New European Community or European Monetary Union

New European Community: Decisionmaking and Institutional Change

Author: Robert O Keohan

The New European Community is the first systematic, book-length discussion of the major political institutions of the European Community (EC) after the transformation of the 1987 Single European Act, itself a surprise and a mystery whose effects are unraveled here.Professors Keohane and Hoffmann open the volume by placing the evolution of the new European Community into broad, theoretical perspective. Their expert contributors—including highly regarded international scholars, a judge of the European Court of Justice, and a long-term British politician—present engaging overviews of the process at work in major EC events and institutions. The centerpiece of the volume, Peter Ludlow’s chapter on the European Commission, lays out all of the systems and actors in the emerging EC and shows their direct connection with problems of Community development and integration.Filled with examples, illustrations, anecdotes, and valuable data, The New European Community will be indispensable for all students and scholars of international relations and European studies as well as for those in business and government who want to understand the European Community before and beyond 1992.

New interesting book: Mindful Economics or Master of the Senate

European Monetary Union: Progress and Prospects

Author: Homa Motamen Scobi

Analyzing the effects of a unified European currency and assessing the pressures of fixed exchange rates, this text combines extensive essays on monetary union with detailed case-studies of particular countries.

Table of Contents:

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1	The Changeover to a Unified European Currency: Why a 'Big Bang' Approach is Necessary	1
2	Fiscal Transfer Payments: Implications of US Structure for the European Monetary Union	23
3	European Monetary Union: Single Currency Feasible without the ERM	31
4	The Single Currency	40
5	EMU: The Obstacle Race to Success	53
6	The United Kingdom and Europe	60
7	Some Thoughts on the Monetary Framework in EMU	80
8	Finland on the Way to the EMU	89
9	The International Competitiveness of European Manufacturing: Evidence from Cost and Price Measures	94
10	Austria on the Way to EMU	118
11	Adhering to the Convergence Criteria: The Case of Portugal	124
	Index	129