Theorizing European Integration

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.

Contemporary issues, themes and theories addressed include:

• the different uses and current state of EU theorizing
• statecentric accounts of integration and their critics
• new normative challenges to the study of the EU
• the political dynamics of European treaty reform
• new forms of democracy, citizenship and governance
• the limits and possibilities of EU constitutionalism
• interdisciplinary understandings of EU polityhood
• the introduction of a theory of organized synarchy
• the transformations of state sovereignty in late modern Europe.