00880nam a2200109Ia 4500080001800000100002100018245007200039260004200111300001500153520058100168583002100749  a01.02.01 G481  aGillingham, John  aEuropean integration, 1950-2003 : superstate or new market economy?  bCambridge Univ. P.aCambridgeGBc2003  axx, 588 p.  aDescribes the origins of European integration at the levels of ideas and institutions - as well as the institutionalization of integration - against a backdrop of the German 'economic miracle'.  Focuses on the watershed event of the era, the regime change.  Describes the most dynamic period in the history of European integration - 1980s.  Looks at the uneasy standoff of events reached in the 1990s.  Examines the development of community institutions, the relationship between member-states and Brussels, eastern expansion and the present economic challenges facing the EU.  c10/2/03kEVELYND