Europe has changed radically since 1989 and continues to change at great speed. This book deals with the principal problems and challenges confronting Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War and the collapse of European communism. Striking a balance between East, West, North and South, the volume is chiefly concerned with the changing political, economic and cultural morphology of Europe, and of the relations within it, than with the formal institutional arrangements of the European Community and its successor, the European Union. It demonstrates that integration should be seen as neither an inexorable predetermined process, nor as an automatic consequence of high levels of economic interdependence, but rather as something that proceeds in fits and starts and sometimes suffers reverses. Jonathan Bradbury, University of Wales, Swansea, UK; Francois Duchene; Bruce Haddock, University of Wales, Swansea, UK; Philip Lawrence, University of Wales, Swansea, UK; <