Provides an up-to-date
overview of major approaches, their content, development and critical assessment in light
of current debates in the field.
All chapters follow a
similar format ensuring an integrated text.
Clear and engaging text with
summary points and further reading sections to aid understanding and point to key aspects
in the development of European integration.
An excellent line-up of
outstanding scholars from around the world.
This text offers a
comprehensive overview of the content and development of major theoretical approaches to
European integration, as well as critical assessment of current theoretical debates, and
their value in conducting empirical research. Written by major scholars, it will provide a
state-of-the-art handbook of integration theory.
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and post graduate students studying European
integration as well as scholars interested in integration theory.
Table of Contents
1. Thomas Diez and Antje
Wiener: Introduction
Part I: Explaining
Integration
2. Michael Burgess:
Federalism
3. Philippe Schmitter:
Neofunctionalism
4. Frank Schimmelfennig:
Intergovernmentalism
Part II: Analysing
Governance
5. Markus Jachtenfuchs and
Beate Kohler-Koch: Multi-Level Governance
6. John Peterson: Policy
Networks
7. Mark Pollack: New
Institutionalism
Part III: Constructing
'Europe'
8. Ulrich Haltern:
Integration Through Law
9. Thomas Risse: Social
Constructivism
10. Catherine Hoskyns:
Gender Equality
11. Ole Waever: Discursive
Approaches
12 Antje Wiener and Thomas
Diez: Conclusion
288 pages