Book Reviews Martin, Stephen (ed.). The Construction of Europe - Essays in Honour of Emile Noël. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, Pp. Xvii, 270. Index. Dfl 180; $108; £72. It is a difficult task to assess a collection of essays that have not much more in common than their dedication to Emile Noël, as a long-time Executive Secretary of the EEC Commission and later head of the European University Institute in Florence, one of the grand maîtres of European integration. Taken together, however, the fourteen contributions, whose authors all crossed Noël's path at some point in their career, seem like a cubist picture of European Community politics since the 1950s. In a way, they provide a full picture, but one whose parts do not form a coherent, frictionless whole. Out of this grows the particular strength of the book. Even the long-term EC observer will have gained many new and thought-provoking insights on the theory and practice of European integration after having read The Construction of Europe, including the essays by Werner Abelshauser and Richard Griffiths on the importance of the political considerations for a closer cooperation within Western Europe in the 1950s; the discussion by Stephen Martin and Andrew Evan as well as by Stuart Holland of the role of the structural funds for regional and social cohesion in the Community; the accounts by Renaud Dehousse and Giandomenico Majone, Roger Morgan and Thomas Christiansen, Jean Blondel, and Domenico Mario Nuti of the institutional and structural challenges which the EC has encountered since the Single European Act; the application of a game-theoretic model by Louis Phlips for assessing the Commission's competition policy in respect to instances of price parallelism; and, last but not least, the overviews presented by Jürgen Schwarze, Francis Snyder and Yota Kravaritou on various aspects of European law. The volume is complemented by two brief reviews of Noël's achievements in his functions as Executive Secretary of the Commission and Director of the European University Institute by Klaus Meyer and Marcello Buzzonetti. Alexander Ballman Münich
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