European Integration: Forward March, Parade Rest, or Dismissed?

Abstract

In their highly thought-provoking book, Europe's Would-Be Polity, authors Lindberg and Scheingold focused most of their attention on one particular question: "Once an enterprise like the European Community is launched, what accounts for its subsequent growth, stabilization, or decline?" 1 That this question merited the thorough investigation they have given it-and indeed it did-suggests how great the need has been to reexamine recent theoretical notions concerning the process of regional integration in general and the European variant in particular. With the publication of Regional Integration, Theory and Research, 2 that re-examination is well under way. In both books the authors have laid bare mistakes and oversights in earlier theorizing, and in most instances have significantly altered their "models" accordingly. This capacity for criticism and reconstruction is admirable in that most of the contributors are revising their own earlier writings. In par

Dissolving International Politics: Reflections on the Nation-State

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