Benjamin Leruth is research associate at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, and guest researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. Christopher Lord is professor at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo.

• 1. Differentiated integration in the European Union: a concept, a process, a system or a theory? 2. The European Union as a system of differentiated integration: interdependence, politicization and differentiation 3. Utopia or dystopia? Towards a normative analysis of differentiated integration 4. Democracy and differentiation in Europe 5. Operationalizing national preferences on Europe and differentiated integration 6. The external face of differentiated integration: third country participation in EU sectoral bodies 7. Models of external differentiation in the EU’s neighbourhood: an expanding economic community? 8. Differentiated integration in the European Union: towards a comparative regionalism perspective

Benjamin Leruth is research associate at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, and guest researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. Christopher Lord is professor at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo.

• 1. Differentiated integration in the European Union: a concept, a process, a system or a theory? 2. The European Union as a system of differentiated integration: interdependence, politicization and differentiation 3. Utopia or dystopia? Towards a normative analysis of differentiated integration 4. Democracy and differentiation in Europe 5. Operationalizing national preferences on Europe and differentiated integration 6. The external face of differentiated integration: third country participation in EU sectoral bodies 7. Models of external differentiation in the EU’s neighbourhood: an expanding economic community? 8. Differentiated integration in the European Union: towards a comparative regionalism perspective

Benjamin Leruth is research associate at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, and guest researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. Christopher Lord is professor at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo.

• 1. Differentiated integration in the European Union: a concept, a process, a system or a theory? 2. The European Union as a system of differentiated integration: interdependence, politicization and differentiation 3. Utopia or dystopia? Towards a normative analysis of differentiated integration 4. Democracy and differentiation in Europe 5. Operationalizing national preferences on Europe and differentiated integration 6. The external face of differentiated integration: third country participation in EU sectoral bodies 7. Models of external differentiation in the EU’s neighbourhood: an expanding economic community? 8. Differentiated integration in the European Union: towards a comparative regionalism perspective