European integration and the social science of EU studies: The disciplinary politics of a subfield

International Affairs

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 231-252

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1. The term. 'EU studies' is used here to describe the totality of academic work from across a range of social scientific fields that has engaged with and theorized about European integration and the institutional, policy-making and governance dimensions of what is now called the European Union.
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6. See J. H. H. Weiler, 'The transformation of Europe', Yale Law Journal 100: 8, 1991, pp. 2405-503;
7. Daniel Wincott, 'Institutional interaction and European integration: towards an everyday critique of liberal intergovernmentalism', Journal of Common Market Studies 33: 4, 1995, pp. 597-609.
8. See Andrew Moravcsik, "What can we learn from the collapse of the European constitutional project?', Politische Vierteljahresschrift 42: 7, 2006, pp. 219-41.
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11. See e.g. Julie T. Klein, Crossing boundaries: knowledge, disciplinarities and interdisciplinarities (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1996);
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14. For a clear example In (American) political science, see Kerstin Renwick Monroe, ed., Perestrokal The raucous rebellion in political science (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005).
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16. Alex Warleigh, 'In defence of intra-disciplinarity: "European studies", the "new regionalism" and the issue of democratisation', Cambridge Review of International Affairs 17: 2, 2004, pp. 301-18.
17. Wessels, 'Cleavages', pp. 240-43.
18. John Keeler, 'Mapping EU studies: the evolution from boutique to boom field 1960-2001', Journal of Common Market Studies 43: 3, 2005, p. 571.
19. See Gail McElroy, 'Legislative politics', in Knud Erik Jørgensen, Mark A. Pollack and Ben Rosamond, eds, Handbook of European Union politics (London: Sage, 2007), pp. 175-94.
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21. Christopher Hill and Michael Smith, eds, International Relations and the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005);
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23. Helen Wallace, 'An institutional anatomy and five policy modes', in Helen Wallace, William Wallace and Mark A. Pollack, eds, Policy-making in the European Union, 5th edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 49-90;
24. Manuele Citi and Martin Rhodes, 'New modes of governance in the European Union: a critical survey and analysis', in Knud Erik Jargensen, Mark A. Pollack and Ben Rosamond, eds, Handbook of European Union politics (London: Sage, 2007), pp. 483-504.
25. Giandomenico Majone, Dilemmas of European integration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005);
26. Alasdair R. Young, 'The politics of regulation and the internal market', in Knud Erik Jørgensen, Mark A. Pollack and Ben Rosamond, eds, Handbook of European Union politics (London: Sage, 2007), pp. 373-94.
27. See e.g. Andrew Jordan, ed., Environmental policy in the European Union: actors, institutions and processes (London: Earths can, 2000).
28. See e.g. Richard Bellamy and Darlo Castiglione, 'Legitimizing the Euro-"polity" and its regime: the normative turn in EU studies', European Journal of Political Theory 2: 1, 2003, pp. 7-34;
29. Lynn Dobson, Supranational citizenship (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005);
30. Andreas Føllesdal, 'Normative political theory and the European Union', in Knud Erik Jørgensen, Mark A. Pollack and Ben Rosamond, eds, Handbook of European Union politics (London: Sage, 2007), pp. 317-35.
31. See Andrew Moravcsik, 'In defence of the "democratic deficit" : reassessing legitimacy in the European Union', Journal of Common Market Studies 40: 4, 2002, pp. 603-24;
32. Andreas Føllesdal and Simon Hix, 'Why there is a democratic deficit in the EU: a response to Majone and Moravcsik', Journal of Common Market Studies 44: 3, 2006, pp. 533-62.
33. Erik Jones and Amy Verdun, eds, The political economy of European integration: theory and analysis (London: Routledge, 2005).
34. Kevin Featherstone and Claudio M. Radaelli, eds, The politics of Europeanization ion (oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003);
35. Claudio M. Radaelli, 'Europeanization: solution or problem?', in Michelle Cini and Angela K. Bourne, eds, Palgrave advances in European Union Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 56-76.
36. Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders, eds, Multi-level governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004);
37. Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks, Multi-level governance and European integration (Lanham, MD: Rowrnan & Littlefield, 2001).
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39. Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Robert Howse, The federal vision: legitimacy and levels of governance in the United States and the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
40. Keeler, 'Mapping EU studies', p. 556.
41. Ben Rosamond, 'The political sciences of European integration: disciplinary history and EU studies', in Knud Erik Jørgensen, Mark A. Pollack and Ben Rosamond, eds, Handbook of European Union politics (London: Sage, 2007), pp. 9-13.
42. The key texts are Ernst B. Haas, The uniting of Europe: political, social and economic forces, 1910-1957, 3rd edn (Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2004);
43. Leon N. Lindberg, The political dynamics of European economic integration (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1963);
44. Leon N. Lindberg and Stuart A. Scheingold, eds, Regional integration: theory and research (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971).
45. For a summary and analysis, see Ben Rosamond, Theories of European integration (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), ch. 3.
