European Republicanism
Combining Political Theory with Economic Rationale
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Beschreibung
This book presents current theories of European integration, such as federalism, neo-functionalism and liberal intergovernmentalism with their strengths and weaknesses. It is then argued that the combination of republican theory with public good theory, the res publica of public goods, could better explain European integration. Public good theory has, however, to be adopted in order to make it applicable to European republicanism. Finally, the book demonstrates how this new framework can influence further academic debates, such as on sovereignty and monetary integration, externalities of a common European market and the driving force of European integration. It is maintained that as the republican approach does not follow a pure economic logic, there remains space for political considerations and motivations.
In this topical and interdisciplinary book, the author combines many important strings of European integration theory, history, economics and political sciences, which are clearly brought together into a coherent analytical discourse. Its strength is the interdisciplinary interaction between politics and economics, as well as theoretical and practical issues which are of high relevance for public debate in Europe.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students interested in economic integration, as well as history and political philosophy.
Provides a critical overview of current theories of European integration Offers a new and refreshing approach to explain European integration Compares existing theories of European integration with the new approach of European Republicanism, to demonstrate how European integration theories could be developed further
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Thilo Zimmermann
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European integration European republicanism Sovereignty Federalism Economic governance Neo-functionalism Liberal intergovernmentalism European Integration Theory Public good theory Common Capital Market
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“The purpose of this ambitious book is to harness historical, philosophical, economic and political science arguments to give conceptual foundations to European unification. The project and the implementation of European unity come out as a determined, but also vulnerable, endeavour. The difficulties in identifying the concepts match the practical difficulties in dealing with the recent crisis. The book proposes republicanism as the organizing concept to understand the European project. All those interested in the simple, yet tremendously complex, question of what is the European Union should read it.” (Francesco Papadia, Senior Fellow at Bruegel Institute, Brussels, Belgium)
“A remarkable book that provides a convincing theoretical case for why we do best to think about European integration in terms of republicanism, rather than federalism or any of the many other ways it has been theorized. Combining economic and political theory, the book provides highly original arguments that develop a new view of how to move beyond Europe’s current impasse.” (Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, US)
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