The European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of its representatives. Sixty years after the founding treaty, what sort of structure has crystallised, and does the promise of ever closer union still obtain?
Against the self-image of the bloc, Perry Anderson poses the historical record of its assembly. He traces the wider arc of European history, from First World War to Eurozone crisis, the hegemony of Versailles to that of Maastricht, and casts the work of the EU's leading contemporary analysts - both independent critics and court philosophers - in older traditions of political thought. Are there likenesses to the age of Metternich, lessons in statecraft from that of Machiavelli?
An excursus on the UK's jarring departure from the Union considers the responses it has met with inside the country's intelligentsia, from the contrite to the incandescent. How do Brussels and Westminster compare as constitutional forms? Differently put, which could be said to be worse?
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EVER CLOSER UNION?: EUROPE IN THE WEST
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Inglés
Número de páginas:
272
Dimensiones: 210 cm × 150 cm × 0 cm
Fecha de publicación:
2021
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978-1-83976-441-7
AUTOR/A
ANDERSON, PERRY
Perry Anderson (1938), ensayista e historiador, es profesor emérito de Historia en la Universidad de California (UCLA). Editor y piedra angular durante muchos años de la revista New Left Review, es autor de un volumen ingente de estudios y trabajos de referencia internacional. Entre sus obras más significativas figuran Consideraciones sobre el marxismo occidental, El Estado absolutista, Los fines de la historia, Spectrum. De la derecha a la izquierda en el mundo de las ideas, Transiciones de la Antigüedad al feudalismo, Teoría, política e historia y Tras las huellas del materialismo histórico.