The EU: An Obituary

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With Britain leaving the EU, now is the time for an obituary for the EU as an institution. In this short, rigorously argued book, updated after Brexit, John R. Gillingham tells the history of an idea that has soured and withered away. He reveals the failures from its postwar origins to set out what the EU was; the role that Delors played in creating the neoliberal monster it is today, and the contemporary - crises; refugees, Brexit, the Euro - that the current institution fails to deal with.

John R. Gillingham is the author of numerous articles, two edited volumes, and six books, and is a fellow at the Harvard Center for European Studies.

John Gillingham has established himself as one of those very rare commentators who can read European history in three dimensions. -- Norman Stone, Oxford University An excellent, up-to-date history of the EU which overturns many preconceived ideas and challenges the views of Eurofanatics and Eurosceptics alike. -- Ian Sked, London School of Economics John Gillingham is the pre-eminent American historian of the European Union. -- Charles S. Maier, Harvard University