46. Stanley Hoffmann, 'Obstinate or obsolete? The fate of the nation-state and the case of western Europe', Daedalus 95: 3, 1966 PP. 862-915;
47. Roger Hansen, 'European integration: reflections on a decade of theoretical efforts', World Politics 21: 2, 1969, pp. 242-71.
48. Simon Hix, 'The study of the European Community: the challenge to comparative polities', West European Politics 17: 1, 1994, pp. 1-30;
49. Simon Hix, 'The study of the European Union II: the "new governance" agenda and its rival', Journal of European Public Policy 5: 1, 1998, pp. 38-65;
50. Simon Hix, The political system of the European Union, 2nd edn (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macniillan, 2005).
51. Thomas Diez and Antje Wiener, 'Introducing the mosaic of integration theory', in Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez, eds, European integration theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 1-21.
52. Ole Wæver, 'The structure of the IR discipline: a proto-comparative analysis', paper presented at the annual convention of the International Studies Association, Portland, Oregon, 25 Feb.-1 March 2003, p. 5 (emphasis added).
53. See also Ole Wæver, 'The sociology of a not so international discipline: American and European developments in International Relations', International Organisation 52: 4, 1998, pp. 687-727.
54. Stefan Collini, Donald Winch and David Burrow, That noble science of politics: a study in nineteenth century intellectual history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), p. 4.
55. John Gerard Ruggie, Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane and Philippe C. Schmitter, 'Transformations in world politics: the intellectual contributions of Ernst B. Haas', Annual Review of Political Science 8, 2005, pp. 271-96;
56. Ben Rosamond, 'The uniting of Europe and the foundation of EU studies: revisiting the neo-functionalism of Ernst B. Haas', Journal of European Public Policy 12: 2, 2005, pp. 237-54.
57. Ernst B. Haas, 'Does constructivism, subsume neo-functioualism?', in Thomas Christiausen, Knud Erik Jørgensenand Antje Wiener, eds, The social construction of Europe (London: Sage, 2001), p. 23.
58. See Ernst B. Haas and Philippe C. Schmitter, 'Economics and differential patterns of integration: projections about unity in Latin America', International Organization 18: 4, 1964, pp. 705-37;
59. Joseph S. Nye, 'Comparing common markets: a revised neo-functionalist model', in Leon N. Lindberg and Stuart A. Scheingold, eds, Regional integration: theory and research (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), pp. 192-231.
60. Haas, The uniting of Europe, p. xiv.
61. Hoffmann, 'Obstinate or obsolete?'; Hansen, 'Hansen integration'. See esp. Haas's preface to the 2nd edn (1968) of The uniting of Europe, pp. xi-xxx.
62. Most notably by Andrew Moravcsik, The choice for Europe: social purpose and state power from Messina to Maastricht (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998).
63. This distinction is borrowed from Alexander Wendt, Social theory of international politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
64. For a contemporaneous discussion of the contrast, see Karl Kaiser, 'L'Europe des savants: European integration and the social sciences', Journal of Common Market Studies 4: 1, 1965, pp. 36-47.
65. More recently, see Helen Wallace, 'Studying contemporary Europe', British Journal of Politics and International Relations 2:1, 2000, pp. 95-113.
66. Rosamond, 'Political sciences', pp. 16-18.
67. Amy Verdun, 'An American-European divide in European integration studies: bridging the gap with international political economy', in Erik Jones and Amy Verdun, eds, The political economy of European integration: theory and analysis (London: Routledge, 2005), pp. 11-24. See also Waver, 'The sociology of a not so international discipline'.
68. Knud Erik Jørgensen, 'Continental IR theory: the best kept secret', European Journal of International Relations 6: 1, 2000, pp. 9-42.
69. See inter alia Manuel Barrera and Ernst B. Haas, 'The operationalization of some variables related to regional integration: a research note', International Organization 23: 1, 1968, pp. 150-60;
70. Nye, 'Comparing common markets'; Philippe C. Schmitter, 'A revised theory of European integration', in Leon N. Lindberg and Stuart A. Scheingold, eds, Regional integration: theory and research (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), pp.232-64.
71. See also Rosamond, 'Political sciences', pp. 23-4.
72. Gerald Schneider, Matthew J. Gabel and Simon Hix, 'European Union Politics: editorial statement', European Union Politics 1:1, 2000, pp. 5-8.
73. Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane and Stephen D. Krasner, 'International organization and the study of world polities', International Organization 52: 4, 1998, pp. 645-85.
74. See Karl W. Deutsch, Sidney A. Burrell, Robert A. Kahn, Maurice Lee, Martin Lichterman, Raymond E. Lindgren, Francis L. Loewenheim and Richard W. Van Waganen, Political community in the North Atlantic area: international organization in the light of historical experience (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957).
75. Liudberg, Political dynamics;
76. Leon N. Lindberg and Stuart A. Scheingold, Europe's would-be polity: patterns of change in the European Community (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970);
77. David Easton, A systems analysis of political life (New York: Wiley, 1965).
78. See also the prescient work of Carole Webb, e.g. 'Theoretical perspectives and problems', in Helen Wallace, William Wallace and Carole Webb, eds, Policy-making in the European Community, 2nd edn (Chichester: John Wiley, 1983), pp. 1-41.
