Europe's Transformations - Essays in Honour of Loukas Tsoukalis

Europe's transformations is the unifying theme for this collective work that brings together leading academics and policy makers from across Europe and beyond. When the geopolitical tectonic plates are shifting, the sustainability of the Western economic model is under serious challenge and internal divisions in Europe are deep, we aim at looking at the major issues in a 'big picture' perspective. We draw lessons from the way Europe has responded or not to changes both within and without in multiple crises in recent years, try to understand what is at stake and consider alternative policy proposals. All the contributors have a long and widely recognized knowledge and experience of a wide range of issues of European integration and Europe's role in the world. They cross academic and professional boundaries and bring different perspectives as top analysts and policy makers, including two former prime ministers and a former US ambassador to the EU. They come together as friends, colleagues, and former students of Loukas Tsoukalis celebrating his scholarship and overall contribution to the European public sphere.

The volume is divided into three main parts. The first deals with issues of democracy and welfare. The second part deals with major changes in the European balance of power and the balance between institutions. The third part examines changes in the global system and Europe's present and potential role in it.

Preface
Chronology of Loukas Tsoukalis' works
List of contributors
1:Setting the scene, Helen Wallace
2:Tsoukalis and the political economy of European integration, Nikos Koutsiaras
Democracy and welfare
3:Growth and competitiveness: an elusive European quest?, André Sapir
4:Education and the European social contract, Xavier Prats Monné
5:Europe's (euro) crisis of legitimacy, Vivien Schmidt
6:The East-West divide revisited 30 years on, Jacques Rupnik
7:Liberal democracy and its discontent, Yves Mény
Lopsided integration
8:The European Council as a transformative force, Wolfgang Wessels
9:Core-periphery relations and European integration, Brigid Laffan
10:Integrating through crises: Revisiting the Eurozone's reform conundrum, George Pagoulatos
11:Implications of Brexit for the UK and the EU - The knowns and the unknowns, Matthew Bevington and Anand Menon
What kind of power in what kind of global system?
12:The end of multilateralism?, Ngaire Woods
13:The return of global asymmetries, Jean Pisani-Ferry
14:The quest for European autonomy, Nathalie Tocci
15:The European Union as a global power?, Enrico Letta
16:The Partnership Between the United States and the European Union: The Key to Ensuring that the Western Model is Not Eclipsed by China, Anthony Gardner
17:Are we still allowed to dream?, Herman Van Rompuy