[Fwd: The European Anarchy]

[Sven R Larson <larson@xxxxxx>]

This might interest some on this list.
/srl

CBS Press wrote:
>
> April 2001
>
> New publication:
>
>  The European Anarchy
>  Europe?s Hard Road into High Politics
>
>  By Erik Holm
>
>  Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press
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>  Handelshøjskolens Forlag
>  2001, ISBN 87-16-13336-6, 310 pages, hardback
>  Price £ 26, $ 42, DKK 318 (local tax and postage not
>  included)
>
> The European Union is a ?union? in name only. In reality, it is an
> anarchy because it has no governmental authority. As long as it
> remains unable to move realistically toward high politics, it will
> continue to be a community of only low politics.
>
> The two key aspects of high politics - security and money ? are
> analyzed in the European context, revealing the hollowness of the
> common foreign and security policy as well as the fragility of the
> EMU. Any leap into twenty-first century high politics for European
> society will require a completely new conceptualization of political
> union. In particular, Holm foresees a potential conflict arising from
> the role of the USA as the continuing guardian of the European peace
> and that of the dollar as the dominant international currency. The
> enlargement with twelve more countries makes it imperative to develop
> a political complement to the European project of economic
> integration.
>
> Erik Holm closes with trailblazing suggestions to such an innovative
> polity, ushering in a European empire with a composite emperor, an
> empire that leaves the nation-state room to breathe.
>
> About the book:
> ...a stimulating book about an imperative topic...presents historical
> insights, providing the reader with visions and inspiration for the
> future.
> Erik Hoffmeyer, Professor Dr. Econ., former Governor of the Central
> Bank of Denmark
>
> ...a provocative and constructive new approach to European politics...
> clearly and cogently argued,...refreshing, and...unorthodox.
> Professor Loukas Tsoukalis, European Institute, London School of
> Economics and Political Science
>
> About the author:
> Erik Holm, political economist Ph.D., served as an economist with the
> IMF in the 1960s, as Adviser in European Affairs to the Danish Prime
> Minister in the 1970s, and as Chief Adviser to the EC Commission in
> Brussels (DGII) in the 1980s. Since 1989, he has been Director of the
> Eleni Nakou Foundation, London.
>
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Sven R Larson
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