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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Republic of Europeans: Civic Potential in a
Book SynopsisA Republic of Europeans looks at the changing routes and conditions of the European polity from a liberal republican angle, proposing an innovative regulative ideal for Europe's future. The book assesses the prospects for uniting diverse publics into a composite polity with its own sense of 'demos-hood'. It also places Europe's normative evolution in the wider context of an ordered global plurality made up of highly interrelated actors. In examining whether the European Union has reached a point which might be telling of an end state, the book offers a depiction of the whole as an 'organized synarchy' of entwined sovereignties, arguing that the envisaged transition from a synarchy of co-sovereigns to a self-identifying citizenry requires the constitution of a 'Republic of Europeans'. A polity which, corresponding to the liberal republican vision of 'many peoples, one demos', regulates contemporary forms of pluralism, which the authors approach as instances of a 'civic polyculturalism'. Offering new understandings on Europe's normative evolution, this book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students in politics, Government, European studies, international relations, international organization and political theory. Doctoral students, postdoctoral and advanced researchers, as well as policy makers in government and international organizations, will also find much to interest them in this book. Contents: Preface; 1. The Global Plurality; 2. Retheorizing Europe; 3. 'One Great Republic'?; 4. Reflective Projections; 5. Postscript: Directions; References; IndexTrade Review'A Republic of Europeans builds on an analysis of the European Union as part of the more general process of globalizing governance, but what is distinctive about the book is its imaginative defence of a liberal form of republicanism as the normative answer to the EU's legitimacy deficit. Lavdas' and Chryssochoou's republicanism is pragmatic in its analysis of the EU's institutional structure and political conditions, but civic in inspiration. It assumes that the EU is still a collection of demoi, but it suggests that a European demos can be built and sustained through democratic politics and a republican culture based on civic engagement and the principle of non-domination. This is a new and insightful addition to the growing republican literature on the EU.' - Dario Castiglione, University of Exeter, UK 'This book is an essential read for anyone concerned about relationships between individuals and authority in the evolving European Union. It is full of insight and persuasively original, and brilliantly relates developments in the European polity to those at the global level.' - Paul Taylor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 'A Republic of Europeans looks at the institutions of the European Union in the search for an image that is fit to regulate the aspirations of member states and member subjects. It grounds this search in an informed account of how those institutions actually operate and it relies on the framework of ideas deriving from the European republican tradition to provide guidance for the project. The book gives us a regulative ideal for the development of the Union that ought to command the attention of citizens and policymakers alike.' --- Philip Pettit, Princeton University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Global Plurality 2. Retheorizing Europe 3. ‘One Great Republic’? 4. Reflective Projections 5. Postscript: Directions References Index
£85.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Politics, Subsidies and Competition: The New
Book SynopsisPolitics, Subsidies and Competition focuses on the interplay of political, economic and institutional-legal factors in the formation of European competition policy, with particular emphasis on European Union control of national subsidies. This book demonstrates the increasing significance of the EU in the management of European economies. It argues that state subsidization is the only remaining effective form of state intervention because, in the integrated European market, state aid - ranging from investment and export aid to special tax concessions - has become the only instrument that can be used to favour and protect national industries. This makes the control of state subsidization more important than ever, and the European Community's attempts to increase this control since the mid-1970s tell an intriguing story of fierce intergovernmental bargaining, business lobbying and increasingly assertive EC/EU institutions. The argument is supported by evidence of the evolution of European policy and by case studies of sectoral aid regimes and their transformation in interaction with EU policy.This book will be of use to students and scholars of the economics and politics of Western Europe and regional and public policy.Trade Review'Lavdas and Mendrinou ought to be congratulated for making such a juicy political analysis of the important field of competition policy in the European Union.' -- Juan M. Delgado-Moreira, European SocietiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. A Story of Restrained Formation and Expansive Enforcement 3. Institutional Framework and Legal Instruments 4. Horizontal and Sectoral Aid Regimes: Cases and Policy Trends 5. The European Politics of State Intervention References Index
