(Re)theorising European Integration under Globalisation: A Political Economy Approach

Mehmet Ugur ()

European Political Economy Review, 2004, vol. 2, issue Summer, 74-103

Abstract: In the last two decades, the European Union has become wider and deeper. In addition, the number of regional integration arrangements has increased dramatically since early 1990s. Against these developments, the focus of regional and European integration studies has shifted away from the motives for and drivers of the integration process towards policy analysis or the comparative politics or regional blocs. This article attempts to bring the regional integration theory back in by proposing a political economy model that explains the dynamics of European integration, the reasons as to why governments agree to delegate authority to regional (EU) institutions, and the relationship between globalisation and integration.

Keywords: Convergence; Globalisation; Integration; Interjurisdictional Competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F53 N14 O19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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