1. Making Sense of the EMU Negotiations
2. EMU, The Mitterrand Presidency and French Political Tradition
3. The Political Problem of Reconciling Domestic and International Interests in The EMU: The Legacy of Barre, Giscard D'Estaing and Pompidou
4. Challenging the `D-Mark Zone': Agenda-Setting on EMU and the Strategy of Indirection Under Mitterrand 1981-89
5. French Strategy for the IGC: Making EMU Irreversible
6. EMU, The Kohl Chancellorship and German Political Tradition: The Legacy of Adenauer and Erhard
7. The Political Problem of Reconciling Domestic and International Interests in EMU: The Legacy of Schiller and Schmidt
8. Negotiating EMU Around the German Model: Agenda-Setting Under the Kohl Chancellorship 1982-89
9. Germany Strategy for the IGC
10. Italian Policy Beliefs About EMU: External Discipline Versus Internal Protection
11. Framing EMU as a New Vincolo Esterno: Policy Entrepreneurs, Coordination and Reflection in Italy 1988-90
12. Italy and the IGC: Negotiating External Discipline, Avoiding Exclusion
13. The British Political Tradition and EMU: Policy Legacies, Beliefs and Coordination
14. Resisting EMU: Political Strategy, Policy Entrepreneurship and Policy Reflection Before the IGC
15. John Major: Between Party and the IGC
16. Jacques Delors as Policy Entrepreneur and Ingenieur of the EMU Negotiations: Agenda Setting and Oiling the Wheels
17. Conclusions and Reflections