The State of the (European) Union

From the Single Market to Maastricht, from Singular Events to General Theories

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21019128
AutoresJeffrey J Anderson (0000-0002-0517-8583, John Brown University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen47
Número3
Páginas441-465
Fecha de publicación1995-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWorld Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0043887100016452
OpenAlexW2329290600
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas29

This review article examines four recent volumes on the European Union, each of which takes as its substantive and theoretical starting point the relaunching of the European Community in the mid-1980s around the single market initiative. Taken together, they provide a comprehensive account of the momentous events leading up to the Maastricht summit. They also present an accurate reflection of the current state of the subfield. Their basic research agenda, a continuation of traditional approaches in Community studies, revolves around the “big bangs” of integration and the conventional models of neofunctionalism and intergovemmentalism. This scholarly continuity generates unwelcome consequences for the selection of research puzzles and for the robustness and reach of the findings. As a remedy, several strategies—some methodological, others theoretical—are outlined for generating new insights into the growing complexity of the European Union

Cognitive psychology · Economic and monetary union · Economic policy · Economics · European integration · European union · Feature integration theory · Geography · Maastricht Treaty · Political economy · Political science · Positive economics · Robustness (evolution) · Single market · State (computer science) · Summit · Computer Science · European Union Policy and Governance · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Psychology · Regional Development and Policy