The Dynamics of European integration

Summary:

This book represents the outcome of a collaborative process which brought together a group of academics and policy-makers from Europe and North America, some 20 of whom have contributed chapters to the final work. Its editor notes that they set out to reassess some of the 'classic' academic theories of European integration which gained currency in the 1950s and 1960s, and bring a new conceptual framework to bear upon formal and informal networks and integration processes in Europe.

In this general framework, contributions are categorised according to four broad headings: the economic and technical dynamics of integration, the centre/periphery dimension, social dynamics (including cross-border movements and cultural linkages) and legal and institutional patterns.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : the dynamics of European integration /​ William Wallace
• Economic and technical dynamics. Regional integration in a networked world economy /​ Albert Bressand and Kalypso Nicolaïdis
• Technology and the dynamics of integration /​ Margaret Sharp
• Changing patterns of monetary interdependence /​ Elke Thiel
• Centre and periphery. Patterns of production and trade /​ Per Magnus Wijkman
• The European community and its sub-systems /​ Philippe de Schoutheete
• Nordic cooperation /​ Carl-Einar Stålvant
• The Central European dimension /​ Richard Davy
• The Mediterranean dimension /​ Roberto Aliboni
• Social dynamics. Cross-border population movements /​ Federico Romero
• Cultural linkages /​ Bruno de Witte
• Legal and institutional patterns. Making multilateral negotiations work /​ Helen Wallace
• Administrative interaction /​ Wolfgang Wessels
• The legal dimension /​ Renaud Dehousse and Joseph H.H. Weiler
• The changing security framework /​ Reinhardt Rummel and Peter Schmidt
• (cont.) Conclusions : community politics and institutional change /​ Robert O. Keohane and Stanley Hoffman