The European Union and the Regions. (book reviews)

Jeffrey Anderson, Brown University

"Is Europe witnessing the death of the once mighty nation-state?" This dramatic question, which greets the reader on the inside flap of the book jacket, is the starting point for The European Union and the Regions. Specifically, does the modern European state form, which in this century alone has survived two global economic crises and world wars both hot and cold, face imminent extinction, its natural habitat squeezed inexorably from above by an ever-closer European union and from below by an eruption of regionalist sentiment? The ...

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