Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - The Member-State Resistance Paradox: American Union (1790-1860) versus European Community (1958-1994) -- Chapter 2 - State Resistance in the United States and the European Community: Unraveling the Puzzle -- Chapter 3 - The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic and the European Union -- Chapter 4 - The First Half-Century of the Modern Swiss Federation -- Chapter 5 - Conclusions: State Behavior in Suprastate Unions -- Appendix A - State Resistance to Federal Authority in the United States -- Appendix B - European States' Resistance to European Community Authority -- Abbreviations of Public Documents -- Notes -- Cases Cited -- Works Cited -- Index.