Product Description: A fascinating insight into how regional organizations in Europe and East Asia are currently grappling with a striking number of essentially similar challenges. This issue-based overview of political integration focuses on the differences and similarities in regional integration levels and processes in the two regions, to examine how the long-term future, role and impact of organizations such as the EU and ASEAN may depend heavily on how well they deal with complex and conflict-laden issues in the next few years...read more

This work examines the extent to which German foreign policy and European policy has changed since German unification. Despite significant changes on specific issues, most notably on the deployment of military force outside of the NATO area, there is greater continuity than change in post-unification German policy. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book examines the Franco-German relationship in the EU in relation to different policy sectors. It assesses the nature and importance of the relationship for the policy process. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The product of detailed empirical research into the politics of the electronics industry in Britain, France, and Germany, this book applies the Weberian theory of social closure to analyze competitive struggles in the industry. It shows how different combinations of market closure and competition arise from variations in technology, economic structure, and political regime and how general processes such as trade liberalization and technological change produce very different outcomes according to the specific features of the industry in its national context...read more