The European Union. Readings on the theory and practice of European integration, 4th ed.

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Publication Date 2014
ISBN 978-1-137-41091-7
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This new edition of the leading reader on European Integration makes conveniently available to students the key texts of politicians and scholars. The first section, presents the key visions of the primary shapers of the union now including the reflections of current European leaders on the crisis in Europe. The second and third sections bring together the seminal work of early scholars as they struggled to understand postwar European integration and influential work from the 1980s and 1990s. The final - comprehensively revised and updated - section explores recent theoretical developments in scholarship.

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PART I: VISIONS OF A UNITED EUROPE
1. Ventotene Manifesto - Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi
2. The Tragedy of Europe - Winston S. Churchill
3. The Schuman Declaration - Robert Schuman
4. Preambles to the Treaties Establishing the European Communities (The Treaties of Paris and Rome)
5. A Ferment of Change - Jean Monnet
6. A Concert of European States - Charles de Gaulle
7. Preamble to the Single European Act
8. A Family of Nations - Margaret Thatcher
9. A Necessary Union - Jacques Delors
10. Preamble to the Treaty on European Union (The Maastricht Treaty)
11. February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together - Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida
12. Preambles to the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe and the Treaty of Lisbon
13. Reflections on the Crisis in Europe (excerpts) - Alexander Stubb, José Manuel Durão Barroso, David Cameron and Radek Sikorski

PART II: EARLY CURRENTS IN INTEGRATION THEORY
14. Altiero Spinelli and the Strategy for the United States of Europe - Sergio Pistone
15. A Working Peace System - David Mitrany
16. Political Community and the North Atlantic Area - Karl W. Deutsch et al.
17. The Uniting of Europe - Ernst B. Haas
18. Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation-State and the Case of Western Europe - Stanley Hoffmann
19. The Theory of Economic Integration: An Introduction - Bela Balassa
20. Of Blind Men, Elephants and International Integration - Donald J. Puchala

PART III: EUROPE RELAUNCHED
21. The European Community and Nation-State: A Case for a Neofederalism? - John Pinder
22. 1992: Recasting the European Bargain - Wayne Sandholtz and John Zysman
23. The Choice for Europe - Andrew Moravcsik
24. Integration, Supranational Governance, and the Institutionalization of the European Polity - Alec Stone Sweet and Wayne Sandholtz
25. The Study of the European Community: The Challenge to Comparative Politics - Simon Hix
26. Multi-level Governance in the European Union - Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks

PART IV: CURRENT DEBATES IN INTEGRATION THEORY
27. The Next Europe: Toward a Federal Union - Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels
28. The Institutional Construction of Interests - Craig Parsons
29. A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration: From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissensus - Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks
30. The Governance Approach to European Integration - Markus Jachtenfuchs
31. Europe and Its Empires: From Rome to the European Union - Gary Marks
32. What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists - Enrico Spolaore

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