The Foreign Service Journal, November 2003

F O C U S N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 3 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 35 Europe Unites: The E.U.’s Eastern Enlargement Peter A. Poole, Praeger Publishers, 2003, $24.95, paperback, 232 pages. The European Union’s eastern enlargement has coincided with a decade of rapid progress toward closer European integration. This book examines previous E.U. expansions as well as the current process of incorporating the Eastern European countries against the backdrop of efforts to reform agricultural and regional policy and establish the euro. It also assesses the impact of enlargement on immigra- tion, justice and home affairs and Europe’s security and defense policy. Peter A. Poole is a former FSO who served in Brussels in the 1990s. He was founding director of the master’s degree program in international studies at Old Dominion University, and is currently an instructor at George Mason University’s Learning in Retirement Institute. He is the author of Profiles in American Foreign Policy (1981) and Eight Presidents and Indochina (1988). Emile Durkheim: L’Évaluation en comité. Textes et rapports de souscription au Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 1903-1917 Edited and presented by Jennifer Mergy and Stéphane Baciocchi, Durkheim Press, 2003, $26.95, paperback, 207 pages. This French-language work is a collection of previ- ously unpublished manuscripts by one of France’s fore- most sociologists, Emile Durkheim. The texts were discovered in France’s national archives buried in 55 boxes of mixed, uninventoried, book reports spanning decades and covering a vast array of subjects in the SHORT TERM FURNISHED APARTMENTS AVAILABLE columbia plaza apartments Capital Living With Comfort and Convenience Beautiful, Spacious Efficiencies, 1 and 2 Bedrooms SEVEN MINUTES TO STATE DEPARTMENT Utilities Included Complimentary Voice Mail Courtyard Style Plaza Polished Hardwood Floors Private Balconies Huge Walk-In Closets 24 Hour Front Desk Garage Parking Available Shopping on Site Cardkey Entry/Access River Views Minutes to Fine Dining Walk to the Kennedy Center and Georgetown Minutes to Foggy Bottom Metro (202) 293-2000 2400 Virginia Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C., 20037 Managed by Polinger, Shannon & Luchs Co.