The European Union and world politics : consensus and division / edited by Andrew Gamble and David Lane.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Divisions in the EU are considered in this volume, as well as the conflicts that have arisen from enlargement and foreign policy concerns, and specialists on European politics and society reflect on the nature of consensus and competition between elites, and whether the EU provides common identity and purpose for its citizens.

The United States and the European Union : the end of hegemony? / Andrew Gamble -- The European Union : divisions and unity in European external policies / Mario Telلo -- Russia's transition to capitalism : the rise of a world power? / David Lane -- The implications of the rise of China / Martin Jacques -- Divisions between elites / Georgy Lengyel -- Divisions in Europe between elites and citizens / Max Haller -- European elites and the Middle East / Rosemary Hollis -- European deregulation and national re-regulation : national response strategies revisited / Georg Menz -- The primacy of domestic politics : neo-liberal restructuring, the EU's crisis of governability and social imperialism / Otto Holman -- National or European social models? : contesting European welfare futures / Ben Clift -- European economic policy : protectionism as an elite strategy / Vo Phuong Mai Le, Patrick Minford and Eric Nowell -- The European Union : a player in world energy politics? / Simon Bromley -- European elites on the European Union : what vision for the future? / Vivien A. Schmidt -- Towards a European identity? / Monteserrat Guibernau.