Theorizing European Integration

✍ Scribed by Dimitris N. Chryssochoou

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fully revised and updated throughout, Theorizing European Integration 2nd edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical study of European integration. Combining perspectives from international relations, comparative politics and social and political theory, Dimitris N. Chryssochoou offers a complete overview of the many competing approaches that have sought to capture and explain the evolving political nature of the European Union (EU) and its qualitative transition from a union of states to a polity in its own right.

Contemporary issues, themes and theories addressed include:

• the different uses and current state of EU theorizing
• statecentric accounts of integration and their critics
• new normative challenges to the study of the EU
• the political dynamics of European treaty reform
• new forms of democracy, citizenship and governance
• the limits and possibilities of EU constitutionalism
• interdisciplinary understandings of EU polityhood
• the introduction of a theory of organized synarchy
• the transformations of state sovereignty in late modern Europe.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 15
1 The state of a discipline......Page 16
2 On formative theorizing......Page 33
3 The confederal phase......Page 48
4 Discourses on polityhood......Page 64
5 The consociational analogy......Page 89
6 Theorizing treaty reform......Page 105
7 The normative turn......Page 120
8 Organized synarchy......Page 146
Postscript......Page 162
Notes......Page 166
Bibliography......Page 195
Index......Page 214