Beating IT Risks or Private Sector Involvement in the EMU

Beating IT Risks

Author: Ernest Jordan

Beating IT Risks is the essential guide for anyone at risk from information technology failure. The book provides proven models and evaluation tools that will guide board members, senior management, IT leaders and business unit managers in decision-making, monitoring and negotiation roles. Featuring real-world PA Consulting Group case studies along with the authors' own direct experience in managing IT risks, this book will sit above more specialist titles to help you develop an integrated and comprehensive understanding of different IT risks and how to combat them. The authors cover all types of IT risk, and offer explicit guidance about what to consider when implementing a risk management approach to best meet an individual company's needs.

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Private Sector Involvement in the EMU: The Power of Ideas, Vol. 10

Author: Stefan Collignon

This fresh look at how the EMU came about, challenges a number of well-established intergration theories. It shows that European integration is not only the work of governments and supranational institutions but the result of more subtle processes involving the emerging European civil society. The model on the power of ideas suggested in this book is applied to the work and impact of the two NGOs but has explanatory power for the process of European integration which goes well beyond the limits of this empirical study. This book will interest students, researchers and policymakers with an interest in Europe and its monetary union.

Table of Contents:

	Illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction: public consensus and EMU	1
	Grasping actors beyond the state	5
	Research on EMU: state of the art	12
	Consensus and the construction of social reality	21
2	Foundations	30
	The origins of the Giscard-Schmidt Committee (CMUE)	30
	A joint Grand Strategy	37
	The Committee's ideas and activities	41
	The Association for the Monetary Union of Europe (AMUE)	53
3	A common or a single currency?	61
	Hopes and doubts about the Ecu	61
	Delors' ambivalence	66
	A strategy for the Ecu	77
	Interrogations	88
4	The crises and the Phoenix	94
	The Maastricht Treaty	94
	The European Monetary System in crisis	114
	Preparing the changeover	129
5	Campaigning for EMU	144
	The populist temptation	144
	German dissensus over EMU	159
	Convergence and dissent in Europe	170
	Mediating across the borders	182
	Epilogue	194
	Annexe 1: Introduction	199
Annexe 2	The crises and the Phoenix	205
Annexe 3	Campaigning for EMU	207
Annexe 4	List of interviewees	209
Annexe 5	List of expert groups	211
Annexe 6	List of former AMUE board members	215
	Notes	217
	Bibliography	242
	Name index	253
	Subject index	261