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This book includes up-to-date studies of regional integration efforts in all major parts of the world, especially North America, South America and East Asia. In many cases these efforts are compared with the EU, where integration has progressed much further. Some important questions are asked: What explains the variation in achievements? What kind of agreements and institutions are needed to produce regional integration? Is 'pooling and delegation' of sovereignty necessary to overcome 'collective action problems'? How important is regional leadership? Various schools of thought are represented.

Preliminary Material /Finn Laursen -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Overview of the Constitutional Treaty and Main Elements of the Treaty /Finn Laursen -- Chapter 2. The Eu Constitutional Treaty and International Trade /Rafael Leal-Arcas -- Chapter 3. The European Economic Constitution: an Analysis of the Constitutional Treaty /Ferran Brunet -- Chapter 4. The Reforms in the Justice and Home Affairs Domain: the End of the 'Third Pillar'? /Jörg Monar -- Chapter 5. Who Speaks for Europe While We Wait for the Eu Foreign Minister? /Per M. Norheim-Martinsen -- Chapter 6. Between Cherry-picking and Salvaging the Titanic: Spain and the Rescuing of the Essence of the Eu Constitution /Joaquín Roy -- Chapter 7. From Idealism to Pragmatism: Germany and the Constitutional Treaty /Almut Möller -- Chapter 8. The French Rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty: Two-level Games Perspective /Colette Mazzucelli -- Chapter 9. Trimming the Sails:the Dutch and the Eu Constitution after the Referendum /Steven B. Wolinetz -- Chapter 10. The United Kingdom and the Constitutional Treaty: Leading from within? /Alasdair Blair -- Chapter 11. Poland and the Constitutional Treaty: a Short Story about a 'Square Root'? /Maciej Wilga -- Chapter 12. Denmark and the Constitutional Treaty: a Difficult Two-level Game /Finn Laursen -- Chapter 13. Italy and the Treaty Establishing a European Constitution: the Decline of a Middle-size Power? /Federiga Bindi -- Chapter 14. The Irish Presidency:n Eutrality, Skills and Effective Mediation? /Andreas Dür and Gemma Mateo -- Chapter 15. A New Pragmatism: the Role and Impact of the European Parliament in the Constitutional Treaty Negotiations /Derek Beach -- Chapter 16. The European Commission as a Strategic Agenda Setter: the Case of the Convention on the Future of Europe and the Ensuing Ratification Crisis /Edward Moxon-Browne -- Chapter 17. Producing 'Ever Closer Union'? the Rhetoric of Legitimacy and Regional Participation in the Eu Constitutional Convention /Janet Laible -- Chapter 18. The Igc 2003-4: How Constrained by Rhetorical Action? How Intergovernmental? /Finn Laursen -- Chapter 19. The Failed Eu Constitution Referendums: the French Case in Perspective, 1992 and 2005 /Francesca Vassallo -- Chapter 20. Constitution-making and the Search for a European Public Sphere /Chien-Yi Lu -- Chapter 21. Everything Shall Now Be Popular: Explaining Elite Behaviour in the Constitutional Treaty Referenda /Rasmus Leander Nielsen -- Chapter 22. Flexible Integration and the Constitutional Treaty: an Instrument with Little Purpose? /Laura Lund Olsen -- Chapter 23. The Implications of the 'No' Vote in France: Making the Most of a Wasted Opportunity /Marie-Luce Paris-Dobozy -- Chapter 24. From Treaty Bargains to a Constitutional Proposal and Back /Thomas König -- Chapter 25. Concluding Remarks: the Constitutional Treaty Is Dead, Long Live European Constitutionalism /Finn Laursen -- Index /Finn Laursen.

Preliminary Material /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Overview of the Intergovernmental Conference 2000 and the Treaty of Nice /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 2. Austria: between Size and Sanctions /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 3. Belgium: More Catholic than the Pope? /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 4. Denmark: the Battle to Avoid a Referendum /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 5. Germany: a Story of Saving Face /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 6. Finland: We Have to Live with This Result /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 7. France: Presidency Roles and National Interests /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 8. Greece: Continuity and Change /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 9. Ireland: a Tale of Two Referenda /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 10. Italy: When Individual Actors Make the Difference /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 11. Luxembourg: Balancing Eu and National Interests /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 12. The Netherlands: from Principles to Pragmatism /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 13. Portugal: the Fight against the Big Ones /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 14. Spain: the Need to Sell a Victory /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 15. Sweden: in the Shadow of Enlargement? /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 16. The United Kingdom: New Approach and New Influence? /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 17. Poland and the Other Candidate Countries: Influencing the Treaty from the Sidelines /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 18. The European Parliament and the European Commission: You Cant Always Get What You Want /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 19the. Commission and the Council Secretariat:how They Gained Some Influence /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 20. Re-weighting of Votes in the Council and Composition of the Commission: When Size Matters /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 21. Qualified Majority Voting: a Joint but Failed Search for Efficiency Building /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 22. Enhanced Cooperation: Lowering the Restrictions and Creating the Basis of a Hard Core? /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 23. The European Security and Defence Policy: Coming of Age? /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 24. The Charter of Fundamental Rights: Novel Method on the Way to the Nice Treaty /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 25. Explaining the Treaty of Nice: beyond Liberal Intergovernmentalism? /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Chapter 26. The Post-nice Agenda: towards a Constitutional Treaty? /Finn Laursen Martinus -- Index /Finn Laursen Martinus.

The study of European integration produced much scholarly debate in the 1950s and '60s. The following two decades saw few works on European integration that included more elaborate discussions of theory and methodology; most studies in that period were fairly descriptive. In recent years there has been renewed theoretical interest in European integration. This book, however, is one of the first to discuss and apply various political-economy approaches explicitly to integration, including classical integration theory and modern public choice theories. Areas covered include common policies and decision making, as well as the external relations of the EU. The influence of the European Parliament, the concept of subsidiarity, trade policy, Economic and Monetary Union, reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, relations with EFTA and Eastern European countries, as well as enlargement, are all discussed. Audience : Of interest to both scholars and policy makers concerned with these issues