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European Politics:
The Making of Democratic States
new
Fall 2008
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omprehensive, accessible, and interesting.... The focus on the
nation-state and its development is excellent.” —Joel D. Wolfe
This innovative new text explores the nature of European
politics in the context of the origin and institutional development
of the European state system.
Underlying the analysis are a series of questions:
• How did the state, the central element of contemporary
European political life, emerge from and eventually triumph
over the bewildering multiplicity of competing forms of rule
that existed in Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire?
• What explains the development of the common methods
for managing their economies, societies, and politics found in
contemporary European states?
• What are the nature and significance of the integration
of European states into the European Union?
The authors systematically cover the historical background
of the European democratic nation-state, its governing institutions
and practices, current efforts to unify the continent,
and the challenges posed by circumstances ranging from EU
membership to internal ethnonationalist movements to the
extensive migration of people within and into Europe. In the
concluding chapter, they consider the future of the European
state in light of its history, current domestic political realities,
and the broad forces of globalization.
Walter C. Opello, Jr., is professor of political science at the
State University of New York, Oswego. Katherine A. R.
Opello is assistant professor of political science at
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.
Walter C. Opello, Jr., and
Katherine A. R. Opello
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CONTENTS: Introducing European Politics. THE FORMATION OF THE
EUROPEAN NATION-STATE. The Disintegration of the Roman Imperial
State. The Development of the Monarchical State in the West. Nationalizing
the Monarchical State. The Emergence of the Nation-State in the
East. THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN DEMOCRATIC NATION-STATE. The
Structures of Government. Political Participation. Providing for the
Well-Being of the Nation. UNIFYING EUROPE. From Military Competition
to Economic Cooperation. Governing the European Union. Enlarging
Europe’s Commonwealth. THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN POLITICS. The
Endurance—and Proliferation—of the European Nation-State.
October 2008/ca. 300 pages LC: 2008010758
ISBN: 978-1-58826-563-0 hc $65/£41.50
ISBN: 978-1-58826-589-0 pb $24.50/£13.95
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