The Social Construction of Europe

Introduction/PART ONE: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM AND THEORIZING EUROPEAN INTEGRATION/Does Constructivism Subsume Neofunctionalism?/Understanding the European Union as a Federal Polity/Social Construction and European Integration/PART TWO: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST PERSPECTIVES IN STUDIES OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION/Postnational Constitutionalism in the European Union/Speaking `Europe'/The Politics of Integration Discourse/Constructing Europe?/The Evolution of Nation State Identities/Constructing Institutional Interests/EU and NATO Enlargement/Reconstructing a Common European Foreign Policy/Discourses of Globalization and European Identities/PART THREE: DEBATING APPROACHES TO EUROPEAN INTEGRATION/Constructivism and European Integration/A Critique/Social Constructivisms and European Studies/The Social Construction of Social Constructivism