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>