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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Steven P. McGiffenPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Edition: 2nd New edition Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.373kg ISBN: 9780745325064ISBN 10: 0745325068 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 20 October 2005 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'A clear and compact overview of the different policy areas of the European Union.' Dusnieuws 'McGiffen writes with great clarity and an accessible prose style. He includes the key facts, but is concise enough to ensure that he is never boring.... This is an invaluable book.' These Tides 'For those that want a concise guide to the Brussels maze, written as though people matter, McGiffen's book is a unique starting point and a key read.' Red Pepper A clear and compact oversight of the working of the different policy areas of the European Union. In addition he offers a short history of European unification, with a summary of the various treaties so far adopted. Text books and standard works concerning the European Union have as a rule the disadvantage that they are extremely thick and boring, written in an academic, distant style. McGiffen's short book is a pleasing exception, a combination between a concise reference work and a critique of the EU. -- Dusnieuws This critical guide to the EU is an attempt to explain how the EU really works from the euro and CAP to qualified majority voting and foreign policy. It draws both on experience and on research from an impressively wide range of sources. -- Tom Easton, LOBSTER McGiffen writes with great clarity and an accessible prose style. He includes the key facts, but is concise enough to ensure that he is never boring. And he seems to be accurate. Certainly I could not identify and errors of fact. The book is also an invaluable work of reference...His chapter on the Euro is a minor gem. I have rarely seen a better essay on the fundamental flaws of the EMU project. -- Roger Helmer, These Tides The book...gives voice to a kind of criticism of the EU largely marginalised in the political debate. it has a good index and contains a valuable list of recommended reading as well as extensive references to relevant web sites. -- Millennium, Journal of International Studies 'Gives voice to a kind of criticism of the EU largely marginalised in the political debate' -- Millennium, Journal of International Studies 'McGiffen writes with great clarity and an accessible prose style. He includes the key facts, but is concise enough to ensure that he is never boring' -- Roger Helmer, These Tides 'This critical guide to the EU is an attempt to explain how the EU really works from the euro and CAP to qualified majority voting and foreign policy. It draws both on experience and on research from an impressively wide range of sources' -- Tom Easton, LOBSTER 'A clear and compact oversight of the working of the different policy areas of the European Union' -- Dusnieuws Author InformationSteven P. McGiffen was a writer and translator based at the American Graduate School in Paris. He worked for the United Left Group in the European Parliament, as an advisor to the Socialist Party of the Netherlands and as editor of Spectre. He is the author of Biotechnology, Poisoned Spring and The European Union. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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