Reflections on European Integration

David Phinnemore is Professor of European Politics at Queen's University Belfast and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. He has published widely on the enlargement of the European Union and EU treaty reform. He is author of The Treaty of Lisbon: Origins and Negotiation (2013) Alex Warleigh-Lack is Professorial Research Fellow at the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS, Bruges), Belgium. He held Chairs at the University of Limerick, Brunel University London and the University of Surrey, where he was also Jean Monnet Chair. He was the Chair of UACES, the world's largest EU studies association, from 2006-9. Including this one, he has written and edited/co-edited thirteen books in the fields of EU studies and comparative regional integration.

"...an important contribution to the study of the EU." - Political Studies Review  "This is a book for connoisseurs." Journal of Common Market Studies

• Introduction; D.Phinnemore& A.Warleigh LackPART 1: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION FROM THE EEC'S FOUNDING TO THE PRESENTSome Reflections on Fifty Years of Experience since the Signature of the Treaties of Rome; H.WallaceBringing People and Ideas Back In: Historical Research on the European Union; W.KaiserPART II: INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTSThe Heroic Age of European Integration is Over: Institutional and Policy Developments, 1957–2007; M.A.Pollack& M.A.RuhlmanThe Role of the European Council in Institutional and Policy Developments in the European Union; P.Skytte ChristoffersenFairy Tale of Luxembourg? Reflections on Law and Legal Scholarship in European Integration; J.Hunt& J.ShawInstitutional and Policy Analysis in the European Union: from the Treaty of Rome to the Present; S.BulmerPART III: TOUGH AND CHALLENGING JOURNEYSThe International Impact of European Integration: Key Events, Players and Trends; J.Howorth50 Years of Economic and Monetary Union: A Hard and Thorny Journey; K.DysonPART IV: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND THE MEMBER STATESOne Union, One Story? In Praise of Europe's Narrative Diversity; K.NicolaIdis& J.PélabayThe EU and Its Member-States: From Bottom Up to Top Down; V.SchmidtConclusion: Reflections on the Past and Future of European Union Studies; D.Phinnemore& A.Warleigh LackBibliographyIndex