Theorizing European Integration

by Chryssochoou; Dimitris N.

• ISBN13: 9780415437509
• ISBN10: 0415437504
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Fully revised and updated throughout, Theorizing European Integration 2nd editionprovides 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

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Abbreviations	p. xiv
The state of a discipline	p. 1
On formative theorizing	p. 18
The confederal phase	p. 33
Discourses on polityhood	p. 49
The consociational analogy	p. 74
Theorizing treaty reform	p. 90
The normative turn	p. 105
Organized synarchy	p. 131
Postscript	p. 147
Notes	p. 151
Bibliography	p. 180
Index	p. 199
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