scholarly journals 13. Taking Stock of Integration Theory

2018 ◽  
pp. 256-272
Author(s):  
Antje Wiener
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
Treaty Of Rome ◽  
Normative Dimension ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Security Crises

This chapter takes stock of the third edition of European Integration Theory in three steps. First, it offers a comparative perspective on the distinct contributions to the mosaic of integration presented by each chapter. The assessment is framed by three sea-faring metaphors of European integration, and details the insights derived by each of the book’s contributions from addressing the kind of polity, politics, and policy based on the three types of crises (i.e. economic, refugee, and security). Second, the chapter addresses the absence of security crises in the book’s contributions. To reverse that absence, it distinguishes the impact of integration along a horizontal regional comparative dimension and a vertical normative dimension. The former builds on insights from regional integration, the latter connects normative crises in EU sub-units with global conflicts. And third, the chapter addresses the question of how integration theory fares sixty years on from the Treaty of Rome, and points out potential issues and themes for the future of European integration theory.

European Integration Theory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antje Wiener ◽  
Tanja A. Börzel ◽  
Thomas Risse
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
The Third ◽  
Liberal Intergovernmentalism ◽  
Emerging Issues

European Integration Theory provides an overview of the major approaches to European integration, from federalism and neofunctionalism to liberal intergovernmentalism, social constructivism, normative theory, and critical political economy. Each chapter represents a contribution to the ‘mosaic of integration theory’. The contributors reflect on the development, achievements, and problems of their respective approach. In the fully revised and updated third edition, the contributors examine current crises with regard to the economy, migration, and security. Two concluding chapters assess, comparatively, the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, and look at the emerging issues. The third edition includes new contributions on the topics of regional integration, discourse analysis, federalism, and critical political economy.

Policy analysis in think tanks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna ◽  
Marcela I. Vazquez
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
The Impact

The chapter provides an overview of how policy analysis takes place in Mexican Think Tanks. It focuses on two of the few organisations of this kind that currently exist in the country: the Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo (CIDAC, or Centre for Research for Development) and the Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias (CEEY, or Centre of Studies Espinosa Yglesias). The chapter is divided into four sections. The first discusses the main features of think tanks, with a particular focus on the Mexican ones. The second presents the origins and general objectives of CIDAC and CEEY, and describes how these two organizations conduct policy analysis. The third compares both cases, paying particular attention to how they define their topics of interest, how they gather relevant information, what kind of policy products they generate, what kind of communication channels they use, and how they assess the impact that their analyses may have had. The chapter closes with some conclusions and general remarks about the future challenges of policy analysis in Mexican think tanks.

scholarly journals Value Added Taxation during the Third European Integration (the Treaty of Rome of 1957)

Taxes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Dmitriy G. Bachurin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Development ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Value Added ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Third ◽  
Treaty Of Rome ◽  
Legal Mechanism

Based on an analysis of the regulatory framework of the modified value added tax (VAT), the author has studied the characteristics and singled out periods of the Europe-wide value added taxation. It is noted that the legal mechanism of value added taxation acquires the quality of a rather dynamic regulator of economics in the conditions of the European Union, while the arising effects of social correction, slowdown of capital widening and economic integration processes positively affect social development in each socially oriented European states.

Transitional Justice in Comparative Perspective

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra Lekha Sriram
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Impact

Chapter 2, by Chandra Lekha Sriram, offers comparative lessons and challenges in understanding transitional justice from a global perspective, with some examples from and reflections for the MENA region. She identifies four types of challenges in discussing the topic, which have arisen from experiences in other regions but are equally relevant in the region. The first is how the impact of transitional justice can be assessed, if at all. The second is that of who is calling for transitional justice, and what the views of it are, particularly from the grass-roots level. The third is that of the effects of institutional design of specific transitional justice measures. And the final challenge is the appropriate scope of such measures, including whether they should include a range of social and economic concerns.

China’s One Belt and One Road: Implications of ‘New Eurasian Land Bridge’ on Global Power Play in the Region

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fareeha Sarwar
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
Land Bridge ◽  
Global War On Terrorism ◽  
Global Power ◽  
International Power ◽  
Global War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Power Play

China’s ‘One Belt and One Road Initiative’ (OBOR) transliterated from Chinese ‘Yi Dai Yi Lu’ is the prime focus of international politics. No other development has gained so much importance after Global war on terrorism. This paper will focus on impact of OBOR on regional politics with narrowed down focus on New Eurasian land bridge. This analysis of Eurasian belt will lead to study of counter policies of international players like USA and Russia to counter Chinese influence in the region. This analytical and prognostic study will bring into focus the impact of OBOR on international power play especially on the regional peace in Eurasia. To analyze the importance of OBOR and regional complexity we need to understand the theoretical aspects of connectivity and cooperation. Inter- Regional integration theory proposed in the work of Luk Van Langenhov with major tenants of regional integration is the best description of China’s initiative. Another important corridor will come under discussion given its role as ‘zipper’ in Belt and Road Initiative that is China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The last part of study will bring to attention international response of key players towards OBOR whose strategic and economic interest in this part of world are at stake which makes current global power play much more complex and uncertainty prevails. But in this age of economic interdependence, finding ways for peaceful co-existence is crucial as no one can afford otherwise.

