The European Union and Global Social Change
This book examines just what the European Union is, in the context of the ongoing structural transformation of the global system. The author develops an integrated approach to global transformationsdrawing on geopolitics, political geography, international relations, economics, economic and political history, political economy and macro-sociologyto discuss how this suprastate organization, that shares and pools the sovereignty of some of the wealthiest states of the modern world, makes sense. The book:
- interprets the ongoing transformation of west European public authority in the context of the global geopolitical economy of competition, cooperation and conflict;
- examines the consequences of west European integration for the global system from a longue-dure perspective, contributing to a geopolitical dialect within world-systems analysis, sharpening some of the conceptual tools developed by its paradigm-setters;
- develops a new conceptualization for the EUs global geopolitical strategy, which the author describes as the elasticity of size.
Developing a deeper understanding of global social change and west European strategies of global advantage maintenance and power management, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, international politics, international relations theory and globalization studies.
Jzsef Brcz is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and Faculty Associate of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. His publications include: Leisure Migration: A Sociological Analysis; A New World Order? Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century (as co-editor); and Empires New Clothes: Unveiling Eastern Enlargement (as co-editor). For more information see http://borocz.net.
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