- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Boxes
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- List of Contributors
- New to this Edition
- Map
- Guided Tour of the Textbook Features
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Part I Background
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How Did We Get Here?
- Part II Major Actors
- 3. The EU’s Institutions
- 4. Member States
- Part III Policies and Policy-Making
- 5. Key Policies
- 6. How Policies Are Made
- 7. Democracy in the European Union
- Part IV The EU and the Wider World
- 8. EU Expansion and Wider Europe
- 9. The EU as a Security Actor
- 10. The EU as a Global Actor
- 11. Conclusion
- Appendix: Chronology of European Integration*
- Appendix 2 Supplement including coverage of Brexit
- Glossary
- References
- Index
(p. 1) Part I Background
- Author(s):
Daniel Kenealy
, John Peterson
, and Richard Corbett
This introductory chapter discusses the practical and analytical reasons for studying the European Union. It also considers some of the main conceptual approaches to understanding the EU: international relations approaches, the comparative politics approach, the sociological/cultural approach, and the public policy approach. Furthermore, it outlines three broad themes that help the reader make sense of the EU: experimentation and change, power sharing and consensus, and scope and capacity. Finally, it provides an overview of the chapters that follow, which cover topics ranging from an historical overview of the EU's development to the EU's relations with the wider world, EU enlargement, the EU's foray into security policy, and the EU's growing role as a global actor.
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- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Boxes
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- List of Contributors
- New to this Edition
- Map
- Guided Tour of the Textbook Features
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Part I Background
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How Did We Get Here?
- Part II Major Actors
- 3. The EU’s Institutions
- 4. Member States
- Part III Policies and Policy-Making
- 5. Key Policies
- 6. How Policies Are Made
- 7. Democracy in the European Union
- Part IV The EU and the Wider World
- 8. EU Expansion and Wider Europe
- 9. The EU as a Security Actor
- 10. The EU as a Global Actor
- 11. Conclusion
- Appendix: Chronology of European Integration*
- Appendix 2 Supplement including coverage of Brexit
- Glossary
- References
- Index