Al-Aqsa Mosque and The Third Palestinian Intifada

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-136
Author(s):  
Bashir Abul Qaraya
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Native People ◽  
Palestinian Authority ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
The Third ◽  
Safe Level ◽  
The Future ◽  
Political Differences ◽  
The Impact

Objective - This paper highlights the threats that Al-Aqsa Mosque is exposed from the Zionist entity. It seeks to recognize the gradual Judaizing attempts that are being implemented on the factual level. In more comprehensive frameworks, the paper also addresses the Judaizing of Jerusalem science occupying the sacred city in 1967. There is no doubt that these Zionist practices have led to igniting a third Intifada. This paper examines the evolution of active power's map and their interactions, which includes: The Israeli occupation authority, Jewish religious groups, the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian militant factions, Fatah and Hamas, The Palestinian people, the Arab regimes, and the Arab peoples. The paper is interested in analysing the Palestinian political differences and the evolution of political situations in the Arab region. The paper also addresses the impact of the Arab situations on the Israeli political behaviour and the extent to which the region is passing through an appropriate opportunity toward more Zionist violations and accelerating the Judaizing of the Holy City, which include the Islamic sanctities and the Palestinian suburbs of Jerusalem, the native people of the city. The paper also covers the developments and the new phenomena in particular, and at the forefront the rise of Palestinian Intifada's phenomenon which called: the third Intifada. Methodology/Technique - The study reviews previous literature. Findings - The paper concludes at the end of the analysis to provide a vision for the future of contemplative Al-Aqsa mosque, runs from two visions; one is pessimistic and the other is optimistic. Every approach has its private determinants, on the safe level in particular, which related to the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic reality. Novelty - Accordingly, this paper will analyse four topics: Judaizing of Jerusalem, threats of Judaizing Al-Aqsa Mosque, the rise of the Intifada's phenomenon, and the future of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Type of Paper: Review Keywords: Mosque; Aqsa Mosque; Jerusalem; Arab Israeli Conflict; Judaize; Intifada; Theoretical Models; Islamic Political Thought; Political Theory; Political Science. JEL Classification: F51, F53.

10. Brexit and the Future of Two Unions

2018 ◽  
pp. 216-237
Author(s):  
Daniel Kenealy ◽  
John Peterson ◽  
Richard Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Shock Waves ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Decision To Leave ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
British People ◽  
Theresa May ◽  
The Eu

This chapter considers the impact of the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) decision to leave the EU. In June 2016, the UK held a referendum on continuing its EU membership. The UK voted to leave the EU by a narrow margin, but one large enough for its new Prime Minister (after David Cameron, who called the referendum, resigned), Theresa May, to call ‘Brexit’ (the process of Britain exiting the EU) ‘the settled will of the British people’. The result sent shock waves across Europe. This chapter seeks to explain how and why the Brexit vote occurred and what might happen—both to the UK and to the EU—as a result. Possible outcomes of the negotiations on Brexit are considered with a view to assessing their impact on the UK, the EU, and the future of European integration.

The Practice of Interdependence in the Research and Development Sector: Fast Reactor Cooperation in Western Europe

1972 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry R. Nau
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Fast Reactor ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Present System ◽  
The Impact

Scholars of international politics have recently offered the concepts of transnationalism and interdependence as alternatives to the state-centric paradigm for studying the impact of advancing technology on modern world politics.1 While these concepts in themselves are not new and may, to some extent, share the normative biases of earlier theoretical challenges to the state-centric model (e.g., regional integration theory),2 they should be examined separately because of the undeniable increase of transnational economic and social activities in the present system.

Comparative Regionalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Söderbaum
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
General Belief ◽  
General Decline ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Policy Fields ◽  
Comparative Regionalism

Comparative regionalism refers to the study of (“world”) regions and regionalism in comparative perspective. The field emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, and the keyword was “regional integration,” which reflected the dominance of European integration theory and practice. Although the early debate—later referred to as “old regionalism”—took comparison seriously, a general belief emerged that regionalism in the rest of the world deviated from the European integration experience. After a general decline of regionalism in the 1970s and 1980s, the phenomenon reemerged after the end of the Cold War. The explosion of literature on regionalism in the 1990s and early 2000s—often referred to as “new regionalism”—emphasized that regionalism was a global and multidimensional phenomenon, involving both state and nonstate actors across a growing number of policy fields and in a variety of forms and institutional designs. The research field remained fragmented in the 1990s and early 2000s, characterized by rivalries and a lack of dialogue between theoretical and methodological standpoints as well as regional and thematic specializations. Since the latter half of the 2000s, the intellectual landscape changed again and comparative regionalism has consolidated as a research field, with greater acceptance of contrasting theoretical and methodological perspectives and with more advanced comparisons across both regions and policy fields. The result has been that the research field is no longer structured in a hub-and-spoke fashion around Europe versus the rest. By implication, the concept of regional integration has been subsumed under a broader and more general conceptual umbrella, and it has become established to refer to the research field as comparative regionalism.

Salazar, London and the Process of European Integration up until the Signing of the Treaty of Rome

2018 ◽  
pp. 265-293
Author(s):  
António Lopes
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Free Trade Area ◽  
Common Market ◽  
The Political ◽  
Customs Union ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
The Third ◽  
Trade Area ◽  
Treaty Of Rome ◽  
The Common

This article aims to shed some light on the political and ideological agendas of both London and Lisbon during the process leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Rome, on 25 March 1957. It focuses on four main questions. The frst one is on how the colonial issue still influenced their attitudes towards the process of European integration. The second one explores how the risks of isolation conditioned their understanding of the commercial and economic potential of a European common market. The third question addresses their inability to identify themselves with the principles and values of the European project. The fourth one seeks to ascertain the views exchanged between the British and Portuguese governments on issues such as the customs union, the common market and the free trade area.

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