Key Controversies in European Integration

Hubert Zimmermann is Professor of International Relations at Philipp University of Marburg. He also taught at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, and Ruhr-University, Bochum. He received his PhD from the European University Institute, Florence. He has published on EU foreign economic and security policies, transatlantic relations, and international monetary and financial issues.Andreas Dür is Professor of International Politics at the University of Salzburg. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. Prior to taking up his current position, he was a research fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research and a lecturer at University College Dublin. Dür has published nearly 50 peer-reviewed articles on trade policy, interest group politics, and European integration. His most recent books are Insiders versus Outsiders: Interest Group Politics in Multilevel Europe (Oxford University Press, 2016) and The Political Influence of Business in the European Union (University of Michigan Press, 2019).

For the past decade, this has been one of the go-to titles for understanding the key tensions in the process of European integration: thoughtful and stimulating, it offers a window to the basic questions that drive both academic study and political debate around the European Union. Bringing together an impressive line-up of authors, it highlights the vibrancy of European Studies.

• Introduction1. The European Union: Success or Failure?Why Europe Works; John McCormickThe Rise and Fall of the EU; Jan Zielonka2. More Powers for Brussels or Renationalization?A Stronger, More Supranational Union; Derek BeachThe New Intergovernmentalism and European Integration; Uwe Puetter3. How Democratic is the EU?The Inevitability of a Democratic Deficit; Richard BellamyA Democratic Achievement, Not Just a Democratic Deficit; Christopher Lord4. Too Much Power for the Judges?Understanding the European Court's Political Power; Karen Alter and Daniel KelemenA Strange Institution; Jeremy Rabkin5. Can There Be A Common European Identity?European Identity Formation in (the) Crisis; Ulrike LiebertA Common European Identity is an Illusion; Jonathan White6. Lobbying in the EU: How Much Power for Big Business?Still Influential After All These Years Corporate Interests in the EU; Laura Horn and Angela WiggerThe Diminishing Power of Big Business; David Marshall7. The Uncertain Future of the EuroWhy the Euro is a Functional Necessity in the Process of European Integration; Henrik EnderleinFor a Plurality of Economic and Social Models! Against the Uniform Euro State!; Andreas Nölke8. Can the EU Tame Big Finance?The Merits of Adaptive Governance: The Regulation of Financial Services in the EU; Jörn Carsten GottwaldThe Pitfalls of EU Governance in Financial Markets; Daniel Mügge9. The Big Waste? The Common Agricultural PolicyThe CAP: Dilemmas and Facts; Anastassios HaniotisThe Common Agricultural Policy: an Environmental, Social and Sanitary Failure; Eve Fouilleux10. Does the EU Act as a Normative Power?The EU as Normative Power; Daniela SicurelliLiving in a Material World: A Critique of 'Normative Power Europe'; Mark Pollack11. Has EU Enlargement Gone Too Far?The Case for European Union Enlargement; Rachel EpsteinEU Enlargement: A Critique; Christopher J. Bickerton12. Towards A Common European Army?The European Union’s CSDP: the Great Illusion; Luca RattiDefence Integration in the EU: From Vision to Business-as-Usual; Hanna Ojanen13. Britain’s Decision to Leave the EU: Good or Bad?In Defence of Brexit; Christopher J. BickertonBrexit-a Political and Economic Disaster for Britain; Martin Rhodes14. New German Hegemony: Does It Exist, And Is It Dangerous?A Benign Hegemon: Germany’s European Vocation; Miguel Otero-Iglesias and Hubert ZimmermannThe Failure of German Leadership; Matthias Matthijs15. What Future for the Transatlantic Partnership?Dis-Atlanticism: The West in an Era of Global Fragmentation; Rawi Abdelal and Ulrich KrotzA Transatlantic Strategy for the Liberal Order; Bart SzewzykConclusion.