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050 00 $aHC240$b.H3136 1996
082 00 $a330.94$220
100 1 $aHama, Noriko.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88197493
245 10 $aDisintegrating Europe :$bthe twilight of the European construction /$cNoriko Hama.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bPraeger,$c1996.
300 $aviii, 126 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aPraeger studies on the 21st century,$x1070-1850
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [115]-117) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue : Twilight of the Union --$g1.$tTurn-of-the-Century Europe --$g2.$tEurope's Business: Business or Politics? --$g3.$tThe Crumbling Cornerstones of Unity --$g4.$tImplosion or Explosion? --$g5.$tIn Search of New Heroes.
520 $aSince the Maastricht Treaty of December, 1991, Europe has experienced rising nationalism and regionalism - both centrifugal effects working against union - and above all scepticism toward the Union concept itself. As certain of the member states fragment, or turn inward, a turning-point in history has been reached: it is the end of the post-War Europe.
520 8 $aAs such, is it even necessary for Europe to be united at all? Is the unification ideal too large a political concept, one that has been hot-housed and pushed ahead of economic conditions and realities? Is the ideal of European unification dying, and have the concepts enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty become museum pieces? These are among the incisive questions asked by writer-economist Noriko Hama, in Disintegrating Europe.
520 8 $aHama likens the situation to Wagner's cycle of operos, Der Ring, and wonders whether the European Union idea is as imperishable as the Europeans themselves maintain. When Wagner's hero Siegfried dies, the existing order dies with it in a Gotterdammerung, a "twilight of the gods" - and Hama argues that the flames that are presently destroying the Union's equivalent of Siegfried's hall may well be destined to devour eventually the whole castle of the European Valhalla itself.
520 8 $aThis approach is dramatic, readable, and compelling, and represents the first time that so qualified an economic commentator has attempted a 'big picture' view of the future of the European unification project.
520 8 $aPredicting that the crumbling cornerstone of unity makes the present course untenable, the author provides an alternative vision for 21st Century Europe resting on the market mechanism as seen in East Asia. This, she argues, would serve as an 'engine of growth' to replace the now-faltering engine of the newly-united Germany, which instead will continue to wrestle with its deflationary absorption of East Germany.
650 0 $aEconomic forecasting$zEurope.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009124589
651 0 $aEurope$xEconomic conditions$y1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045677
610 20 $aEuropean Union.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007008498
830 0 $aPraeger studies on the 21st century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94063120
852 00 $bleh$hHC240$i.H3136 1996