?
No economic gain, no way forward
Europe and the British yardstick
The Crumbling Cornerstone of Unity
On the brink of exchange-rate wars
Divided we stand: internal regionalism to the fore
Implosion or Explosion?
Can deepening bring competitiveness?
Widening without disintegration: a feasible option?
The Atlantic alliance adrift
In Search of New Heroes
References
Index

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