March 9, 2010
Summary:
An annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on the European Union.
Today's European Union, with its deep integration spanning a variety of policy arenas long thought to be the sole purview of sovereign nations, is a surprising and anomalous political creature. Neither simply an intergovernmental organization nor a full-fledged nation-state, it has resisted simple categorization -- and has repeatedly defied the predictions of scholars and pundits. Today, the EU sits at a difficult crossroads.
