Governing Europe in a Globalizing World

This is an important and stimulating attempt to explain how Western Europe eventually chose a market orientated approach to European integration. It highlights the range of choices that faced Western Europe's major governments during the 1973 to 1986 period. And it provides a persuasive account of how and why the key decisions were made. - N. Piers Ludlow, London School of Economics, UK. Warlouzet delivers a masterpiece dealing very successfully with the response by European policy-makers to the challenges of globalization during the 1970s and 1980s. The author offers a thoroughly multi-level analysis. He combines international as well as transnational history and presents comparative contemporary European integration history at his best. The study is highly recommendable. - Michael Gehler, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, University of Hildesheim/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. Let me say from the outset: this book is deemed to become a classic and compulsory reading for any scholar in these three disciplines, like those written by the maestro [Alan Milward] [...] This book is both an original interpretative proposal and a newly documented synthesis of this crucial period, still considered in handbooks the dark ages of European integration. After reading this book I am convinced that this period was the bedrock of an epochal historical transformation, which has structurally marked European integration and still frames today the debate about its nature and objectives in the framework of globalization. - Sigfrido M. Ramirez Perez, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. ...Although Warlouzet is sometimes tempted to exaggerate the range of potential choices governments faced, in the end, his book proposes some clear answers. Governments freed up markets because they had little choice... Leaders turned to the EU to coordinate the shift not because European idealists persuaded them to do so but because it seemed the optimal way to commit one another to collective liberalization: the EU was large enough to be effective without being as diverse and unwieldy as global institutions... - Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University, USA. Book Review in Foreign Affairs, May/June 2019 Issue.