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Regional Integration and the European Union

Regional Integration and the European Union. International organizations The European Union (EU) as an international organization Ideas to explain the nature of the EU system of administration and government: confederalism and federalism Theories of the European integration:

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Regional Integration and the European Union

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  1. Regional Integration and the European Union • International organizations • The European Union (EU) as an international organization • Ideas to explain the nature of the EU system of administration and government: confederalism and federalism • Theories of the European integration: • traditional approaches: neo-functionalism and intergovernmentalism • The rationalist research programme

  2. International Organizations • IR conceptualization of the international organizations: definitions and issues - Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) • International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) • Hybrid international organizations • The EU as an international organizations: ‘international organization’ features and the sui generis nature of the Union

  3. Confederalism and Federalism Ideas • The confederal system- definitions and examples • The federal system- definitions and examples • The EU confederalist features • The EU federalist features

  4. Theories of the European integration- traditional approaches • Neofunctionalism- Ernst Haas - Integration as a gradual and self-sustaining process - Functional spillover and political spillover; - Supranational institutions. • Intergovernmentalism- Robert Keohane and Stanley Hoffman The role of the national governments • Comparison between the two approaches - Explanatory logic; - Key actors conceived; - The ‘N=1 problem’.

  5. Theories of the European integration- the rationalist research programme • Realist approaches • Neo-realism- no security concerns in Western Europe; • Grieco- the ‘voice opportunity hypothesis’. • Liberal Intergovernmentalism (LI) • Moravcsik’s three-fold model: generation of national preferences at the domestic level, intergovernmental bargaining and theory of institutional choice (pooling and delegation of sovereignty). - critics of LI- constructivist, intuitionalist (historical and rational-choice institutionalism) and governance literature. • Rational-choice Institutionalism: assumptions on the role of institutions, focus on ECJ and P-A analysis, comitology and analysis of the legislative process.

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