Leaderless Europe / edited by Jack Hayward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hayward, Jack Ernest Shalom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

Leadership--European Union countries.

Leadership.

European Union countries--Politics and government.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From its antecedents in the 1950s, successive forms of European integration were intended to be leaderless. They have succeeded only too well in demonstrating that much can be achieved without sustained leadership. The attachment to national sovereignty of most of the European elites and mass populations has meant that confederalism has been implicitly accepted for the foreseeable future. This book attempts to clarify three clusters of issues. First, as European integration hasadvanced, who has provided the impetus? Particular insiders have episodically exerted decisive innovative influence, d

Contents:

Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Inhibited Consensual Leadership within an Interdependent Confederal Europe; Part I. Who Led Europe?; PART II. Why Is Europe Currently Leaderless?; PART III. Where Can Political Leadership Come From?; Epilogue: The Elusive European Prospect; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 312) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-85320-8

9786611853204

0-19-156014-6

OCLC:

236864248