Book Reviews Calingaert, Michael. European Integration Revisited: Progress, Prospects, and U.S. Interests. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. Michael Calingaert, a former diplomat, Brussels-based representative of US business, and policy analyst, was one of the first to write with authority about the significance of the Single European Act. Now, nearly a decade later, he brings us up to date. This book is a self-styled overview focusing on the current status of the EU's single market programme and its implications for transatlantic relations; it spends little time on agricultural, monetary, foreign or defence policies. Calingaert points to various cleavages between small and large, rich and poor, and northern and southern countries, then reviews factors often thought to encourage cooperation among such disparate countries, including economic and geopolitical threats, political leadership, the health of the Franco-German alliance, the similarity of members, and the democratic legitimacy of European integration. By far the most original and most detailed section of the book - perhaps a reflection of the author's own experience - is that devoted to the potential for US-European economic cooperation and conflict. Most such analyses these days focus on agriculture or money; Calingaert offers instead a crisp review of the major regulatory and microeconomic issues, from pharmaceuticals to insurance. Andrew Moravcsik Center for European Studies, Harvard University
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