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Redrawing the map of Europe:
Michael Emerson, the author of this study, has been a European Commission economist in Brussels and EU Ambassador in Moscow. He is now at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In this book he draws upon his experience to explain Europe's contradictory tendencies towards both integration and conflict. He confronts the two strategic issues for the Europe of the early twenty first century: how to ensure success for the euro and how to stabilise the wider Europe with a strong structure for EU-Russian relations. He draws distinctions between the different Europes - geographic Europe, the European Union, 'Security Europe' (based around Europe) and the emerging 'Civil Europe'. The author argues that 'Civil Europe' could be the basis of a new European golden age, and outlines the far-reaching institutional and cultural changes required to achieve this.
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