Debates on European integration. A reader

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Publication Date 2006
ISBN 978-1-4039-4103-9 (Hbk); 978-1-4039-4104-6 (Pbk)
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This is a major new reader that brings together and assesses the most influential scholarly contributions that have fashioned the debate on European integration over the past 50 years. It includes an original contribution reflecting on key issues in integration theory by Ben Rosamond.

Contents:

PART I: INTERWAR AND POSTWAR IDEAS OF EUROPE
M.Eilstrup-Sangiovanni: Pre-Theories of International Integration;
A.Spinelli & E.Rossi: For a Free United Europe: A Draft Manifesto;
D.Murray: A Working Peace System;
K.Deutsch (et al.): Political Community and the North Atlantic Area: International Organization in the Light of Historical Experience.

PART II: THEORISING THE COMMON MARKET: NEO-FUNCTIONALISM AND ITS CRITICS
M.Eilstrup-Sangiovanni: Neo-functionalism and Its Critics;
E.Haas: The Uniting of Europe: Political, Social and Economic Forces 1950-1957;
L.Lindberg: The Political Dynamics of European Economic Integration;
S.Hoffman: Obstinate or Obsolete?: The Fate of the Nation-State;
R.Hansen: Regional Integration: Reflections on a Decade of Theoretical Efforts.

PART III: THE 1992 PROJECT: SUPRANATIONALISM VS. INTERGOVERNMENTALIST BARGAINING
M.Eilstrup-Sangiovanni: Introduction: The 1992 Project: The Revival of Neofunctionalism and the Liberal Intergovernmentalist Challenge;
W.Sandholtz & J.Zysman: 1992: Recasting the European Bargain;
A.M.Burley & W.Mattli: Europe Before the Court: A Political Theory of Legal Integration;
G.Garrett: The Politics of Legal Integration in the European Union;
A.Moravcsik: Preferences and Power in the European Community: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Approach;
P.Pierson: The Path to European Integration: A Historical
Institutionalist Analysis.

PART IV: THE EUROPEAN POLITY: ACTORS, MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE AND THE 'LOW POLITICS' OF REGULATION
M.Eilstrup-Sangiovanni: Introduction: Europe as a Political System: Comparative Politics and Governance Approaches to Integration;
S.Hix: The Study of the European Union II: The 'New Governance' Agenda and its Rival';
G.Marks (et al.): European Integration from the 1980s: State-Centric vs Multi-Level Governance;
G.Majone: The Rise of the Regulatory State in Europe.

PART V: NON-RATIONALIST INTEGRATION THEORY
M.Eilstrup-Sangiovanni: Introduction: The Constructivist Turn in European Integration Studies;
J.Checkel: Social Constructivism and Integration;
T.Diez: 'Speaking Europe': The Politics of Integration Discourse;
E.Haas: Does Constructivism Subsume Neofunctionalism?

PART VI: THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION STUDIES
B.Rosamond: The Future of European Studies: Integration Theory, EU Studies and Social Science;
M.Eilstrup-Sangiovanni: The Future of European Integration Studies: The Road Ahead.

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