Which Europe?: The Politics of Differentiated Integration

by K. Dyson (Editor), A. Sepos (Editor)

Overview

The Euro Area, the Schengen Area, and Airbus - the 'Anglosphere', the Franco-German 'motor' and Nordic cooperation – each illustrates how differentiation has become a pervasive feature of European integration. Which Europe? offers an authoritative and comprehensive examination of differentiated integration in its functional and its territorial aspects. It focuses on its implications for both the practice and the theory of European integration. Is it strengthening or weakening the EU and its Member States? Are territorial identities being undermined or strengthened? Are new theories of integration required? In particular, this book looks at the relationship between the growth in use of differentiated integration and the widening of European Union membership, the broadening in its policy scope, and the deepening in integration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230553774
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/27/2010
Series:	Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Kenneth Dyson is Research Professor in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Academician of the Social Sciences. His research interests encompass European integration, comparative and historical political economy, and German political studies. His publications include The State Tradition in Western Europe; The Road to Maastricht (with Kevin Featherstone), chosen by the European Parliament as one of the 100 best reads on European integration; and States, Debt, and Power: 'Saints' and 'Sinners' In European History and Integration, which received the UACES Best Book Prize in 2015.

Angelos Sepos is Assistant Professor in International & European Politics at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. He is the author of the book The Europeanization of Cyprus: Polity, Policies and Politics Basingstoke (2008) and has also published articles in numerous edited volumes and leading scientific journals such as the Journal of Political Power, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans and Regional and Federal Studies.

Table of Contents

PART I: THE CONTEXT OF DIFFERENTIATED INTEGRATION The Political Dimension: Differentiation as Design Principle and as a Tool of Political Management in European Integration; K.Dyson & A.Sepos The Legal Dimension; J.Priban The Functional Dimension; A.Koelliker The Spatial Dimension; M.Keating The Temporal Dimension; K.Goetz PART II: TERRITORIAL MANIFESTATIONS OF DIFFERENTIATED INTEGRATION Alpine Europe; D.Caramani 'Anglo-America' and Atlantic Europe; A.Gamble Balkan Europe; S.Economides Baltic Europe; M.Lehti Central Europe; B.Greskovits 'Franco-German' Europe; A.Cole Mediterranean Europe; P.Heywood & L.McLaren Nordic Europe; L.Miles Wider Europe: Europe's Neighbourhood and Transboundary Differentiation; G.Edwards PART III: FUNCTIONAL MANIFESTATIONS OF DIFFERENTIATED INTEGRATION 'Euro' Europe: 'Fuzzy' Boundaries and 'Constrained' Differentiation in Macro-Economic Governance; K.Dyson 'Industrial' Europe: The Softer Side of Differentiated Integration; D.Howarth 'Social' Europe'; N.Parsons & P.Pochet 'Green' Europe: Differentiation in Environmental Policies; R.Wurzel & A.Zito 'The 'Area of Freedom, Security and Justice': 'Schengen' Europe, Opt Ins, Opt Outs and Associates; J.Monar 'Higher Education' Europe: Bologna's Deepening Empire; P.Furlong 'Trilateral' Europe? Foreign and Security Policies; A.Sepos Defence Policy: Temporal and Spatial Differentiation with Reformed Bandwagoning; T.Dyson Conclusion: Generalizations and Patterns; K.Dyson & A.Sepos

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

The complexity of differentiated integration combined with the rich portrayal of disciplines this concept embraces contributes to making this volume a demanding read ... A a must-read for all those pondering the question 'which Europe?' and aiming

to understand differentiated integration in particular and European integration in general.' - Cambridge Review of International Affairs

'This volume is unquestionably the most comprehensive and ambitious attempt to take sk of the causes and consequences of differentiation. Anyone who is interested in exploring differentiation in the EU will want to refer to this fascinating and agenda-setting volume, which is essential reading for scholars and students of European and international politics.' - West European Politics

Editorial Reviews

The complexity of differentiated integration combined with the rich portrayal of disciplines this concept embraces contributes to making this volume a demanding read ... A a must-read for all those pondering the question 'which Europe?' and aiming

to understand differentiated integration in particular and European integration in general.' - Cambridge Review of International Affairs

'This volume is unquestionably the most comprehensive and ambitious attempt to take sk of the causes and consequences of differentiation. Anyone who is interested in exploring differentiation in the EU will want to refer to this fascinating and agenda-setting volume, which is essential reading for scholars and students of European and international politics.' - West European Politics

From the Publisher