Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe

This Book Presents Evidence On How Trade Has Increased, Jobs Have Been Created, And European Business Has Been Reorganized. The Changes In The Economy Have Been Accompanied By Dramatic Changes In How People From Different Societies Interact. This Book Argues Provocatively That These Changes Have Produced A Truly Transnational - European - Society. The Book Explores The Nature Of That Society And Its Relationship To The Creation Of A European Identity, Popular Culture, And Politics. Much Of The Current Political Conflict Around Europe Can Be Attributed To Who Is And Who Is Not Involved In European Society. Business Owners, Managers, Professionals, White-collar Workers, The Educated, And The Young Have All Benefited From European Economic Integration, Specifically By Interacting More And More With Their Counterparts In Other Societies.--jacket. The Dynamics Of European Society -- Constructing Markets And Politics: The Formation Of The European Union, 1958-2004 -- The Economics Transformation Of Europe -- The Creation Of Markets: The Cases Of The Defense, Telecommunications, And Football Industries -- Who Are The Europeans? -- What Is European Society? -- The Structure Of European Politics -- Conclusions. Neil Fligstein. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [254]-266) And Index.