{"product_id":"ever-closer-union-isbn-9781839764417","title":"Ever Closer Union?","description":"\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive, critical assessment of the EU after Brexit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of its representatives. Sixty years after the founding treaty, what sort of structure has crystallised, and does the promise of ever closer union still obtain?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgainst the self-image of the bloc, Perry Anderson poses the historical record of its assembly. He traces the wider arc of European history, from First World War to Eurozone crisis, the hegemony of Versailles to that of Maastricht, and casts the work of the EU’s leading contemporary analysts – both independent critics and court philosophers – in older traditions of political thought. Are there likenesses to the age of Metternich, lessons in statecraft from that of Machiavelli?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excursus on the UK’s jarring departure from the Union considers the responses it has met with inside the country’s intelligentsia, from the contrite to the incandescent. How do Brussels and Westminster compare as constitutional forms? Differently put, which could be said to be worse?“One of the world’s great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jeet Heer, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perry Anderson’s \u003ci\u003eEver Closer Union?\u003c\/i\u003e provides an elegantly savage critique of the European Union. Many of the arguments and themes may be familiar—years of rowing over Brexit will do that to an audience—but few deliver the lines with the poise of Anderson. What ultimately emerges from the pages of \u003ci\u003eEver Closer Union?\u003c\/i\u003e is the EU not as its defenders imagine it to be, but as it really is: an oligarchic institution, built over and against the peoples of Europe.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tim Black, \u003ci\u003eSpiked\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anderson’s latest book draws on his characteristic method of meticulous and staggering range of reference … His style, with its combative strain, can never be accused of being ‘dull, technical, infested with jargon’—faults he ascribes to much literature on the European Union.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Gordon Parsons, \u003ci\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perry Anderson’s critical analysis of the European Union is a devastating indictment of liberal complacency.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Jamieson, \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An incisive and challenging critique of the European integration process. The book could be read for one eye-opening section alone. Witty, aphoristic and cogent.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEuropean Political Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerry Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eSpectrum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLineages of the Absolutist State\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePassages from Antiquity to Feudalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConsiderations on Western Marxism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Questions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Postmodernity\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Old World\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300844294373,"sku":"NP9781839764417","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781839764417.jpg?v=1767726421","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/ever-closer-union-isbn-9781839764417","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}