Written by a leading international expert on European integration, this volume examines the European Union in a period of hesitation about future integration in the early twenty-first century.

Paul Taylor is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK. From 2001 to 2004 he was Director of the European Institute at the same institution.

1. The Waxings and Wanings of European Integration 2. The Case against Europe 3. The Anti-Europeans 4. The Challenges to EU Governance 5. Integration Theory in the Early Twenty-First Century: A Setting for Disintegration? 6. The EU in Foreign Policy: Capacity in the Economic and Social Organizations of the United Nations 7. European Values: Why Bother? 8. A New European Project: Defence, Social Policy and the Budget 9. Conclusions