Towards A New Europe: Stops and Starts in Regional Integration

by Thomas Bernauer, Gerald Schneider, Patricia Weitsman

Overview

This volume explores the theoretical value of applying rational choice theory to questions of regional integration. As with other questions of conflict and cooperation in the field of international politics, studies of European integration are divided largely between the realist and liberalist perspectives. Yet neither of these schools of thought aptly explains the dynamics characterizing this process, that is, the major advances in regional integration and the long periods of paralysis. The contributions in this volume work their way from the most general questions and macro-processes down to particular policy problems of the European Union and the micro-foundations of interstate cooperation. The work will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in international relations, international economics, and European studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275948658
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/14/1995
Series:	Fiction and Fantasy; 65
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1400L (what's this?)

About the Author

GERALD SCHNEIDER holds the Chair in International Relations on the Faculty of Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Director and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

PATRICIA WEITSMAN is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio University. Her research and publications are in the areas of regional integration, international security, and American foreign policy making.

THOMAS BERNAUER is Senior Lecturer and Research Associate at the Center for Political Science at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

Table of Contents

Preface
Explaining the Stops and Starts in Regional Integration by Gerald Schneider and Patricia Weitsman
Towards a Political Economy of Scale: European Integration and Disintegration by Michael D. Ward and Corey L. Lofdahl
Expansion or Unity? Placing the European Union in a Historical Perspective by Lars-Erik Cederman
Switzerland—Still a Paradigmatic Case? by Simon Hug and Pascal Sciarini
Power of the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda Setter by George Tsebelis
Wider and Deeper: The Links between Expansion and Integration in the European Union by Robert Pahre
Regional Integration and the Enlargement Issue: A Macroanalysis by Walter Mattli
Choosing Central Bankers in Europe by Philippe Martin
Full Membership or Full Club? Expansion of NATO and the Future Security Organization of Europe by Thomas Bernauer
Towards a United States of Europe: Future Challenges and Potential Solutions by Gerald Schneider, Patricia Weitsman, and Thomas Bernauer
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

Ten solicited articles search for an underlying logic in the unevenness of European integration during the 1990s, which has baffled scholars of international politics as much as it has the general public. They trace the evolution of the integration process, assess the major institutions of the European Union and the process of deepening and expanding cooperation among member states, and address some of the thorny policy questions facing the Union today. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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