ABSTRACT
For too long the debates on globalisation and on Europeanisation have been conducted in separate compartments and in different terms. Too much of the discussion on Europe and Europeanisation has been conducted as if somehow Europe were closed off from the wider international arena. And too much of the discussion of globalisation has set aside the considerable experience in Europe of dealing with ‘cross-border’ connections.1 These two discussions have now begun to be drawn together, prompted by two new preoccupations. One is that of Europeanists; they are under pressure to provide a more coherent account of the relationships between global and European developments and to relate both to what happens inside individual European countries. The other concern is of commentators on globalisation; their challenge is to evaluate the regional arrangements within Europe vis-à-vis the emergence of a variety of other ‘regional’ groupings across the world. Both concerns prompt a similar requirement to compare and contrast globalisation and Europeanisation.
