Dimitris N Chryssochoou is Reader in European Integration at the University of Exeter. He has held visiting posts at Cambridge and Columbia Universities.

`This thoughtful and original critique of integration theories is a most welcome addition to the literature on the EU. Dimitris Chryssochoou′s perceptive and thought-provoking analysis offers many original insights and will be a valuable reference tool for those interested in contemporary Europe′ -Glenda G Rosenthal, Columbia University`An essential text for all serious students of the European Union... it produces sharp insights and a sense of the totality of what has been achieved′ - Paul Taylor, London School of Economics and Political Science`This is a highly sophisticated exercise in theorizing about the European Union that splendidly achieves its objective... Chryssochoou has provided an exceptionally good guide, useful, shrewd and full of insight′ - Geoffrey Edwards, Cambridge University

• IntroductionPART ONE: THEORYIntegration Theory and its UsesPART TWO: THEORIESFormative TheoriesStructure versus ProcessThe Consensual PhaseAutonomy through ControlPART THREE: THEORIZINGParadigm ShiftFrom Policy to PolityTheorizing the European ConsociationPART FOUR: METATHEORYCapturing the Normative Turn