Living with the European Union
The Northern Ireland Experience
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:22nd Sep '99
Should be back in stock very soon
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- Paperback£89.99(9781349413089)
ESMOND BIRNIE Lecturer in Economics, Queen's University, Belfast THOMAS CHRISTIANSEN Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Studies, Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth JOHN DAVIS Director, Centre for Rural Studies, Queen's University, Belfast J.S. FURPHY Former Chief Conservation Officer, Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland GRAHAM GUDGIN Director of the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre QUINTIN OLIVER served from 1985 to 1998 as Director of the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action M.L. SMITH since 1993, Director of the Institute of European Studies and Jean Monnet Professor in European Integration, Queen's University, Belfast
The experience of one region over 25 years within the European Union forms the basis of an examination of how the EU impacts on a region's economy, on its society and on its particular problems. In the case of Northern Ireland, inclusion in the European Union has coincided with the most sustained campaign of political terrorism in western Europe.The experience of one region over 25 years within the European Union forms the basis of an examination of how the EU impacts on a region's economy, on its society and on its particular problems. In the case of Northern Ireland, inclusion in the European Union has coincided with the most sustained campaign of political terrorism in western Europe.
'This book is greatly to be welcomed both as a source of information and for its potential to encourage debate over the interpretation of its findings. It is the only comprehensive guide to the economic, social and political dimensions of Northern Ireland in the European Union. Its nearest rival - though equally welcome in its day - covers less ground and is now very out of date. In addition to filling a lacuna in the literature, the books' individual chapters provide food for thought over judgements about the extent of the EU's impact on agriculture, trade, the economy and the political conflict. It also shows the complexity involved in interpreting public opinion on what the EU's impact should be. The book invites reflection upon why some sectors (social and environmental policies) and different parts of a single sector (agriculture) seem to show more impact than others. The intriguing feature of the chapter on the environment is the possibility that the area where the EU may have had its biggest effect is also one where that impact is least noticed by the public. Yet, in a further twist to the tale, it is likely that there would be popular approval of the EU's role in this sphere. The book will be essential reading for all social science students of Northern Irish affairs and will make a valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature on regions in Europe and their comparative performance.' - Elizabeth Meehan, Professor of Politics, Queens University, Belfast
ISBN: 9780333753804
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207 pages