79. See Hix, Political system;
80. Jeremy Richardson, ed., European Union: power and policy-making, 3rd edn (London: Routledge, 2005).
81. John Peterson, 'The choice for EU theorists : establishing a common framework for analysis', Journal of Common Market Studies 39:3, 2001, pp. 289-318.
82. Mark A. Pollack, 'Rational choice and EU politics', in Knud Erik Jørgensen, Mark A. Pollack and Ben Rosamond, eds, Handbook of European Union politics (London: Sage, 2007), pp. 31-55.
83. Joseph Jupille and James A. Caporaso, 'Institutionalism and the European Union: beyond International Relations and comparative politics', Annual Review of Political Science 2, 1999, pp. 429-44;
84. Mark D. Aspinwall and Gerald Schneider, 'Same menu, separate tables: the institutionalist turn in political science and the study of European integration', European Journal of Political Research 38:1, 2000, pp. 1-36;
85. Keith Dowding, 'Institutional research on the European Union : a critical review', European Union Politics 1:1, 2000, pp. 125-44;
86. Joseph Jupille, James A. Caporaso and Jeffrey T. Checkel, 'Integrating institutions: rationalism, constructivism and the study of the European Union', Comparative Political Studies 36: 1-2, 2003, pp. 7-40.
87. Moravcsik, The choice for Europe, is perhaps the most obvious example.
88. Mark A. Pollack, The engines of integration: delegation, agency and agenda-setting in the EU (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), combines liberal institutionalist concerns with principal-agent analysis, a technique most obviously associated with the analysis of domestic politics, particularly in the United States.
89. Jeremy Richardson and Robert Linley, 'Editorial', Journal of European Public Policy 1:1, 1994, pp. 1-7.
90. Markus Jachtenfuchs and Beate Kohler-Koch, 'Governance and institutional development', in Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez, eds, European integration theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 97-115.
91. Thomas Risse, 'Social constructivism and European integration', in Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez, eds, European integration theory (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 159.
92. Representative examples of such discussions for IR and EU studies respectively are James Fearon and Alexander Wendt, 'Rationalism v. constructivism: a skeptical view', in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth A. Simmous, eds, Handbook of International Relations (London: Sage, 2002), pp. 52-72,
93. and Jeffrey T. Checkel, 'International institutions and socialization in Europe: introduction and framework', International Organization 59: 4, 2005, pp. 801-26.
94. See Thomas Christiansen, Knud Erik Jørgensen and Antje Wiener, 'Introduction', in Thomas Christiansen, Knud Erik Jørgensen and Antje Wiener, eds, The social construction of Europe (London: Sage, 2001), pp. 1-19.
95. Thomas Diez, 'Speaking "Europe" : the politics of integration discourse', in Thomas Christiansen, Knud Erik Jørgensen and Antje Wiener, eds, The social construction of Europe (London: Sage, 2001), pp. 85-100;
96. Iau Manners, 'Another Europe is possible: critical perspectives on European Union politics', in Knud Erik Jørgensen, Mark A. Pollack and Ben Rosamond, eds, Handbook of European Union politics (London: Sage, 2007), pp. 77-95.
97. Christiausen et al., 'Introduction', p. 15;
98. Risse, 'Social constructivism', pp. 164-5;
99. Antje Wiener, 'Constructivism and sociological institutionalism', in Michalle Cini and Angela K. Bourne, eds, Palgrave advances in European Union studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 35-55.
100. This refers to Thomas Kuhn's seminal text on the philosophy of science, The struaure of scientific revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).
101. Dowding, 'Institutional research'; and, in more detached mode, Mark A. Pollack, 'Theorizing the European Union: international organization, domestic polity or experiment in new governance?', Annual Review of Political Science 8, 2005, pp. 357-98.
102. Gerald Schneider and Mark Aspinwall, 'Moving beyond outworn debates: a new institutionalist research agenda', in Mark Aspinwall and Gerald Schneider, eds, The rules of integration: institutionalist approaches to the study of Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001), p. 177.
103. James A. Caporaso, 'Toward a normal science of regional integration', Journal of European Public Policy 6: 1, 1999, p. 161.
104. Iain McLean, 'Two analytic narratives about the history of the EU', European Union Politics 4: 4, 2003, p. 499.
105. John Gerard Ruggie, Constructing the world polity: essays in international institutionalization (London: Routledge, 1998).
106. Christiansen et al., 'Introduction'; Jeffrey Lewis, "The Janus face of Brussels: socialization and everyday decision-making in the European Union', International Organization 59: 4, pp. 937-71.
107. Donald P. Green and and Shapiro, Pathologies of rational choice theory: a critique of approaches in political science (New Haven, CT: Harvard University Press, 1994).
108. See also Rosamond, 'The uniting of Europe'.