A Certain Idea of Europe

by Craig Parsons

Book Overview

The quasi-federal European Union stands out as the major exception in the thinly institutionalized world of international politics. Something has led Europeans--and only Europeans--beyond the nation-state to a fundamentally new political architecture. Craig Parsons argues in A Certain Idea of Europe that this "something" was a particular set of ideas generated in Western Europe after the Second World War. In Parsons's view, today's European...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801472962
• ISBN13: 9780801472961
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher