Europe today : a twenty-first century introduction / edited by Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones, with Saskia van Genugten.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the European outlook / Ronald Tiersky, Saskia van Genugten, and Erik Jones -- France : the Sarkozy presidency in historical perspective / Gabriel Goodliffe -- Great Britain : from New Labour to new politics? / Jonathan Hopkin -- Germany : two decades of passage from Bonn to Berlin / Helga A. Welsh -- Italy : politics in the age of Berlusconi / Gianfranco Baldini -- Scandinavia : still the middle way? / Eric S. Einhorn and John Logue -- Russia : European or not? / Bruce Parrott -- Poland 20 years later : the long arm of transition / Ben Stanley -- European integration : progress and uncertainty / John Van Oudenaren -- Economic governance and varieties of capitalism / Benedicta Marzinotto -- Europe and the global economic crisis / Erik Jones -- European law and politics / R. Daniel Kelemen -- Migration in Europe / Jonathan W. Moses -- Still at the crossroads : Europe, the United States, and NATO / Simon Duke and Roberta Haar.

This clearly written and comprehensive book, a true twenty-first-century enterprise, is the only work that offers a sustained and unified set of both country case studies and analysis of the European Union. The contributors, an authoritative group of Americans and Europeans, explore the new Europe-west and east-using intertwining themes of domestic politics, European integration, and European security. Each chapter provides a foundation of basic political information and explanation, enhanced by distinctive and informed perspectives on current issues. In this fourth edition, all existing chap