Dilemmas of European integration : the ambiguities and pitfalls of integration by stealth /
If one lesson emerges clearly from fifty years of European integration it is that political aims should be pursued by overtly political means, and not by roundabout economic or legal strategies. The functionalist strategy of promoting spillovers from one economic sector to another has failed to achi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | If one lesson emerges clearly from fifty years of European integration it is that political aims should be pursued by overtly political means, and not by roundabout economic or legal strategies. The functionalist strategy of promoting spillovers from one economic sector to another has failed to achieve a steady progress towards a federal union, as Jean Monnet and other functionalists had hoped. On the other hand, the unanticipated results of 'integration through law' have includedover-regulation and an institutional framework which is too rigid to allow significant policy and institutional inn. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191534393 0191534390 9781423786757 1423786750 9780191603310 0191603317 |