The European Union: A Citizen's Guide

The essential Pelican introduction to the European Union—its history, its politics, and its role today. For most of us today, "Europe" refers to the European Union. At the center of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the EU remains a black box, closed to public understanding. Is it a state? An empire? Is Europe ruled by Germany or by European bureaucrats? Does a single European economy exist after all these years of economic integration? And should the EU have been awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2012? Critics tell us the EU undermines democracy. Are they right? In this provocative volume, political scientist Chris Bickerton provides an answer to all these key questions and more at a time when understanding what the EU is and what it does is more important than ever before.

• British Politics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• The Rule of Law
• The First World War
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House Reader's Circle)
• Marketing Research (8th Edition)
• A Framework for Understanding Poverty; A Cognitive Approach (Out of Print)
• Europe Since 1980 (The World Since 1980)
• The Psychology of Sex and Gender
• Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family/school Partnerships
• Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West