Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European by Alberto Martinelli PDF

By Alberto Martinelli

ISBN-10: 0199204527

ISBN-13: 9780199204526

ISBN-10: 0199204535

ISBN-13: 9780199204533

ISBN-10: 1435613872

ISBN-13: 9781435613874

The ebook describes, translates, and analyzes the foremost beneficial properties of ecu society and American society and significant social tendencies within the usa and within the ecu Union within the final 50 years. the U.S. of the USA and the ecu Union are the 2 most powerful monetary powers within the modern global, approximately similar by way of GNP, industry measurement and medical power, yet asymmetrical when it comes to political impact and armed forces may well. the U.S. and the ecu will be either noticeable as profitable examples of financial improvement and of political and cultural modernization. yet they've got diverse paths to arrive this sort of place. they are often regarded as variations of Western modernity. The systematic description of traits for the USA and the ecu taken as complete societies, and the translation of similarities and variations and of significant alterations through the years will be already an important clinical paintings due to the fact that they'd fill a void in brand new social technology literature. actually, there are numerous stories evaluating the united states with one or ore eu nations, yet there is not any comparative learn of the U.S. with the ecu Union taken as a unmarried society. the significance of the comparability is self-evident, for discussing such questions as: what sort of society the united states and the ecu represent? how comparable and the way varied are they? are they 2 versions of Western modernity or entirely exact types of society (American exceptionalism and eu uniqueness)? are the 2 societal types converging or diverging? that are the specified positive factors the yank version of society? is it departing from its center tradition and associations? is there a ecu society within the making? how varied are the member nations of the european? that are the detailed gains of the eu venture? which version of society turns out extra reactive to the demanding situations of globalization? The strategy is new insofar because it assumes the international locations of the ecu Union as more and more forming a unmarried society with progressively converging developments and customary beneficial properties, and considers the variations between member international locations as local variations in the eu society. the belief is that during spite of alternative international coverage views and varied 'national' priorities despite the fact that, the USA and the european are certain not just to compete, but additionally to interact. even supposing the connection could be kind of turbulent, roughly pleasant, in accordance with the occasions of worldwide politics and to the characters of governments and leaders of the 2 unions, it's going to stay a detailed courting for very long time. As any sea, the Atlantic Ocean not just divides, but additionally unites, the peoples on its seashores.

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While the United States could enjoy earlier a common, although diversified economy, the most important steps of European economic integration took place only in the past decades of the twentieth century. They were the Treaty of Paris, which established the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951, the Treaty of Rome, which set up the European Economic Community (EEC), and the European Atomic Energy Commission (EURATOM) in 1957. Customs duties between the six founder countries were completely removed in 1968 and common policies—notably on trade and agriculture—were also set up during the 1960s.

A more regulated economy through state coordination in the EU (Soskice 1993) has been considered responsible for a poorer performance. 1. org> been called the ‘Rhine model’ (Albert 1991) to depict most Continental national economies has limited their reaction to the emerging global competition both in terms of flexibility and innovation. In spite of these different dynamics, if we compare the United States with the fifteen countries of the EU over the entire period, the original moderate differences of GDP at constant prices have not changed dramatically.

As a result, the EU had twenty-five member-states in 2004. This process has raised a number of questions about the nature of the European economy, the variety of its capitalisms (Soskice 1989; Albert 1991; EspingAndersen 1999) and its capacity to face global competition and to grant increasing and widespread welfare for its citizens. Unlike the United States, which has a long-standing national identity, the EU is not a supranational state intended to replace existing states, but it is more than other international organizations.

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