The European Union: Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration

by Brent F. Nelsen

Contents: 1. Ventotene Manifesto / Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi 2. Tragedy of Europe / Winston S. Churchill 3. Schuman Declaration / Robert Schuman 4. Preambles to the Treaties Establishing the European Communities (Treaties of Paris and Rome) 5. Ferment of Change / Jean Monnet 6. Concert of European States / Charles de Gaulle 7. Preamble to the Single European Act 8. Family of Nations / Margaret Thatcher 9. Necessary Union / Jacques Delors 10. Preamble to the Treaty on European Union (The Maastricht Treaty) 11. Reflections on European Policy / Wolfgang Schauble and Karl Lamers 12. Altiero Spinelli and the Strategy for the United States of Europe / Sergio Pistone 13. Working Peace System / David Mitrany 14. Political Community and the North Atlantic Area / Karl W. Deutsch et al. 15. Uniting of Europe / Ernst B. Haas 16. Political Integration: Definitions and Hypotheses / Leon N. Lindberg 17. Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation-State and the Case of Western Europe / Stanley Hoffmann 18. Theory of Economic Integration: An Introduction / Bela Balassa 19. European Community and Nation-State: A Case for a Neofederalism? / John Pinder 20. 1992: Recasting the European Bargain / Wayne Sandholtz and John Zysman 21. Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community / Andrew Moravcsik 22. Europe Before the Court: A Political Theory of Legal Integration / Anne-Marie Burley and Walter Mattli 23. European Integration from the 1980s: State-Centric v. Multi-Level Governance / Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe and Kermit Blank 24. Path to European Integration: A Historical Institutionalist Analysis / Paul Pierson 25. Study of the European Community: The Challenge to Comparative Politics / Simon Hix 26. Economic and Monetary Union: The Primacy of High Politics / Loukas Tsoukalis.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, International Relations

359 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1994

Reviews

[Will · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful collection of sources and essays to get started on an examination of the EU's history and some of the theories behind it.

[Phil Bowman]

textbook for Global Issues class. Essays about forming the EU. Pretty hard to understand and boring.

[Amanda Sola · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good collection of essays, speeches, and other writings about the creation and managing of the EU with useful synopses of each document.

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very good collection of primary documents and historical analysis covering the development of the European Union.