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531 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 8 (1994)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0531 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE

Some fifteen years ago, The Annals published an entire volume on the
European Community (EC). That issue, entitled The European Community
after Twenty Years, attempted to examine and analyze the history of the then
new regional institution of nine Western European nations. A decade and a
half later, it is necessary to revisit this most important European integration
venture of twelve states because of the numerous significant developments
both within it and outside it that have affected it. The Community is now
undeniably an international actor of major consequence.
The eleven essays in the present collection are devoted to reviewing the
historical evolution of the Community and its future prospects. They all
inspect the 1978-93 period and the EC movement from Eurosclerosis and
economic malaise to relance with the Single European Act, the 1992 Project,
Iberian expansion, and the Delors Plan through to the collapse of communism
in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, along with the turbu-
lence of the Maastricht Treaty (the Treaty on European Union), and then back
to the economic recession and Europessimism of the 1990s. Specifically, the
overall historical context is set by the first article, written by Dinan, and the
final article, a concluding overview by Hillenbrand. Two major member-state
case studies by Gardner Feldman and George place Germany and the United
Kingdom at the very center of EC continuity and change before and after
the fall of the Berlin Wall. The studies by Wallace and Lodge explore the
evolving roles of three EC institutions-Council of Ministers, Commission,
and Parliament-with emphasis on the contests over national, intergovern-
mental, and supranational distribution of power and authority. Central eco-
nomic issues are at the heart of two other contributions, the one by Overturf
concentrating on the financial and monetary integration process and the
Pelkmans work being a detailed exploration about the meaning of the single
unified market.
The remaining three articles are specific studies about Community activ-
ities of critical significance for the 1990s and the next century. The Rummel
presentation focuses on transnational foreign and security policy construc-
tion as it emerges from the Maastricht agreement but also as it reflects
previous Community efforts to elaborate and practice common policy forma-
tion in the defense and foreign policy areas. In the Laurent article, enlarge-
ment as the paramount integration experience is reviewed in terms of its past
consequences and appraised in terms of its forthcoming implications, partic-
ularly in the projected 1996 intergovernmental conference. The realm of trade
competitiveness and questions of technology between the three global titans
are the focus of the contribution by Zysman and Borrus. In their case study
of electronics, the inadequacies of the European responses are detailed and
evaluated.

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