The negotiations for economic and monetary union in the European Union represented a massive change for Europe and for the world. This book identifies why the historical agreement at Maastricht in December 1991 was possible and how the agreement was made. It examines the motives that inspired EC political leaders, the strategies that they pursued, and the institutions of the EC which were used to achieve monetary union.

The Road To Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union

Business & Money

Dyson, Kenneth

Featherstone, Kevin

Economics

Oxford University Press

The negotiations for economic and monetary union in the European Union represented a massive change for Europe and for the world. This book identifies why the historical agreement at Maastricht in December 1991 was possible and how the agreement was made. It examines the motives that inspired EC political leaders, the strategies that they pursued, and the institutions of the EC which were used to achieve monetary union.

The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union

This book is concerned with a large question in one small, but highly problematic case: how can a prime minister establish control and coordination across his or her government? The Greek system of government sustains a 'paradox of power' at its very core. The Constitution provides the prime minister with extensive and often unchecked powers. Yet, the operational structures, processes and resources around the prime minister undermine their power to manage the government. Through a study of all main premierships between 1974 and 2009, Prime Ministers in Greece argues that the Greek prime minister has been 'an emperor without clothes'. The costs of this paradox included the inability to achieve key policy objectives under successive governments and a fragmented system of governance that provided the backdrop to Greece's economic meltdown in 2010. Building on an unprecedented range of interviews and archival material, Featherstone and Papadimitriou set out to explore how this paradox has been sustained. They conclude with the Greek system meeting its 'nemesis': the arrival of the close supervision of its government by the 'Troika' - the representatives of Greece's creditors. The debt crisis challenged taboos and forced a self-reflection. It remains unclear, however, whether either the external strategy or the domestic response is likely to be sufficient to make the Greek system of governance 'fit for purpose'.

Prime Ministers in Greece: The Paradox of Power

History

Papadimitriou, Dimitris

Europe

The book examines United States-European Community relations at a critical juncture in international relations. It analyses the varied forms of interdependence that constrain their relations, and it considers how far the current management of their relations is at variance with the reality of changing conditions.The book confronts the problem of how to analyse such a complex set of relations as those which exist between the United States and the European Community. It takes as its main theoretical foundation the concept of interdependence, and it relates this to the political, economic and social dimensions of US-EC relations.The policy dimension of the book highlights the dilemma on the current US-EC agenda: that is, to assess the impact on their bilateral relations of the changed global and trans-Atlantic conditions of the 1980s and 1990s, and to make the necessary strategic changes. The opportunity exists for the most far-reaching revision of their relations in over forty years.

The United States and the European Community in the 1990s: Partners in Transition

Ginsberg, Roy H.

International

St.Martin's Press

This book examines US-European Community relations at a critical juncture in international relations. It analyzes the varied forms of interdependence that constrain their relations, and it considers how far the current management of their relations is at variance with the reality of their changing conditions.

The United States and the European Union in the 1990's

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This text probes USA/EU relations at a critical juncture in international relations. It argues that, as both partners engage in wholesale rethinking of common interests, the marriage of convenience of the 1950s could become perilous if appropriate responses are not made to the changing world.

The United States and the European Union in the 1990s: Partners in Transition

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