Dimitris N. (University of Crete, Greece) Chryssochoou 
Theorizing European Integration [PDF ebook] 

Fully revised and updated throughout, Theorizing European Integration 2nd edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical study of European integration. Combining perspectives from international relations, comparative politics and social and political theory, Dimitris N. Chryssochoou offers a complete overview of the many competing approaches that have sought to capture and explain the evolving political nature of the European Union (EU) and its qualitative transition from a union of states to a polity in its own right.

Contemporary issues, themes and theories addressed include:

• the different uses and current state of EU theorizing


• statecentric accounts of integration and their critics


• new normative challenges to the study of the EU


• the political dynamics of European treaty reform


• new forms of democracy, citizenship and governance


• the limits and possibilities of EU constitutionalism


• interdisciplinary understandings of EU polityhood


• the introduction of a theory of organized synarchy


• the transformations of state sovereignty in late modern Europe.