Book review: Julien Chaisse (Ed.), Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts: Perceptions, Interactions and Lessons

At some 500 pages, Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts is not a brief bedtime story. Yet its page range reflects one of the book’s major strengths: its comprehensive nature, which has become so characteristic of Julien Chaisse’s work. Another of Chaisse’s fortes, to bring together a wide variety of people working on different aspects of a certain theme, is equally displayed in the book, which includes contributions from academics, legal practitioners (including arbitrators), policy advisors and consultants, and a judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union. These authors are, moreover, located around the globe, and their different socio-cultural and linguistic backgrounds allow for important insights into the potential for both European and global integration.