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Slippery Slope: Brexit and Europe's Troubled Future
Giles Merritt
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Description for Slippery Slope: Brexit and Europe's Troubled Future
Paperback. A hard-hitting warning that Europe's prospects are gloomy unless Europeans awake from their torpor and embrace the often difficult changes necessary to flourish in the 21st century world. From one of our most influential thinkers on European matters. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QFE; 3JMG; HBJD; HBLX; JPSN2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
*Shortlisted for 2016 European Book Prize* Giles Merritt describes himself as a 'sceptical europhile'. For many years among the foremost commentators on the politics and economics shaping Europe, he was named by the Financial Times as one of 30 'Eurostars' who are the most influential voices in Brussels. Slippery Slope is far from the usual run of uncritical EU-related studies. Its aim is to set alarm bells ringing across Europe with its revealing insights into our increasingly troubled future. Giles Merritt argues that the steepness and suddenness of Europe's decline in the 'Asian century' will depend ... Read more
*Shortlisted for 2016 European Book Prize* Giles Merritt describes himself as a 'sceptical europhile'. For many years among the foremost commentators on the politics and economics shaping Europe, he was named by the Financial Times as one of 30 'Eurostars' who are the most influential voices in Brussels. Slippery Slope is far from the usual run of uncritical EU-related studies. Its aim is to set alarm bells ringing across Europe with its revealing insights into our increasingly troubled future. Giles Merritt argues that the steepness and suddenness of Europe's decline in the 'Asian century' will depend ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198757870
SKU
V9780198757870
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About Giles Merritt
Giles Merritt was named by the Financial Times in 2010 as one of 30 'Eurostars' who most influence thinking on Europe's future, along with the European Commission's president and the secretary-general of NATO. For 15 years a Financial Times foreign correspondent, Merritt has reported and commented on European affairs since the early 1970s. He went on to found 'Friends of ... Read more
Reviews for Slippery Slope: Brexit and Europe's Troubled Future
Lucid... accessible prose flush with strong argument.
New York Times Book Review
[Slippery Slope's chief virtue is that, with chapters on Africa, Asia and the digital revolution, it places the EU's challenges in broader global and technological contexts. He rightly emphasises that, for the sake of Europe's younger generations, the vital task is to inject more dynamism into ... Read more
New York Times Book Review
[Slippery Slope's chief virtue is that, with chapters on Africa, Asia and the digital revolution, it places the EU's challenges in broader global and technological contexts. He rightly emphasises that, for the sake of Europe's younger generations, the vital task is to inject more dynamism into ... Read more