European Union, The: Readings On The Theory & Practice 2ed.

Description: The authors...are to be congratulated for producing a usable summary of the diverse writings on the European...Nelsen and Stubb have broken new ground with this reader.' - Journal of European Integration 'Highly accessible to students; each reading is clearly prefaced, set in context, and carefully and honestly abridged' - Talking Politics Already established as the leading collection of readings on the theory and practice of European integration, the second edition includes many new extracts in response to feedback from readers and adopters. The book brings together the views of key actors in the fifty year history of the European Union with a selection of key theoretical contributions to the understanding of European integration from the 1950s to the present. Each extract is set in context and summarised by a brief editorial introduction.



Contents: Introduction - PART 1: VISIONS OF A UNITED EUROPE - The Tragedy of Europe; W.S.Churchill - The Schuman Declaration; R.Schuman - Preambles to the Treaties of Rome - A Ferment of Change; J.Monnet - A Concert of European States; C. de Gaulle - Preamble to the Single European Act - A Family of Nations; M.Thatcher - A Necessary Union; J.Delors - A German View; H.Kohl - Preamble to the Treaty on European Union - PART 2: EARLY CURRENTS IN INTEGRATION THEORY - Altiero Spinelli and the Strategy for the United States of Europe; S.Pistone - A Working Peace System; D.Mitrany - Political Community and the North Atlantic Area: K.W.Deutsch et al - Preface to the Uniting of Europe; E.B.Haas - Political Integration: Definitions and Hypotheses; L.N.Lindberg - Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation-State and the Case of Western Europe; S.Hoffmann - The Theory of Economic Integration: An Introduction; B.Balassa - PART 3: CURRENT DEBATES IN INTEGRATION THEORY - Less than a Federation, More than a Regime; W.Wallace - 1992: Recasting the European Bargain; W.Sandholtz & J.Zysman - Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community; A.Moravcsik - Interdependence or Integration? A National Choice; A.S.Milward & V.Sorensen - Europe Before the Court: A Political Theory of Legal Integration; A.M.Burley & W. Mattli - European Integration from the 1980s: State-Centric v Multi-level Governance; G.Marks , L.Hooghe , & K.Blank - Exploring the Nature of the Beast: International Relations Theory and Comparative Policy Analysis Meet the European Union; T.Risse-Kappan - Economic and Monetary Union: The Primacy of High Politics; L.Tsoukalis - Bibliography