1st Edition

Differentiated Integration in the European Union

Edited By Benjamin Leruth, Christopher Lord Copyright 2016
154 Pages
by Routledge

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by Routledge

160 Pages
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The notion of Differentiated Integration is increasingly used in the literature on European integration. Often employed interchangeably with the notion of "flexible integration, diverging views on its nature have led to the emergence of various definitions and, to some extent, a semantic confusion. A lack of consensus characterizes the academic literature; some authors even avoid putting an... Read more

1. Differentiated integration in the European Union: a concept, a process, a system or a theory?  Benjamin Leruth and Christopher Lord

2. The European Union as a system of differentiated integration: interdependence, politicization and differentiation  Frank Schimmelfennig, Dirk Leuffen and Berthold Rittberger

3. Utopia or dystopia? Towards a normative analysis of differentiated integration  Christopher Lord

4. Democracy and differentiation in Europe  John Erik Fossum

5. Operationalizing national preferences on Europe and differentiated integration  Benjamin Leruth

6. The external face of differentiated integration: third country participation in EU sectoral bodies  Sandra Lavenex

7. Models of external differentiation in the EU’s neighbourhood: an expanding economic community?  Sieglinde Gstöhl

8. Differentiated integration in the European Union: towards a comparative regionalism perspective  Alex Warleigh-Lack

Biography

Benjamin Leruth is research associate at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, and guest researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo.

Christopher Lord is professor at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo.