List of Figures ; List of Tables ; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Embedded ; Currency Areas ; Matthias Matthijs and Mark Blyth ; Section I: The Euro Problem ; Chapter 2: Forgotten Embeddedness: History Lessons for the Euro ; Kathleen R. McNamara ; Chapter 3: Forgotten Financial Union: How You Can Have a Euro Crisis ; without a Euro ; Erik Jones ; Chapter 4: Elusive Economic Government and Forgotten Fiscal Union ; Nicolas Jabko ; Chapter 5: Forgotten Democratic Legitimacy: 'Governing by the Rules' and 'Ruling by the Numbers' ; Vivien A. Schmidt ; Section II: The Euro Experience ; Chapter 6: Germany's Euro Experience and the Long Shadow of Reunification ; Abraham Newman ; Chapter 7: Europe's Middle Child: France's Statist Liberalism and the ; Conflicted Politics of the Euro ; Mark I. Vail ; Chapter 8: The Troubled South: The Euro Experience in Italy and Spain ; Jonathan Hopkin ; Section III: The Euro Future ; Chapter 9: Europe's New German Problem: The Timing of Politics and ; the Politics of Timing ; Wade Jacoby ; Chapter 10: European Integration Past, Present, and Future: Moving Forward ; through Crisis? ; Craig Parsons and Matthias Matthijs ; Chapter 11: The Future of the Euro in a Global Monetary Context ; Eric Helleiner ; Chapter 12: Conclusion: The Future of the Euro: Possible Futures, Risks, ; and Uncertainties ; Matthias Matthijs and Mark Blyth ; Bibliography ; Index.