European Disintegration : A Search for Explanations.
Vollaard, Hans.
2018
JN26-JN50JZ2-6530JN1
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Title European Disintegration : A Search for Explanations.
Author Vollaard, Hans.
ISBN 9781137414656
1137414650
1137414642
9781137414649
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41465-6
Publication Details London : Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-41465-6 doi
Call Number JN26-JN50JZ2-6530JN1
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.94
Summary “Hans Vollaard leads the debate about contemporary developments in Europe as the process of integration appears headed in reverse. His book is an essential reference point both for those who want to know what happened to existing theories and for those who are seeking to understand how popular dissatisfaction with the European project is likely to have an impact.” –Professor Erik Jones, Johns Hopkins University, USA “This is a brave pioneering effort to make sense of the current European predicament. Curiously, we have numerous theories of European integration and virtually none regarding the opposite process. Hans Vollaard’s book helps us to map and explain European disintegration from diverse theoretical angles. Students and practitioners of the EU should pay attention to his arguments.” –Professor Jan Zielonka, University of Oxford, UK This book accounts for whether and how the path of the European Union (EU) has developed towards potential disintegration. These questions have become particularly relevant since the outbreak of the debt crises in the Eurozone and the Brexit referendum. The author critically subverts theories of European integration and analyses the rise and fall of federations, empires and states in a comparative perspective. The most promising theory presented here indicates that Brexit is not likely to be followed by other member states leaving the EU. Nevertheless, the EU has been undermined from within as it cannot adequately address Eurosceptic dissatisfaction from both the left and right. This book is an essential read for everyone interested in the EU and its future.
Bibliography, etc. Note ReferencesChapter 8: How European Integration Has Continued, Despite the EU's Limited Locking-in Capacity; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The Impact of North-Western Enlargement and an Assertive West Germany; 8.3 Lacking Better Alternatives, Governments Continued European Integration; 8.4 The Entry of Mediterranean Countries and Locking in a Reunified Germany; 8.5 The Enlargements with EFTA Members and Central and Eastern European Countries; 8.6 The EU's Limited Locking-in Capacity: Loyalty and Boundary Maintenance; 8.7 Conclusion: Counterforce to Contain Actor-­Level Disintegration Limited
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Intro; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Need for Explanations of European Disintegration; 1.2 The Search for an Explanation of European Disintegration; References; Chapter 2: Neo-functionalism and European Disintegration; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Neo-functionalism and Integration; 2.3 A Neo-functionalist Explanation of Disintegration Evaluated; 2.4 Insights from Comparative Regionalism; 2.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Realism, Intergovernmentalism, and European Disintegration; 3.1 Introduction

3.2 Realism and Cooperation in Europe3.2.1 Neo-realist Accounts of Declining Cooperation and Their Evaluation; 3.3 Intergovernmentalism; 3.3.1 From Classical Realism to Neoliberal Institutionalism; 3.3.2 Liberal Intergovernmentalism on European Integration; 3.3.3 Liberal Intergovernmentalism and European Disintegration; 3.3.4 Problems in the Intergovernmentalist Explanation of European (Dis)integration; 3.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Federalism and European Disintegration; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Comparative Federalism and Its Applicability to the European Union

4.3 Integration and Disintegration of Federal Political Systems4.4 Secession and the European Union; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Comparative Imperialism and European Disintegration; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Empire as Comparative Category; 5.3 Defining Empire and Imperialism; 5.4 Is the EU an Empire?; 5.5 Explaining the Decline and Fall of Empires; 5.5.1 EU Theories Concerning Enlargement; 5.6 Comparative Analysis of Disintegrating Empires; 5.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Towards a Proper Explanation of European Disintegration; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Lessons Learned

6.3 Rokkan: The Mechanism of State Formation6.4 The Bounding-Bonding Mechanism in All Political Systems; 6.5 The Bounding-Bonding Mechanism and European (Dis)integration; 6.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: How European Integration Started Despite Ever-Present Disintegrative Forces; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Non-integrative and Disintegrative Forces Always Present at Actor Level; 7.3 One European Alternative That Garnered Sufficient Support and One That Did Not; 7.4 Continuing the Mutual Exchange: Towards the European Economic Community; 7.5 Partial Exits from the EEC; 7.6 Conclusion

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