Democratic legitimacy for the EU is problematic if it is seen as a future nation-state. If instead the EU were seen as a regional state - with shared sovereignty, variable boundaries, composite identity, compound governance, and a fragmented democracy in which the EU level assures governance...

European integration has served to loosen the ties that have traditionally bound French business and government by decreasing the independence of French govenment, which can no longer formulate policy unilaterally, while it has increased that of French business, which now looks as much to Europe...

The European Union is a supranational governance organization that is more federal than unitary but which, instead of a constitutionally established balance of powers, exhibits a dynamic confusion of powers. This institutional structure has not only served to subordinate member-states'...

In this path-breaking book, the author argues that European countries' political-economic policies, practices, and discourses have changed profoundly in response to globalization and Europeanization, but they have not converged. Although national policies may now be more similar, especially...