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While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention. This volume, with original contributions by leading German scholars, suggests that crises of integration should be seen as engines of progress throughout the history of European integration rather than as expressions of failure and regression, a widely held assumption. It therefore throws new light on the current crises in European integration and provides a fascinating panorama of how challenges and responses were guiding the process during its first five decades.

The only up-to-date overview of the major approaches to European integration, giving students insights on the most current debates and topical developments. With contributions from world-leading experts, the text is an authoritative guide to each theory. Considers the development, achievements, and problems of each theory alongside historical and current issues in European integration. Uses the multiple crises in the EU over the past decade as case studies to demonstrate the relevance of theory to practice. New to this Edition: Each chapter includes a referent case on recent crises in the EU: the financial crisis and the migration crisis. Each chapter now includes both study questions to help students test their understanding and discussion questions to promote critical thinking and class debate. Professor Tanja A. Börzel and Professor Thomas Risse join the editorial team, bringing fresh expertise and insights to the volume.

In the 1960s, the power plant at Elektrenai, Lithuania, fueled industrialization in the region, but it ceased operations in the 1970s & 1980s. Now as part of European Union development, the plant, under its director since the 1960s, Pranas Noreika, is being redeveloped. It promises to provide some jobs to Lithuanian workers in the short term & the influx of capitalism might also help rejuvenate the town's tourist industry, per the more optimistic residents of the town. However, Elektrenai residents do not appear to live very much differently than they did in the Soviet era & prosperity is a long way off. 8 Photos. M. Pflum