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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The European Union: Evolution, Institutional and Legislative Structure and Enlargement -- Introduction -- Historical Background: A Path of Increasing Economic Links -- EU Institutions and Organizational Structure of theEuropean Union -- EU Legislation and Law-making Process -- The Challenge of the Enlargement -- 2 Trade Flows and Economic Integration -- Introduction -- Equilibrium Under Free Trade and the Effects of Tariffs -- Customs Unions or Universally Free Trade? -- Static Reallocative Effects of Customs Unions -- Terms-of-Trade Effects of Customs Unions -- Dynamic Effects of Customs Unions -- Summary and Conclusions -- 3 Factor- and Product-Market Integration and Europe's Single Market -- Introduction -- Effects of Factor-Market Integration -- Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade -- Europe's Single Market and the 1992 Internal Market Programme -- Strengthening the European Internal Market: Recent Developments and Performance -- Summary and Conclusions -- 4 Macroeconomic Interdependence, Cooperation and Currency Unions -- Introduction -- Optimum Currency Areas and Similarity of Structures and Shocks -- Phillips-Curve Theory and the Effects of Monetary Integration -- The Game-Theoretic Approach to Monetary Integration: Macroeconomic and Strategic Interdependence, Nashand Cooperative Outcomes -- Seigniorage -- Summary and Conclusions -- 5 Performance of the EMS, the ERM-II and the New EU Member States -- Introduction -- Early Attempts at Monetary-Policy Cooperation in Europeand the EMS -- Growth, Employment and Inflation in the EMS Years -- The Game-Theoretic Approach to the EMS: Impact on Inflation Outcomes -- The Crisis in the Currency Markets of 1990-92 -- ERM-II and the New EU Member States -- Summary and Conclusions -- 6 EMU: Benefits, Costs and Real Convergence.

Fully revised and updated throughout, Theorizing European Integration 2nd edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical study of European integration. Combining perspectives from international relations, comparative politics and social and political theory, Dimitris N. Chryssochoou offers a complete overview of the many competing approaches that have sought to capture and explain the evolving political nature of the European Union (EU) and its qualitative transition from a union of states to a polity in its own right.

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.

Fully revised and updated throughout, Theorizing European Integration 2nd edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical study of European integration. Combining perspectives from international relations, comparative politics and social and political theory, Dimitris N. Chryssochoou offers a complete overview of the many competing approaches that have sought to capture and explain the evolving political nature of the European Union (EU) and its qualitative transition from a union of states to a polity in its own right

This work provides a comprehensive introduction to theories of European integration in the contemporary study of Europe, the European Union and European integration.

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.

Introduction : Germany and European integration / Mark Gilbert, Eva Oberloskamp, Thomas Raithel - Contemporary theory and the beginning of European integration / Ludolf Herbst - Theory, trade and European integration : a comment on Ludolf Herbst's "Contemporary theory and the beginning of European integration" / Lucia Coppolaro - The Deutscher Bauernverband from 1945 to 1990 : from uncompromising stance to rescue through Europe / Kiran Klaus Patel - Stepchildren of integration : the West German länder and the emergence of the European system of multilevel governance from 1950 to 1985 / Guido Thiemeyer - Twelve years of the euro : from calm waters to turbulent seas / Werner Becker - Helmut Kohl and the Monetary Union / Wilfired Loth - The euro at twenty : reflections / Matthias Matthijs.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Key Controversies in European Integration -- Can the EU survive? A community between crisis and revival -- The scholarly debate -- Structure and scope of this book -- 1: The European Union: Success or Failure? -- 1.1 Why Europe works -- Europe as a peacemaker -- Europe as a global leader -- Europe as an institutional model -- Conclusion -- 1.2 The rise and fall of the EU -- Historical record: good and bad -- A fatal crisis for the EU -- The end of EU-led integration -- Conclusion -- 2: More Powers for Brussels or Renationalization? -- 2.1 A stronger, more supranational Union -- Two levels of authority -- Conflicts between levels - a renationalization of powers to the member states? -- Conflicts within levels - a return to intergovernmentalism at the EU level? -- Conclusion -- 2.2 The new intergovernmentalism and European integration -- A new intergovernmentalism -- The integration paradox -- Deliberative intergovernmentalism -- A distinct period in EU integration -- Intergovernmentalism and the EU's disequilibrium -- Conclusion -- 3: How Democratic Is the EU? -- 3.1 The inevitability of a democratic deficit -- Democracy 'of' and 'by' the people: 'no demos' vs demos creation -- Democracy 'for' the people: regulatory and deliberative -- Conclusion -- 3.2 A democratic achievement, not just a democratic deficit -- Ought the EU be democratic? -- View 1: Member state democracies could exert more control over the Union -- View 2: The Union's own political system could be more democratic -- View 3: A limited but useful form of democratic control -- Conclusion -- 4: Too Much Power for the Judges? -- 4.1 Understanding the European Court's political power -- The European Court steps into a political vacuum.

Since 1945, Germany's role in the project of European integration has been central to the economic and political development of Europe. The fourth volume of the German Yearbook of Contemporary History, edited by Mark Gilbert (Johns Hopkins University), Eva Oberloskamp and Thomas Raithel (both Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, IfZ), assembles selected articles which have been published previously in the Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, and specially commissioned contributions by international authors. The chapters cover a wide range of topics. The theories and visions of European integration that were articulated in Europe and in the United States after the end of the Nazi regime and of World War II are the starting point for the volume. The period covered by the book stretches to the foundation and earliest stages of European Economic and Monetary Union, which received substantial momentum from German unification in 1989/90.