European Integration Theory

With coverage of both traditional and critical theories and approaches to European integration and their application, this is the most comprehensive textbook on European integration theory and an essential guide for all students and scholars interested in the subject. Throughout the text, a team of leading international scholars demonstrate the current relevance of integration theory as they apply these approaches to real-world developments and crises in the contemporary European Union.

1: Introducing the Mosaic of Integration Theory, Thomas Diez and Antje Wiener
Part One: Explaining European Integration
2: Federalism and European Integration, R. Daniel Kelemen
3: Neofunctionalism, Arne Niemann, Zoe Lefkofridi, and Philippe C. Schmitter
4: Liberal Intergovernmentalism, Andrew Moravcsik and Frank Schimmelfennig
Part Two: Analysing European Governance
5: Governance Approaches to European Integration, Tanja A. Börzel
6: Rational Choice and Historical Institutionalism, Mark A. Pollack
7: Social Constructivism and European Integration, Thomas Risse
Part Three: Constructing the European Union
8: Discourse and European Integration, Ruth Wodak
9: European Integration and Gender, Yvonne Galligan
10: Critical Political Economy, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and Laura Horn
11: Normative Political Theory and the European Union, Richard Bellamy and Joseph Lacey
12: A Litmus Tests for European Integration Theories: Explaining Crises and Traveling Beyond Europe, Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse
13: Taking Stock of Integration Theory, Antje Wiener