| The European
Finality Debate and Its National Dimensions |
 Simon
Serfaty
Foreword by Guenter Burghardt
CSIS
Significant Issues Series
April 2003
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312
pp.
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ISBN:
0-89206-427-7 (pb) |
$24.95 (pb)
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"CSIS has done a major service by
organizing these trenchant analyses of the future of
Europe and the Europe-U.S. relationship at one of the
most troubling times since the end of World War II.
This book challenges both sides of the Atlantic to come
to terms with a Europe struggling, with some success,
with its post-Cold War identity and its relationship
with the American superpower. That struggle will require
citizens of Europe and the United States to recognize
the continued, irreversible process of European integration
and its consequences for developing a common European
identity around a unique future-one of independent states,
with different histories, languages, and cultures, working
in concert toward a common set of goals still only dimly
seen." - Stuart E. Eizenstat, former Deputy Secretary
of the Treasury and former U.S. Ambassador to the European
Union
"This is an outstanding collection
of major essays on the burning issues facing the European
community. No one concerned with the European finality
debate, whether scholar or policymaker, can afford to
miss it." - Amitai Etzioni, University Professor,
The George Washington University
Leading EU and U.S. observers of
the continuing debate over Europe's future offer incisive
analysis from the perspectives of France, Germany, Italy,
Spain, and the UK, as well as the European Commission,
Poland, Russia, and the United States. As the Convention
on the Future of the European Union concludes its deliberations
on a new constitution for Europe, many of the questions
raised in this timely book will continue to bedevil
European political leaders and their electorates for
years to come. Although both EU and non-EU countries
share a certain idea, if not a clear design, of a "finality"
for Europe, this volume illustrates that the idea takes
on different shapes across as well as within countries.
How to define Europe's finality is as much a question
of political and institutional transformation as it
is a question of ultimate borders. Even then, the finality
debate cannot be final without a parallel debate about
Europe's relations with the United States in the context
of a community of action, defined by Europeans and Americans,
for managing the vast range of interests and values
they share.
Simon Serfaty is director
of the CSIS Europe Program and holds a senior professorship
in international politics at Old Dominion University
in Norfolk, Virginia. Previously, he has held the positions
of executive director of the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy
Institute and director of the SAIS Center of Foreign
Policy Research, both in Washington, D.C., and director
of the SAIS Center of European Studies in Bologna. Dr.
Serfaty's books include Memories of Europe's Future
(CSIS, 1999) and Stay the Course (Praeger/CSIS, 1997).
Contents
Foreword - Ambassador Guenter Burghardt, Head
of Delegation, Delegation of the European Commission
to the United States.
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
1. Introduction: American Reflections on Europe's Finality
- Simon Serfaty
2. The Convention and the Intergovernmental Conference
- Desmond Dinan
3. A Perspective from the Commission - Fraser Cameron
4. Britain and the Future of the EU: Not Quite There
Yet - David Allen 5. The View from France: Steadfast
and Changing - Philippe Moreau Defarges
6. The German Debate: Visions and Missions - Wolfgang
Wessels
7. The Italian Debate: Still the Fear of Exclusion?
- Gianni Bonvicini
8. The Debate in Spain: Explaining Absences, Revealing
Presences - Carlos Closa Montero
9. Poland: The View from a Candidate Country - Jacek
Saryusz-Wolski
10. Russia's Elusive Place in Europe - John Van Oudenaren
11. A Cross-National Comparison of the Finality Debate:
Unity and Diversity - Lily Gardner Feldman
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