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This short introductory text de-mystifies the European Union's structures and operation. Blending scholarly expertise and practitioners' experience, the authors introduce and analyse the EU's key actors, processes and developments. Amongst the book's distinctive features are exhibits contrasting how the EU appears on paper (its treaties and formal rules) with how it works in practice. The book also features exhibits comparing the EU with other international bodies and systems of government. This will help students to better understand the EU by underlining how it is like other systems of governance and in what ways it is unique. The book's overall aim is to provide an accessible, lively introduction to how the EU works and why it matters.

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• Part I Background
• 1 Introduction
• 2 How Did We Get Here?
• Part II Major Actors
• 3 The EU's Institutions
• 4 Member States
• 5 Organized Interests and Lobbying in the EU
• Part III Policies and Policy-Making
• 6 Alberta Sbragia: Key Policies
• 7 The Policy-Making Process
• 8 Governance and Legitimacy
• Part IV Current Issues and Trends
• 9 Enlargement - And Then There Were 28?
• 10 The EU as a Global Actor
• 11 Conclusion

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Elizabeth Bomberg is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. She has taught EU politics for many years and was awarded the Political Studies Association teaching prize for her innovative teaching. She has held research fellowships at the Centre for Policy Studies, Brussels and Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley.Past works include 'Decision-Making in the European Union' (with John Peterson, 1999) and 'Green Parties and Politics in the European Union' (1998). Alexander Stubb has been a member of the Group of Policy Advisers of the President of the European Commission since the summer of 2001. Previously he was Counsellor on institutional affairs at the Permanent Representation of Finland in Brussels. He was involved in both the Amsterdam and Nice negotiations. He is also Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. He has published widely on the EU including works and journal articles on Intergovernmental Conferences, decision-making in the EU, the theory and practice of European integration and flexibility.