Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
Part I
1: Europe's Compromising Union
2: The Member State Paradigm
3: From Nation-States to Member States: A Brief History
Part II
4: European Economic Integration and State Transformation
5: From Nation-States to Member States in European Foreign Policy
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Winner of the Best Book of 2013 prize awarded by the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES)

About the Author

Chris J. Bickerton obtained his PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford. He has taught at Oxford and the University of Amsterdam and is currently Associate Professor of International Relations at Sciences Po, Paris. He has published widely on international politics and European integration and is the author of European Union Foreign Policy: From Effectiveness to Functionality (Palgrave, 2011). He writes frequently for the European
press, is a regular contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique and is co-founder of the political economy blog, The Current Moment .

Reviews

Bickertons intelligent, thoroughly researched, and unusually perceptive book is a very welcome innovative intervention in what is otherwise a largely stale debate on the nature and telos of European integration. It is beautifully and accessibly written and should be obligatory reading for all students and teachers of European politics, member state foreign policy, and international relations more broadly.
*Annette Freyberg-Inan, Swiss Political Science Review,*

European Integration is a masterful reconsideration of the nature and trajectory of the EU. It breaks new ground with its compelling argument that European integration is best understood as a process of state transformation from nation-state members into member-states. And it raises thoughtful questions about the consequences of member statehood for Europe both internally, with regard to democracy, and externally, in terms of its international presence. A highly readable book, it should be recommended to friends, students, and colleagues who keep asking what is the EU, how it works and why does Europe need it.
*Vivien A. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Director of the Center for the Study of Europe, Boston University*

Bickerton's superb book brings the EU back to earth...Never has a book been so timely.
*Bruno Waterfield, Daily Telegraph*

This insightful and original book will broaden our understanding of the present-day crisis of European integration... an extremely valuable intellectual resource.
*Jan Zielonka, Professor of European Politics, University of Oxford*

This is by far the conceptually most innovative contribution to the study of European integration that I have seen in decades. It impressively links the study of the European Union, all too often pursued as a stand-alone speciality, to comparative politics, the political economy of postwar capitalism, international relations, and theories of contemporary statehood. The book places its subject in the context of the still ongoing dissolution of the Keynesian corporatist order of the Golden Age. It combines rich historical narrative with painstaking and highly original conceptual work, as well as with a grounded understanding of the difficult problems currently faced by the European state system.
*Wolfgang Streeck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany*