Europe: Rethinking the Boundaries
To my parents, Ted and Phyllis, with love
-PM
To the mouth from the south
-LTH
Europe: Rethinking the Boundaries
Edited by
Philomena Murray
University of Melbourne
and
Leslie Holmes
University of Melbourne
First published 1998 by Ashgate Publishing
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This book is basically the outcome of a conference that was held in Melbourne in September 1995 on a theme that has been adopted as the present volume's title. The conference was organised by the Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA), and attracted participants from all over Australia.
The book has taken longer to produce than either the editors or the other contributors would have preferred, for two related reasons. First, one of the editors (Holmes) left Australia for almost a year of constant travel (work-related, of course!) just as the original version of the book was nearing completion. Unfortunately, and as the second reason, Murray was hit by a feral car shortly after Holmes' departure; a major outcome of this accident is that she has been unable to do more than a few minutes' work a day since November 1996. Only since Holmes' return has it been possible for the two editors to liaise closely with each other again on a day-to-day basis, and hence to reactivate and complete the project.
But the delay has in hindsight been advantageous. It has meant that all contributors have had an opportunity to reconsider and improve their original pieces; in one or two cases, the final version is considerably different from the original. In all events, all contributors updated their chapters in late 1997. Given that the various topics covered are at least as significant now as they were in 1995, and in light of the updating, we believe that the present volume has not suffered because of the delay.
We would like publicly to thank Iona Annett, Annmarie Elijah, Craig Lonsdale, Carolyn O'Brien, John Polesel and Tim Szlachetko for the hours and effort they contributed to the production of this book; each had an important role to play, and we are grateful to them. We also wish to acknowledge the considerable support of various kinds given to us by the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne.
Philomena Murray and Leslie Holmes
Melbourne, January 1998
Christine Agius is completing her PhD in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, and is currently researching at the University of Manchester. Her research interests include European foreign policy, the politics of the European Union, enlargement issues, security structures in Europe, and neutrality. She has taught in undergraduate courses within the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. Published works include articles on the enlargement debate in the EU; the backlash towards EU membership in Sweden, Austria and Finland; and the European response to French nuclear tests.
Christopher Barrett is a former research student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, His interest is in the domestic politics and foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is currently the National Security and Trade Adviser to the Australian Federal Leader of the Opposition.
Rmy Davison presently teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. Previously, he has lectured in international business at Griffith University, and in European politics and International Relations at Monash, La Trobe and Deakm universities in Melbourne. He has published articles on international trade and the automotive industry in the Melbourne Journal of Politics and the Flinders Journal of History and Politics. His recent publications include Euromoney: EMU and Integration (Griffith University, 1995). He is joint editor of the Australasian Journal of European Integration. His research interests include EU economic integration, international relations and international political economy. He is presently completing a study on the political economy of the Single European Market.
Leslie Holmes has been Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne since 1988 and Director of its Contemporary Europe Research Centre since 1997. Among his numerous publications are The Policy Process in Communist States (Sage, 1981), Politics in the Communist World (Oxford University Press, 1986), The End of Communist Power (Polity and Oxford University Press, 1993) and Post-Communism (Polity and Duke University Press, 1997). He is a past President of the Australasian Political Studies Association, and is currently a member of the ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies) Executive and editor of the ICCEES Newsletter. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in September 1995, and was Jean Monnet Visiting Professor at the European University Institute in Florence in March 1997.
F. Damaso Marengo has studied at the universities of Genoa, London School of Economics, Chicago and Sydney. He is currently an officer in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade with responsibility for European Union issues. Until 1989, he was an academic researching and lecturing in political science, history and international relations in various universities in the UK, USA, Italy, South Africa and Australia. Dr Marengo has published on Italian politics, industrial relations, management issues and political corruption. His major interests in international relations are perceptions and the manner in which they can affect international communication and bargaining perceptions.
Philomena Murray is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne and founder President of the Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA). She is co-editor of Visions of European Unity with Paul Rich (Westview, 1996) and co-editor of Europe in the 1990s: Australia's Options with Lilian Topic (CESAA, 1994). She was a diplomat from 1984 to 1989 in Dublin and Paris, and has worked in European Union institutions in Brussels. She has written on European integration, major actors in the European Union and the party groups in the European Parliament, and is currently completing a book on EU governance.