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In recent years the European Union's membership has increased from 15 to 25 countries, it has adopted the Lisbon strategy for achieving greater economic competitiveness, taken steps towards a more purposive common foreign and defence policy, and significantly increased its efforts to deal with challenges to internal security. The new edition of this highly successful textbook brings the reader up-to-date with the range of core policy challenges facing the European Union and the ways in which they are being addressed. It includes a new chapter which lays out the primary questions of the book against the background of new research and a new chapter on employment policy which covers the major developments in this area.Contents: PART ONE: INSTITUTIONS, PROCESS AND ANALYTICAL APPROACHES 1. An Overview , Helen Wallace, William Wallace and Mark A. Pollack 2. Theorizing EU Policy-making , Mark A. Pollack 3. An Institutional Anatomy and Five Policy Modes , Helen Wallace PART TWO: POLICIES 4. The Single Market , Alasdair Young 5. Competition Policy , Stephen Wilks 6. Economic and Monetary Union , Kathleen R. McNamara 7. Agricultural Policy , Elmar Rieger 8. The Budget , Brigid Laffan and Johannes Lindner 9. Cohesion and Structural Funds , David Allen 10. Social Policy , Stephan Leibfried 11. Employment Policy , Martin Rhodes 12. Environmental Policy , Andrea Lenschow 13. Biotechnology Policy , Mark A Pollack and Gregory C Shaffer 14. Fisheries Policy , Christian Lequesne 15. Trade Policy , Stephen Woolcock 16. Eastern Enlargement , Ulrich Sedelmeier 17. Foreign and Security Policy , William Wallace 18. Justice and Home Affairs , Sandra Lavenex and William Wallace