{"product_id":"the-history-of-the-european-monetary-union-comparing-strategies-amidst-prospects-for-integration-and-national-resistance-9782807600980","title":"The History of the European Monetary Union: Comparing Strategies Amidst Prospects for Integration and National Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eric Bussière | Michel Dumoulin | Antonio Varsori\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe financial and economic crisis that hit Europe in 2009 brought out the precariousness of the monetary union, accentuating the economic disequilibrium among European nations and strengthening Euro-skepticism. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe crisis served as a catalyst for long-standing and unresolved problems: the creation of a singly monetary area with intergovernmental control, the final act in the construction of a Europe economically united but without a government and a state; the consequent discrepancy between forming a consensus that remains in large part national and the political dynamics in Europe; the sustainability of a monetary union in the absence of an economic-social union, which presents again the long-standing debate between \"monetarist\" countries and \"economist\" countries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book aims at placing current events within a long-term framework composed of a mosaic of multidisciplinary contributions that can provide the reader with keys which are adequate for an understanding of these events and useful for opening up new horizons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book begins with a look at 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-century monetary unification projects in an attempt at reconstructing the long road toward the single currency: the first monetary unification projects in the 1950s and 1960s; the turbulence of the 1970s; the new impetus given by the European Monetary System to the cohesion among European countries; the causes of the 1992 crisis; and the long struggle for the Monetary Union, which would end at Maastricht. Finally, it focuses on the most recent events - the creation of the Eurozone and its crisis - starting from the turbulent years of the first decade of the new millennium and ending on May 31, 2016, just before the Brexit referendum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book focuses on analyzing the strategies undertaken during the monetary unification process, underscoring, on the one hand, the conviction of the Founding Fathers of the EMU that a single currency would favor further progress toward a more stringent economic and political integration, and on the other the continuing national resistance to the transfer of sovereignty from the national states to the European Union.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969354809495,"sku":"9782807600980","price":5100.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9782807600980.webp?v=1782921497","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-history-of-the-european-monetary-union-comparing-strategies-amidst-prospects-for-integration-and-national-resistance-9782807600980","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}