The new old world

by Anderson, Perry

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Title Statements

Full title :The new old world / Perry Anderson.

Summary

This book offers a magisterial analysis of Europe's development since the end of the Cold War. A major work of modern history and political analysis, "The New-Old World" punctures both domestic and American myths about continental Europe. Surveying the post-Cold War trajectory of European power and the halting progress towards social and economic integration, Perry Anderson draws out the connections between the EU's eastward expansion, a foreign policy largely subservient to America's, and the popular rejection of the European Constitution. As a neoliberal economic project, pushed forward by a succession of centrist governments, the European Union cannot afford to allow its peoples a free choice that might dash elite schemes of a post-national democracy. Anderson explores Hayek's suggestion that protecting a market economy might require exactly this kind of inter-state structure, out of reach of popular opposition. With landmark chapters on France, Germany, Italy and Turkey, and a wide-ranging survey of current theories of the Union, "The New-Old World" offers an iconoclastic portrait of a continent that is now being increasingly hailed as a moral and political exemplar for the world at large.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Verso
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

Notes

Originally published: 2009.

The Physical Object

Description:561 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781844677214, 1844677214
oclc:ocn828695360
LC Classification:JN30
Dewey Decimal:320.94

The Union. Origins ; Outcomes ; Theories -- The core. France ; Germany ; Italy -- The Eastern question. Cyprus ; Turkey -- Conclusion. Antecedents ; Prognoses.

Subjects

Développement économique -- Europe Diplomatic relations economic development Economic development -- Europe Economic history EU-länderna -- ekonomiska förhållanden EU-länderna -- politik och förvaltning Europa -- ekonomiska förhållanden Europa -- politik och förvaltning Europe Europe -- Conditions économiques Europe -- Conditions morales Europe -- Economic Conditions Europe -- Economic integration Europe -- Foreign relations Europe -- Intégration économique Europe -- Moral conditions Europe -- Politics and government Europe -- Politique et gouvernement Europe -- Relations extérieures