Donald G. Phillips

Germany and the Transnational Building Blocks for Post-National Community

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Produktbeschreibung

Phillips assesses prospects for post-national social coherence transcending the traditional nation-state, with a focus on events in Germany. European institutional integration has been seen as a stabilizing alternative to the nation-state system, a system that resulted in two devastating world wars. However, economic interests appear to have been more effective instruments of transnational integration in Europe. Further, until 1989, part of this alternative vision was a divided Germany. He explicitly links a focus upon the Federal Republic, central to post-Cold War Europe's future, with a study of private business, perhaps the most indispensable agent of Germany's post-1945 rehabilitation. Business support has been imperative to European integration. Nonetheless, if the European Union is attractive to members or potential members only for economic reasons, then no matter how wealthy its constituent parts may be, potential harmful effects of interstate competition will continue to pose a threat to social coherence of the EU, the Continent, and the world beyond. With the aid of analysis of companies largely perceived as being German, but which are increasingly transnational, Phillips shows how interdependent business needs may overcome nationalist and institutional conceptions in the transnational integration processes. For scholars, researchers, and policy makers involved with European integration, international relations, and German Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780275964900
• ISBN-10: 0275964906
• Artikelnr.: 25565465

Autorenporträt

Donald Phillips

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Extraordinary End of the Cold War Problems of Community:
The European Inter-Community Perspective on Building Blocks for Social
Coherence The Movement from Supranational Regulation to the Transnational
Market The Single European Act Reactions to the Single European Act: The
Western Path to Maastricht EMU and the Establishment of Greater
Interdependence The Limits of EU Integration and Possibilities of
Functionalism Parameters and Limits of Democracy in Europe Chances of
Community: Transnational and Transinstitutional Parameters for the
Extension of Social Coherence Closer Cooperation and the Transnational
Development of Social Coherence The Global Location of Business Inside and
Outside the EU: Possibilities for Community DaimlerChrysler and the
Transnational Extension of Social Coherence Siemens BMW and the
Transnational Challenge to Social Coherence The Multilateral Practices of
Lobbying and the Privatization of Democracy Some Conclusions About
Transnational Activity Transcending States Bibliography Index