00909nam a2200121Ia 450000500170000008000180001710000210003524500720005626000420012830000150017052005810018558300210076620260716043510.0  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