`This thoughtful and original critique of integration theories is a most welcome addition to the literature on the EU. Dimitris Chryssochoou′s perceptive and thought-provoking analysis offers many original insights and will be a valuable reference tool for those interested in contemporary Europe′ - Glenda G Rosenthal, Columbia University

With coverage of both traditional and critical theories and approaches to European integration and their application, this is the most comprehensive textbook on European integration theory and an essential guide for all students and scholars interested in the subject. Throughout the text, a team of leading international scholars demonstrate the current relevance of integration theory as they apply these approaches to real-world developments and crises in the contemporary European Union.

Integration theories focus on five important dimensions of the process of integration among countries: the content of integration processes; the organizational forms of institutions of integration; regulation and governance of integration; the advantages and disadvantages of integration; and finally, the problems of integration maturity. For a long time the literature on integration attached particular importance to the forms of integration, and to cost-benefit analysis. Regarding the content, forms and effect mechanisms of the integration processes a number of theoretical schools have emerged, each emphasizing a different aspect of integration; together, they provide a comprehensive picture and ultimately they express the evolution of the process in all its complexity. In connection with "eastward" enlargement, from the 1990s the question of integration maturity appeared on the agenda. This book distinguishes between meeting accession and membership criteria, largely set in Copenhagen

International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration focuses on the roles of community, power and security, within the European Union. It features contributions from highly respected international scholars, and covers subjects such as: · sovereignty and European integration · the EU and the politics of migration · the internationalisation of military security · the EU as a security actor · money, finance and power · the quest for legitimacy with regards to EU enlargement.

Integration theories focus on five important dimensions of the process of integration among the countries: the content (or essence) of integration processes; the organizational forms and institutions of integration; regulation (policies) and governance of integration; the advantages and disadvantages of integration (cost-benefit analysis); and finally, the problems of integration maturity (capacities or capabilities for integration). For pragmatic reasons, the literature on integration attached particular importance to the forms of integration and to cost-benefit analysis for a long time. Regarding the content, forms and effect mechanisms of the integration processes a number of theoretical schools have emerged, each emphasizing a different aspect of integration; together, they provide a comprehensive picture and ultimately they express the evolution of the process in all its complexity. In connection with eastward enlargement, from the 1990s the question of integration maturity appear

The author is presenting a broadly structured study about the first fifty years of European integration, its geopolitical context and academic reflection. His study is based on the two-fold thesis that since a few years, the European Union is going through a process of its Second Founding while simultaneously changing its rationale.

Available on audio for the first time, this is the novel that served as the basis for the highly popular television series and movie MASH.