Integrating Southern Europe EC Expansion and the Transnationalization of Spain

"Integrating Southern Europe" presents a stimulating comparative analysis of the position of Spain within the European Union and within the global political economy. It combines a historical perspective by looking at the Spanish political economy throughout the twentieth century, with an analysis of the process of democratization in Southern Europe and of Spain's increasingly trans-European outlook. Otto Holman argues that the progression of a transnational power configuration between social forces, the emergence of a transnational concepts of control and the transnationalization of civil society were of paramount importance in the smooth transition from dictatorship to democracy in the 1970s and the subsequant integration of Southern Europe into the European Community in the 1980s.

Part 1 Theoretical perspective; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 2 Historical perspective; Chapter 2 The making of contemporary Spain; Part 3 The Socialist decade (1982–1992); Chapter 3 Operation Europe; Chapter 4 The NATO referendum and beyond; Chapter 5 Socialist economic policy and European integration; Chapter 6 Merging into Europe; Chapter 7 Conclusions and epilogue;

Otto Holman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations and Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam.