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📖 European Union and European Integration

Introduction

• Introduction and History of the European Integration Process
  • FU-IEI 1 Cini, Michelle and Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds.) (2013): Introduction. In: Cini, Michelle and Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds.): European Union Politics, Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-8.
  • FU-IEI 2 Urwin, Derek W. (2013): The European Community: From 1945 to 1985. In: Cini, Michelle and Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds.): European Union Politics, Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 11-25
  • FU-IEI 2 Phinnemore, David (2013): The European Union: Establishment and Development. In: Cini. Michelle and Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds.): European Union Politics. Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 26-40
  • FU-IEI 2 Church, Clive and David Phinnemore (2013): From the Constitutional Treaty to the Treaty of Lisbon and Beyond, In: Cini. Michelle and Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds.): European Union Politics. Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 41-56
  • FU-DEI 2 Dür, Andreas and Hiubert Zimmermann (2016): Introduction: Key Controversies in European Integration. In: Hubert Zimmermann and Andreas Dür (eds.): Key Controversies in European Integration. Second Edition. Houndsmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 1-9
  • FU-DEI 2 McCormick, John (2016): `Why Europe works’ and Jan Zielonka (2016): The rise and fall of the EU’. In: Zimmerman, Hubert and Andreas Dür (eds.): Key Controversies in European Integration. Second Edition. Houndsmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 10-28 (Chapter 1: The European Union: A Sucess or Falilure?)
  • McCornick, J. (2014): Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction. New York: Palgrave, I.
• European Integration Theories and Dilemmas
  • FU-IEI 3 Saurugger, Sabine (2016): Politicisation and Integration through law: whiter integration theory?. In: West European Politics 39(5): 933-952
  • FU-IEI 3 Diez, Thomas and Antje Wiener (2009): Introducing the Mosaic of Integration Theory. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-22
  • FU-DEI 3 Beach, Derek (2016): ‘A stronger, more supranational Union’ and Uwe Puetter (2016): ‘The new intergovernamentalism – the next phase in European integration’. In: Zimmermann and Dür: KCEI, 45-63 (Chapter 3: More Powers for Brussels or Renationalization?)

Institutional Dimension: EU Polity

• EU’s Council System & State-to-State
  • Bressanelli, Edoardo and Nicola Chelotti (2016): The Shadow of the European Council: Understanding Legislation on Economic Governance. In: Journal of European Integration 38(5): 511-525
  • Lewis, Jeffrey (2016): The European Council and the Council of the European Union. In: Cini, Michelle and Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds.): European Union Poliitcs. Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 138-154
  • Matthias Matthijs (2016): ‘The failure of German leadership’ and Miguel Otero-Iglesias and Hubert Zimmermann (2016): ‘A benign hegemon: Germany’s European vocation’. In: Zimmermann and Dür: KCEI, 234-250 (Chapter 15: A New German Hegemony: Does It Exist? Would it be dangerous?)
• European Commission
• European Parliament
• Courts of the EU

Procedural Dimension: EU Politics

• Policy-Making
• Interest Representation

Content Dimension: EU Policies

• Economic and Monetary Affairs
• Foreign Affairs
• Internal Affairs and Borders

Social Bases

• Contestation, Democracy and Legitimacy
• European Demos and European Identity
• Sociology and Society Formation
• Disintegration, Enlargement and Neighborhood