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Title: Chapter 8 New Theories of European Integration


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Chapter 8 New Theories of European Integration
  • Cini (ed.) European Union Politics, 2nd edition
  • OUP Online Teaching Resources

2
Structure of the Lecture
  • Limits of the classical debate
  • Theories for explaining European integration
  • Theories of policy-making and the EU
    Multi-level governance
  • Social constructivist approaches to the EU
  • International relations and international
    political economy revisited

3
Limits of the classical debate
  • The alleged inability to capture the reality of
    integration and the EU
  • In particular, neofunctionalism
  • Debates on the SEA in the late 1980s and early
    1990s between intergovernmentalists
    neofunctionalists
  • The supposed entrapment in the disciplinary
    wilderness of International Relations
  • The scientific limitations

4
Theories of policy-making and the EU
Multi-level governance
  • The EU as a polity (as a policy system)
  • Application of the tools of policy analysis other
    than the classical theoretical discourse of
    integration

5
Theories of policy-making and the EU
Multi-level governance
  • Multi-level governance (MLG)
  • A challenge to Moravsciks liberal
    intergovernmentalism (a two-level game theory)
  • The EU as a political system across multiple
    levels including national and subnational arenas
    of action
  • Dispersion of authority
  • An attempt to capture the complexity of the EU
    a denial of a single all-encompassing theory of
    the EU

6
Social constructivist approaches to the EU
  • What is constructivism?
  • Rationalism and reflectivism
  • Not a theory of integration, but a position on
    the nature of social reality
  • Constructivist approaches to European integration
  • Interested in European integration as a process
  • Interested in how European identities emerge
  • Norms collective expectations for the proper
    behaviour of actors with a given identity
    (Katzenstein 1996)

7
International relations and international
political economy revisited
  • The EU and the new regionalism
  • NAFTA, APEC, ASEAN3, Mercosur, etc.
  • Globalisation Vs Regionalisation
  • The EU as an actor
  • Conceptualise and theorise the EUs role in the
    global political economy
  • Is the EU a discernible entity with its own
    capacity to act on the basis of its own interests?
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