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Book SynopsisEurope's Transformations brings together a group of distinguished academics and practitioners to reflect on the current state of the EU and the many challenges that it faces. The contributions are prompted by the seminal work of Loukas Tsoukalis and his relentless provocations about the capabilities of the European process to meet these challenges.
Table of ContentsPreface Chronology of Loukas Tsoukalis' works List of contributors 1: Helen Wallace: Setting the scene 2: Nikos Koutsiaras: Tsoukalis and the political economy of European integration Democracy and welfare 3: André Sapir: Growth and competitiveness: an elusive European quest? 4: Xavier Prats Monné: Education and the European social contract 5: Vivien Schmidt: Europe's (euro) crisis of legitimacy 6: Jacques Rupnik: The East-West divide revisited 30 years on 7: Yves Mény: Liberal democracy and its discontent Lopsided integration 8: Wolfgang Wessels: The European Council as a transformative force 9: Brigid Laffan: Core-periphery relations and European integration 10: George Pagoulatos: Integrating through crises: Revisiting the Eurozone's reform conundrum 11: Matthew Bevington and Anand Menon: Implications of Brexit for the UK and the EU - The knowns and the unknowns What kind of power in what kind of global system? 12: Ngaire Woods: The end of multilateralism? 13: Jean Pisani-Ferry: The return of global asymmetries 14: Nathalie Tocci: The quest for European autonomy 15: Enrico Letta: The European Union as a global power? 16: Anthony Gardner: The Partnership Between the United States and the European Union: The Key to Ensuring that the Western Model is Not Eclipsed by China 17: Herman Van Rompuy: Are we still allowed to dream?
