Theorizing European Integration

<p>Fully revised and updated throughout, <em>Theorizing European Integration 2nd edition</em> 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. </p><p>Contemporary issues, themes and theories addressed include:</p><ul> <ul> </ul> <li>the different uses and current state of EU theorizing </li> <li>statecentric accounts of integration and their critics</li> <li>new normative challenges to the study of the EU</li> <li>the political dynamics of European treaty reform</li> <li>new forms of democracy, citizenship and governance</li> <li>the limits and possibilities of EU constitutionalism</li> <li>interdisciplinary understandings of EU polityhood </li> <li>the introduction of a theory of organized synarchy </li> <li>the transformations of state sovereignty in late modern Europe.</li> </ul> <p>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 </p>