Constituting Federal Sovereignty: The European Union in Comparative Context

Addresses why, when, and how sovereign states give up some of their sovereignity to form a larger union

Starting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F. Goldstein examines the development of the European Union by blending comparative and historical institutionalist ap...