After decades of isolation and a turbulent transition to democracy,
Portugal's integration into the European Union has given political,
economic, social, and cultural stability to a country that had to
overcome the trauma of losing an empire. This volume clearly is a
major contribution to the study of how Portugal became part of the
European Union as a political system and its development towards
Europeanization and domestication.Magone first lays a theoretical
framework for the study of Europeanization and discusses political
parties, the political system, and Portuguese society in terms of
Europeanization. He then examines public administration, how the
European Union and the OECD impacted on the modernization agenda,
and includes a discussion of the national EU policy coordination.
Magone also considers the Portuguese Euro-elite and how they
interacted with the Portuguese presidency and the processes of
decision-making going on among the different levels of the
governance system of the European Union. He highlights a case study
of the Portuguese presidency of the European Union, which took
place in the first half of 2003. In addition, Magone discusses the
impact of the EU structural funds on Portugal, and scrutinizes
Portuguese foreign and defense policies, in particular its
reconstructed foreign policy, which was clearly instrumental in
achieving the independence of East Timor. He reviews the growing
integration of Portugal into the emerging structures of the Common
Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), concluding with the challenges
that Portugal will face in the future in the education, health, and
business sectors.An interesting finding is the growing alienation
of the population from the political class, who clearly make all
the decisions in relation to the European Union without proper
consultation of the population through referenda. In sum, this book
is vital to understand one of the oldest nation-states of the
world.JosU M. Magone is senior lecturer in European politics in the
Department of Politics and International Studies, University of
Hull. Among his publications are The Changing Architecture of
Iberian Politics, European Portugal: The Difficult Road to
Sustainable Democracy, and Iberian Trade Unionism: Democratization
Under the Impact of the European Union (available from
Transaction).
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