Theorizing European Integration - Dimitris N. Chryssochoou - Paperback Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 2008 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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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.