Engagingly written and based on significant new archival research and original interviews, Derek Beach offers both a new history of the major treaty negotiations of the EU and a new leadership model of European integration.

See chapter "Negotiating the Single European Act" (pages 35-62).

The New European Community is the first .. discussion of the major political institutions of the European Community (EC) after the transformation of the 1987 Single European Act, itself a surprise and a mystery whose effects are unraveled here.

See chapter 2 "Negotiating the European Single Act" by Andrew Moravcsik (page 41-84).