£97.00
Lexington Books Stateness and Sovereign Debt
Book SynopsisThis book examines the present crisis of Greece's political economy as a crisis of stateness, tackling the domestic as well as the international dimensions. It represents the first attempt by Greek academics to put forward a theoretically-informed, interdisciplinary analysis of Greece's fiscal, economic, and political crisis. The approach aims to fill a major gap, combining insights from comparative politics, political economy, international relations theory, and legal-institutional analysis, in a theoretically informed account of the Greek case in comparative and theoretical perspective. The book tackles the issue of the possible next steps for the EU under the influence of the crisis of the eurozone, including a thorough analysis of national sovereignty seen from a domestic and an international point of view, focusing on critical processes in the international arena such as interdependency and dependency, while a legal-institutional chapter demonstrates the erratic way in which GreekTrade ReviewMost of the scholarship on the recent sovereign debt crisis in Greece has been produced by observers outside of Greece. This book brings together the work of three noted specialists on Greek domestic political economy: Lavdas, and Litsas and Skiadas. Together, the chapters offer analysis of the Greek crisis from eclectic points of view that integrate disparate theories. Making extensive use of available data, the authors examine root causes of the crisis. The book provides ample details on the role of international and domestic institutions in defining and offering solutions for the sovereign debt crisis. From the perspective of the authors, if Greece is to remain in the EU as well as remain engaged in the global economy, its domestic institutions need to be modernized and reformed. The empirical and policy analysis offered here will be of interest to scholars of the EU, as the evidence presented reveals how the deepening of integration in Europe is not a simple, linear process. Moreover, efforts to integrate Greece, and by extension other economies, are limited by the structure of and effectiveness of domestic institutions. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. * CHOICE *Most analysts have addressed the euro crisis as an economic issue. Yet everyone concedes that its most important causes, consequences, and remedies are essentially political. This is one of the first books that addresses the deeper political significance of the crisis, focusing primarily on Europe's troubled relationship with Greece and highlighting the ways in which southern European political systems, societies, and economies have long functioned according to fundamentally different rules from those followed elsewhere in Europe. * Foreign Affairs *[T]his is an informative, passionate account of the Greek crisis in its European setting. Students of European politics will find a lot of interesting material in this scholarly book. * Journal of Contemporary European Studies *[This book] is a ground-breaking attempt to examine the crisis in the Eurozone's southern region. . . .The book offers a particularly detailed, balanced but deeply engaged account of the acute Greek crisis in its evolving European setting. . . .By examining the particular and the general, by filling the analysis with details as well as with broad strokes, the book has become an indispensable guide to the academic approach to an adventure that will mark these countries -- and the European project as a whole -- for years to come. It should be read by students, scholars and practitioners concerned with the critical questions of European politics and political economy, sovereignty, democratic options and policy choices. * Journal of Economic and Social Thought *This is a timely, well-written and innovative reflection on the implications of the European economic crisis on the adaptability of the domestic state. It should be read by students and scholars concerned with the big questions of sovereignty, democratic politics, policy model and choice. And it is very much on target with its plea for extensive liberalisation in Greece, cushioned with a respect for sovereign choices. -- Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsIntroducing Stateness under Strain: Greece in the European Conundrum Kostas A. Lavdas Chapter 1: Junctures of Stateness: The Historical and Regional Context Kostas A. Lavdas Chapter 2: State and Sovereignty: Mythical Talos and the Politics of Conventional Rationality Spyridon N. Litsas Chapter 3: Sovereignty and International Politics: Interdependence, Self-Help and Survival Spyridon N. Litsas Chapter 4: Tackling Greece’s Financial Crisis: A Legal – Institutional Viewpoint Dimitris V. Skiadas Afterword: On the Different Ways of Transforming Stateness Kostas A. Lavdas, Spyridon N. Litsas, Dimitris V. Skiadas
£67.50
