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With coverage of both traditional and critical theories and approaches to European integration and their application, this is the most comprehensive textbook on European integration theory and an essential guide for all students and scholars interested in the subject. Throughout the text, a team of leading international scholars demonstrate the current relevance of integration theory as they apply these approaches to real-world developments and crises in the contemporary European Union.
List of contents
- 1: Thomas Diez and Antje Wiener: Introducing the Mosaic of Integration Theory
- Part One: Explaining European Integration
- 2: R. Daniel Kelemen: Federalism and European Integration
- 3: Arne Niemann, Zoe Lefkofridi, and Philippe C. Schmitter: Neofunctionalism
- 4: Andrew Moravcsik and Frank Schimmelfennig: Liberal Intergovernmentalism
- Part Two: Analysing European Governance
- 5: Tanja A. Börzel: Governance Approaches to European Integration
- 6: Mark A. Pollack: Rational Choice and Historical Institutionalism
- 7: Thomas Risse: Social Constructivism and European Integration
- Part Three: Constructing the European Union
- 8: Ruth Wodak: Discourse and European Integration
- 9: Yvonne Galligan: European Integration and Gender
- 10: Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and Laura Horn: Critical Political Economy
- 11: Richard Bellamy and Joseph Lacey: Normative Political Theory and the European Union
- 12: Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse: A Litmus Tests for European Integration Theories: Explaining Crises and Traveling Beyond Europe
- 13: Antje Wiener: Taking Stock of Integration Theory
About the author
Antje Wiener is Professor of Political Science especially Global Governance at the University of Hamburg and By-Fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
Tanja A. Börzel is Jean Monnet Chair and Director of the Centre for European Integration at the Free University of Berlin.
Thomas Risse is Professor of International Relations at the Free University of Berlin.
Summary
With coverage of both traditional and critical theories and approaches to European integration and their application, this is the most comprehensive textbook on European integration theory and an essential guide for all students and scholars interested in the subject.
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In a packed field of textbooks on theories of European integration, European Integration Theory - now in its third edition and with a new editorial team - is a breath of fresh air. Its unique contribution is that it gives pride of place to lesser traveled perspectives, including gender, discourse analysis, critical political economy, normative political theory, and comparative regionalism, alongside mainstream approaches. Comprehensively revised, updated, and presented in a student friendly format, this is an invaluable guide to understanding European integration in the 21st century.
Report
By drawing and redrawing the mosaic of integration theory the book has, for more than a decade, coined a particular way of reflecting on the state of the art in EU studies. A major reference reading. Uwe Puetter, Central European University
