What Makes the EU Viable?

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Questioning What Makes the EU Viable

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3. The Problem of Viability in a Compound Polity

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4. Developing an Analogical Comparison between the EU and the Antebellum US Republic

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5. Comparing How the Rules of the Game are Contested

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6. The Struggle to Maintain a Compound System: Creating and Contesting the Rules of the Game in European Integration

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7. Contrasting and Explaining the Viability of Two Compound Systems

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8. The Future Evolution of the EU Compound Polity: The Obstacles to Voluntary Centralization

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9. Conclusion: Implications for EU Studies and the Debate over the Future of Integration

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   Pages 182-188

10. Back Matter

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Drawing on international relations theory, law and historical analysis, this book compares European integration with the antebellum USA to assess what makes the EU viable despite contestation over the rules of the game of integration. It reveals that changing the system of representation is no shortcut solution for the EU's constitutional woes.

• constitution
• desegregation
• Europe
• European Integration
• European Union (EU)
• international relations
• european union politics

'A highly original, well-written and conceptualized book that makes an important contribution to ongoing debates in both EU studies and IR. The analysis provides a well articulated, critical vantage point for the assessment of the viability of the European integration process and will also be read with great interest and profit by all those interested in the reasons for the failure of the original US design.' - Friedrich Kratochwil, Professor of International Relations, European University Institute, Italy

'An outstanding contribution to the study of international politics. Firmly grounded in a mastery of several substantial literatures, this treatment of both the US and EU cases is distinguished by its historical and theoretical sophistication and breaks important new ground in its sophisticated comparative treatment of these cases.' - Daniel Deudney, Associate Professor of Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University, USA

• University of Pennsylvania, USA

  Andrew Glencross

ANDREW GLENCROSS is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research focuses on European integration, especially the problem of negotiating state sovereignty and configuring political representation in the EU as compared with the United States.

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