The Institutions of the European Union (New European Union)

The Institutions of the European Union (New European Union)

by JohnPeterson (Editor), Michael Shackleton (Editor)

Synopsis

The 'new' European Union has been constantly evolving since the mid 1980s, and it shows no sign of standing still: the Euro is becoming an international currency, a new round of Treaty reforms is imminent, and the Union is politically committed to enlarge its membership radically. Virtually, the only constant is the EU's institutions, which are both unique and time-honoured after 50 years of European integration. As this volume shows, the institutions of the EU, individually and collectively, perform multiple tasks: providing the EU with political direction, managing policies, and integrating interests. Divided into three thematic sections, this book offers the reader the first comprehensive study of the EU's functions, powers, and compositions of EU institutions. The clear focus of the book is on how institutions work in tandem, and the interrelationship, differing functions, and importance of the various institutions. The book brings together leading-edge contributors who actively research on the changing relationship between EU institutions. Each chapter follows the same sequence and format to provide a fully integrated text and each chapter features multiple exhibits - including policy case studies, illustrative diagrams, and tables to bring the text alive. Set to become the authoritative study of EU institutions, no student or teacher of EU politics will want to be without this innovative text.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 06 Dec 2001

ISBN 10: 0198700520
ISBN 13: 9780198700524

Author Bio

John Peterson is Jean Monnet Professor of European politics at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium). He is editor of the 'Journal of Common Market Studies' and the 'New European Union' series (with Helen Wallace) for Oxford University Press. Past works include 'Decision-Making in the European Union' (with Elizabeth Bomberg, 1999), a nominee for the Adolphe Bentinck prize for the best published work on Europe, as well as 'A Common Foreign Policy for Europe?' (co-edited with Helene Sjursen,1998), and 'Technology Policy in the European Union' (with Margaret Sharp, 1998). He has held posts at the Universities of York, Essex, Oxford, California (Berkeley and Santa Barbara), Grenoble and Paris I. Michael Shackleton is Head of Division of the Conciliations Secretariat in the Secretariat of the
European Parliament Secretariat in Brussels, Belgium. He has held a range of positions in the
European Parliament since 1981, notably in the Committee on Budgets, the Division for relations
with national parliaments and as Head of the Committee of Inquiry into the Community Transit
System. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Common Market
Studies and has published a wide range of articles in this journal and elsewhere. In 1990-1 he
was a Visiting European Community Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He has
since been a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (1994-99) and is at present a Visiting
Practitioner Fellow at the University of Sussex, and a lecturer on the MA in European Studies
organised by the European Institute for Public Administration and the University of Maastricht.