Gendering European Integration Theory: Engaging new Dialogues

2.4 New Intergovernmentalism3 Gendered critiques of intergovernmentalism; 3.1 State-centrism; 3.2 The state as a unitary actor, speaking with one voice; 3.3 A non-structural view of power; 3.4 National interest; 4 Who is the dinosaur: intergovernmentalism orintergovernmentalists?; 4.1 Intergovernmentalists; 4.2 Can a dinosaur be gendered? An example of a genderedintergovernmental analysis; 5 Conclusion and future theoretical development; Multi-Level Governance: Tailoring a 'Favourite Coat'to the Needs of 'Gender Fashion'; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical foundations of MLG.

The authors engage a dialogue between European integration theories and gender studies. The contributions illustrate where and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. The chapters are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and, in this way stimulates the broader theoretical debates. Investigating the whole range of integration theory with a gender lens, the authors illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made or can make creative use of integration theories