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Amy Verdun holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration Studies and is director of the European Studies Programme at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: European Integration, Theories and Global ChangePart 2 The Explanatory Power of Intergration Theories: Examining Economic and Monetary UnionChapter 3 Merging Neofunctionalism and Intergovernmentalism: Lessons from EMUChapter 4 Neofunctionalism and Intergovernmentalism Amalgamated: The Case of EMUChapter 5 Why States Want EMU: Developing a Theory on National PreferencesPart 6 Theorising Monetary Integration: Ideas and IdentitiesChapter 7 EMU: A Neoliberal ConstructionChapter 8 EMU as Europeanisation: Convergence, Diversity, and ContingencyChapter 9 The Gendered Limitations of European Citizenship and Monetary IntegrationPart 10 Institutions and AccountabilityChapter 11 Multilevel Governance and the Independence of the European Central BankChapter 12 Macroeconomic Preferences and Europe's Democratic DeficitChapter 13 The Shape of Things to Come: The EU's Post-EMU Institutional ArchitechturePart 14 Country StudiesChapter 15 EMU, Integration Theories, and the Annoying Complexities of French Policy-makingChapter 16 German Influence in Shaping EMU: Still a Tamed Power?Chapter 17 European Monetary Integration and Integration Theory: Insights from the Italian CasePart 18 Conclusion: Lessons from Economic and Monetary Union for Theorising European Integration

An accomplished set of papers that span a range of theoretical perspectives and together provide a novel and useful commentary on one of the most intriguing developments in the international political economy—European monetary union.