Description: 1. Introduction: The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union; P. Minkkinen, H. Patomki. 2. The Political Aspects of Economic and Monetary Union: A View from Brussels; P. Van den Bempt. 3. The Independence of the European Central Bank: Implications for Democratic Governance; T. Teivainen. 4. The Role of 'Ideas' in Dutch, Danish and Swedish Economic Policy in the 1980s and the Beginning of the 1990s; M. Marcussen. 5. Identity Politics in the European Union: The Case of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); D. Engelmann, et al. 6. Economic and Monetary Union and the Crisis of European Social Contracts; A. Leander, S. Guzzini. 7. EMU and the Legitimation Problems of the European Union; H. Patomki. 8. An Emu or an Ostrich? EMU and Neo- Liberal Economic Integration; Limits and Alternatives; S. Gill. 9. Conclusions: Dialectics of the Multi-Faced EMU; H. Patomki. 10. Index.

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