Theorizing European integration. 2nd Ed.

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.

Contents:

1. The State of a Discipline
2. On Formative Theorizing
3. The Confederal Phase
4. Discourses on Polityhood
5. The Consociational Analogy
6. Theorizing Treaty Reform
7. The Normative Turn
8. Organized Synarchy Postscript Bibliography