Making History

European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty

Sophie Meunier
Edited by Kathleen R. McNamara

384 pages | 234x156mm

978-0-19-921868-4 | Paperback | 24 May 2007

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Extensive coverage of multiple policy areas in the EU
Written by leading specialists of EU studies
Useful overview for people interested in future of EU and EU politics

Fifty years ago, the leaders of six European states signed the Treaty of Rome, creating the European Economic Community and launching the process of European integration. From that starting point evolved today's European Union (EU), the most successful example of institutionalized political cooperation in history. The EU now encompasses a much broader array of responsibilities than originally planned, its membership has widened to 25 countries, and its legislation and jurisprudence has come to supersede national law. Contestation has accompanied success, however, and the intense debate in many European countries over the EU Constitution throughout the course of 2005 revealed deep divisions between and within European countries around issues such as EU institutions, the elusive European identity, a European economic malaise, and the role of the EU as a world power. Was the constitutional crisis a turning point for European integration? This volume argues that the EU today may be at a crossroads--not because of the failed referenda but rather because of the unresolved tensions in European governance not banished with the referenda's defeat. Meunier and McNamara's collection is the first to comprehensively examine these challenging issues using the tools of historical institutionalism to analyze the past and future political and institutional trajectory of the European Union across a wide variety of policy areas. Together, the volume's authors provide a remarkably coherent theoretical approach to the key questions facing Europe, drawing a portrait of the EU today that reveals a robust, but not invulnerable, set of institutions and practices

Readership: Scholars and Students of Political Science, EU Studies, International Relations, and Political Institutions.

Sophie Meunier, Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Kathleen R. McNamara, Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Contributors:
Sophie Meunier is a Research Scholar in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Kathleen McNamara is an Associate Professor of Government and in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Andrew Moravcsik is a Professor of Politics and the Director of the European Union Program, Princeton University
R. Daniel Kelemen is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
Dorothee Heisenberg is the S. Richard Hirsch Associate Professor of European Studies, Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies
Karen J. Alter is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
David Steinberg is a Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Northwestern University
Milada Anna Vachudova is an Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abraham Newman is an Assistant Professor at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service and a Member of the BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University
Elliot Posner is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Orfeo Fioretos is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, Temple University
Tim Büthe is an Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and a Faculty Associate, Center for European Studies, Duke University
Amy Verdun is a Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair at the
University of Victoria, Canada
Berthold Rittberger is a Junior Professor in Comparative Politics, Kaiserslautern University of Technology
Frank Schimmelfennig is a Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich.
Willem Maas is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, Glendon College, York University
Ailish Johnson works in the Privy Council Office, Government of Canada, and is a Sessional Lecturer at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University
Roy H. Ginsberg is a Professor of Government, Skidmore College
Michael E. Smith is a Reader, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
John Peterson is a Professor of International Politics, University of Edinburgh
Alasdair R. Young is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Glasgow
Mary Farrell is a Senior Research Fellow, CERI, Sciences-Po

Making History

European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty

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