Product Description: This is the first comparative volume available on multinational federations, bringing together an international range of experts on federalism. Multinational federations are federal states intended to provide a framework that can accommodate, manage and resolve some of the most intractable political conflicts of our time that emerge from identity politics: those that stem from competing national visions, whether within or between established states...read more

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Product Description: As the twentieth century closes, this book looks at one important strand of political thought - federalism - which at one time seemed utopian but which has now found its expression in the European Union. The Federal Trust has brought together the seminal writings of three eminent European federalists: William Beveridge, Lionel Robins and Altiero Spinelli...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers a new approach to the study of European democracy showing how this has developed through key episodes in the history of the process: precursors in the Low Countries; the founding of British parliamentary then American federal democracy; post-revolutionary France; post-war Germany; the European Parliament...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The European Community has moved ever closer towards European union. Yet how did the Community begin and what are its present powers? How will the Community develop if it continues with economic, monetary, and political integration? Now fully updated, John Pinder's new edition details: how the transformation of relations among member states has resulted from a series of steps; the strengthening of the Community's institutions; its enlargement from six to twelve countries, and the new bids for membership; the moves from customs union to the single market, and from the EMS to the project for economic and monetary union; discussions of GATT & Maastricht; and the development of agricultural, budgetary, industrial, social, and foreign policies...read more

Maastricht and Beyond is a critical assessment of the European Union brought into being by the Treaty of Maastricht. A team of experts provide a clear and thorough appraisal of the main provisions of the Treaty - including the three pillared structure of Economic and Monetary Union, common foreign and security policy and home affairs and justice - showing how these elements will change the function and eventually the character of the European Union. The book draws conclusions from the Maastricht process for the next reform of the Union in 1996, and it examines the practicalities of achieving a fully-fledged federal democracy, making proposals for a constitutional settlement. Maastricht and Beyond will appeal to both informed generalists and to students and scholars who want a fresh approach to the stale arguments over Maastricht, who seek enlightenment over what the Treaty is for and who have the curiosity to look forward to 1996 and beyond.

Product Description: Britain's relationship with its European Community partners has been bedevilled by divergent views about the aim of a political union with federal institutions. Federalism is often depicted in Britain as an alien concept with which the British cannot come to terms...read more