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Articles on the European Constitution
The Federal Future of Europe: From the European Community to the European Union.
Dusan SidjanskiISBN: 0-472-11075-6
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date: September 2000The Federal Approach to the European Union or The Quest for an Unprecedented European Federalism
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The history, current state, and likely future of the European Union
The European Union is building step-by-step a new federal system based on states, nations, and regions. In his authoritative and comprehensive book, Dusan Sidjanski describes the formation of the original European Community and the dynamics of the process of integration that has brought the Union to its current state. He then provides a sophisticated analytic framework for considering the future of the Union.The author argues that federalism is the best antidote to the re-emergence of nationalism in Europe. It is also the best guarantee for a peaceful community that balances the claims of national, regional, and local identity against the need for large-scale economies that springs from the forces of globalisation, competition, and technical change. The Union preserves diversity within a flexible and innovating European system.
From the Introductory Note by Jacques Delors, former president of the European Commission "Dusan Sidjanski's particularly opportune analysis in the framework of European federalism casts a clear light on one of the deepest and most permanent mainsprings of European action. It is one of the most illuminating and enriching analysis for the future of Europe which will doubtless be both difficult and exciting.
I wish English-speaking readers of this new edition the pleasure of discovering the major work in European integration".
From the Foreword by Professor Harold K. Jacobson, former director of the Institute for Social Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor "The English version of The Federal Future of Europe fills a major gap in the literature. It will stand with Haas-s and Moravcsik's works as a seminal statement about Europe.
American social scientists will be intrigued by The Federal Future of Europe. We are not used to reading books that are both profound works of scholarship and powerful statements of advocacy. The Federalist was in this tradition, as was Woodrow Wilson's Congressional Government, but in the second half of the twentieth century social scientists have rarely written such books. Because the effective linking of advocacy and scholarship is so rare, The Federal Future of Europe is a treat to be savoured.
The publication of the English version of Sidjanski's book will help make this argument a vital part of the academic and popular debate about the future of Europe.
The Federal Future of Europe was written with insight, knowledge, and passion. Readers will be informed and moved. I strongly commend it to everyone interested in Europe and to those more broadly interested in contemporary international affairs".