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Which Europe?

The Politics of Differentiated Integration

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Editors:
  1. Kenneth Dyson

    1. School of European Studies, Cardiff University, UK

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  2. Angelos Sepos

    1. School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK

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  • Differentiated integration is topical as the EU expands in policy scope and membership
  • Includes new research information about the scale of differentiated integration in Europe
  • Reexamination of different theories that might explain differentiated integration
  • High profile contributors including Andrew Gamble and Spyros Economides

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Context of Differentiated Integration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Differentiation as Design Principle and as Tool in the Political Management of European Integration

      • Kenneth Dyson, Angelos Sepos
      Pages 3-23

    3. Legal Flexibility, Governance and Differentiated Integration: On Functional Differentiation of EU Law and Politics

      • Jiří Přibáň
      Pages 24-38

    4. The Functional Dimension

      • Alkuin Kölliker
      Pages 39-53

    5. The Spatial Dimension

      • Michael Keating
      Pages 54-66

    6. The Temporal Dimension

      • Klaus H. Goetz
      Pages 67-80

  3. Territorial Manifestations of Differentiated Integration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Alpine Europe

      • Daniele Caramani
      Pages 83-98

    3. ‘Anglo-America’ and Atlantic Europe

      • Andrew Gamble
      Pages 99-111

    4. Balkan Europe

      • Spyros Economides
      Pages 112-125

    5. Baltic Europe

      • Marko Lehti
      Pages 126-141

    6. Central Europe

      • Béla Greskovits
      Pages 142-155

    7. Franco-German Europe

      • Alistair Cole
      Pages 156-169

    8. Mediterranean Europe

      • Paul M. Heywood, Lauren Mclaren
      Pages 170-183

    9. Nordic Europe

      • Lee Miles
      Pages 184-197

    10. Europe’s Neighbourhood and Transboundary Differentiation

      • Geoffrey Edwards
      Pages 198-212

  4. Functional Manifestations of Differentiated Integration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. ‘Euro’ Europe: ‘Fuzzy’ Boundaries and ‘Constrained’ Differentiation in Macro-Economic Governance

      • Kenneth Dyson
      Pages 215-232

    3. ‘Industrial’ Europe: The Softer Side of Differentiated Integration

      • David Howarth
      Pages 233-250
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The Euro Area, the Schengen Area, and Airbus - the 'Anglosphere', the Franco-German 'motor' and Nordic cooperation – each illustrates how differentiation has become a pervasive feature of European integration. Which Europe? offers an authoritative and comprehensive examination of differentiated integration in its functional and its territorial aspects. It focuses on its implications for both the practice and the theory of European integration. Is it strengthening or weakening the EU and its Member States? Are territorial identities being undermined or strengthened? Are new theories of integration required? In particular, this book looks at the relationship between the growth in use of differentiated integration and the widening of European Union membership, the broadening in its policy scope, and the deepening in integration.

Reviews

The complexity of differentiated integration combined with the rich portrayal of disciplines this concept embraces contributes to making this volume a demanding read ... A a must-read for all those pondering the question 'which Europe?' and aiming
to understand differentiated integration in particular and European integration in general.' - Cambridge Review of International Affairs
 
'This volume is unquestionably the most comprehensive and ambitious attempt to take stock of the causes and consequences of differentiation. Anyone who is interested in exploring differentiation in the EU will want to refer to this fascinating and agenda-setting volume, which is essential reading for scholars and students of European and international politics.' - West European Politics The complexity of differentiated integration combined with the rich portrayal of disciplines this concept embraces contributes to making this volume a demanding read ... A a must-read for all those pondering the question 'which Europe?' and aiming

to understand differentiated integration in particular and European integration in general.' - Cambridge Review of International Affairs

 

'This volume is unquestionably the most comprehensive and ambitious attempt to take stock of the causes and consequences of differentiation. Anyone who is interested in exploring differentiation in the EU will want to refer to this fascinating and agenda-setting volume, which is essential reading for scholars and students of European and international politics.' - West European Politics

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of European Studies, Cardiff University, UK

    Kenneth Dyson

  • School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK

    Angelos Sepos

About the editors

Kenneth Dyson is Research Professor in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Academician of the Social Sciences. His research interests encompass European integration, comparative and historical political economy, and German political studies. His publications include The State Tradition in Western Europe; The Road to Maastricht (with Kevin Featherstone), chosen by the European Parliament as one of the 100 best reads on European integration; and States, Debt, and Power: 'Saints' and 'Sinners' In European History and Integration, which received the UACES Best Book Prize in 2015.
 
Angelos Sepos is Assistant Professor in International & European Politics at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. He is the author of the book The Europeanization of Cyprus: Polity, Policies and Politics Basingstoke (2008) and has also published articles in numerous edited volumes and leading scientific journals such as the Journal of Political Power, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans and Regional and Federal Studies.

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